Rito Ruined URF

alistar was basically invincible. If a minion wave was near by, his heal could be fired off four times instantly as the minions died. His ult was on a super low cooldown. You would just build full ap and still never die.

Malz was also crazy, he had to be ad, but he was in the base on top of the nexus at 10 mins with 5 people on him

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...Alistar was OP? You know, if you asked me who I THOUGHT would be OP, I'd think of Xerath, Syndra, Ziggs...not really Alistar.

Alistar could heal literally as the global cooldown would allow. So he could build whatever the fuck he wanted and survive. not to mention his 70% damage reduction 60/75/90 AD ult was on a like 20 second CD.

Alistar, Sona, and hecarim would beyond godtier on URF.

The thing with Syndra, Ziggs, etc (poke champions) is that hard engage champions could do whatever the hell they wanted. And because of no mana/cds, pretty much anyone could be a poke champ, so you dont need ziggs.

No mention of Nidalee?

Cancer then, Cancer now.

He was indeed. He could spam heal once a second which meant he was essentially immortal while also having his W and Q be up every 3-4 seconds. AP Alistar has huge burst, and in URF he could stay alive indefinitely while blowing people up every few seconds.

Those other ones you mentioned were actually pretty weak. The champions that ruled the roost in URF were the champions who were held back really hard by mana and long CDs, and all of those champions, while ok, were far from top tier. The best ones were Maokai (pre rework when his saplings dealt ~900 damage when built AP), Urgot (because Muramana proc was always at max damage), Nidalee was good because she could just spam spears like a maniac while being uncatchable (as if she weren't annoying enough already), Hecarim because he could Q faster than you could mash the button (and never went oom), and AP Blitzcrank because his mana barrier was always up, and with a seraphs embrace it shielded him for about 1k hp ever 20 seconds, plus he had infinite pulls every 2 seconds.

Brand's stun cooldown was so low that he could use it again before the stun duration was over, thus perma-stunning you.

Not really, People dumped assassins very quickly when they realized that picks like Ugrod and Maokai and Hecarim were god-tier. I actually stopped seeing assassins after only 3 matches I think, in exchange for the actually over powered champs. The second week was a little better since they gated the OP ones (or straight up blocked them from the mode), but after everyone had figured out who was good in the last week, they had a good idea who was still good the next week, so even with several of the really broken ones restricted, it got old fast. It was crazy good fun for the first few games though.