Been playing this game for years, highest rank diamond 3, absent for a long time, recently returned, only play ARAM because dead game. Just want to share some thoughts on the ARAM meta, if there is even one, see if yall agree. Comment if you do disagree.
I saw a post complaining Azmo. He is overrated. Don’t get me wrong, he is good, great even. Unless someone dropped out or trolled, me playing Azmo basically means I have all stats on top. But Azmo is beatable, one good frontline can make that fatso virtually worthless.
The actual op heroes I think are Valla and Naz, I practically have one hundred percent win rates with them. Valla’s W build in ARAM is practically unbeatable late game, and good ARAM games get into the late game quite often. Just wait for the enemy team’s easy cc, press lv20 Strafe, win fight.
Unless the enemy team is full backline mages, which admittedly will happen from time to time in ARAM, Naz’s frog build will bulldoze its way to victory. Just spam frogs on buildings and heroes, literally win before lv20 just because of how fast you push buildings. Pick blood ritual on lv4 though, the other two talents are wrong, not worse, but wrong.
Zuljin is a menace, but from my experience, the enemy team will always get offered a blind if we get a zuljin. I don’t know if this is actually the case, might just be bad luck for me, but I just run into zuljin vs lili or cassia or artanis way too often for my liking, to a point where I think Zuljin is kinda bad… hot take.
If you want infinite dmg… Artanis. This hero is borderline a bug in ARAM, his level one talents single-handledly win games. Late game with five hundred stacks, one twin blade hit drains more than half your health pool, regardless if you are a support or a tank.
Stukov is not as much as he is op but more like he stomps the noobs and is annoying to play against. He is top healer, for sure, but not op op.
Some underrated heroes are:
Deathwing, extraordinarily insane in ARAM, just do the range mode and spam every area dmg skills. Heros countering DW are often awful in ARAM.
Whitemane, hard to play, but insane power; still just a worse anduin though, lol.
Nova, people flame you immediately after you pick Nova, but the gal absolutely demolishes the good heroes in ARAM like kael and liming, just pick the heavy auto attack talent, pick off the mages. Don’t pick triple tap though, unless the map is like real open. The other ult can nuke tower globally, close out many games for me
Zeratul, the cleave is kinda disgusting if your team has to clump up.
Lili, no kidding, Lili is great in ARAM, cloud serpents talents, fun to play as well
Some overrated stuff
Double healers are often bad in Aram. I don’t even know why, I just know the team who picked double healers loses more often than they win; unless their comp is like insane.
Kaelthas, he is situationally insane, but against a comp with a longer-range cannon like Liming, Kael is miserable to play
Hanzo, he is just bad. Ten Hanzo players, maybe three of them are even halfway decent.
Chromie, still good, just not as good as her pick rate.
Medivh, stop picking him unless you know how to play Medivh, pls, even a mediocre Medivh is as useless as a carrot.
DJ, because every lucio player plays like they are leoric. Stop going in front of the team! Pushing someone towards us is not worth you dying!
That is it. Gonna keep playing ARAM until this game croaks.