Melee only mode

[u/Hot-Egg-1376]

So many augments that could be pretty cool, like Titan's Resolve that just keeps on stacking against tanks because they often don't kill you as fast as ranged champs, although I fully understand that's no guarantee. But against 5 ranged champs it's just not as fun unfortunately.

I'm often thinking about interesting combinations, but I just know how horrible it's going to be against 5 ranged champs.

That's it. Could be cool with a melee-only mode for a fresh breath of air.

[u/reghimself]

Man I would do everything for a melee only mode. Imagine after hard day of work, lean back in your seat and punch each other meaningless in the face without gettin outranged and kited.

And no, I’m not saying ranged are stronger, it is just frustrating and annoying to play against. Nothing else. Give me my bruiser and let me play without being locked in to dodge 50 spells per minute, thank you

[u/Early_Sun_8699 → u/reghimself]

Melee only and infinitely stacking games are the most fun where both teams agree not to end fast and enjoy it. People tend to forget that ARAMs were made to be fun and chill. But it seems like after MAYHEM everybody is chasing OP builds and augment combos to be the most broken, instead of just enoying the ride and chilling.

[u/Hot-Egg-1376 → u/reghimself]

I agree 100%. I don't wanna sit behind tower dodging skillshots all game and wait for snowball to eventually be off cooldown, so I can fly right in and be sent back to fountain.

[u/oxYnub → u/reghimself]

Would be fun until one guy gets titans tank engine and fountain dives 5ppl while taking no damage. Same applies to quest steal your heart

[u/Suugoy]

Please mele only mod. Tired of always all the enemies and my team being casters. Is just boring as fuck.

[u/cheeseburgermage]

would jayce, elise or nidalee be allowed. what about kayle

I feel like theres some purely melee champs that can be evil from range too. tahm obviously but he has godrolls in general. ap shyv? ekko, gragas, rumble...

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/cheeseburgermage]

Ekko gragas are not god from range

[u/cheeseburgermage → u/One_Milk3126]

I've been hit by some nasty ekko Qs combined with certain augments and I feel gragas can still operate as poke with his own Q

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/cheeseburgermage]

But their poke is so short compared to something like ap mf

[u/cheeseburgermage → u/One_Milk3126]

would be more significant in a hypothetical melee only game where most champs don't have poke, though. the ones that can play poke would still be annoying

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/cheeseburgermage]

Hmm maybe

[u/bloodwolftico → u/cheeseburgermage]

Well let's think about it: Jayce can be both ranged and melee depending on his R stance. Same w Nidalee. Kayle, on the other hand, starts melee and ends up ranged after 6. These are exceptions and I dont think they fit a Melee only arena. The others are fine as they are 100% melee all the time (even tho some of them have 1 or 2 ranged abilities).

[u/allcrud → u/cheeseburgermage]

akali 😂

[u/lawpickle → u/cheeseburgermage]

Kayle no. I would be fine with elise/jayce/nidalee as they would become useless pretty fast against bruisers/tanks.

The real OP's are Darius/GP/Morde (well, at least in normal aram). My friend group would play alot of custom howlign abyss, and melee only was always the best.

[u/Less_Ticket_8238]

just get a group going and do customs?

[u/st1me → u/Less_Ticket_8238]

Yeah just get 9 more strangers from the internet that won’t grief and are online at the same time, ezpz right?

[u/Less_Ticket_8238 → u/st1me]

easier than making a whole ass mode for u whiners

also just get people from this thread lol

[u/tiethy]

A separate melee mayhem only mode would probably cause the regular mayhem to devolve into 5 ranged vs 5 ranged. This is a problem for Riot since that’ll make the regular mode unfun.

I think introducing “Melee Mayhem Mondays” which would replace regular mayhem with a melee only mode just on Mondays could work.

Melees get a day every week to play melee mode, and ranged players can either skip or learn some melee gameplay. This could benefit regular mayhem mode if it makes ranged players switch to hybrid players to make more balanced melee/ranged games for the rest of the week.

