I won my first 4v5 ARAM today, never would have thought it would happen looking at the teams:

Leona, Vi, Nocturne, Cassiopeia,

vs

Tristana, Draven, Skarner, Orianna, Anivia

Long story short, the tankiness of Leona, Vi, and Nocturne (all of us built tanky) won it in the end. Skarner built tanky as well, but it wasn't enough. I think it showed how important being tanky is in ARAM though - a lot of games are won and lost based on which team is more tanky. Of course reaching that stage of the game where you are actually that tanky can be quite difficult. But when you are using a bruiser, more often than not, a tanky build will end up working better than a damage based build.

BTW, if you take a look at the stats from http://lolmatches.com/championstats/last2/AR, you'll notice that Rammus now has the 5th highest ARAM win rate, 61% :O I think it is time for him to be promoted out of Silver Tier!

ticklishmusic

United States15977 Posts

August 12 2013 22:08 GMT

#343

Hurricane is a noob trap.

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

August 12 2013 23:49 GMT

#344

hurricane teemo is godly

miicah

Australia2470 Posts

August 13 2013 01:20 GMT

#345

Hurricane ashe with volley spam is ridiculous. Varus/twitch too.

ZERG_RUSSIAN

10417 Posts

August 13 2013 02:08 GMT

#346

I gotta say Hurricane puts the nail in the coffin against a lot of teams if you're already ahead enough to build it.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

August 17 2013 03:27 GMT

#347

APOLOGY ANIVIA GUIDE

Step 1: Max Wall
Step 2: Build max CDR
Step 3: Memorize the following apologies:

"sorry"
"oops sorry guys"
"holy shit i am so sorry"
"first time anivia sorry"

TURN ANY GAME INTO A 6V4 GAREN-TEED!

cLutZ

United States19574 Posts

August 26 2013 22:32 GMT

#348

Zac is so lame to play against.

Luckily I got Alistar, who is Zac's counter.

GrandInquisitor

New York City13113 Posts

August 27 2013 15:01 GMT

#349

Hurricane is fun on Graves. The Never-ending E.

phyvo

United States5635 Posts

August 27 2013 16:27 GMT

#350

I have come to the conclusion that guardian's horn is ridiculously amazing. Anyone on any kind of initiator or melee with harass should get it.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

August 28 2013 19:15 GMT

#351

Guardian's Horn is like a much much better Shurelya's

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

August 28 2013 19:57 GMT

#352

Also, has anyone messed with full AP Leona on this map? I wonder how much damage her passive does..

Seuss

United States10536 Posts

August 28 2013 20:10 GMT

#353

Her passive has no AP scaling, and uses the Magic Penetration of the champion detonating the charge for purposes of damage rather than Leona's. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

August 28 2013 20:25 GMT

#354

Oh, I thought her passive scaled with the rest of her with AP

mordek

United States12705 Posts

August 28 2013 20:27 GMT

#355

So Abyssal pretty good damage pick up?

Seuss

United States10536 Posts

August 28 2013 20:47 GMT

#356

Right.

Now I'm thinking about running Hybrid Pen on ADs in Leona lanes for the cheese factor. It's all your fault.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

August 28 2013 20:50 GMT

#357

That makes me happy. Leona + Trist both running hybrid pen. The level 2 all-in is unstoppable.

SagaZ

France3460 Posts

September 05 2013 07:48 GMT

#358

So yeah, new sanguine blade is bonkers OP, get it on everything that needs ad

chalice

United States1945 Posts

September 07 2013 07:08 GMT

#359

if the champion guides get updated athene's/magic pen corki seems clearly the optimal playstyle for aram to me

cabarkapa

United States1013 Posts

September 07 2013 07:45 GMT

#360

On September 07 2013 16:08 chalice wrote:
if the champion guides get updated athene's/magic pen corki seems clearly the optimal playstyle for aram to me

Yep the last two games I've been able to play as Corki, the athene's/mpen has been really effective and a lot more fun than standard build.