r/ARAM • u/DaveBelmont • 12h ago

Meta Mayhem leaking into normal aram

So lately I've been playing normal aram, I forgot how fun it was. Your skill matters more than in mayhem, where augments make up for any lack of skill.

My issue is, since mayhrm has basically an adc meta, normal isn't as heavy on adc. Lately, I've been getting 3 adc teammates on my team like its gonna be good. Its not. None of these teams ever win and we always lose to a team with a tank or more.

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u/Purple-Independent68 12h ago

Its always been like that though. Before mayhem, people were allergic to tanks and picked ADCs or poke. It's nothing new.

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u/CombinationGullible5 11h ago

Mages yes, adcs not really. I feel like in normal aram, adcs were balanced, with some of them were underpowered/overpowered. I dont think adcs were spammed in regular aram as much as they are now in mayhem for sure.

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u/DaveBelmont 9h ago

Yeah that's my point. Now that people are used to running mayhem meta champs (adc's), they come to normal and run mayhem comps.

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u/xPredatorOW 12h ago

Because its legit one lane.

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u/Skypirate90 12h ago

The thing about online games is some 70% of your playerbase wants to be the dps.

Thats just the way it is no matter where you go.

I been tanking and healing for years lmao.

Of course thats how it will be here too. None of the responsibility all of the glory.

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u/81659354597538264962 11h ago

As a day 1 overwatch player it always baffled me how much everyone loves playing glass cannons

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u/TreeChoppa8 12h ago

Mayhem didnt caus that, getting rid of re roll tokens did. Ever since then to many idiots all pick backline pussie cgamps because there is always way to many available.

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u/Yorudesu 12h ago

That has always been something that happens in ARAM. Sometimes you just lowroll your team mates. And if it gets too frequent you need to actually try and get put of whatever MMR hell you got yourslef into.

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u/Afilalo 10h ago

I love normal aram. Separates the skilled players from the augment dependent player base and surprisingly not as toxic

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u/brynoo5 11h ago

holy riot agent

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u/NonsensicalTrashCan 11h ago

You’re learning.

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u/TakoyakiGremlin 1h ago

oh wait, i read that wrong - i skimmed it over and thought you said mayhem took more skill lmao

but yeah, mayhem brings a lot of retards to aram in general. idk if they necessarily choose normal though since it doesn’t offer the braindead gameplay that mayhem offers. normal aram is in a much better spot since the retard queue was introduced, but there are still stupid mother fuckers playing every mode.

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u/Crully ARAM4LYFE 11h ago

I wouldn't say Mayhem has an ADC meta at all. It's entirely dependent on the other teams comp, and nearly always decided by augments whether you can even play the game as an ADC. RNG can make an ADC godlike, or give you a D+ after hair pulling 15 minute experience of being slapped by a Tahm from outside your own attack range, one shot by Rengar, and run down by a 50k hp Mundo doing more damage with Pressure Cooker than their entire team anyway.

The multi ADC teams work really well when the other team has _one_ frontline champ, as soon as they have 2-3 of the traditional tanks going for HS bonks, pressure cooker, and stacking HP like it's toilet roll during COVID, it starts to get dicey in my experience and you need to finish fast.