URF mode for Training: A Suggestion for Custom games

Louisoraga·Jul 12, 2014·12 votes·857 views

I know this already sounds like a broken record to say that Riot should bring URF mode, but I feel like it could help a bit with training.

I tend to play a lot of fighting games, more commonly, I play Street Fighter. When going into training mode in Street Fighter, you can put settings on your character and the opponent, such as giving yourself infinite, or recovering meter, counting every hit as a counter hit, removing stun, etc.

When URF mode had first come out, I noticed that I found myself customing with a friend, or even by myself, just to practice skill shots, and potential maximization of damage on champs, since cooldowns were so low and mana was infinite. I was doing this way more often than actually PvPing.

Moving around was a breeze as well. I probably wouldn't have figured out how to wall dash with certain champs so quickly and easily. I know that in a real game, you dont have all those resources, but practicing in those environments helps you experiment which combos might be stronger, how you can maneuver through the jungle with flash/ghost while timing yourself, and seeing how to combine ults correctly really fast without having to wait for cooldowns so often.

I know that Whether or not the people in charge WANT to bring it back can do it, but it's just interesting to see how similar Training mode in Street Fighter is to URF mode in a custom game.

10 Comments

12talesJul 13, 20144 votes

I agree wholeheartedly. My favorite thing about URF was how much easier it made learning how to wall jump as Riven. I would love to have the opportunity to grind out inSecs or the like in customs without having to wait 5 minutes between tries.

BlackquillJul 12, 20143 votes

Interesting...+1

RhlaxJul 13, 20143 votes

Good idea

Angry MonsterJul 13, 20141 votes

horrible idea.

Teach people that they have 80% CDR and no mana costs. THen when they do to a real game they have no starting CRD and it caps at 40%. Then add to the fact that mana casts do exits.

You are just going to to end up with more people not understanding the real game.

outrangedJul 13, 20143 votes

dude, the theory is that with practice, you'll be able to land more skillshots, walljump more effectively, and so on. the mode could explicitly say training mode. also, they could make the level required to do this be 10 or something, so people know enough about the real game before going into the awesomeness that is urf

Angry MonsterJul 13, 20141 votes

No, first off URF was advertised as a limited time. Idiots keep saying that they want it full time in the game though. This is just another way to back door it in.

First people are saying to pratice, well then you need other players so you need to be able to bring others in customs.

Then after a while people are going to well its already a custom, Rito please make it a normal que. Then the bitching and complaining are going to start again.

While the OP may have good intentions but good intentions usually have harmful results. (like Riot making URF in the first place)

LouisoragaJul 14, 20142 votes

But that's the thing. People on Street Fighter have access to the same form of training mode, and it only makes them a more solid player by going into the lab and training.

If your theory was true, there would be tons of players being used to training mode Street Fighter completely messing everything up, I. E. spamming quarter circle forward X2 P over and over when there isn't meter to do a super, whereas that just isn't true.

I'm not saying to make it a normal queue, because that IS pretty ridiculous, and that had its time and place, and that time has passed. What I'm implying is to re-purpose the mode to help players understand what every champs potential is, exact distance of skill shots, how they interact with different skills, etc. in an environment that is for training and just that. Sure, you might need a few players to get an even further form of training, but the learning experience is still there.

ZacceaJul 13, 20141 votes

This is exactly what I've been saying about URF since day 1. Everyone else was complaining about all the cancerous champions "Ban Nidalee!" "Omg I hate Ezreal ugh!" but whenever I saw them in my games I would think "Yes! Dodging practice!" I want my dodge practice back!!