I was going to play some URF this weekend...
But I wanted to play a more casual game mode with less tryhards & more champion diversity, So I played ranked instead*[zombie-nunu-bummed]*
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I don't blame Riot for it. URF was fun first 2 years (2 times) and it became less and less fun because the more you play it, the more meta established it becomes. You can ban 6 most frustrating champions to play against and then the rest will take their place. Just one champion with an annoying ability that can use it constantly, becomes an anti-joy champion that gets rewarded for it and you just have to take it the entire game.
Moral of the story - unless you want to earn chests with annoying champions, play URF. If this isn't your shtick, everything else would be more fun than URF.
um i agree with the more champ diversity part but i see lots more tryhards in ranked than in URF. anyways have fun.
What if they made a randomized URF version?
I can't understand the harassment that goes on in URF. Everyone is expecting you to be able to play a champion as well as if you played them in Ranked...but it's URF. It's not supposed to be tense. That doesn't even account for the fact that some champions are blatantly more powerful in the mode and are 100% not fun to play against.
I think Riot needs to make it all Random, or ban some of the worst offenders of the Mode by default. Zed, Blitzcrank, Xin Zhao, and a few others ruin the experience big time when they make it through Pick/Ban.
OR Riot could make Turrets absolutely monstrous in URF. I think that'd be hilarious to watch them one-shot champions in URF given how they are as weak in URF now as they were at the beginning of Season 6. :^)
Every single problem with URF is just from the fact that it is on SR. URF does not belong on SR. Put it on Ascension and every single problem people cry about will be solved:
- Equal XP and gold always for everyone, no one snowballs out of hand and ruins the game for everyone else. Even the most UP champs will have their 5 items built and will have no level disadvantage and so will be useful anyways.
- No early nexus pushing - there is no nexus.
- No laning - which is boring in urf.
- Just fights, which is what makes urf fun.
And imagine the fun of an Ascended URF champion.
I managed to enjoy it this time by playing ap reksai. You have enough range that the annoying champs are basically just distant targets, and you can see the stealthers.
They really need to either:
A) Make it draft so I can see what the enemy team is picking, give me some ability to see that they're going to pick 4 melee hard engage champs that are super annoying so I can pick Janna or something (or don't pick something that's gonna get hard countered)
B) Make it random and let you trade like ARAM, but give everyone 2 rerolls every game (I think the reroll mechanic for ARAM for a RGM would be too annoying, you just wanna be able to play) or give everyone 1 reroll every game.
C) Remove champions that are toxic/overpowered/ridiculous or nerf them. This would have to be an ongoing process every week, so I think the first two changes would probably be better.
I just feel like if people are going to try so hard to pick really overpowered team comps in Urf, they're really benefitting from Blind Draft allowing them to both have duplicate champs and pick without us seeing their picks. I get the whole idea of "this is a RGM for fun!" but I think it would be more fun if we could actually have some warning of the eve/nidalee/ekko team we're about to play against.
Urf just spiralled into a cancer festival after the first two times it was around. Now it's just pick a cancer champ or get destroyed by a cancer champ. Only thing it is good for now is to earn chests with Assasins.
There's plenty of diversity if you go looking - Pantheon, Skarner, and Amumu, for example, are just as strong as Evelynn, Ryze, or Zed. One of my opponents yesterday was playing Shyvana and they almost carried the game. Be willing to experiment and you'll find some cool stuff.
(for Amumu, go tanky AP - Rylai's, Abyssal, and Protobelt are awesome.)