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It took me a while to get it, but ARURF is actually no fun.

Saianna·2/26/2019, 9:24:23 PM·21 votes·12,546 views

Warning. This is ranty and definitely badly constructed thread. It's just my thoughts, as they come regarding ARURF. If you are too sensitive for rants, then skipping this thread is advised. You have been warned.

I'm supposed to have fun in this mode, right? But not only I can't pick what I want to play, I constantly get obliterated by OTPs who lucked out their mains, or URF monsters. So I start another game. And another. And another. Win or defeat. Random wins that happen have NOTHING to do how I play, but if we have OTP or URF monster in our team. I could be literally AFK for whole game and we'd win, just cause we have hecarim, or other of similar level.

Today I kinda felt like playing singed. Well, RNG said no. And matchmaker made sure whatever mild fun'ish experience I could possibly have would be further ruined by frag-collecting [pick OTP or random URF monster] that do only that. kill stuff, don't push and just farm kills. This way of treating enemy side, like some frags to collect is simply infuriating.

So I play game after game (or rather defeat after defeat), If I win it's not thanks to me, if we lose, it's actually when I'm doing pretty good. Getting into match after match and.. I really am not smiling. i'm not happy. I'm no longer expecting anything. There's no excitement. I've used to play old good URF for 8 hours a day, for whole week and i still was having a blast. Now? I just start next game out of habit feeling rather annoyed.

I really expected this years URF. But this shit we have is just atrocious. I totally get that URF was never meant to be balanced, it was supposed to be chaos. And it used to be "fun chaos". Now however, it's "fun sucking chaos"

  1. The urf stats are busted for ADs, making MF, vayne, lucian, twitch, kog, sivir each shooting mini Veigar Rs per AA at 2.5 AS.
  2. Objectives are steamrolly. I have no god damn idea why winning team has to have bonus stats from killing "has it all" dragon.
  3. There has to be some kind of hidden feature of "if you are ahead you deal more damage than you should". That, or duskblade (that EVERYONE BUYS) also work on your abilities. And I'm not even talking when it's endgame.
  4. Players are spoiled, or rather rotten. Everyone threats teammates and enemies like garbage. There's always at least one asshole that has to rub in some more salt into the wound with 'ez' (this is especially true if they pick OP URF monster champions.) Noone helps and if they do, it's usually the OP URF monster champion just passing by your lane to farm frags

Not to be fully pessimistic. Whenever I lucked out and got champion I want to play (like janna) and enemy team didn't had URF monster champions, then it was fun. Usually we had such monster on our side, so enemy team was like "yeah.. finish this already".. And only I pushed for the win. Still though. That rare games were fun.

P.S. I've had fair amount of chances to play URF monster champions. Imo it's kinda boring to use them. I'd rather pick something less OP.

P.P.S The whole Hextech cubes and keyragments are really garbage feature. Whoever made it certainly didn't want players to actually get anything out of it, unless they spent their lives on the game.

Edit: the cannon that shoots you where you want is fun, like really good idea. That truly feels like something URF needed :)

37 Comments

macspam2/26/2019, 9:41:49 PM12 votes

Imo urf is very much "novelty" by that i mean its fun to play a champ once, to see how they are in urf. But playing to win? Fuck that. You have to give absolutely zero fucks to enjoy that mode.

It actually makes me appreciate how much cooldowns do to slow down the game. Thats why I still play aram when I am looking for slightly more "strategic" gameplay.

Kubsar Wannabe2/26/2019, 9:27:17 PM9 votes

Yea I wanna pick Tryndamere every game #BringBackNormalUrfWithBans

Pierce The Veal2/27/2019, 8:42:39 AM4 votes

The problem with this rendition of urf is a combination of the cannon, baron, elder dragon, transcendence, and gathering storm.

The cannon allows people to rapidly snowball and never actually leave lane. The feeders will feed harder and the people getting fed will never have to truly leave lane. There is no downtime of people traveling back into lane, the only downtime is recall time, buy, cannon travel time.

Transcendence and gathering storm are ABSURD. They give 100+ AD and AP simultaneously. As fun as they are, I find that whichever team has more people with those masteries wins more often than not. If you’re playing urf, absolutely take these runes no matter who you are.

For some silly reason healing is halved early on. Like the shielding nerfs, this should be champion specific. There are certain champs who can abuse healing and others that really have a little healing but nothing significant.

Crits should absolutely not deal bonus damage in urf, and ranged AD’s shouldn’t have x2 attack speed gain (and melees have x1.5? Lol riot what’s with the bias?).

The elder dragon is so broken that the losing team getting it can cause them to suddenly become the winning team. Getting the first elder all but guarantees getting the second one as well.

I’ve found that OP champions aren’t guaranteed to win. To some extent it depends on how good you are at your champion and how good reaction speed you have. However, not guaranteed doesn’t mean not OP. If you face a OP urf champ main, you’re going to have a bad time. Don’t let it get to you. Urf isn’t about win or lose, it’s about the experience so please stop splitpushing and whining all game long pleaaaase.

TL;DR remove gathering storm, give transcendence cdr conversion to everyone passively and lock the rune from being taken, nerf/remove the elder dragon, get rid of rift herald on baron buff, get rid of the cannon in favor of just homeguard (or at least get rid of the cannon landing delay), nerf crit damage back to normal and nerf ranged ADC attack speed from 2x attack speed gain to 1.5x, and give everybody some knockup/knockback reduction of some sort.

