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Fewer fancy hats but even more rapid fire

Riot·3/26/2015, 7:44:01 PM·3 votes·76,149 views

How about that new old Ultra Rapid Fire? As tantalizing as the prospect of elevating League of Legends to the pinnacle of high-society competition might be, there isn’t a world in which we could have passed up a chance to bring back a favorite game mode.

April Fools’ Day is a celebration of League’s amazing community, whether we’re poking fun at the 3D fad from a few years back, or releasing a trollish browser game that hit all of our nostalgia buttons like punching in a cheat code.

So the highfalutin gig is up. URF has returned to celebrate the community alongside skins, icons, and bundles. Plus, you can commemorate the event with merch in real life! Check out the Urf figure and Ultra Rapid Fire hoodie on the merch site for more.

We’ve added a few new bells and whistles (in some cases, literal bells and/or whistles) to the classic Ultra Rapid Fire mode, and everyone can earn the Thinking Manatee Icon by finishing one game of URF mode before the end of the event.

Check out the patch notes for more on the mode, the manatees, and the merch, then enjoy Ultra Rapid Fire until April 13 at 2 AM PDT. If you missed any of the joke as it played out, catch the reveal of New Ultra Rapid Fire here, the subsequent server surge here, and the local broadcast of the URFitational over yonder.

299 Comments

Tonnen4/2/2015, 1:13:12 PM91 votes

Ultra Rapid Fridays?

Every friday Riot can just give release URF mode. This could be good because every week friends can get together and break their fingers on the keyboard, While also not over doing the game mode.

Bröther Braum4/2/2015, 11:55:19 AM84 votes

they should replace dominion with urf who all agrees?

PentaWatt4/2/2015, 12:31:18 PM43 votes

Quick Opinion Riot should NOT make Urf an official gamemode Why? If urf is an official gamemode what's the point? There's nothing special about it anymore. It's like having Christmas all year you're not getting presents every day. There's nothing special about Urf/April fools day. Whether you like it or not Riot should not have Urf be permanent. Thank you for listening to my opinions. Now if you excuse me I'm going to play jukes for days Leblanc .

Zero Ichimonji4/2/2015, 7:10:26 AM32 votes

So glad it'll be around for a week and a half. Wish it was permanent, but this is still great!

kemandel4/2/2015, 7:32:09 AM28 votes

BRING BACK URF!!!!

aloneangel344/2/2015, 8:40:46 AM24 votes

Could we get Doom-URF mode? I wanna fight these Doom bots in the URF mode. Ziggs Ezreal Amumu Lux MonkeyKing No idea how hard would it be to defeat them lol.

g3ntlemen4/2/2015, 8:57:33 AM20 votes

URF should stay as a custom-only gamemode so it won't kill the other queues.

Smelp4/2/2015, 11:20:24 AM12 votes

I don't understand why they would get rid of this game mode. It has brought people into and back onto league, taking it away would just undo all they have done. Granted I'm just a child, but even bringing it back yearly what's the point; if you could just keep it permanent

checkforflea4/2/2015, 7:21:13 AM11 votes

It felt like Call of Duty with its fast pace combat. I actually didn't like it.

Wigglydigit4/2/2015, 3:22:31 PM7 votes

I like a nice yearly URFing. URF until you can URF no more! URF LIKE YOUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT!

Godotº4/2/2015, 2:42:38 PM7 votes

RAISE YOUR SPATULAS!

RAISE YOUR WHAAAAAAAAAT?

Bubblegum Crash4/2/2015, 6:14:26 PM6 votes

My thoughts on URF is that it should only be played as a custom game when its not in season. This way you can still practice with a champion with no limits on to get a feel for them and you can play a mode that tests how well you can crush your friends when they say "My champion is better than yours".

Geimeo4/2/2015, 8:41:36 AM6 votes

Yeah, glad they didn't keep nurf, urf is way better. Thank you rito!

PHLeEd4/2/2015, 5:43:19 PM4 votes

The thing I find incredible is people are constantly whining about how broken some champs in urf are. However, the point of the game is everyone is OP (full ap jax anyone?) so the point is to be able to enjoy playing your favorite champions in their incredibly broken state. I still havent found a champ that doesn't do really well. And honestly, if you're whining about how champs are stupid, just play them. that's the fun part.