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actually unpopular opinion: i hate both URF and ARURF

Dr Dog··70 votes·18,354 views

not just one, both of them, normal urf is fun for about the first day or two then it devolves into 5 man premades with shitty anti-fun push comps, sure you can pick a broken champ and get some kills, have a bit of fun. but i hope you have fun losing anyway because the enemy team has an obnoxious comp based around pushing towers.

as for arurf? it would be fun, if it was actually random and we had bans, there are too many auto lose champions you might aswell let it remake if you see them in loading screen, wow your team has yasuo and maybe a few adcs? cool the enemy team has a morg and a yi have fun with a gray screen most of the game wishing you never queued up in the first place. not only is there that coinflip theres also the fact yi and maokai are gonna be in 90% of your games but trust me you wont see a single xin zhao or leona because they basically dont exist in the mode because we all know pretty much its only kinda random, not fully

and the more i think about the first example on urf the more i realize most temporary modes are exactly like that, its fun for 2 days till people find abuse-able champions or strats that flat out ruin the mode for anyone else not doing the same thing and just wanting to have fun get driven out of the mode completely

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boricCentaur127 votes

I rather play nexus blitz then URF and ARUF.

Dr Dog6 votes

same really, it hasnt devolved into abuse of op strats yet so its still a fun mode

Novae2 votes

Yeah right! I can only play my favourite supports in arurf, i like nexus but its all just zed yi jax and a ton of tanks. I wait for arurf every year patiently just to play my champions o.O so yeah.. Long live Arurf!

Zeromatsu6 votes

it hasnt devolved into abuse of op strats yet

tbh it has.

People pick champs like Brand, Poppy, Master Yi and Jax. I have to see a single game without Brand when he isn't banned yet. His Passive is just broken on walking Nexus.

HeimerLmao1 votes

Wait, it works on the nexus? What the fuck.

AirKingNeo3 votes

I'd rather play Nexus Siege.

Jamaree17 votes

Same tbh, I liked URF right until people forced a meta around it.

zeskgames3 votes

I definitely understand that, URF was a fun game mode until people got too competitive about it. But you know what they say "as long as the goal is winning, people will always find the most efficient way to do so"

Jamaree3 votes

{quoted}

I definitely understand that, URF was a fun game mode until people got too competitive about it. But you know what they say "as long as the goal is winning, people will always find the most efficient way to do so"

Oh most definitely, not saying this wasn't going to happen, just don't like it anymore because of it.

Gilgayu2 votes

ikr. It's like all random all mid, but after it was made into aram. Then suddenly op picks like brand or amumu are abused.

When I play ARURF and I see thresh and garen.... I just want to ff at 1 minute.

Jamaree4 votes

{quoted}

ikr. It's like all random all mid, but after it was made into aram. Then suddenly op picks like brand or amumu are abused.

When I play ARURF and I see thresh and garen.... I just want to ff at 1 minute.

I'm all for giving it back to the players who want it though, I just won't play it myself.

Wimbledofy1 votes

ty for saying that, some people don't understand they don't have to play the gamemode. I didn't particularly like ascension, but I'm not gonna ask for it to never come back, because other people really liked that gamemode.

Thilmer1 votes

{quoted}

Same tbh, I liked URF right until people forced a meta around it.

For real.

I enjoyed URF for a couple of days. The third day, people started flaming me in champ select for not picking Blitz/Nidalee/Ezreal/Lux.

KFCeytron16 votes

Original URF was available in co-op vs AI. Now that was fun... I don't think I've ever had more fun with League than I did in those few weeks. I played basically all day every day.

Dr Dog4 votes

i loved it for the first few days where the meta there wasnt very outlined, after that though tryharding sucked the life out of the mode for me

KFCeytron10 votes

[{quoted}](name=Dr Dog,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=O4HG3RWL,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2019-01-22T18:05:21.509+0000)

i loved it for the first few days where the meta there wasnt very outlined, after that though tryharding sucked the life out of the mode for me

Right; that's why it was a perfect fit for co-op. No need to tryhard in co-op, whether in the ordinary version or URF. The bots would launch a bunch of nonsense at you, but it was okay, because you could do the same thing. And the bots picked normally rather than going for optimal URF champs.

