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cascades
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Singapore6122 Posts
May 10 2013 13:43 GMT
#141
2nd team not even close is this a trick qn
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DragoonTT
Profile Joined April 2012
3398 Posts
May 10 2013 14:32 GMT
#142
On May 10 2013 19:41 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
my friend and i had an argument over which was the better team, assuming high level of undertanding of aram / tournament level play.

fiddle maokai singed trist heimer
vs
janna karma thresh cait alistar


First team will probably blow the second team away.

Team 1: Dark Wind + Sapling are some of the more underrated poke spells, both can deal incredible damage. Heimer adds to the poking and makes pushing on his team impossible. Trist will be forced to AD on that lineup, so will take some time to excel, but can always Buster Shot Alistar if he manages to break past Singed and Maokai. Maokai + Singed frontline is very good if the players understand their champs - especially considering Singed has free reign to aggress as Maokai can just root Alistar. Lineup will also wreck teamfights with Crowstorm and Vengeful Maelstrom.

Team 2: Janna is some okay poke, and Thresh is a danger with hook plus Cait is good with range and poke, but Alistar's main use in ARAM is incredible sustain (will go to waste because the team has such high range and hence shouldn't take too much) and he doesn't suffice as a frontline champ alone, especially against Singed/Maokai. Maybe I'm biased cuz I liked old Karma, but new Karma is straight-up bad for ARAM - Q has too little range to poke, Mantra Q is avoidable, W gets you blown up and you don't have a bruiser to support with E.
novemberbumb
Profile Joined November 2010
Belgium3 Posts
May 10 2013 15:00 GMT
#143
nice guide, allways come here before an aram. thanks! gl finishing it
trumpets!
mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12704 Posts
May 10 2013 15:06 GMT
#144
Agreed, it's super nice to get a free week champ and thinking what would Monte do. I'm usually not far off but it's nice to have someone point out strengths and weaknesses as it relates to ARAM. The mini-guides are a good balance of pointing you in the right direction while still letting you discover and optimize for your game
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sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
May 10 2013 15:45 GMT
#145
On May 10 2013 23:32 DragoonTT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2013 19:41 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
my friend and i had an argument over which was the better team, assuming high level of undertanding of aram / tournament level play.

fiddle maokai singed trist heimer
vs
janna karma thresh cait alistar


First team will probably blow the second team away.

Team 1: Dark Wind + Sapling are some of the more underrated poke spells, both can deal incredible damage. Heimer adds to the poking and makes pushing on his team impossible. Trist will be forced to AD on that lineup, so will take some time to excel, but can always Buster Shot Alistar if he manages to break past Singed and Maokai. Maokai + Singed frontline is very good if the players understand their champs - especially considering Singed has free reign to aggress as Maokai can just root Alistar. Lineup will also wreck teamfights with Crowstorm and Vengeful Maelstrom.

Team 2: Janna is some okay poke, and Thresh is a danger with hook plus Cait is good with range and poke, but Alistar's main use in ARAM is incredible sustain (will go to waste because the team has such high range and hence shouldn't take too much) and he doesn't suffice as a frontline champ alone, especially against Singed/Maokai. Maybe I'm biased cuz I liked old Karma, but new Karma is straight-up bad for ARAM - Q has too little range to poke, Mantra Q is avoidable, W gets you blown up and you don't have a bruiser to support with E.


New Karma is not bad in aram....she is really fucking strong. You just spam mantra Q all day long, it doesn't matter if the second part hits. The range is huge and the AOE is too. Mantra E is always stupid good in teamfights, and her shield makes initiating with people like singed and volibear fucking retarded, you cant run.
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nyxnyxnyx
Profile Joined April 2010
Indonesia2978 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-10 15:58:30
May 10 2013 15:58 GMT
#146
idk, my team's the second one. i just feel it has a lot more control over the flow of the game, though i can definitely see the merits of the first team.
cool beans
ToT)OjKa(
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Korea (South)2437 Posts
May 10 2013 16:03 GMT
#147
On May 11 2013 00:45 sob3k wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2013 23:32 DragoonTT wrote:
On May 10 2013 19:41 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
my friend and i had an argument over which was the better team, assuming high level of undertanding of aram / tournament level play.

fiddle maokai singed trist heimer
vs
janna karma thresh cait alistar


First team will probably blow the second team away.

Team 1: Dark Wind + Sapling are some of the more underrated poke spells, both can deal incredible damage. Heimer adds to the poking and makes pushing on his team impossible. Trist will be forced to AD on that lineup, so will take some time to excel, but can always Buster Shot Alistar if he manages to break past Singed and Maokai. Maokai + Singed frontline is very good if the players understand their champs - especially considering Singed has free reign to aggress as Maokai can just root Alistar. Lineup will also wreck teamfights with Crowstorm and Vengeful Maelstrom.

