When URF came out, it had notoriously short matches compared to regular games

Frontline Fury·Jul 12, 2018·21 votes·8,513 views

Now, ironically, Urf has much longer matches than normal and ranked games.

I just find that ironic.

16 Comments

remakoroJul 12, 20182 votes

Who told you that? I had urfs that ended with nexus blowing up around 10 min. Many of them end around 15 mins even without surrender.

At the same time i quite often have 30-40 min long normals. I even had 55 min game couple of days ago.

Z3SleeperJul 12, 20185 votes

It's ARURF. Everything is random, to include game length.

CrettJul 12, 20181 votes

is that true? if i had to guess why, waveclear/lane sustain are both much stronger.

to be honest i kinda wish most games of rift made it to at least 25 minutes

Z3SleeperJul 12, 20181 votes

That and typically both sides have a pretty damn high chance to comeback given everyone is broken at all times.

ZackTheWaffleManJul 12, 20181 votes

that's only if it's an even matchup

Z3SleeperJul 13, 20181 votes

Not exactly. Death timers hit 60+ way sooner in URF causing one mistake even by an OP team to spell instant defeat.

An Trolling LifeJul 12, 20181 votes

Blind/Draft queue usually takes 5+ min to find a match, and that seems obviously stupid. Ranked is a bit faster, and urf gives you an instant queue. I understand some people just stop playing league of legends when urf is closed since the normal/ranked is quite slow and less entertaining compared to urf(the gaming pace is much faster). Also, you will likely to have bronzes/silvers/golds even if you are in high elo which makes the queue time much shorter. What I don't understand is that the queue time of blind/draft is longer than ranked. I bet normals are absolutely far more than ranked matchups.

TrikzterzArmaJul 12, 20182 votes

Lmao, I would GLADLY wait twice that time if he matchmaking were good.

Tychusfindlay918Jul 12, 20181 votes

redundant with the irony.

Edge of DaybreakJul 12, 20181 votes

So do we have any statistics to back this up?

ChaosThiefJul 12, 20181 votes

I had game lengths of about 20 minutes on average in URF, sometimes games lasting only up to 13-14 minutes because of one side pulling a lead.

Honestly it should be pretty obvious as to why this could be the case; in URF you can waveclear from a distance by spamming spells in the range of safety, where in a normal game you had cooldown and costs to worry about.

On a side note, I have potentially a ton of clips of the cheesy one shots that kept occuring because of predator/assassin champions.

FlyingRoboticCowJul 13, 20181 votes

On a side note, I have potentially a ton of clips of the cheesy one shots that kept occuring because of predator/assassin champions.

what does that have to do with urf?

ChaosThiefJul 13, 20181 votes

It was mostly made possible because of some champion's cooldowns being so low, Rengar's ultimate for example, having a 12 second cooldown or so. Predator boots had a 20 second cooldown or something like that, so that lead into "oh I failed to kill them the first time, I'll just wait out the predator cooldowns and try again."

But mostly the ult cooldown.

Modl Ryden lJul 12, 20181 votes

Lol okay, let's just dust off the fact that [AR] URF games have the tendency to end even at 8 mins.

Akali is SO HOTJul 13, 20181 votes

URF games only last about 15 minutes on average. At most, for super back and forth games, it's 25. The average game length right now is 25 minutes for an average game.

Frontline FuryJul 13, 20181 votes

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URF games only last about 15 minutes on average. At most, for super back and forth games, it's 25. The average game length right now is 25 minutes for an average game.

Funny you should mention it - my URF games typically last 40 to 50 minutes... Granted one team will be at the other's base by the 20 minute mark, but that's when the waveclear fest truly begins, both teams group and the losing team overtakes the winning team in exp because they get to freely farm minions in their base.