U.R.F. rising

Riot·3/30/2015, 6:18:34 PM·11 votes·391,551 views

Greetings, Summoners!

Though the 2015 Season just began, we were going to share an exclusive look into the evolution of League of Legends gameplay with the New Ultra Rapid Fire mode, but as you all know, that didn’t quite work out. So with the fire-breathing insanity of U.R.F. mode erupting from the still-smoking corpse of New Ultra Rapid Fire, that means putting the primary focus on one thing: making big plays. Resource costs have been all but disappeared, ensuring you a fast-and-fun path towards full builds and non-stop teamfights along with a whole host of insane buffs to keep the action going strong.

What else has changed? Well, healing's taken a hit and shielding's been scaled back to keep defensive strategies from slowing your skirmishes to a crawl. Ryze and Kassadin are also available this time around, which should be a testament to the tough decisions we've had to face in the last year. Mix those in with a slew of champion-specific changes to keep some champions from being too powerful (as well as some changes to make a few go crazy) and you'll experience Ultra Rapidness like you’ve never imagined.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and dive into the inzanity of Ultra Rapid Fire!

Patrick "Scarizard" Scarborough

Global U.R.F. Changes

Awesome Buff of Awesomely Awesome Buffing

Because we can.

Ultra Rapid Fire is all about turning players into play-makers. Resource costs are thrown out the window (or tuned down dramatically), with concepts like 'Cooldowns' and 'Boots' becoming a thing of the past. Spell-slingers aren't the only ones going Ultra - Attack Speed and Critical Strike multipliers take those wimpy 'hyper-carries' and turn them into Basic-Attacking Beasts as Urf intended. We've also boosted gold gains and tenacity to keep things Rapid Fire while dealing Tons of Damage™.

removedMANA & ENERGY COSTS Everything is free.

HEALTH COSTS Reduced by 50%

COOLDOWN REDUCTION ON EVERYTHING 80% (Runes, items, masteries and abilities no longer grant cooldown reduction)

TENACITY 25%

MOVEMENT SPEED +60

ATTACK SPEED MULTIPLIER +50% (+100% for ranged champions)

CRITICAL STRIKES 200% base damage ⇒ 225% base damage

GOLD GAIN 500% the normal amount on Summoner's Rift

TONS OF DAMAGE Everything deals tons of damage

TONS OF HEALTH Everything has tons of health

Heal Embargo

Heals are less effective early-game.

"And so it was decreed by Urf, the greatest of us, that lane sustain was to be less oppressive." - from Chapter 3 of "Mantras of the Manatees"

MORELLO'S REVENGE All direct healing effects are 50% less effective at the beginning of the game, increasing by 1% every 30 seconds (Up to 100% effective at 25 minutes)

SHIELD OVERLOAD

Many non-ultimate shield scalings are down by 50%. Don't worry, shields are still awesome.

Often in U.R.F., having a shield meant making one person invulnerable come late-game due to the shield's cooldown being shorter than the duration. We aren't taking away your ability to perma-shield (because it's super fun and silly), but we're making those shields weaker so that you stand a better chance of breaking through, Ultra Rapid style.

SHIELD OVERLOAD Non-ultimate shield scaling ratios reduced by 50% (except Udyr and Diana. Because we can.)

AFFECTED CHAMPIONS The following champions are affected:

Janna

E - Eye of the Storm scales with 0.7 ⇒ 0.35 ability power

Karma

E - Inspire scales with 0.5 ⇒ 0.25 ability power (Doesn't affect Mantra Bonus: Defiance)

Lulu

E - Help, Pix! scales with 0.6 ⇒ 0.3 ability power

Lux

W - Prismatic Barrier scales with 0.35 ⇒ 0.175 ability power

Morgana

E - Black Shield scales with 0.7 ⇒ 0.35 ability power

Nautilus

W - Titan's Wrath scales with 7/9.5/12/14.5/17% ⇒ 3.5/4.75/6/7.25/8.5% of maximum health

Orianna

E - Command: Protect scales with 0.4 ⇒ 0.2 ability power

Riven

E - Valor scales with 1.0 ⇒ 0.5 bonus attack damage

Rumble

W - Scrap Shield scales with 0.4 ⇒ 0.2 ability power

Shen

W - Feint scales with 0.6 ⇒ 0.3 ability power

Skarner

W - Crystalline Exoskeleton scales with 0.8 ⇒ 0.4 ability power

Sona

W - Aria of Perseverance scales with 0.8 ⇒ 0.4 ability power

Smite

Smite cools down faster.

Last U.R.F., Smite didn't have charges. Now it does. Context!

CHARGE RATE 75 seconds ⇒ 30 seconds

COOLDOWN BETWEEN CHARGES 15 seconds ⇒ 10 seconds

Champions

Aatrox

Aatrox is now 100% more Aawesome.

In keeping with the League of Legends 2016 Strategic Takeover (wherein every new champion has a Revive Passive) we thought we'd go back and touch-up our existing ones. We tested having Aatrox aactually be immune to death, but really liked the tradeoff between playing such a cool champion and sometimes having to look at his cool revive aanimation, so we just made it aavailable aall the time.

Passive - Blood Well

BLOODY Blood Well generation from all sources increased by 100%

COOLDOWN 225 seconds ⇒ 60 seconds

Alistar

Headbutt stuns for less. Unbreakable Will is breakable.

In a world with (almost) no cooldowns, some of our abilities start to get a little weird. Headbutt usually leaves you briefly immobilized after you've been knocked back so you can think about your life's decisions. Seeing as U.R.F. is all about action (and less thinking), we remooved it.

W - Headbutt

YOU CAN MILK THOSE Stun on Headbutt now ends as soon as the target reaches the end of its movement arc

R - Unbreakable Will

DURATION 7 seconds ⇒ 3.5 seconds

Anivia

Anivia's Passive is now (almost) always up.

Passive - Rebirth

COOLDOWN 240 seconds ⇒ 60 seconds

Azir

Fiddling with his passive because the Global buff makes him OP. Capping soldiers to 3 and nerfing the cooldown. Shurima.

Passive - Shurima's Legacy

ATTACK SPEED FROM COOLDOWN REDUCTION 1.25% attack speed per 1% CDR ⇒ 0.625% attack speed per 1% CDR

W - Arise!

A FEW GOOD MEN Number of active soldiers is capped at 3

ADJUSTED SOLDIER RECHARGE RATE 2.4/2/2/2/1.8/1.6 seconds ⇒ 4.8/4.4/4/3.6/3.2 seconds

Bard

~ootay~

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Passive - Traveler's Call

CHIMES PER UPGRADE 5 ⇒ 3

MEEP RECHARGE RATE 12 seconds ⇒ 6 seconds

Brand

No more Brand permastuns.

Q - Sear

STUN DURATION 2 seconds ⇒ 1 seconds

Ezreal

Lowering Q's cooldown refund.

C'mon, We're already giving you 80% CDR. Don't look at me like that.

Q - Mystic Shot

COOLDOWN REFUND ON HIT 1 second ⇒ 0.33 seconds

Hecarim

-helicopter noises-

E Cooldown shenanigans. Changing Q to not be cast every second of every game.

Q - Rampage

WALK, DON'T RAMPAGE Successive casts no longer reduce the cooldown of Rampage

E - Devastating Charge

COOLDOWN Begins on cast ⇒ Begins after the dash is used or when the buff expires