ARAM

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ARAM, abbreviation of All Random, All Mid, is a game mode in League of Legends in a 5v5 format on the Howling Abyss, where the objective is to destroy the opposing team's Nexus. The game includes an All random draft type, and takes place only on one long lane (specifically referencing its resemblance to Summoner's Rift's middle lane).

In ARAM, players are given random champions from the available champion pool and are able to trade or reroll their picks.

Before its introduction on June 29, 2012, the mode was a popular spin on Summoner's Rift Custom games (where it was often played as ARAM) or Dominion (where it was often played as ARAB) in which players agreed to deliberately focus on 5v5 fights in a single lane, most often the middle lane for Summoner's Rift (as it was the shortest) and the bottom half of the map for Dominion (by community consensus), with gameplay mainly focused on fighting and buying items until either team wins. After a Thunderdome event, the Proving Grounds map was revamped from being used solely for the game's first original tutorials, to a playable Custom game map, which players used for this purpose. Eventually, the Howling Abyss replaced Proving Grounds (for the tutorials included, up until their removal and release of the modern tutorial) for this game type, and ARAM was released as an official queue on the Howling Abyss map in Patch 3.6.

Each side of the Howling Abyss has two lane turrets, two patches of brushes, two health relics, one inhibitor, two nexus turrets, a nexus and a shopkeeper. The map was replaced with Butcher's Bridge during Bilgewater events (Burning Tides, Curse of the Drowned).

Features

Main article: Howling Abyss

The following features are exclusive to the Howling Abyss map:

Map

• There is only one lane.
• There are only two turrets protecting the inhibitor and two turrets protecting the nexus.
  • Champions deal 0% − 25% (based on minutes) bonus damage to structures.
• There is a base gate that blocks champions from leaving the base for the first 15 seconds.
  • After these base gates have fallen, there will be frost-gates that are spawned in front of each team's Nexus.
    • Champions can interact with these gates to initiate Frostgate Warp, causing them to channel for 0.75 seconds. Upon completion, they dash to the other side of the gate over 2.25 seconds, during which they are untargetable and unable to act. If the channel is interrupted, the gate will be placed on a 1.5-second cooldown. They may also choose a location to dash another time up to a distance away from the gate upon reaching their destination. Frost-gates have a 15-second cooldown for each champion that activates them.
      • Leading gates cannot be interacted with and are located in front of the outer turret.
        • If the outer turret is destroyed, the leading gate is relocated to the front of the inhibitor turret.
      • Frost-gates on both sides of the map can be interacted with by champions regardless of which team they are on.
• There are 4 health relics positioned in front of the outer towers, with 2 relics on each team's respective side of the map.
  • Restores 8% of missing health and 8% of missing mana to the champion who picks up the relic.
  • After being picked up, triggers a beam of light to strike the ground after 2.5 seconds, restoring 16% of missing health and 16% of missing mana for all champions within.
• Recall is disabled, however, the channel's animation will still play.
• The fountain does not grant any restoration effects to champions.
• The shop will be disabled after champions have moved too far away from the fountain. It will be enabled after death.
  • The range at which the shop becomes disabled is a slight distance away from the Nexus turrets.
• Surrender is enabled at 12:00.

Minions

• Minions take 75% damage from AoE damage.
• Minion waves spawn every 25 − 13 (based on minutes) seconds.
• Minions have 325 − 425 (based on minutes) movement speed.
• Siege minions spawn every two waves, starting with the third wave.
• Siege minions and super minions are empowered by Blackout.
  • Passive Effect - Blackout: When there is a stealthed trap nearby, gain Blackout, revealing and exposing all stealthed traps within 1100 units. Blackout lingers for 4 seconds after there are no longer any traps nearby.

Champions

• Champions start at level 3 - affording them increased base stats and 3 skill points.
  • There are exceptions.
    • Azir starts with 1 point in Arise! and has 2 points to spend.
    • Zeri starts with 1 point in Burst Fire and has 2 points to spend.
• Champions take 15% − 30% (based on distance) reduced damage from enemy champions further than 1000 units away, excluding damage dealt by damage over time or ultimate abilities.
• All champions on the Howling Abyss gain the Howling Abyss Aura ^e:

All champions on the Howling Abyss gain the following bonuses:

• +70 summoner spell haste
• Restores 0.15% of maximum mana per second.
• Passively gains 5 experience per second.
• Reduces all outgoing heals by 50%. The healing reduction does not affect self-heals.
• Omnivamp and life steal against minions are reduced by 40%.
• While you are alive, nearby enemy minions killed by any ally other than you grant 6.
• Melee champions gain 15 bonus magic resistance and their basic attacks deal 20% bonus damage against siege and super minions.
• Melee champions now deal 20% bonus damage against structures, if they adaptively have more ability power. This buff is replaced by the generic time-based ARAM buff's bonus damage to structures once the latter exceeds 20%.

