Why does it feel like half the games in ARAM are my team intentionally trying to lose. There are some severely basic principles in how you should draft and play, and unless you play as a 5man of diamonds, masters, and grandmasters, you just want to pull all of your hair out.
DON’T TRICKLE. If someone dies and you’re now 4v5, don’t play aggressive. Just stay back and play defense. Don’t try to take the enemy camp. Don’t run in front of the minions when the enemy team has a Stitches. Don’t ping the AI so it follows you to your death as you make a stupid AF play. Don’t get mad at the healer for backing up when they have spam-pinged “we have a talent disadvantage” “retreat” “I’m low on mana.”
BRUISERS ARE NOT TANKS. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’m trying to educate stupid players that bruisers are not tanks. The fist icon means bruiser, the shield icon means tank. DON’T last second switch from Blaze to Nazeebo because you think Yrel is a tank. Don’t make a hero like Garrosh or Johanna, or any tank have to peel for 4 no-mobility mages. Stop complaining when Arthas goes full tank-build because all you know is Q build with your 3 games played with the hero.
JUST PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE YOUR TEAMMATES ARE. The number of times a garbage Valla or Jaina has just walked in front of their whole team only to get thrown by the enemy Garrosh. ARRRGGH, JUST WALK THE F AWAY. No, you are not a tank, Hanzo, in fact, the tank has gone back to the fountain for mana and health. Risking your life to deal a tiny amount of poke damage that will immediately be healed up by the healer is not smart if it means you get a 50 second death timer and the enemy gets a keep.
STOP BLAMING YOUR TEAMMATES FOR YOUR 12+ DEATHS. We’ve all seen it. You know what I’m talking about so don’t pretend it isn’t real.
And a lot of the bad players from ARAM make it into Quick Match. There’s a reason I almost exclusively play as a 5man in QM. This is a team game- much more so than any other MOBA on the planet. No matter how good you are, if you get trash players, you lose- unless you have a hyper-carry hero like Junkrat or Kel’thuzad, and a few others.
Yeah, I know this is an aggressive venting post, but I kinda want to stab someone right now this so infuriating. It’s just expected that you get that bucket of horse piss player on your team 75% of the time. If you haven’t, then you are a lucky SOB.
New players aren’t joining this game, it’s almost all veterans at this point. How can your account be 6 years old and you still walk in a straight line and get hit by every skillshot? People complain that I play in 5mans, but that’s the only way to nullify the BS matchmaker. Getting MVP and still losing all the time is not fun.
I’m ready for all the downvotes and all the people telling me I’m garbage at the game and everything is my fault. I’ll be disappointed if the post doesn’t get flagged.
EDIT. Also forgot to mention there are sooooooo many AFKers in ARAM. Literally right after making this post, I got into a game and a guy AFK and we got a bot Illidan instead of a tank we desperately needed. It’s like clockwork how reliably unreliable players are in this game. Also, JUST PING THE BOT OR IT WILL REPEATEDLY DIE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER, LIKE 5 TIMES IN 2 MINUTES.