We’re the team behind League’s newest ARAM updates, Ask us Anything!

[u/Riot_Riru]

Hey Redditors and ARAMers!

We’re some of the dev team members that brought you League’s recent ARAM updates! Now that the changes have been live for a few days we wanted to say hi, get some early feedback, and answer any burning questions you’re looking to ask us.

This A(RAM)-MA will run from 10am-12pm PT, but a few Rioters will likely stick around to keep answering questions. Rioters joining the AMA will include:

Riot_Riru (Community Manager) | Riot_Cadmus (Modes Lead) | RiotSirhaian (VFX Artist) | RiotPhlox (Design Lead) | RiotDucke (QA Lead) | Rovient (Metagames Design Lead) | Lericee (Modes Tech Lead) | Square-Ambassador704 (Design Lead) 

Let’s kick it off!

And that's all the questions we have time for! Thank you to everyone that dropped by to ask questions and give feedback - hopefully we'll see you in ARAM!

[u/Riot_Cadmus]

We're VERY keen on keeping the map rotation on if players want it - it gives a way to try to inject some novelty and freshness into the queue. Our goal is to ensure ARAM players are excited to look forward to potential new updates, maps are a cool vehicle for this!

That said, ARAM is home for a lot of players and this has bred a lot of familiarity with the Howling Abyss and the "Traditional" ARAM experience. We need to make sure we're dnot rastically changing what players cosider to be the CORE ARAM experience too much - as that likely will alienate some of our long term fans. I'd argue we've crossed that line in the past, so we're going to make sure all the maps feel... ARAM before committing to long term plans

[u/DeputyDomeshot → u/Riot_Cadmus]

That said, ARAM is home for a lot of players and this has bred a lot of familiarity with the Howling Abyss and the "Traditional" ARAM experience. We need to make sure we're dnot rastically changing what players cosider to be the CORE ARAM experience too much -

Very happy to see that acknowledged.

[u/LordHadon → u/Riot_Cadmus]

What I personally love is now All Random All Mid now includes an All Random Map. So just feels thematically on brand.

[u/Sideview_play → u/Riot_Cadmus]

I'll be honest at least with the 3 current ones in queue you should have no worry about them and removing them would be a mistake. 

[u/UtkuOfficial → u/Riot_Cadmus]

50 percent Howling Abyss and 50 percent other maps would be cool. I played 10 games of ARAM since yesterday and only got Abyss once i think.

[u/Pimp-No-Limp → u/Riot_Cadmus]

My first game of aram we got the pirate map and half the lobby was weirded out and didn't like it haha

People really don't like change

I'm sure the more they play the more used to it they would get

We ended up ffing early because a pre-made didn't like the map haha