ARURF (and why I refuse to play it)
When I first experienced URF mode some 4 years ago, I remember exactly what I played and some of the larger details of the game itself. I decided that game to play a familiar champion (Nasus) and just see how that went. I felt it was a good pick since Nasus just kept getting stronger as he farmed and I knew what I was doing (more or less). The game lasted about 15 minutes and I remember laughing my ass off as I legit spammed Q to victory since it was on a 1 sec CD (and quite literally became my auto attack). Those were the good ol' days of URF, when you could either A) play what you wanted to even if it was the stupidest thing on earth or B) pick from what was the URF meta and spam some ridiculously OP champion for however long URF lasted.
Flash forward to now, and I quite literally feel my stomach turn every time I hear Riot announce that ARURF is returning. I cringe whenever I read the details (and I do so purely for knowledge's sake) and I do occasionally think of queueing up for a game but I almost always leave the game, wait for it to end and go back to regular League of Legends simply because upon seeing how horribly f- - - ed I am, I (sometimes quite audibly) exclaim, "Fuck that shit, I'm outta here!" and just wait out however long my team decides to endure the hell of ARURF. Recently I had this experience again and after that feeling of dark thoughts creeping in, I legit messaged my friend (I was in a premade this go around) and said, (TL;DR) "I'm sorry but I can't do this." I'm still friends with the guy (and I'm grateful for it), but Riot... you took something that was perfectly OK in its own right. And you have messed with it so much that it has lost everything that made it fun. What's the goddamn point of playing ARURF when it's either "We stomp because we have all the OP champs" or "Hey, looks like we get a - - - r - - - - d for up to 30 minutes by all the OP champions in the game."
Please for the love of all that is good and holy, kill ARURF and bring back the old URF, the one I look back and remember fondly.