Snow Battle ARURF is more anti-fun than original URF

Unload On Me·Dec 6, 2017·10 votes·2,696 views

Original URF grew toxic and tiresome for the majority because people chose the same 20 op champions (who wouldn't?) . So they came out with ARURF which was a pretty solid solution to that issue.

Unfortunately, in spirit of the Holidays, the new Snow Battle ARURF only allows you to play champions that have a winter/holiday/christmas theme skin. Which means, we are back to only seeing the same 20 champions throughout all of our games, except this time those same 20 champions are randomly chosen for you. I think people will suck it up and play it for a weekend, maybe 2, but will probably not want it coming back ever again. It will get old quickly.

Just my 2 cents from spending some time on PBE.

9 Comments

Pixie StormDec 6, 20175 votes

I have been playing it on PBE and I hate it. Jax is a HUGE problem, Tryndamere was another, Shaco manage to do nearly 100,000 damage one game I was in, against a Maokai and a Kog maw, laning alone. It will get boring. It will get frustrating.

GeminiRuneDec 6, 20171 votes

I feel the Jax issue has always been evident just as Maokai has. It's just that the "tier list" is warped to only factor in Winter Champs not named Sona making him more visible than a full scale ARURF (then again, past iterations have your champion pool while this has the entire selection). That's kind of where I draw in a bit of dislike. But my headaches (if you call them headaches or laughing at getting my ass kicked) came more from Draven and Malphite. There are just those champions that freaking hurt.

Kai GuyDec 6, 20174 votes

I would love it if riot just made urf a custom game mode option then ignored it for the rest of time. I'm not wild about it as a game mode personally.

Unload On MeDec 6, 20171 votes

I have seen this request a lot and I concur.

MagicFlyingLlamaDec 6, 20172 votes

Snow Battle ARURF is more anti-fun than original URF

Judging a mode that does not even exist yet, before playing it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Csf7mBaUMAASQN9.jpg

Unload On MeDec 6, 20173 votes

Just an fyi, Snow Battle ARURF is up on the PBE server and has been for about a week or more. Hence why i said, "Just my 2 cents from spending some time on PBE." :P

yoshi2790Dec 6, 20171 votes

I really like Arurf Snowball BUT That's probably because I just really enjoy the winter map :) There are few champions that are WAY too strong. Maokai Jax Tryndamere Shaco Malzahar to name a few But this time there is no answer to it because champions are chosen randomly and you can't pick strong champions yourself to defend yourself. Also getting the champion you want can be extremely hard :(