My thoughts on the latest ARURF

Hi, I just want to share my thoughts about all the URF gamemodes.

I've personally played every kind of URF gamemode. When it first released I remember having loads and loads of fun spamming that play button, instalocking my favourite champions and rushing that revive with teleport. It soon became clear that a lot of people play the same champions because they are of course more OP than others. However, that didn't really bother me. Every game I wanted to try out a new champion. It was fun to go from champion to champion and experience different kinds of spammable abilities. Of course there were some games where you rush the most OP champ. Suddenly there were a few champions who litterally got banned from the gamemode because they were too OP, which is fine in my opinion. Revive also got banned from the gamemode, fair enough.

Taking away the possibility to choose your own champion in this gamemode took away a huge part of my love for this gamemode. Yes, everyone played the same champions. Yes, there were almost no variations in the game, but at least you could choose what you want to play. As I said before, I loved switching between champions and finding new OP stuff. Now, you go into a game playing a champion which you didn't choose and maybe didn't want to play at all. You then have to sit through a +/- 30 minute game with a champion you don't like. All of this said, I'd still play this gamemode a lot though.

I've read the "Ask Riot" post about URF and I agree to some facts. It does feel weird playing URF a lot and then suddenly going back to normal games. It immediatly feels slower and I start wondering why my movement speed is below the 400 mark. I don't really know why people stop playing league after URF got released. For me, when I've spammed the gamemode tons of times, it still feels great to just go into a normal game once again. I like that Riot is searching for different variations of this gamemode, it makes it feel new and not the same old stuff over and over.

Recently we've been given the Snowdown ARURF. Okay. It's a great idea to make a Christmas version out of this gamemode. I enjoy the feature of the snowballs. What really bothers me though is the lack of champions that we're able to play. Riot doesn't want every game to be the same, yet now, every game is the same. We first weren't able to choose our champion anymore, and now we get a random champion from a limited amount of champions... It's a good idea to add the winter skins to the game though...

For me, it just sucks that I can't choose the champion I want to play. I think not being able to choose our own champion is a big factor as to why people are hating on ARURF. Also, why does URF only come back twice a year? Meanwhile we get stuff like Poro King and Ascension almost every week :|