Why ARURF Butchered URF

SonicBliss·9/26/2016, 11:16:20 PM·11 votes·2,288 views

URF is my favorite gamemode... Whoever thought of it clearly is a being that ascended into something beyond mortal comprehension. The idea that I get to explore and try out a bunch of my favorite characters with little cooldowns and try fun team comps with my friends makes it easily the best thing league has ever done. So why. Why would you compromise such a big part of URF. You didn't stop there either. You went further and took out the ban phase. So now I get a xin zhao in almost all my games despite the fact that it's AR. I feel bad for all the players that had ARURF as the first experience. They'll never know the true joy of the once great URF.

15 Comments

No Worry9/26/2016, 11:37:00 PM3 votes

I like the game of chance, if not I'd see the same 15 champions and no more. Yeah you can get stuck with bad ones, but it's only about 15 minutes of it.

Brutalitops019/26/2016, 11:25:52 PM2 votes

I like it a lot better than normal URF. If it were normal URF, I'd be playing pretty much exclusively Fiora and Evelynn unless they were both banned. However, I do agree that it should've kept the ban phase, and I feel like it could do with some experimentation with a different gamemode: Nemesis Draft. Imagine Nemesis Draft with URF rules, nothing is that bad of a pick and you only have to hope that you get champions you're better with than the enemy team. It could be extremely interesting. Thing about regular URF is it gets kinda stale after a while. Every game you see Evelynn, Shaco, Fiora, Hecarim, Fizz, Akali, Azir, and a number of others, either in pick phase or ban phase. AR URF fixes exactly that by making you not see the same exact 16 champions picked or banned every game. Everyone goes through a day of experimentation where they see if anyone who had changed or been reintroduced were any good, but then everyone settles back into those same 16 champions every single game and it just gets so boring to not have that variety.

SonicBliss9/27/2016, 7:47:42 PM2 votes

Bottom line, you can't argue that being able to pick what you want to play is superior. Especially considering how much time I've wasted in ARURF getting some trash ass pick I literally would never want. I never got to play katarina, fiddle, cass, karthus, and so many others that i desperately wanted to try. Honestly I see more of the same champions in ARURF than i did in URF. That said ban phase in the new champ select would be soooo nice. I'm sure everyone has that one champ they always see (Xin Zhao for me) and would like to ban them. Furthermore, ARURF is INCREDIBLY one sided. I have had very few close games. Often times you have a useless teammate, a flamer who got a trash pick and is mad about it, or someone on the other team who got their favorite ARURF champ.

SwiftKitten889/26/2016, 11:19:11 PM2 votes

i honestly like it better than normal urf... yes i do think it should keep a ban phase, but im glad people cant purposely pick a stupid op comp.. and the re-rolling and trading makes it much more fun. (although i might be pissed if they didn't increase the reroll rate like the did)

specter4249/26/2016, 11:20:56 PM2 votes

Unless you got to play urf the very first time it was added you won't ever experience the true URF. Every iteration after that is pure garbage because a meta was established.

mesterjózsi29/17/2018, 12:42:52 PM1 votes

Urf=everyone pick op champs Arurf=one team gets better champs and wins unfair boring game Solution:20 bans fuck logic riot
pls bring back urf they didnt even bring it back for only april 1 ........................

the weeaboo9/27/2016, 12:08:40 AM1 votes

I do agree there needs to be a ban phase. I swear every match has a Master Yi no matter what.

Urf Mode Is Life9/27/2016, 12:39:13 AM1 votes

If you couldnt tell by my name, no one is a bigger urf fan than me

With that being said, i do enjoy AR-URF slightly more than regular URF because there is a little more diversity... but... heres my problem...

For the life of me... i cant understand why riot didnt unlock ALL CHAMPIONS for this mode... There are stacked accounts primarily ARAM only accounts that just murder this mode

Ive won the majority of my AR-URF games, but i still think they need to either unlock ALL CHAMPS or atleast make everyone able to draw from the COLLECTIVE pool of the champions from the 10 players in the lobby...

aka if 1 person had every champ all 10 players could randomly draw any of the champs in the game

ABlueQuaker9/27/2016, 9:29:22 AM1 votes

It was probably just as bad as regular URF - no, worse. 3-4 people per team had the same shit that gets spammed in regular URF. The only real difference between AR URF and Regular URF is that the other 1-2 players on each team got a shit pick and had to put up with being useless for 20 minutes.

It just turned it into a 3v3/4v4 + 2/4 designated punching bags.