Bounties

• Champion kills are worth 180.
  • Kill bounties are increased by an amount based on the number of consecutive kills of the slain champion.
    • 2 consecutive kills: 150 ( 330 total)
    • 3 consecutive kills: 300 ( 480 total)
    • 4 consecutive kills: 375 ( 555 total)
    • 5 consecutive kills: 450 ( 630 total)
    • 6 consecutive kills: 600 ( 780 total)
• Kill and assist bounties are reduced based on the number of consecutive deaths of the slain champion.
• First blood increases both kill and assist bounties by 50%.
• Assists are worth 90, which is split among all assisting allies.
  • This is reduced to 50% − 100% (based on Game Time).

Death timers

• Champions respawn 8 − 40 (based on level) seconds after death.

Exclusive items

• Guardian's Blade
• Guardian's Hammer
• Guardian's Horn
• Guardian's Orb
• Poro-Snax (automatically occupies the trinket item slot)
  • 1 charge is granted upon the start of the game, as well as the first time your team destroys an enemy turret.
  • Braum and Poro Rider Sejuani start the game with 2 charges.
  • Limited to 2 at a time.

Summoner spells

• Clarity
• Mark / Dash

Mode-Specific Changes

Since the Butcher's Bridge event (V9.7), champions, runes and items have been adjusted for ARAM, similar to Featured game modes.

This table extracts the data from Module:ChampionData/data and Template:map_changes/data/aram.

