A major problem is when you want to play ARAM and get teammates who throw the game or can’t cut the mustard. It’s not a dealer breaker in itself but maybe you took one for the team and filled a healer or tank or something you didn’t want but your damage players couldn’t cut the mustard. You say GG anyway or at least don’t criticize even though your time feels wasted.
Then you just want another game so you can log off on a win or play a hero you like and ARAM hits you with 10 of the same Probius or Maiev which you weren’t really that interested in and forcing an alt+f4. This experience seriously happens to me way more often than it should and it is the real problem. They say it’s 2% chance but I alt+f4ed several of these recently and fought my way out of leaver’s queue each time. They really need to remove 10 of the same or include a box you check to avoid getting it. I’m no longer going to fill roles in ARAM because this 10 of the same is now eating up my time instead of getting to play what I really want. If it’s Nova or a healer and my team could use a healer, sorry, I’m going Nova. Maybe when 10 of the same is completely removed and my time is respected I’ll fill roles again.
I feel like you could respect your own time enough to notice you had already stated you don’t fill, or weren’t going to anymore.
How’d that zealous departure for diablo 4 turn out for you?
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if it was a constant you heal or knife I understand but if it was between a good bloody healer i.e Anduin, then what the hell? you can still have fun with him
if it was ana and nova same diff you bad with one you bad with other
it when the play styles very much differ
hence why I dont play reghar or khara on principle because they aren’t my play-style. and no if your play-style is damage or nothing that just you being awkward but there are still healers that damage and heal as in stukov Whitemane heck Auriel if you get the sweet spot
if you like being behind shooting them like a little sniper then why cant you play Q alexstraza its essentially the same but with healing in stead
if you like to casually debuff the enemy team why cant you play Brightwing polymorph is a blind, a slow and a silence all together (think about it and you’ll see it)
you always have the problem with people not thinking outside the box “if this ability dont heal then I’m not a healer” or “theres more damage than heal abillities obviously Im an assassin”
Zarya for bloody sake she prevents damage and yet everyone is like no she’s an assassin not a support despite protecting allies.
hence why everyone picks khara to deal damage
hence why no one plays whitemane cus people cant understand that she deals damage to heal
hence why people FORGET to heal as stukov because “hes about those slows and silence, no heals”
You can count how many Aram games so it could be different there but you can carry as healers and it makes a huge diff if one teams healer is significantly better than the other.
I don’t mind healing around 3 out 10 games ish lets say and on account im currently playing my Uther has around 50 games (admittedly not alot but not nothing) and has a > 70% winrate.
My account average in ranked is about 55% and I play every role currently at mid gold and fill pretty often. He’s a healer and clearly having a big impact in matches so I don’t get refusing to heal out of winrate, I do out of not enjoying the playstyle.
How many times out of how many games? According to my match history, I have played 25 ARAMs in the past two weeks, and none of those were 10 of the same hero. Honestly, if all you want to do is play a specific hero, you may want to consider Quick Match?
Personally, I don’t mind tanking or healing, but if you really don’t enjoy filling, Quick Match is the safest mode. When I queue for ARAM or SL, I do so with the expectation that I will likely have to fill, and won’t get to play any of my favorite heroes.
For me, the appeal of ARAM is to branch out of my comfort zone in a mode where it honestly doesn’t really matter if I am no expert on the hero I am playing. I have a suspicion that your expectations aren’t exactly what the mode was designed to be.
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You know why this occurs, there is very minimal MM in ARAM, it’s basically RANDOM. Like everything is random, the skill of your team, the three heroes on offer, Mirror Matches are also a random chance.
I sympathize, I don’t like AFK players or whatever, and I don’t really like mirror games, but it’s part of the random nature of the random mode, where other modes exist that aren’t random, if you don’t want random.
Did I mention random?
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I have a theory. I’ve played 200 aram games when it was 5% and only got 3 mirror match games. I never quit or anything, and I also played those mirrors until the end.
Now, people who complain they get mirrors all the time and more than 2% (or 5% in the past) always say they afk/quit the game.
So, my theory is the game gives people who troll and go against the rules (quit) more and more mirrors just so they learn to stop doing that and actually play the game and I love that.
Of course this is not actually true but I can still think it is just for the lolz 
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This honestly gave me a laugh out loud moment. Thank you for that, I’ve had a difficult day.
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SL: should fill, requires draft
UD: requires draft, less strict, shouldn’t need to fill, should be experimental (aware the mode is dead)
Aram: random picks, wise to fill
QM: you can pick whatever. Need random? Purple guy.
So if you dislike filling, dislike certain gimmicks. Play. QM. Simple. You can have random fun. You can play what you want. You are free.
Or unlock the “evil cheat” of “friends” (don’t need to be actual friends), form a 5stack and now you can do whatever in: Every. Single. Mode.
Start playing what you like, instead of complaining about stuff in your control, about your own decisions, or about the risk you agreed to take but refuse to handle.
That would be one hell of a plot twist. Funny is people that hate 5vs5 mirror games still play games that are 2vs2 or 3v3 mirrors. Its 100% ok if its like that but 5vs5 is no go.
Keep saying they never signet up for it but in reality they did. They just dont want to admit it.
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Man, imagine if when they get into mirror matches but instead of afk/leaving other players out to dry it is just nine bots with randomly generated names and levels instead?
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