Team 2: Janna is some okay poke, and Thresh is a danger with hook plus Cait is good with range and poke, but Alistar's main use in ARAM is incredible sustain (will go to waste because the team has such high range and hence shouldn't take too much) and he doesn't suffice as a frontline champ alone, especially against Singed/Maokai. Maybe I'm biased cuz I liked old Karma, but new Karma is straight-up bad for ARAM - Q has too little range to poke, Mantra Q is avoidable, W gets you blown up and you don't have a bruiser to support with E.


New Karma is not bad in aram....she is really fucking strong. You just spam mantra Q all day long, it doesn't matter if the second part hits. The range is huge and the AOE is too. Mantra E is always stupid good in teamfights, and her shield makes initiating with people like singed and volibear fucking retarded, you cant run.


yeah new Karma is sick. First time I played her during the rework, Q is a good looking spell too.
Mantra + E is godlike, the shield is good but the speed boost as well? damn son

I haven't been able to tell how good her mantra W is for the life drain but it's fairly solid too.
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m4inbrain
Profile Joined November 2011
1505 Posts
May 10 2013 16:51 GMT
#148
Hm.. ARAM somehow doesn't feel random at all. I get Lulu ~15 times in 30 games, out of 50+ champions. It's not even funny, i played ~60 games today+yesterday, and i had maybe 10? different champions. At maximum.

That's actually quite annoying.
Anggroth
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom345 Posts
May 10 2013 18:51 GMT
#149
On May 11 2013 00:45 sob3k wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2013 23:32 DragoonTT wrote:
On May 10 2013 19:41 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
my friend and i had an argument over which was the better team, assuming high level of undertanding of aram / tournament level play.

fiddle maokai singed trist heimer
vs
janna karma thresh cait alistar


First team will probably blow the second team away.

Team 1: Dark Wind + Sapling are some of the more underrated poke spells, both can deal incredible damage. Heimer adds to the poking and makes pushing on his team impossible. Trist will be forced to AD on that lineup, so will take some time to excel, but can always Buster Shot Alistar if he manages to break past Singed and Maokai. Maokai + Singed frontline is very good if the players understand their champs - especially considering Singed has free reign to aggress as Maokai can just root Alistar. Lineup will also wreck teamfights with Crowstorm and Vengeful Maelstrom.

Team 2: Janna is some okay poke, and Thresh is a danger with hook plus Cait is good with range and poke, but Alistar's main use in ARAM is incredible sustain (will go to waste because the team has such high range and hence shouldn't take too much) and he doesn't suffice as a frontline champ alone, especially against Singed/Maokai. Maybe I'm biased cuz I liked old Karma, but new Karma is straight-up bad for ARAM - Q has too little range to poke, Mantra Q is avoidable, W gets you blown up and you don't have a bruiser to support with E.


New Karma is not bad in aram....she is really fucking strong. You just spam mantra Q all day long, it doesn't matter if the second part hits. The range is huge and the AOE is too. Mantra E is always stupid good in teamfights, and her shield makes initiating with people like singed and volibear fucking retarded, you cant run.


The problem with Team 2 is that the champ's don't sync up well enough, you have the great poke from Janna, Karma, Cait, but then pure engage from Thresh/Alistar but no big follow up (other than the same poke spells), whereas team 1 has crazy poke with Fiddle/Mao/Heimer (AP Mao is massively underused in ARAM), good scaling damage with Trist (as long as it's not one of the idiot Trists who ALWAYS use rocket jump offensively or *shudder* builds AP) and the front line of Singed to protect the rest.
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Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
May 10 2013 18:58 GMT
#150
A lot of people have been noticing that sort of thing. I should write a script to query Elobuff for my ARAM stats and figure out my champion distribution. The only problem with that is it won't consider trades/rerolls. Maybe I'll just have to write it all down if I'm really curious.
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WaveofShadow
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada31494 Posts
May 10 2013 19:03 GMT
#151
Out of almost 30 ARAM games I think I've only played the same champ a couple times; Jarvan and Amumu.

Maybe this is because I own all but 10 champs atm? I imagine those people who own fewer will get multiples more often statistically....
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m4inbrain
Profile Joined November 2011
1505 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-10 19:06:31
May 10 2013 19:04 GMT
#152
On May 11 2013 03:58 Seuss wrote:
A lot of people have been noticing that sort of thing. I should write a script to query Elobuff for my ARAM stats and figure out my champion distribution. The only problem with that is it won't consider trades/rerolls. Maybe I'll just have to write it all down if I'm really curious.