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Champion	Damage dealt	Damage received	Other effects
Aatrox	+5%
Akali	+5%	-10%	Energy regeneration increased by 20%. Tenacity increased by 20%.
Akshan	+5%	-5%	Going Rogue Scoundrel duration changed to 10 seconds.
Alistar	-5%	+5%	Healing done reduced by 20%.
Anivia	+5%
Annie	-5%	+5%	Shielding done reduced by 10%.
Ashe	+5%		Total attack speed increased by 3%. Volley Cooldown changed to 18 / 17.5 / 17 / 16.5 / 16 seconds.
Aurelion Sol			Singularity Cooldown changed to 14 seconds.
Azir		-5%	Ability haste increased by 20. Total attack speed increased by 2.5%. Arise! Azir will start the game with one point already ranked in Arise!, allowing him to allocate the other two to his other abilities.
Bard	+15%	-15%	Healing done increased by 20%. Traveler's Call Chime spawn rate changed to every 30 seconds (initial spawn unchanged).
Bel'Veth	+5%		Death in Lavender Bel'Veth gains 2 stacks from nearby siege minion deaths. Endless Banquet Enhanced Void Corals spawn from nearby turrets being destroyed.
Brand	-5%	+10%	Ability haste reduced by 10.
Briar	+5%		Healing done increased by 20%.
Caitlyn		+5%
Camille	+5%	-5%	Shielding done increased by 10%. Healing done increased by 20%. Ability haste increased by 10.
Cho'Gath		+10%
Corki		-10%	Ability haste increased by 20.
Darius	+5%
Diana	+2%	-2%
Dr. Mundo	-10%	+5%	Healing done reduced by 10%.
Draven	+5%	-5%
Ekko	+10%		Tenacity increased by 20%.
Elise	+5%	-10%	Tenacity increased by 20%.
Evelynn	+10%	-10%	Tenacity increased by 20%.
Fiddlesticks	-5%	+5%
Fiora		-5%
Fizz	+5%	-5%	Tenacity increased by 10%.
Galio	-10%	+5%
Gangplank	+5%		Parrrley New Effect: Passively gains 1 Silver Serpent per second.
Garen		-5%	Courage Bonus resistances on-kill changed to 0.5. Number of enemy kills needed to reach the maximum amount changed to 60.
Gnar	+5%	-5%	Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Gragas		-5%
Hecarim	+5%	-10%	Healing done increased by 20%. Ability haste increased by 10.
Heimerdinger	-10%	+10%
Hwei			Subject: Disaster Devastating Fire Deals 80% damage to minions. Severing Bolt Dealt 80% damage to minions. Molten Fissure Deals 80% damage to minions. Subject: Serenity Stirring Lights Deals 80% damage to minions. Subject: Torment Grim Visage Deals 80% damage to minions. Gaze of the Abyss Deals 80% damage to minions. Crushing Maw Deals 80% damage to minions.
Illaoi	-5%	+5%	Healing done reduced by 20%.
Irelia			Ability haste increased by 20.
Ivern	-5%		Shielding done reduced by 20%.
Janna	-5%	+5%	Shielding done reduced by 5%. Healing done reduced by 10%. Howling Gale Cooldown changed to 16 seconds.
Jax	+5%	-3%
Jayce	+5%
Jhin	-10%	+5%
Jinx	-10%	+5%
K'Sante	+5%
Kai'Sa		-5%	Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Kalista	+10%	-10%
Karma	-2%
Karthus	-10%	+5%	Death Defied Duration changed to 5 seconds.
Kassadin		-5%
Katarina			Tenacity increased by 20%. Ability haste increased by 10.
Kayle	-5%	+10%
Kayn			Healing done reduced by 20%. Tenacity increased by 20%. The Darkin Scythe Transformation no longer restores full health and mana.
Kennen	+5%		Energy regeneration increased by 20%.
Kha'Zix	+10%	-10%	Healing done increased by 20%. Tenacity increased by 20%.
Kindred	+10%	-10%	Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Kled	+5%
Kog'Maw	-12%	+10%
LeBlanc	+10%	-10%	Ability haste increased by 20.
Lee Sin	+5%	-5%	Shielding done increased by 20%. Healing done increased by 10%. Energy regeneration increased by 20%.
Leona	-5%	+5%
Lillia	-5%	+5%	Swirlseed Cooldown changed to 18 seconds.
Lissandra	-5%	+5%
Lucian	+5%	-5%	Tenacity increased by 20%. Ability haste increased by 10.
Lulu			Shielding done increased by 0%.
Lux	-15%	+10%	Shielding done reduced by 20%.
Malzahar	-10%	+10%	Call of the Void Deals 80% damage to minions (60% total). Void Swarm Deals 80% damage to minions (60% total). Nether Grasp Null Zone deals 80% damage to minions (60% total).
Maokai	-20%	+10%	Healing done reduced by 10%.
Master Yi		-3%
Milio			Shielding done reduced by 10%. Healing done reduced by 5%. Ability haste reduced by 10.
Miss Fortune	-10%	+10%
Mordekaiser	-5%	+5%
Morgana	-5%	+10%
Naafiri	+10%		Ability haste increased by 10.
Nami	-5%	+5%	Healing done reduced by 10%.
Nasus	-10%	+5%	Siphoning Strike Per-kill stacks changed to 6. Per-large-kill stacks changed to 24.
Nautilus	-5%	+10%
Nidalee	+10%
Nilah	-3%
Nocturne	+10%	-10%	Healing done increased by 20%.
Nunu & Willump	+10%	-10%	Shielding done increased by 20%. Healing done increased by 10%. Tenacity increased by 20%.
Olaf	+5%
Ornn	-10%	+5%	Living Forge New Effect: Forging an item puts Living Forge on a 120-second cooldown.
Pyke	+10%	-5%	Tenacity increased by 20%.
Qiyana	+15%	-10%	Tenacity increased by 20%. Terrashape Targeting a Health Relic on Howling Abyss grants the River Element.
Quinn	+10%	-10%	Tenacity increased by 20%. Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Rakan		-5%
Rek'Sai	+5%	-10%
Rell	-5%		Shielding done reduced by 10%. Healing done reduced by 10%.
Renata Glasc	-5%	+5%	Shielding done reduced by 20%.
Renekton			Healing done increased by 5%.
Rengar	+5%	-8%	Tenacity increased by 20%.
Riven	+5%	-8%	Shielding done increased by 0%.
Ryze	+5%	-5%
Samira	-2%	+5%
Senna	-3%	+5%
Seraphine	-10%	+20%	Shielding done reduced by 20%. Healing done reduced by 20%. Ability haste reduced by 20.
Sett	-10%	+10%	Shielding done reduced by 10%. Healing done reduced by 10%.
Shaco	+5%		Jack in the Box Limited to 6 Boxes active.
Shen	-5%	+5%
Shyvana		-5%	Fury of the Dragonborn Alternate Innate: Shyvana gains 1 bonus armor, 1 bonus magic resistance, and 0.05 bonus Fury regeneration whenever a siege or a canon minion dies within 1400 units range of her, or when she is healed by a health relic's area of effect on the enemy's side of the map. She will not gain bonuses if she is dead, even if in range.
Singed	-10%	+5%
Sion	-10%	+10%	Ability haste reduced by 10. Glory in Death Life steal changed to 50%. Soul Furnace  Health per lesser unit kill changed to 2.  Health per greater unit kill changed to 8. Shield health ratio changed to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% maximum health.
Sivir	-10%	+5%	Boomerang Blade Cooldown changed to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds.
Skarner		+5%
Smolder		+5%	Ability haste reduced by 10.
Sona		+10%	Shielding done reduced by 15%. Healing done reduced by 15%. Ability haste reduced by 20.
Soraka		-3%
Swain	-10%	+15%	Healing done reduced by 20%.
Sylas	+5%
Syndra	+5%		Ability haste increased by 5.
Tahm Kench		+5%
Talon	+5%	-5%	Tenacity increased by 20%.
Taric		+10%
Teemo	-10%	+10%	Ability haste reduced by 20. Noxious Trap Deals 66% damage to minions (50% total). Maximum charges changed to 2 / 3 / 4.
Thresh		+5%	Damnation Stacks per soul changed to 2.
Tristana	+5%	-5%
Trundle		+5%	Healing done increased by 0%.
Tryndamere	+10%	-10%	Healing done increased by 35%.
Twitch		-5%
Urgot		+5%
Varus	-2%	+5%
Vayne	+5%	-5%
Veigar	-10%	+10%	Event Horizon Cooldown changed to 23 / 21.5 / 20 / 18.5 / 17 seconds.
Vel'Koz	-5%	+5%
Vex	-5%
Vi	+5%	-5%
Viego	+5%
Viktor	-5%	+5%
Vladimir	-5%	+5%	Healing done reduced by 10%.
Warwick	+5%	-5%	Healing done increased by 5%.
Xayah	+5%		Total attack speed increased by 3%.
Xerath	-7%	+5%
Xin Zhao	-5%
Yasuo			Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Yone	+5%	-3%	Total attack speed increased by 2.5%.
Yorick			Shepherd of Souls Deaths required for a grave changed to 5 at all levels.
Yuumi	+5%
Zac		-4%	Healing done increased by 10%.
Zed	+5%	-5%	Energy regeneration increased by 20%. Tenacity increased by 20%.
Zeri	+10%		Burst Fire Zeri will start the game with one point already ranked in Burst Fire!, allowing her to allocate the other two to her other abilities.
Ziggs	-13%	+20%	Ability haste reduced by 20. Short Fuse Damage to structures changed to 150%. Satchel Charge Tower execute threshold changed to 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5% of turret's maximum health.
Zilean	+5%	-5%	Ability haste increased by 10.
Zoe	+10%	-5%
Zyra	-10%	+5%	Ability haste reduced by 10.

