Do I need to explain why?
I don’t so right?
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No, keep the Mirror matches.
They are fun as all hell and, don’t happen often enough to be a bother. Actually, i WISH they happened MORE. I play ARAM all the time and it’s honestly kind of a rarity.
Mirror matches are so rare for me, i’m nearly convinced it’s not a “Random numbers” kinda thing. But more like a certain time of the day when they’re most likely to occur. I’m missing out since i don’t play during whatever those times are. Crud! 
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Greatest argument ever provided. I’m sold.
FLEP 2024
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Wow. Your reply made me go back and revisit OP’s post.
I kinda see things in a whole new light now. Maybe the mirror matches should be done away with. For the good of humanity.
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ARAM before the update was already frustrating if you kept playing it and taking it seriously. Play a mode other than ARAM and you’ll feel a lot better. Plus you get to have even less of a chance to bump into the rare same-hero match, which already happens only once in a blue moon.
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Nothing more fun to get death threats from a Maltheal player with most deaths on his team back in the old days. Or face 5 stacks that taunt spam just to face the same taunt spammer in the next game where he is now on the losing team insteed.
Yea some people took ARAM way too serious.
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Yes, yes you need to.
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People still take ARAM too seriously, many of them because it’s their “main” or only game mode they play.
I think some of the complaints, in part, rise from the veneer that ARAM presents a “draft”, by providing the random 3 heroes selection. It seems to not matter to people when you explain to them the mode has no MMR, that the “draft”, is not a true draft for many reasons, and that yes, some heroes on occasion are going to feel too strong on a one lane map.
I remember a few years ago, someone who made lengthy threads, requesting a “ranked ARAM” mode. The reason the threads had many replies, was not based on the strength of their request, but rather people pointing out the obvious reasons why it would be extremely difficult to make a “random brawl” mode, competitive.
ARAM confirms my confirmation bias that all along, most players just wanted Hots to be a simple hero brawler. Yet, even those people still want “balance” in a mode that was designed not to be balanced.
Unless you just wanted a soap box, an explanation would enable some sort of reasonable discussion to be had.
Since it was enabled, I’ve played far too many ARAM games, but I’ve yet to have even 5% of those games be all mirrors. I’m not a great fan of mirror games, but they happen too infrequently to be upset about them.
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ARAM wasn’t designed to be played for a long period of time from the get go. I learned this lesson after a personal experiment I’ve done. Granted the only sample size was me, so full bias disclosure. I consider myself a passive and quiet player but at the end of the day, even someone like me was talking back to people like that Malthael. It was a fun experience in the first couple of games, but afterwards it slowly started feeling more like I glued a wasp hive to my leg.
People who only play Aram are probably stuck in this loop. It must feel awful. Same-hero game or lack thereof.
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It was meant to be a circus mode where you would play crazy comps but some people act like it was ranked and would call people out for choosing heroes that would reduce your chances to win.
Winning should not be the primary goal of you playing ARAM. It should be you having fun with crazy comps and have a game mode you can move to when you get burned out with QM and ranked. But when you then play with the same people as you do in ranked that will call you out for the smallet error or not picking what they want you to pick then you will never have fun.
Its aways that me me me mentality all over again. If the try hard cant get what he wants then he will tower feed and go afk.
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Well put. This is how I approach ARAM, I play it for fun, variety and to relax. In ARAM, there are no points on the line as in ranked, and there is no MMR to lose as in QM. So it should be a no pressure environment just to have fun. ARAM offers games with an almost instant queue time, a map stripped of most macro mechanics and random heroes to choose from.
When I played ARAM with friends, we never took it seriously and would spend most of the match laughing. As you say though, we didn’t play 10 ARAM games in a row, it’s like a dessert, it’s fine as an occasional treat, but will lose its appeal if you play it too often or worse, queue up with the expectation ARAM will provide a competitive or balanced experience.
The other advantage of ARAM is that I’ve played heroes I never would have otherwise, due to the casual nature of the mode. The most recent hero, I picked up because of ARAM, is Hogger. I had tried him out a few times in the past, and he didn’t click, but playing Hogger in ARAM, a low pressure PVP environment, led me to pick up the hero in other modes.
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This is heresy in the eyes of those who have their heads in the sand.
Me: gets pulled over
Officer: “Good Afternoon sir, do you want to tell me why you were going 85 miles per hour in a school zone?”
Me: “Do I need to explain why?”
Officer: “So sorry to inconvenience you, sir, you’re free to go. Have a great day.”
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This is totally unrelated but it reminded me of something lol
Brewstew - Pokemon Cards - YouTube
Please just trust me and watch it! It’ll make sense at the end lol
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How many games did you play that night? All mirror games are supposed to occur around 5% of the time, but statistical probability allows for you to exceed that number, or alternatively, fall short of 5%.
I mostly dislike ARAM mirrors, but I’ve yet to experience them in 5% of my games since the change was introduced. I agree that 54 minutes is far too long for a match and honestly, I’m not sure how an all KT match would go for so long.
The longest mirror I’ve had was about 20 minutes, but then, I haven’t had to endure an all Probius game where the whole team has taken Null Gate.
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Most of us like to call mirror mode “trash mode”.
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I have been playing almost ARAM exclusively since it was reworked and became a fix mode, almost every day.
2729 games, a bit over 50% wins, KDA 5.1.
Until recently I barely saw Mirror games, like one each 3 months or so, if that.
Then recently (like for the past month or so) it became very common to play at least 2 or 3 a week.
So I can promise that any of the % or data you think exists, doesn’t.
Not sure what triggered to start appearing more now that the game is abandoned, but it is happening more. Way more.
And most of the time are long games, hardly goes less than 30 minutes. The Kael one no team wanted to backdown so that’s why it took 54 minutes.
And the worst part, on mirror mode the XP is CAPED at something like 50K or so
Mirror games are supposed to occur 5% of the time. As you probably are aware, statistical probability means you can exceed or fall short of that number. My personal experience with Mirror games is they have occurred in 3% of my matches, and I’ve played around forty ARAM games since this change was made.
Get rid of Mirror Mode or let us queue with an option to avoid it. That is all.
nope, it is several different people that reply to you.
However, you choose to remain ignorant and not read things through since you’d rather keep blaming something instead of solving the “problems” you have.
However, since most of the blue activity is for bugs and technical assistance, it is unlikely that occasional requests for change to the game will actually bring any change.
That’s part of why I keep encouraging peope to actually read instead of making-up ghost stories instead.
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