Everyone wants URF back including me, but...

Pyke Pony·2/24/2016, 10:50:31 AM·75 votes·4,481 views

But I honestly miss ascension the most. I just saw a few old ascension vids and realised how good this mode was. I understand it's a bad time to post about it because dominion got removed a couple days ago but since Riot said that there will be a mode released to fill dominion's shoes I would love to see ascension, or something like that. Hopefully you guys agree with me because I really loved that mode.

EDIT: When I posted this yesterday I didn't expect this amount of views (2k+) and upvotes. Hopefully we get enough attention and ascension gets back in the game, if not permanently then for just a week or 2, I'd love to play this mode for at least one more time! :')

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PDE5 Inhib2/24/2016, 2:16:24 PM25 votes

URF was the funnest before everyone just figured out the strongest champs and started spamming them. It was honestly the game mode to get away from all that BS, but of course the community ruined that. Go play ranked if you want to spam the strongest champs just to win.

IronwallJackson2/24/2016, 4:45:34 PM14 votes

I absolutely love the team deathmatch feel of ascension, and fighting both the enemy team and your own teammates over the ascension buff was some of the most nail-biting things I've experienced in the game.

Another great thing about that mode was that since gold could only be earned passively, everyone was always on even footing, so comebacks were pretty much always possible. Not only that, but when combined with the low death timers, the mode gave you a great opportunity to practice skirmishing and dueling.

God, I love ascension.

DarkfireAM2/24/2016, 4:04:06 PM7 votes

I think that Riots new Permanent game mode should be like what so many people have suggested..

A game mode at rotates all the released special game modes every two weeks or so. This would be insanly fun, and might even convince me to quit SR.

Anyway what ever they do, as long as its fun I'm happy ^^

Truly Prideful2/24/2016, 6:00:58 PM4 votes

I don't even want URF back at all. I do agree with Ascension though, that was fairly interesting.

LordKentravyon2/25/2016, 1:40:04 AM4 votes

Yes ascension as a game mode was amzing. Trying to get the quest done for the summoner icon was frusterating but the mode itself was some of the most fun I have veer had in league.

People whine about URF all the time bit after the first couple days its very boring because the "most OP" champs have been figured out and are spammed evern more than the top tiers in normal rift.

Ascension never dulled down imo and was just so much fun.

Titanium702/24/2016, 2:30:02 PM3 votes

Nah Ascension was funny, for sure - but I cant say I really want to play the same mode once more.

It was great, we had fun, we discovered all the playable champions (except the usuall 'OP-Spammers' their own fault) and worked hard to get this shiny Icon. ^^ But that wont work a second time. The Champs are known, the magic is gone. However an alternatitive Version of this Gamemode - using the ascension mechanics with different goals.. well that would be awesome!!! ^^

But right now I'm just looking forward to destroy all my skills and timings during this one week of URF. x'D

Gentzer2/24/2016, 5:28:50 PM3 votes

URF is fun and all...

Until you realise every game was a snowball fest that could be utter torture.

D3m37r12/25/2016, 5:10:56 AM2 votes

Everyone is like"bring back urf" and i'm just here waiting for nemesis draft.

Frius2/24/2016, 5:19:08 PM2 votes

ascension > urf by far urf is mash all buttons liek r3tard ascension better ,fun and skirmish.

Sohleks2/25/2016, 4:48:23 AM2 votes

Ascension was simply plain fun. <3

Part of that reason was that it was pvp, high action, yet relaxed, short, non-snowbally, and a broad range of champions and strategies felt viable.

I might appreciate it as a permanent mode tbh

It'd be nice to have a pvp queue in this game to get away from snowball entirely in the form of pressure / gold. Aram is definitely not it.

Stítch2/24/2016, 3:07:54 PM2 votes

Ascention pls

James Winter2/24/2016, 6:50:53 PM2 votes

Ascension SHOULD replace Dominion! We need another fun game mode Riot...

SailorPsycho2/24/2016, 6:51:50 PM2 votes

I don't want URF back. They have done so many other better things that actually require skill and thinking.

Rossendale2/24/2016, 8:35:32 PM2 votes

The problem wit gamemodes like One For All and URF is, and always will be, the tryhards that spam all of the strongest champions after they've been figured out. Both OFA and URF were super fun for the first couple of days or so, but then it just became stale and boring because every OFA game people spam voted for Blitzcrank and Malphite whilst every time you played URF the game always had Nidalee or Hecarim in it.

Paladin 0f Life2/24/2016, 1:26:37 PM1 votes

Look at icon

J1moBatman2/26/2016, 5:58:20 PM1 votes

I really like this idea ,its solid and i would like to see it once more.

