Random personal stats and thoughts

Hi there,

As a fellow ARAM-mostly player, I've collected some stats from my games. Sample is too low to make any kind of quality analysis, so it will mostly be some thoughts regarding the game quality. Data were collected between 09/04 and 16/04. I own all but 17 champs on my account.

I've launched 36 games of ARAM, and got 31 different champs. 3 times Viktor, 3 times Fizz and 2 times Cho'Gath.

Of this 36 games, someone dodges in 5 of those. My winrate over those 31 games is 38.71%. My MMR from "Whatismymmr" has decreased from 1908 on 08/04 to 1759 on 16/04.

In my games (including those dodged), 9 champs have been banned more than 10 times (not including my bans) :

• Brand 15

• Veigar 14

• Fiddlesticks 13

• Blitzcrank 13

• Pyke 12

• Ziggs 11

• Xerath 11

• Lux 11

• Zyra 10

• Close competitor is Sona with 9 bans.

The rest is under 6 bans.

My thoughts now:

I think the event brought people that generally don't play that much ARAM/don't read patch notes at all. I've seen more people playing strange builds, overstaying behind towers without health/mana and not knowing what were the new items and the nerfs/buffs. This lead to a general decrease in game quality.

The pace of the game was a big problem for any champion that needs more than 2 items to be relevant and a big buff to any bruiser. Yes, all those poke mages are still annoying (Veigar and Velkoz for me), but I got more destroyed by some Urgots, Akalis or Xin Zhaos 1v3/4 easily (hence why my bans were mostly targeted against Urgot)

In that way, I think that the anti-poke + %nerf/buff is too strong for some champs. I used to go utility with most mages (Liandry/Rylai for ex), and don't build Rabaddon that much. Now is pretty much the opposite, to compensate for the lack of damage overall compared to bruisers.

Oh and the amount of people not buying Executionner's Calling against any form of heal is too damn high.

Am I the only one to fear bruisers/offtanks more than poke mages?