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These rankings assume you know how to play the hero well**

This one was pretty highly demanded in my streams so I decided to make one! I know there are a ton of ARAM enjoyers in HOTS so here is my ranking of how good the heroes are in ARAM. If you have any questions about why they are in a certain tier ask in comments and I'll answer when I see it!

I'll release this to the public eventually but Patreon will have 1 month early access to this tierlist and the ability to ask me any questions on it.

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Matr1x

Nice! Valla is just a broken hero, thank god because I love her. I don't agree with ETC because that's an average ETC, my Portuguese Cow is tier SSS. I'm joking xD Looks great, thank you for the useful infos as always :)

Sean Ryan

did we lose a hero guide? it was raynor this week right

R

SSK!!!!!

Jello

Aram list is boring imo, sry. no need for this - will never use. Yeah, Raynor n Rehgar are next. Wait for them too!

R

It's not for everyone, but ARAM is a very popular game mode. And it kinda forces you to learn new heroes.

Jette

Some of these do depend a little on skill. I can easily run Alarak just as gross as Zul'jin or Azmodan, and at 120-150 stacks or so, my E hits like a hydrogen bomb. Azmodan is vastly *easier* to dominate a match with, though, which probably explains the placement. I can get similar results with Maiev, since few ARAM players are savvy enough to avoid clumping in the crescent pattern, and there's not a great counter to "oh look, I'm invincible every 13 seconds." Plus, a lot of these are true only because you can't see your enemy's draft. If you could *know* there are no artillery characters (Azmodan, Chromie, Li-Ming, etc.) on the other team, heroes like Kerrigan and Illidan would be completely viable. But, of course, you *can't* see the enemy team, which is why they aren't. Tier lists are more a meme than a source of usable information. I agree with most of Fan's choices, but that's because I already know most of what Fan knows about ARAM; unlike the main game, which can be brutally complex and counterintuitive and crazy, ARAM generally presents the same situation every single game. An all-random all-mid blind draft just isn't going to have the nuance of the real game. In particular, because this game doesn't have items like League and Dota do, the draft is *everything.* You can't buy an item to give you Ice Block to counteract the enemy's Pyro or Azmo Q or whatever; anything that needs to be countered has to be countered in the draft, and ARAM doesn't have one. I think if they introduced All-Draft All-Mid, it'd probably be more popular than storm league. Not saying they should do that, mind, just an idle thought. I'm also not saying ARAM players have no skill; some ARAM players have the mechanics of GM and ex-pro players, they just prefer the ARAM environment. (coded message, hidden beneath comment: tierlists are dumb, just popular; by stratifying picks into absolute and equivalent categories, all nuance is removed, and players may not understand *why* a character is/is not good, and turn to dumb reliance on the list rather than developing a deeper understanding of gameplay. but that's just, like, my opinion, yo.)

fanhots

Yeah I had a lot of people asking for the ARAM Tierlist on my stream, so we went with that this week. Will be working and uploading the raynor guide next week though

fanhots

Yes there are heroes that are easier to play and that makes it harder to balance the tierlist. I take that into account a bit but generally im assuming you can play every hero well for the rankings. While tierlists do simplify things a lot, they are also used by a ton of people. I think about it as training wheels, something to ease them into it and then they can discover the nuances themselves or in other more in depth guides