LTK KoRo2/26/2019, 10:20:26 PM3 votes

urf is shit since 2014, this gamemode gets old after 5 games. It just not sustainable in long term.

Duke Dryfocker2/27/2019, 12:46:22 AM3 votes

I've been around since Urf's first time. You know it started as an April Fool's joke right? The demand for it is always there, and has been since then. Even with the new changes it's still one of the most popular featured games. The things you are complaining about are largely bitter sauce imo. The game is fun! Especially if you're the definition of a casual player, like myself, and many others. I have no interest in ranked, I love ARAM, and I mostly just like killing fools. If you don't understand that is what URF is...a chance to just spam kill as much as possible with very little strategy, then yeah, you're not gonna enjoy it. It's never been seriously competitive in any way. There were a few instances early in it's inception when certain champs were banned, and they made a few changes based probably on feedback internationally, but it's meant to be silly, and cannot be considered anything else, if you wish to enjoy it. Furthermore, you sound uptight. Try smoking a J before you play LOL.

ORB1TS2/27/2019, 8:39:36 AM3 votes

"who cares it's urf" is the reply I get for bringing up valid points so idk

JohnnyNeverSins2/27/2019, 12:58:12 AM3 votes

I don't get how people enjoy playing the same champion on urf..let's face it,ARurf is not random,some champions have a higher "drop rate" and oh god I got tired of playing evelyn every 3-4 games..same goes to any champion really,I just reroll them after a while..I'm sick of playing the same champions.

NepgearDesu2/27/2019, 8:52:19 AM3 votes

A complete and utter defeat as Anivia against Ahri and Zed (and some other, less important champions) was what I needed to realise this game mode is, most of the time, infuriating to play. Sometimes, whatever you do, you just can't have meaningful impact on the outcome, because the enemy got Sivir, Zed and Garen, or some other absurd pick that so few champs fare well against.

So I finally called it a day, and didn't touch it since then. ARAM at least actually feels rather fair most of the time.

PrinceOfStorms2/27/2019, 9:39:32 AM2 votes

The urf stats are busted for ADs, making MF, vayne, lucian, twitch, kog, sivir each shooting mini Veigar Rs per AA at 2.5 AS.

That's because the urf stats were supposed to compensate for ADCs actually being balanced (ie before Riot gave adcs a buff they didn't need and shouldn't have gotten)

Objectives are steamrolly. I have no god damn idea why winning team has to have bonus stats from killing "has it all" dragon.

Dragon should not have been buffed yeah.

There has to be some kind of hidden feature of "if you are ahead you deal more damage than you should". That, or duskblade (that EVERYONE BUYS) also work on your abilities. And I'm not even talking when it's endgame.

Basically everyone has dark harvest which is insane.

TheBrothersGrymm2/27/2019, 12:54:46 AM2 votes

urf hurts league thats why its a limited event, everytime urf is up player count actully drops, because people who play ranked only get shit matchmaking because everyone spamming urf, when we could pick champs in one thing but random is dumb, also this urf is pay to win, pay money get a extra RR get a more broken champ win game at 3 mins after fiesta toplane, urf isnt fun when there is an uber drag that ends the game as soon as one gets it, also alot of champs are broken but thats a givin, they actully nerfed garen by 5% all damage in urf only, but one reason i hate this one is there are no bans, sona, ryze?????? they so busted also conq and DH shouldnt be allowed they are to op on urf

Mr Dalloway3/2/2019, 2:35:38 AM1 votes

My favorite URF was actually the long range snowball one but that might just be because I play a lot of ARAM. The cannon is sort of fun but can be super annoying. Especially midflight when you realize you are totally screwed when you land because you chose a poor spot.

The Soulforged2/27/2019, 3:54:59 AM1 votes

Worst part is the "randomness" isn't even fully random and some champs get selected much more often than others.

Generation Z3r02/27/2019, 4:27:35 AM1 votes

they need to just make flat xp rates/rewards from urf mode to make it worth my time. bring back battle royale.

Bloodrage Shadow2/27/2019, 6:50:37 AM1 votes

Urf is terrible lol. I played it like one time and instantly regretted it as it was an awful experience and never played it again. I sometimes get invites to play it from my old friends and I always have to remind them that I hate urf with a burning passion lmao.

Honestly, I'd take Poro King over Urf every single time.

YoRHa 2B2/27/2019, 7:38:04 AM1 votes

What if they made URF on Ascension map?

JuiceBoxP2/27/2019, 8:48:27 AM1 votes

You didn't mention kalista.... It's not even funny. One Q. ONE Q, no matter who you are, you will be dead. it does like 5k damage...

something broken af

Mistletainn2/27/2019, 1:25:22 PM1 votes

Hextech cubes and key fragments are garbage? It's like the only mechanic in the game that can make it possible for you to unlock RP items... I've managed to get three legacy skins off Akali who was my main, so I'm definitely a fan of the hextech boxes. And yes, we do spend our lives on the game x)

Mr Dalloway2/28/2019, 12:57:30 AM1 votes

I hate about 80% of URF games I have played, I am overall horrible at URF. Even when playing a champ I am otherwise good at. Yet I can't stop playing it.

What is wrong with me?

Bârd2/28/2019, 3:10:42 AM1 votes

If Dragon is going to be this strong of a buff, it should be a strong enough monster to wipe a team if you aren't careful.