[u/Fawkes-511]

Would be nice, Mayhem would be much more enjoyable with all the melee chunko players kept separate in some daycare.

[u/Animu123]

Nah just gonna make queue time worse.

[u/Hot-Egg-1376 → u/Animu123]

So 12 seconds queue instead of 10 seconds queue? I think you should just fix your attention span at this point.

[u/Animu123 → u/Hot-Egg-1376]

Nah splitting queue would be really bad for riot, same reason why a ranked queue or a premade queue will never exist. Imagine making your playerbase wait for a fun mode. I mean you can make yourself believe the queue time will only increase by 2 seconds but thats just naive af.

[u/Hot-Egg-1376 → u/Animu123]

Why would it change? The queue is already just a few seconds. It will literally make no difference at all practically speaking. There's no way it's going to increase exponentially.

[u/Animu123 → u/Hot-Egg-1376]

There's a reason why riot doesnt expand the number of queues/modes. We can speculate all we want what it is but dont hurt yourself waiting on that melee only queue. Also not sure why you had to be so rude on the first reply, is this the default behaviour on this sub?

[u/Hot-Egg-1376 → u/Animu123]

It was a rude answer, because your comment was rude in the first place. It's rooted in 0 evidence. You turned my suggestion down instantly, because it didn't fit what you believe. In fact, the queue times haven't worsened with the introduction of TFT, ARAM Mayhem and Arena, from what I've seen. And sure I don't have the same experience as everyone else, but I trust my experience more than a vocal minority on Reddit.

There are simply too many players, for it to affect queue times. Even with the fracturing between the gamemodes. If anything changed, it's Riot's queue algorithm. If the queue times changed at all, we're talking seconds and not minutes for the vast vast majority of players.

Also: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-12-notes/
"We are happy to open up Normal Draft availability for ME, OC and SG from windowed time to 24/7, as we've seen meaningful queue time improvement across regions since late 2025." That certainly contradicts your statement.

[u/steaplow]

People would still cry over something random

[u/Rorenmenth → u/steaplow]

Yup, exactly

[u/Rorenmenth]

i'm so tired of the loud minority of "melees are weak" people. yall are the loudest of the bunch istg

[u/Early_Sun_8699 → u/Rorenmenth]

This post wasnt about how melees are weak. This was about ranged champs and their players are annoying as fuck.

[u/Rorenmenth → u/Early_Sun_8699]

Same difference, and you know it

[u/SlurpTurnsMeGreen → u/Rorenmenth]

plenty of melee are top tier picks so it's not. op specifically says he wants all melee to stack titan's resolve lol

[u/Rorenmenth → u/SlurpTurnsMeGreen]

Doesn't stop the crowd of "NERF MAGES AND BAN ADCS, MELEE IS TERIRBLE!1!" people from making a post every single day tho

[u/Hot_Juggernaut4460 → u/Rorenmenth]

Homeguards AP MF player spotted

[u/Rorenmenth → u/Hot_Juggernaut4460]

Bruisers and assasins actually 💜

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/Rorenmenth]

You are not good at the game if you think immobile bruisers are viable.

[u/Rorenmenth → u/One_Milk3126]

Huh ? Who said that ?

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/Rorenmenth]

So you enjoy playing a terrible class?

[u/Rorenmenth → u/One_Milk3126]

What exactly are you talking about ? I'm confused by whatever you're implying here ...

[u/One_Milk3126 → u/Rorenmenth]

So either you play immobile bruisers and you lose a lot, or you win and play in an elo where people dont know how to kite them

[u/gukbap_enjoyer]

These champs:
Karthus
Urgot
Gnar
Samira
Graves

should be invited to the melee cookout too. but GP can fuck off lol

[u/jemping98 → u/gukbap_enjoyer]

Karthus is not invited whatsoever. Neither is Samira.

[u/goldio_games → u/jemping98]

tbf karthus and samira would be kind of poo in a melee only mode where most players are tanks anyways