Some champs were banned so often that bans in ARAM were tantamount to completely disabling them from the gamemode
That’s exactly what I’d like to see. Certain champs have no place on ARAM, like Shaco or Teemo since the removal of oracles. They are literally the Antichrist of fun.
In the last 5 or 6 years I have played with my bride ARAM almost exclusively. Thousands of ARAMs, more than we are proud of.
I think balancing is necessary. There are certain champs, mostly ranged spambots (Ashe, Ziggs, Lux, and the list goes on), that are S tier picks even with -15% dmg and other nerfs. Sometimes even in the current system the game is decided in the champ select, I definitely do not want to face non-balanced Ziggs sitting under his turret and zoning me to our inner turret.
On the other hand, I would really like to see the balance numbers in the champ select. Sometimes the nerf are overkill and the champ is hot garbage. Or I just don’t want to pick certain champs at +20% dmg take. Let me decide while knowing the full picture, instead of getting surprised in game, that I’m shooting wet noodles and a mild fart can delete my healthbar.
A lot of times, I take a look at the scoreboard around the start of the second event and it’s almost always 27-5 or 6-30. One team is on a disgusting steamroll. Sure, snowball happens on SR and ARAM as well, but first, you have a lot more control over the game and comeback, second, it feels a lot less random. Sometimes the 1st even fits the other team better / spwaned under their base… good luck, your team is already 10 kill, 5k gold and 1,5 levels behind. Feels like a scam.
It isn’t low masters, it’s League. Playing since S2, I was from bronze to high plat (currently here yaay) everywhere, watching a lot of streams from low diamond to challenger and I swear if you hide the names, you can’t freaking tell the rank. Exactly the same chat, same mentally weak players, same entitled bastards, same noobs, same smurfs, same misplays, same ragequitters, same terrible quality plays. You fire up twitch, click on a random unknown streamer and you can not tell what rank he is. SoloQ is basically a slot machine. You pull the lever and each slot rolls a teammate for you from >>a guy with 270 ping who is unranked<< to >>literally Faker<< and good luck.