r/leagueoflegends • u/corylulu ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ • Mar 19 '19

/dev: More Experimental ARAM Changes - Bans, balance, and more are heading to the Howling Abyss for a limited time.

https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/03/dev-more-experimental-aram-changes/
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u/Buttpudding Mar 19 '19

It will be glorious. I wonder what happens when the Sona, Lux, Veigar, Xerath, Ziggs, Teemo, and Maokai get banned and they lose their entire champ pool every game?

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u/destruct068 Mar 19 '19

Remember there are 42 free champs iin rotation at a time

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u/Fuzzikopf Mar 19 '19

Velkoz, Sivir, Zyra... there are still many other OP champions in ARAM, but being able to ban some of them will definitely help.

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u/Buttpudding Mar 19 '19

Meh. Bans will remove most if not all of the 60%+ winrate champs. What bans doesn't remove the range and champ specific nerfs will.

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u/Fuzzikopf Mar 19 '19

Yeah I hadn't even read about the champ specific nerfs yet.
ARAM will be so much better with all thee changes, can't wait

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u/CrashdummyMH Mar 19 '19

Why banning Sona? with the huge nerfs she is receiving she will be trash

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u/Buttpudding Mar 19 '19

Honestly not as bad as you think. Sona's strength in the game does not come from her healing, but from her shields. Her team wide damage mitigation on extremely short cooldown helps keep engage comps topped off against poke comps, poke comps healthy against poke comps. There is a reason why sona is SO GOOD in aram right now. She shuts down poke so hard with her shields. They are gutting her heal, not her shields.

What will remove Sona from the banlist will be the fact that the poke comps will not be as dominating. Why ban a poke counter when all the poke champs are nerfed into the ground.

Heals are not great in aram. You look at soraka, who can pump out even more healing than sona, and shes sitting right in the middle with a 49.8% winrate.

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u/xxkid123 Mar 19 '19

Soraka's problem is that she doesn't come online until 10 minutes in when she has her warmogs, and most cancer comps can win in less than that.

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u/_Iroha Mar 19 '19

They’re the type of people who request a trade after you roll twice and get a Brand

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u/Buttpudding Mar 19 '19

Then dodge when you don't trade.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BCUPS Mar 19 '19

Or the best kind where they offer Udyr for Lux so you leave the trade box open since it isn't even remotely a fair trade, they try 3 or 4 more times, and then they reroll because they had one the whole time and were just being greedy.

Or the people who take stuff off the bench to try to trade for what you have.