League of Legends: Ranked ARAM

Everybody loves a good game of ARAM from time to time but there are some who strictly play ARAM only and you know what, that's alright. Sometimes it's okay to play something that's not on Summoner's Rift. There have been problems with ARAM in the past and one of them has been that players don't take it seriously at times. If a ranked mode came into play, you would lose some of those casual ARAM players and have a home for the competitive ARAM players of the world.

Ghostcrawler, Game Design Director for League of Legends, first started talking about the state of ARAM and said, "Overall, the game mode is popular and the queue is healthy (meaning enough players are participating that the wait for a game isn't long), so we don't want to do too much that might have the risk of making ARAM less popular."

In terms of League of Legends implementing a ranked section of ARAM, Ghostcrawler was quick to point out some problems first. "We don't think the way champion assignment is working out has aged well. We aren't fans of the ARAM accounts that some players make in order to have a more limited champion pool, since that kind of defeats the purpose."

With that being said, the future of ranked ARAM looks pretty dim according to Ghostcrawler. "It's because of the random element that I'm not sure it makes sense to ever offer a ranked mode of ARAM. It just might be really frustrating to keep coming up with champions with whom you aren't really familiar and lose important games, like promos. On the other hand, if we add more reroll mechanics and other systems to let you get a champion you want, then that kind of undermines the whole idea of being dealt a champion at random. It may be that the heart of ARAM just isn't suited for ranked play without compromising what ARAM is."

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