Professionals in League of Legends also prepare for tournaments and important players outside of training sessions. A player from the last EU champion team has now explained that the relaxed mode ARAM helped him.
Which professional is it about? At the LEC 2025 Spring Playoffs, the most important European tournament in LoL, the Spanish team Movistar KOI secured the victory. The team also includes the Canadian wonder kid Jojopyun, who played for Cloud9 until 2024. He plays in the mid lane.
In a stream (via Twitch), he explained why his team won the LEC. He said that he stopped playing Solo Queue, the ranked mode in LoL, and preferred to focus on ARAMs. ARAM is a mode that is often described as relaxed
and for casuals
.
The chaos in ARAM can be educational
What does Jojopyun say on the subject? In the stream, he wants to explain to his viewers the method with which one can win the LEC. He reaches the following conclusion:
I stopped playing Solo Queue for the last three months. I might have played Solo Queue for a week and then only spammed ARAMS. I promise you, brother, playing ARAMS is much better than Solo Queues, even for professionals.
Jojopyun about ARAM (Source: Reddit)
Although he exaggerates with the statement that he hasn’t played Solo Queue for three months, as a Reddit user points out, he played extremely much ARAM during the LEC period. At the end of the clip, he even says: I believe we won the LEC because I only played ARAMs.
You can watch the clip here:
Can you really learn from ARAMs? In draft and ranked modes, much is about optimized processes, such as farming, timing, and also laning against other opponents. A completely different important factor is the team fight. One single fight can change everything and quickly end a close match.
The chaos of ARAM is perfectly suited to train one’s overview and behavior in such fights, after all, ARAM is practically a constant team fight. The random factor continually brings forth new configurations that one can practice.
Although it is a relaxed
mode for many, you can still learn a lot from it.
Another professional also comments on the topic. The mid laner of Los Ratones, Nemesis, reacted in a stream (Source: YouTube) to Jojopyun’s statements and explained that many Korean professionals probably play a lot of ARAM, but he believes that Arena is much better for improvement if you don’t want to play Solo Queue. In addition, he further explains that Solo Queue in the Challenger area is bad
.
Many players in LoL even exclusively play ARAM. What do you think? Do you prefer to stick to ARAM or do you also enjoy solo queue? Let us know in the comments. Also in ARAM there are regular updates. Recently, the maps have changed: The best mode for relaxed LoL players now gets more variety and new maps