63536895_DEL2/24/2016, 4:52:31 PM1 votes

The only featured game modes I've played are URF and All for One, but I've seen videos of doombots and would love to try it.

Pikmints2/24/2016, 6:19:40 PM1 votes

Well Riot does like to change things when they bring gamemodes back. Sometimes a mode that was previously on the Howling Abyss would instead be on the Rift. When URF came back some numbers were touched like those of shields and heals. What ideas do you have that would make a second coming of ascension better than the previous one?

I'm sure we all (or at least those of us that cared about them) hated the fact that some of those icons could take up to 20 games to get even though all you need is one good game to complete the requirements.

As far as in-game mechanics go, I'd like to see some kind of changes made to make the fighting more dynamic. Perhaps once one of the relics is claimed, a Skarner-like area is designated for the team that captured it providing stats for all allies inside. Maybe capturing a relic would give the team that captured it some kind of short buff (ie left one gave MS for 20 seconds, right one gave armor/MR for 20 seconds, bottom one gave AD/AP for 20 seconds). Perhaps each platform you teleport to could have a stat associated with it that each player that teleports to it would receive until they die? How would you feel if the game was even more focused around the ascendant, so much that whoever kills the ascended player becomes the new ascendant, meaning there's always an ascendant after the first Ascendant Xerath Bot dies? Heck, if you don't like any of these ideas then how do you feel about Hexakill Ascension?

If Riot brought back the mode with no changes to it I'd probably play 2-5 matches then stop because I felt like the objectives and combat had little to no depth the first time around. Maybe that's what people liked about it, but the game felt to me like it was the base idea for a gamemode that Riot intentionally went conservative with on their first implementation.

The Taco Kat2/25/2016, 2:10:19 AM1 votes

Dude, I mentioned something about this just the other day... Glad others love it too! :D

I Summons I2/25/2016, 2:43:57 AM1 votes

yea I miss ascension the most as well. urf was fun but got boring for me after just a few games

Nalasmith2/25/2016, 2:52:37 AM1 votes

How badly i want to play doom bots is unreal....

Umirinmahgains2/25/2016, 2:59:12 AM1 votes

I love URF. Sure, people would play op champs and tryhard, but I really don't care. It was the only game mode riot has released where I could play literally anyone and do whatever crazy build I could think of and it would work. I played Sejuani 80 fucking games in a row experimenting with just about every build I could think of, and went on a win streak of over 20 games doing so. Loved every game even when I lost. I played tons of Warwick, AD, AP, Hybrid, etc. Nautilus, Volibear, doesn't matter. Anyone I want to play will work. Any build I want can work. I can't think of a single champ that is straight up bad in URF, except Vayne. That's why URF is great. I can play anyone I want, and Vayne is dogshit. Literally a win-win.

WolfBV2/25/2016, 3:25:01 AM1 votes

Had fun playing Teemo in Ascension. Was really fun pretending that Teemo is god.

Saianna2/25/2016, 4:07:22 AM1 votes

Imo there should be some rotation between modes something like rullette that changes game mode every 1-2 days.

It fixes everything. People won't get bored too fast, yet they won't have to wait for a whole year for a gamemode.

Double win.

CullMeMaybe2/25/2016, 7:38:30 AM1 votes

I upvoted, then read the post, then down voted.

LordBahamutXVI2/25/2016, 12:13:01 PM1 votes

Ascension was the best because gold was 100% static and there was no way to get vision, so you were dependent on champion choice and player skill as well as map awareness. It was a fantastic way to play the game, and it was always heart-poundingly fun

Oelyk2/25/2016, 6:14:55 PM1 votes

Ascension was fun for hide and seek.

Leetri2/25/2016, 8:03:57 PM1 votes

Ascension was probably the most fun I've ever had with a featured game mode. One game I was Ascended for 95% of the game and it was so exhilarating being hunted by the entire enemy team and outplaying them completely. URF just gets soooo... stale. People picked the exact same champions every single game, it basically came down to who could pick the most OP champions first.

Raithofhel2/25/2016, 8:18:19 PM1 votes

It seems obvious to me that rather than create one clean replacement that a 'fun mode' slot for a rotation of game-modes is easy. Just make a weekly rotation (Fri-Fri or something, so new modes hit the weekend and super-fans can keep going for the week) and that's it.

Doom Bots. One for All. URF. Ascension. Hexakill. Nemesis. Hell, Dominion as a one-week mode. That bilgewater event could easily turn into a weekly mode.

Get an 8-week rotation down and everyone gets their favorite fun mode once every two months with a spare week for things like Snowdown mixed in.