And then Riot removed co-op from URF, and then they removed choosing the damn champ you wanted to play from URF, and then they removed the parts of Ultra-Rapid Fire that were too ultra-rapid fire (like heals) rather than boosting the things that were garbage in URF (like Yasuo and Karthus), and so on.

The excuse for removing URF is that it was literally too fun - so fun that people quit when it went away. I guess ripping fun out of the game is a great way to get people to stay so that your revenue won't go down by 21%, right Riot?

Cloud2738 votes

No matter what game mode you're playing, it's only a matter of time until a meta develops. This isn't something exclusive to urf/arurf.

BestPudgeNA7 votes

Yeah the worst part is you're forced to play it

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Dr Dog2 votes

when all the friends you play league with do like it and you dont i pretty much either have to play it or just not play league with my friends which sucks a lot, though i dont want them deleted or anything im just voicing my opinion

Cptn Han SoloQ7 votes

I don't even know why URF and ARURF are even a thing anymore, i mean SR is URF at this point anyway [sg-lux-2]

Śhunpo6 votes

Unpopular opinion, you should be able to edit every one of the game's settings in custom games like in Overwatch and DOTA 2.

ZackTheWaffleMan1 votes

Unpopular opinion: damage is too high

Mcsquzzy1 votes

800% increased damage to pink wards [slayer-pantheon-thumbs] fixed

Śhunpo1 votes

Yeah, then you just tone damage in the game's settings. That's what people did in OW during dive meta, they created customs where damage was reduced to 50% or lower.

Khä Zïx5 votes

I'm glad somebody said it

In Borke Veritas3 votes

Don't forget Veigar if you don't have a direct counter, that thing is basically untouchable

Mathgodpi3 votes

Those modes aren't about winning and losing, they are about having some mindless button-mashing fun.

GigglesO2 votes

So how is normal league currently different?

Mathgodpi2 votes

Non-ranked SR games are mostly for trying out champions/builds/strats, etc, and for getting the basics of the game down if you're new. URF isn't for any of that, it's just mindless manic fun.

GigglesO1 votes

You missed the question. Right now the meta is to button mash and instantly kill people. How is urf actually any different?

Mathgodpi1 votes

Well then maybe Riot should take a look at the ranked meta and see if they need to make adjustments. But URF is where you aren't really supposed to care that much if you win or lose, you are there mostly for the giggles and the button mashing.

Lauchmelder1 votes

Is it though? I think it's rather the opposite: No fun allowed, who can finish faster. I've been reported in URF for picking URF off-meta and I've been flamed for underperforming on a "broken" champion in ARURF. It feels like the overwhelming majority of players playing URF or ARURF only have fun when winning and they make the game completely anti-fun for the rest if they can't have their version of fun.

Spacesuit Spiff3 votes

They should just make it a pve bloodbath where you melt waves of schmucks. People like playing AS the urf buffed champs, but I see little value gained in playing against.

Makarakarn3 votes

I personally really enjoyed og urf with a comp of friends with the ability to ban. We'd come up with crazy stats or champ combos and have fun, and if the enemy team did some gay split pushing strat we'd just out strat them, cause that's how you play strategy games. Id honestly have just as much fun in arurf if we still got bans and there were auto bans

PaffWasTaken3 votes

I hate urf but at the same time it has been soooooooooo long that it would be great to play again finally. I hate Arurf but only because it is waaaay too biased and people have been bypassing the reason why it has been made ever since its creation; the gamemode was supposed to make it so you don't see Syndra, Orianna, Zed, Zyra etc every single game, but those champs were magically in every single game either way and you couldn't fight back because your team actually had some ACTUAL random picks

IceKingChernobog3 votes

Urf would have been manageble if we had bans. I hate ARURF since ARAM only accounts benefit from just taking hard poke champs. With URF being manaless and CDless it just make playing against certain champs like lux even more obnoxious than it had to. If i lose, i want to lose with the champ i picked out my own free will instead of some random one.

