Make URF back to normal pick

TheGuyOnTheRite·Feb 26, 2017·8 votes·1,387 views

The random pick in URF is to up in the air. Got rid of normal pick because people will just play the op champs but the problem is now with the random pick we have to hope that we have a champ that can deal with op champs. Most of the time we don't have a counter or just a crappy comp vs there team comp is perfect for urf and it ruins the game for the other 5. Normal pick lets everyone play the champ they want which most of the time its a champ that is op in urf but so is the other 9 people. This random pick ruins the original urf experience that I remember when it first was released. The increase rerolls is nice but you could go from a bad champ in urf like an adc to another adc or something stupid like that. I say bring back the normal pick ban from urf or at least make it a custom game option.

14 Comments

KiLLiNanChiLLiNFeb 26, 20173 votes

Ya I was sort of excited to play an urf game and do some ridiculous underplayed champ that is super fun on URF. Come to find its ARAM URF and just dodged since I got Cass and have never played her ever and don't really want to. If I wanted ARAM i'd go play aram.

lightdragoon88Feb 26, 20171 votes

To bad...Cass is great on URF.

But I guess if you can't play Zed, Shaco, Eve, or Wukong you don't even want to try.

TacticalToastrFeb 27, 20171 votes

Or he could be like me who enjoys playing underplayed champions you are comfortable with like twitch and just having fun. But nah, why bother considering that when you can just assume the worst

BoingkFeb 26, 20173 votes

I think Riot doesn't want people to like URF. I think they did this so that people will hate it and then they can get rid of it. It was too popular too fast and I think they were worried they'd lose the serious side of their game if they made URF a thing... i.e. a large part of the player pool would be playing urf, causing the competitive and ranked game-play to suffer. So they're dealing with it in a passive aggressive bull shit way. Make it unpopular, get rid of it, everyone goes on with their lives. The kids running Riot aren't stupid... they know exactly what they are doing. They're getting us to hate URF so they can dump it, and they are succeeding.

Autrah FangFeb 26, 20173 votes

played 3 games of ARURF yesterday. fought nasus in all 3 of them, had an eve in 2 of them, and fought a shaco in 1. at least with regular URF i know that i'm gonna be put up against BS every game, therefore knowing that i won't have fun and just won't play it. ARURF gives me the illusion that i might have fun, but gives me useless stuff against nasus and shaco :/

RoackFeb 26, 20172 votes

I completely agree with you urf needs to go back to regular 5v5 picking. So what if champs are broken that is what urf is all about.

underscores222Feb 26, 20172 votes

It's not that champs are "broken," it's seeing the same 5 champs in every single game. I don't get if i get stomped by a ROFLcopter hec, but it starts getting really old when i see him in every game. Same with several other champions, some of which don't make the most out of the URF buff but are just so annoying to deal with (like wu or shaco going invisible every 2 seconds). Yes, that's the point of the game but seeing it in every match gets really boring.

At least with ARURF you see more champs over the course of the weekend. Yes, some people don't like the champ select as much, but the state of the game mode is overall more healthy because more people are willing to put up with random picks than knowing at least half the champs in the game will be the same each time you play.

lightdragoon88Feb 26, 20171 votes

This. So much this.

sinnergluttonyMar 2, 20171 votes

but thats just wrong theres even less champ diversity now every match has just turned into one side getting the op shit and you having nothing to deal with it so the fiora 1v5s you for the 6th game in a row

underscores222Mar 2, 20171 votes

I'm pretty sure statistics don't agree with you. Even if an account had only the 10 most broken/annoying champs for URF unlocked, they would only have a 50% chance of getting one without rerolling, as they would be competing against the 10 free week champs (actual probability is slightly lower since the 9 other players could have a chance to get that champ as well).

Instead of said player picking Zed (for example) each game, they will get Zed maybe 1 out of 10-20 games on average. Likewise, everyone else playing also has a lower chance of getting the OP/annoying champs. Of course this doesn't stop the champs from showing up in games, but it does mean that the probability of going against a team with 3-5 of the most annoying, scumbag champs is very low.

It also means that you do not see the same 5 champs in each game. The last time URF was out, I saw Hec, Zed, Wu and/or Shaco in each and every game, either on my team or against me. I know there are a few others that cropped up just as often, but I can't remember them. Now, I don't care if things are OP or annoying, it's URF and that's part of the fun. But seeing the same stuff game after game makes the game mode get old really quickly.

ARURF aims to get away from the trend of seeing the same champs in each game by mixing it up. And I believe that the majority of the player base (indicated by low queue times for ARURF) is OK with random selection because it forces people to mix up what they are playing, and it keeps things from stagnating.

sinnergluttonyMar 3, 20171 votes

we are not okay with it its just thats all we have i still play arurf nonstop when its out because the few games that aint just one side got the op things while the other side didnt are still the most fun ive had messing around in league

and yeah i guess it can get old for some people about the same champs over and over again i didnt deal with that when it was out because i would just ban the cancer but i can see your point there but all random hasnt fixed that with all the rerolls and 5 people in each game of course 1 team will get some of the 10 super op urf champs if not both teams being forced to reroll for op stuff

so instead of me going oh cool how can this champ work in urf might be fun its me looking at my teamcomp and saying damn i have to reroll to try and get some way op champ because the other team sure as hell would have one

sorry my written english skills are trash if its hard to see what im saying

underscores222Mar 4, 20171 votes

That's kinda the issue though. URF went really well the first time when everyone was going "Oh cool how would this champ work?"

But then the second week brought the start of "God this guy is annoying" and the next year's event was basically "grab these champs or you lose"

It went downhill fast.

Sadly, there isn't a way to have both. If seeing the same champs over and over is a problem (and it was/is) then the answer is to force everyone to get random champs.

DethflashFeb 27, 20172 votes

people argue that random urf is better because you see more champions but thats not really true. I typically see syndra and fizz atleast 80% of the ar urf games i play. I also have gotten singed 3 times out of 5 games, fiora 6 times out of 7 games, and nautilus 4 times out of 8 games. so for me its really just rotating between 3 champions i hate playing in urf about 85% of all ar urf games i have played this weekend. riot says its random but its really just one sided 99% of the games