Archangel's Staff

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Dark Seal

• This item is disabled.

Guardian Angel

• This item is disabled.

Heartsteel

• Permanent bonus health changed to 5% of damage amount.

Hubris

• Total cost changed to 2950.
• Eminence base bonus attack damage changed to ( 15 / 10).
• Eminence bonus attack damage per stack changed to ( 2 / 1).
• Eminence duration changed to ( 90 / 45) seconds.

Malignance

• Hatefog base damage per tick changed to 10.
• Hatefog AP ratio per tick changed to 0.7% AP.

Manamune

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Mejai's Soulstealer

• This item is disabled.

Rod of Ages

• Gain a stack every 40 seconds.

Stormsurge

• Squall base damage changed to ( 100 / 75).
• Squall AP ratio changed to ( 15% / 11.25%) AP.

Sundered Sky

• Lightshield Strike heal health ratio changed to 4% of missing health.

Symbiotic Soles

• This item is disabled.

Tear of the Goddess

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Warmog's Armor

• Champion damage cooldown changed to 8 seconds.
• Non-champion damage cooldown changed to 4 seconds.

Winter's Approach

• Each charge consumed generates 50% more mana.

Triumph

• Base heal ratio changed to 1.5% of maximum health.
• Heal health ratio changed to 3% of missing health.
• Bonus gold changed to 10.

Presence of Mind

• Mana restored changed to 10% of maximum mana.
• Energy restored changed to 10% of maximum energy.

Electrocute

• Cooldown changed to 15 − 10 (based on level) seconds.
• Bonus AD ratio changed to 15% bonus AD.
• AP ratio changed to 10% AP.

Dark Harvest

• Damage per soul changed to 4.

Hail of Blades

• Bonus attack speed changed to ( 130% / 100%).

Taste of Blood

• Cooldown changed to 15 seconds.

Arcane Comet

• Cooldown changed to 15 − 8 (based on level) seconds.

Waterwalking

• Automatically exchanged with Scorch.

Gathering Storm

• Stats gain changed to every 6 minutes.

Grasp of the Undying

• Melee champions triggered attack bonus health changed to 10.
• Ranged champions triggered attack bonus health changed to 6.