I actually will write it down for the next days, can't be a bad thing.

edit:

Got ~50, and Lulu round about 6 times today. Thats 6x 1/50 chance, i don't think so.
kitaman27 *
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9245 Posts
May 10 2013 23:45 GMT
#153
This site has a decent sample size of champion distribution for ARAM games. It's tough to say anything definite without knowing what the champions owned statistics are, but it seems fairly random to me.

http://lolmatches.com/championstats/3.6.0.389/AR

On a side note, sona OP with her 68% win rate.
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ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
May 11 2013 02:16 GMT
#154
Team 2 has incredible sustain and disengage.
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overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
May 11 2013 02:42 GMT
#155
If you can make ARAMs drag on long enough without either team getting a big advantage, Poppy is fucking nuts. I've even had games where we were way behind but once you get Trinity+Gunblade you are just straight up stupid. So easy to knock people into walls on that map and your ult and your damage is retarded.
Lylat
Profile Joined August 2009
France8575 Posts
May 11 2013 08:03 GMT
#156
On May 11 2013 03:58 Seuss wrote:
A lot of people have been noticing that sort of thing. I should write a script to query Elobuff for my ARAM stats and figure out my champion distribution. The only problem with that is it won't consider trades/rerolls. Maybe I'll just have to write it all down if I'm really curious.

I already started doing this manually. I have ~80 champs and ~100 aram games and there are champs I never rolled and other at least 4-5 times ... Weird.
m4inbrain
Profile Joined November 2011
1505 Posts
May 11 2013 08:54 GMT
#157
On May 11 2013 08:45 kitaman27 wrote:
This site has a decent sample size of champion distribution for ARAM games. It's tough to say anything definite without knowing what the champions owned statistics are, but it seems fairly random to me.

http://lolmatches.com/championstats/3.6.0.389/AR

On a side note, sona OP with her 68% win rate.


This statistic actually doesn't say anything, you stated the reason already.

Also, if you look at the "least played/popular champs", there are alot of champs i would consider pretty common, like Fiora for example. I don't know, i'll observe/record this the next couple of days for myself. It's just weirding me out, big time.

PS: got Lulu two more times yesterday after writing my initial thought on that matter, out of 50 champions, one time as initial char, the other one after a reroll because i got soraka first (for the 3rd time that day).
rhs408
Profile Joined January 2011
United States904 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-11 10:29:00
May 11 2013 10:24 GMT
#158
On May 11 2013 08:45 kitaman27 wrote:
This site has a decent sample size of champion distribution for ARAM games. It's tough to say anything definite without knowing what the champions owned statistics are, but it seems fairly random to me.

http://lolmatches.com/championstats/3.6.0.389/AR

On a side note, sona OP with her 68% win rate.

Some other interesting stats from this:

Top 20 win rates (in order): Sona, Heimer, Ziggs, Soraka, Galio, Kog'Maw, Lux, Zyra, Nidaliee, Twisted Fate, Taric, Janna, Fiddlesticks, Talon, Maokai, Ashe, Malzahar, Nami, Xerath, Caitlyn

Bottom 12 win rates (ordered from the worst): Tryndamere, Evelynn, Shaco, Akali, Olaf, Zilean (annoying as hell early game, but falls off late game?), Lee Sin, LeBlanc, Tristana (too many people trying AP trist??), Rengar, Sion, Zed

Top 10 KDA Ratios (in order): Nidalee, Lux, Ziggs, Caitlyn, Xerath, Ezreal, Miss Fortune, Kog'Maw, Varus, Jayce
nyxnyxnyx
Profile Joined April 2010
Indonesia2978 Posts
May 11 2013 10:42 GMT
#159
zilean probably suffers from people being bad with his kit (not knowing how / when to optimize rotations of Q/E/W) and being bad with R. used right, there's no reason for zil to be so far down
cool beans
DragoonTT
Profile Joined April 2012
3398 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-11 11:23:21
May 11 2013 11:22 GMT
#160
On May 11 2013 19:42 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
zilean probably suffers from people being bad with his kit (not knowing how / when to optimize rotations of Q/E/W) and being bad with R. used right, there's no reason for zil to be so far down

Pretty much this. With +exp, bomb harass and his ult, there's no reason he should be so low - he's just so rarely played people don't know how to play him/alongside him. I've seen so many Zilean ults be wasted because people flash out of combat even though Zilean ulted, realize they've been ulted, run in and die because the ult duration ran out.

Akali being so low surprises me, it's really easy for her to hit a certain item threshold in ARAM that allows her to pick apart teams, stealth is a fairly powerful mechanic when usually no one bothers countering it and ARAM builds usually tend towards being overly offensive, so she should have little problems.

Tristana is another champ that really shouldn't be that low - AD Trist is good, AP Trist is good. However, most people are probably not experienced enough to judge AP Trist's damage and therefore get blown up before they can jump-stomp the enemy team

Also, Jayce and Alistar not among the highest win rates. That's surprising, I'd currently name them among the top 5 champs to have easily.
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