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My opinions on the AR URF gamemode.

TheCaptainFluff·8/20/2017, 4:38:44 PM·12 votes·1,046 views

These are just my opinions on the current URF mode. If you agree or disagree with my opinions, let me know in a calm and organized matter because I don't want to be screamed at for a different opinion. I would also like it if you could read the entirety of the paragraphs before you make assumptions on my point of view. Thanks in advance.

Okay. Up until recently with the revival of AR URF, I have been a huge supporter of the randomization. But from what I have seen after my countless days invested into the game mode, it isn't very random. I have been seeing the same champions every game regardless. Not only have I been seeing them, I have been getting the same ones over and over again. Not complaining that I get bad champions, I just keep getting the same few making every game feel repetitive. I would rather have the old URF mode, or a revamped AR URF that guarantees getting a different champion after you receive it many times in quick succession. It would be nice if the old URF was released_ alongside_ the random one or they could interchange. Both gamemodes are great, but we lost some of the stuff we loved about the old version.

I'm sorry if there have been many similar posts, but I really do not think the current system can be considered random with the lack of variety I have seen. It may just be my horrible luck, but they need a bad luck prevention system (Or a good luck prevention system if you get your main many times) to ensure that every game is more or less unique.

14 Comments

MaeDoSan8/20/2017, 4:56:20 PM11 votes

Definitely not random

FacerollKatarina8/20/2017, 7:58:19 PM9 votes

Personally I'd rather normal URF with 10 bans, since the technology is already there for 10 bans. It isn't that I want to play OP shit every game, but I don't want to get stuck playing a champion like Ivern or Draven, champions that I never play and suck really bad at. I want to play my favorite champions with a twist to them. THAT is what made old urf fun, playing the characters you love and learning new ways to play them.

If they don't want to go ahead with that, I wouldn't mind all random but them doing what they did the first go around, perma banning a lot of the op champions (i remember in season 4 you couldn't pick champions like Kassadin or Soraka).

I think URF is an EXTREMELY fun game mode, while ARURF isn't nearly as fun, I'd be lying if i said I didn't have a good time playing it most games. It just got obnoxious when I kept seeing a pattern of Shaco Tryndamere Wukong Morgana Hecarim Garen Zed Evelynn or Xin Zhao in every game i played (They all weren't in every game, but a couple in each). It felt like the only way to beat one of those champions is if you had another super strong one, so most games were decided in champion select sadly.

Mogarl8/20/2017, 11:22:42 PM5 votes

I still think doing old Urf with brackets would be best. Every time Urf comes back it should have a collection of 30~ champions that are reasonably close in power but not rendered useless. Every time the gamemode is back have a different group than the last.

Disulfiram8/20/2017, 5:13:44 PM4 votes

A shuffle system (= a randomized list of all the champions you own; you roll every champion in the list in sequence until the end, at which point the list gets re-shuffled) might solve this and would be actually pretty easy to implement...

For example:

Create an array with all owned champions + X slots for the free to play ones (if they change, they still occupy this slot; obviously this means that you get double the chance to roll a free champion that you already own); let's call it aArrOwned
Create a second, empty array; let's call it aArrShuffled
while Length(aArrOwned) > 0 do
SetLength(aArrShuffled, Length(aArrShuffled)+1);
i := Random(Length(aArrOwned));
aArrShuffled[Length(aArrShuffled)-1] := aArrOwned[i];
aArrOwned[i] := aArrOwned[Length(aArrOwned)-1];
SetLength(aArrOwned, Length(aArrOwned)-1);
end;

This Is Your Dad8/20/2017, 5:02:31 PM4 votes

I think they should make the champion pool include all champions, not just the ones you own.

KVbqbFsC8e8/21/2017, 12:43:28 AM1 votes

They probably should just bring back the regular URf so people can quickly realize thats its not just the random part that makes it garbage.

PlsFocusMySup8/21/2017, 11:52:29 AM1 votes

I was so excited for URF to come back, but actually it's not fun, even ARAM is more fun. People with the bad champs will just int or afk every game. Some at least dodge in champ select, but many just int to avoid leaver buster. You see the same champions over and over because of that. If it happens you get a good one it better be the best or you lose because someone on your team wanted the champ and trolls you so you have to 4vs5. It is decided in champ select who wins the game. I love URF, but AR URF is stupid. Would prefer a 10 ban URF mode.