Guardian

• Cooldown changed to 60 − 30 (based on level) seconds.

Demolish

• Base damage changed to 50.
• Health ratio changed to 20% of maximum health.

Conditioning

• Initial cooldown changed to 8 minutes.

Bone Plating

• Cooldown changed to 40 seconds.

Overgrowth

• Bonus health per stack changed to 5.
• Additional bonus health threshold changed to 80 minions or monsters.

Unsealed Spellbook

• Cooldown changed to 180 − 60 (based on unique swaps) seconds.
• Cooldown reduction per unique summoner spell changed to 20 seconds.

First Strike

• Base gold changed to 15.
• Gold based on damage dealt changed to ( 60% / 42%).

Magical Footwear

• Boots grant changed to 8 minutes.
• Time reduction per takedown changed to 30 seconds.

Click on the tabs above for more information.

Champion Select

Each player will be rolled a single champion picked randomly from their own available champions, with the collective players' rolls processed sequentially. Teams are blind to the picks of the opponents.

When a player rerolls their champion, the previous champion is placed into the team's Available Champion Pool (aka the Bench); each team has their own bench. Any player can swap their champion with one from the bench if they own it or it is in Free champion rotation.

Available Champions

Available champions include champions owned & champions in Free champion rotation. The pool of champions that may be randomly assigned to a player in the initial roll consists of:

• Owned champions
• Free champion rotation
• A select number of champions who are always available in ARAM (free roster)

ARAM free roster

1. Aatrox
2. Ahri
3. Akali
4. Amumu
5. Annie
6. Ashe
7. Brand
8. Braum
9. Caitlyn
10. Cho'Gath
11. Darius
12. Draven
13. Ekko
14. Ezreal
15. Fiora
16. Fizz
17. Garen
18. Graves
19. Irelia
20. Janna
21. Jarvan IV
22. Jax
23. Jhin
24. Jinx
25. Karma
26. Karthus
27. Katarina
28. Kayle
29. Kha'Zix
30. LeBlanc
31. Lee Sin
32. Leona
33. Lucian
34. Lulu
35. Lux
36. Malphite
37. Maokai
38. Master Yi
39. Miss Fortune
40. Mordekaiser
41. Morgana
42. Nautilus
43. Nidalee
44. Pantheon
45. Pyke
46. Quinn
47. Renekton
48. Riven
49. Ryze
50. Sivir
51. Sona
52. Soraka
53. Thresh
54. Tristana
55. Tryndamere
56. Twisted Fate
57. Twitch
58. Varus
59. Vayne
60. Veigar
61. Vel'Koz
62. Vladimir
63. Wukong
64. Xayah
65. Zed

Reroll

In a matchmade game, the player can reroll their randomly assigned champion by consuming a reroll credit. A reroll will exclude champions that have already been rolled by any player in the lobby.

The player can have up to 2 reroll credits, and a credit is rewarded for earning 250 ARAM points. ARAM points are earned every time the player completes a matchmade ARAM game. The number of points granted is based on the number of available champions, the ARAM free roster plays a constant factor.

${\rm Reroll\ Points}= 65 + 1.5 \times {\it Available}$

• 65 = ARAM free roster
• 1.5 = Multiplier
• Result is rounded down.

Notes

• The number of points granted after every match can be seen on the post-game screen above the "Dice" icon tooltip.
• Any points that reach in excess of the credit reward goal will rollover to count towards a second credit, if available. A roll credit is ensured every two matches.
• To ensure a reroll credit every single match, a player needs to own 57 champions not contained in ARAM free roster. To ensure this at all times a player needs 122 unlocked champions.
• Gaining Leaver / AFK status will disable point rewards for that match.
• If the game is dodged, any used reroll credits will be refunded to all other players. This does not occur for the dodging player and their premade party.

Skin Boosts

In a matchmade game, the player can purchase a 95 Skin Boost during champion select that grants all members on the team a one-game only skin, chosen at random, for the champion that they're using that game. Additionally, the benefactor earns a 200 bonus from that game while their teammates get 100 bonus.

• If the game is dodged, the RP is refunded.
• If the player changes their champion, that champion is also given a skin. Should the player reobtain a given champion, the skin will not be redetermined.
• Other players can see who purchased a Battle Boost.
• Battle Boosts cannot be purchased with 10 seconds remaining.

Patch History

For the list of all changes to the mode from Season Six (V6.12) onward, see ARAM/Patch history.

Media

• Music

Related Music

Howling Abyss Theme

Butcher's Bridge - Champion Select Music

Game Modes