DoktorKaiser2 votes

I had way too much fun with original URF and maybe the next one but it has got boring ever since , mostly because League itself has now become URF with 40% cooldown reduction being literally free every game and then ARURF came and it all went to shit honestly because it's soooooo much fun playing garbage like Ashe while the enemy beats me into a pulp with Fiora.

Infernape2 votes

And you know for a fact when ARURF or even regular URF is active the forums and Reddit are probably going to be full of "X CHAMPION IS CANCER IN URF".

Riot should've never bought it back. URF was good the first time. After that it became "pick these champs or else you'll lose and probably won't have no fun while losing".

Axzarious2 votes

URF was best when I could stunlock people as full tank brand and slowly end them with the level 1 Q that I would never rank up.

MasterLico2 votes

I PREFER ONE FOR ALL TO BE HONEST BUT OK*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

ViperVenom2 votes

Unpopular opinion: I'd rather play dominion

(Read it out loud [slayer-jinx-wink] )

Weensw1 votes

{quoted}

Unpopular opinion: I'd rather play dominion

(Read it out loud [slayer-jinx-wink] )

Yep, either Dominion or Ascension are equally fun for me.

GigglesO1 votes

Does current lol really even feel different than urf? I really think cdr Damage is too easy to get in normal games.

Hexs Fortune1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Dr Dog,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=O4HG3RWL,comment-id=,timestamp=2019-01-22T17:52:28.754+0000)

not just one, both of them, normal urf is fun for about the first day or two then it devolves into 5 man premades with shitty anti-fun push comps, sure you can pick a broken champ and get some kills, have a bit of fun. but i hope you have fun losing anyway because the enemy team has an obnoxious comp based around pushing towers.

as for arurf? it would be fun, if it was actually random and we had bans, there are too many auto lose champions you might aswell let it remake if you see them in loading screen, wow your team has yasuo and maybe a few adcs? cool the enemy team has a morg and a yi have fun with a gray screen most of the game wishing you never queued up in the first place. not only is there that coinflip theres also the fact yi and maokai are gonna be in 90% of your games but trust me you wont see a single xin zhao or leona because they basically dont exist in the mode because we all know pretty much its only kinda random, not fully

and the more i think about the first example on urf the more i realize most temporary modes are exactly like that, its fun for 2 days till people find abuse-able champions or strats that flat out ruin the mode for anyone else not doing the same thing and just wanting to have fun get driven out of the mode completely

I don't like either as well. The novelty wore of for me a few seasons ago. The ultra rapid cds feel like a balance nightmare to play against.

Percentages1 votes

DOOM BOTS!

Mr Dalloway1 votes

ARURF is more fun to me because it isn't fun playing against people who are playing their OP mains. When some people get champs they aren't familiar with it sort of levels the playing field. I liked the snowball one last winter.

But I do feel like after a few games I get really burnt out. Especially if I am on a losing streak and have bad luck several games in a row vs really oppressive team comps.

Who Fed Ru1 votes

It's nice if it only comes once per year maximum because then it at least feels somewhat special for a few days.

But it will never be the same again like when they first launched it back in 2014.

Vlada Cut1 votes

Same. It's too fadt even tho that's it's point but I don't like hiw you get to spam spells like laser cannons in P shooting 8 bit games. :/

King Livid1 votes

Vladimir if a team has him they win.

BobaFlautist1 votes

We need to have a completely separate rotating-game-mode MMR so all the tryhards can compete with each other, all the complete trolls (it's urf, AP riven's legit!) can have fun fucking around without losing the game for their team, and everyone in between can do their thing.

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