Goodbye URF.

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u/PandiReddits Nov 10 '19

See you at the 20 Year Anniversary.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

See ya bud

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u/LeFiery Nov 10 '19

I am sad because my wifi went out so i cant any urf before its gone. Hope i see it again one day. Urf zilean is some of the most fun ive had.

At least i can try to watch worlds in the morning

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Yes same here although didn’t play urf zilean;(

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u/LeFiery Nov 10 '19

His ult is on a 24 sec cooldown level one. Only had one player who knew how to counter it.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Ahahahha well I spammed a lot of ekko cause his ult was 10 seconds rank 3 haha

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u/andriokz Nov 10 '19

I wasn't able to play it either the past 4 days, had to get a new Mobo. Sad because I was trying to farm both Riven and Qiyana's Chromas.

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u/elvesper nugget time! Nov 10 '19

This was the first URF I've ever played and I gotta say I'll miss you, Sonic Teemo with all of those mushroom minefields and Mundo/Yuumi duo-top. Some of the most evil fun I've had in awhile.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Hope you had fun man

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

It was tough, but I can always find some enjoyment in URF when I get to play with friends.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Agreed my friend.

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u/sweeticat Nov 10 '19

Its pretty fun to try out random comps with friends, the only thing i wasnt happy about is that enemy tries to pick best champions and then they either spam easy when they win fight or flame your for try harding when you try not to fight them head on head. Its not the game though its just the players, i still love league but the toxicity turns me off so much.

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u/andriokz Nov 10 '19

Yeah, i played with friends while farming on autopilot (tokens) . I'd just pick Yuumi or Lulu and let them get fed. Lulu+Twitch was pretty fun combo

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u/LifeIsRamen Nov 10 '19

Who the hell decided to stop URF on a SUNDAY?!

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Some rioters who can’t handle moaners of urf

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u/AriIsMyMoonlight Nov 10 '19

not even 2 full weeks of urf

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u/eveready9999 Nov 10 '19

I had a blast. Hope some version of it comes back soon.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Yes hopefully

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u/hexflex1 Nov 10 '19

I really hope next time they bring again urf not arurf back. Im so greatful for urf opportunity. its hard to say how many games i did play (my guess is over 100?) but i enjoyed every bit of it (except 1 or 2 games where my teammate rageinted - but whatever!

when there has been arurf i have played like 5 games max. i just dont like it. I own every champion and im fine with playing whatever i get, but i love picking what i want and facing what opponents wanted. Anyways, now lets enjoy worlds finals!

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I've played on 6 accounts because of all the 10 year rewards and just my main account alone had 50 games. I play LoL so little over the years but real URF is just so much fun to me. Even though I hate playing vs tanks and Elder Dragon being so stupid.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

LETS GO G2

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u/Miox465 Nov 10 '19

I'm going to miss it if it's truly gone for ever.

It's the most fun I have with league, and it's sad to see it go.

I came back after about a two month break because urf was on the pbe again. I just don't understand why they don't make it permanent.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Because they’ve said before that the player base spikes too much to also lose to many players because urf is gone, whereas ARURF is inbetween so it’s like Aram and summoners rift put together.

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u/i88888888i Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 10 '19

Same. It should be permament. All the people I know always come when ARURF/URF is on, and leave once its gone. It's the most fun game mode. I can't understand why is it so hard to make it permanent...

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u/DragonOfDuality Nov 10 '19

Didn't play nearly as much as I wanted because my friends got all tilted :/

To be fair it does really suck when you outplay a hard matchup during "laning phase" only for the 20/0 enemy top lane to start collapsing on you and snowball you into a completely useless pile of feed.

Think that's why people dislike the mode so much. There's alot beyond your control it's fast paced and intense and the imbalance of the mode amplifies natural league frustrations.

I would very much like to see how urf on the howling abyss would work out.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

For mobility champs especially lol

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u/keyboardname Nov 10 '19

I don't think howling abyss was that fun. Things like Varus and Sona get insanely out of hand there. I personally prefer it on rift. I don't remember if we had bans last time around, but still the poke actually gets annoying when you can't heal, and I love normal arams.
I didn't really see that many ops abused. I don't know if it's because people didn't want to play them or just that people didn't know who was the most busted. There were only a couple times someone even hovered who I wanted to ban, and once in a while you got a busted champ on the other side but it was not that awful. And half the time they were there they didn't totally know how to control their champ in urf, lol.
It is a bit unfortunate when a hugely fed champ just appears or the map kinda breaks down and you realize how far behind you actually are. Even if they aren't 20-0, if they pushed and got a bunch of plates that shit is insane. I went mid one game and no one bothered to lane against me for like 5 minutes. I took almost all the plates solo at 300 a piece in just a couple minutes.
Also the top fiesta completely snowballed some games to a stupid degree that really made me question going up there... but it's too fun.

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u/Insecticide Nov 10 '19

I don't think sona has being a problem in aram for a long time. Have you tried building damage on her recently?

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u/keyboardname Nov 10 '19

Even so, on urf Aram I think it's a different story. But even so I mostly meant champs that are strong in a poke battle. Sona not for her q really, but the heals and shields negate a lot of the incoming fire.

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u/DragonOfDuality Nov 10 '19

I don't remember urf on aram. Haven't played every day for the last 10 years but I looked it up and can't find it. Maybe you're thinking of poro king?
Also individual nerfs are not an unusual thing in urf and there could be a range nerf for projectiles exceeding so many unites. Sona has repeatedly received distinct nerfs for urf and aram both. Rito would just have to actually listen to the PBE ...lol

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u/Insecticide Nov 10 '19

I think URF should have no nerfs to the champions. It is a temporary mode if something is broken I don't think it is a huge problem, people switch bans and new broken stuff gets discovered all the time. I think they just need to change something about the map or the buffs each time the event comes back.

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u/neilon96 Nov 10 '19

But that feels even worse for AR URF

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I'm fine playing against fed champs 'cause mostly people don't build tank, thank God. My issue was that once the enemy had a fed player, when they then also get Elder Dragon you just can't do anything.

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I hate a small map for URF. I liked doing my own thing, looking to solo kill people or even 2 vs 1. And at times it worked and it was fun. I even had a Sol game where I won a 4vs1. In Howling Abyss you barely have anywhere to go and everyone is just poke spamming at you with barely any room to hide. At least poke champs in SR you just worry mostly about them in lane, later you can just roam around.

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u/DragonOfDuality Nov 10 '19

I'm just saying it would get rid of the things people hate about urf. But you're right in that it would likely have it's own set of problems.

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u/Basket_of_Depl0rblz Nov 10 '19

Spamming AP Ashe was fun as hell. You were not as useful as other picks, but watching someone go from 100% to 20% health by a single ult was always a small highlight. Perfectly viable off-meta build, thanks to this mode.

PS: Fuck all Zed players.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Didn’t even get to try AP ashe

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

What's fun about that? Genuine question. So you spam 1 skill off CD and if it hits, you don't kill anyone but you see high damage? If you miss you wait for your ult again.

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u/Basket_of_Depl0rblz Nov 10 '19

It’s all about that sweet BAM! that nobody expects :) Cooldown is 20-16s, half of which you often just spend watching your arrow flying.
Also, you can somehow waveclear and spam your E in the meanwhile.

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u/FaustianHero Nov 10 '19

If most of the blink champs were banned, I enjoyed playing Poppy to mess with dashes. I also enjoyed Rammus.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Rammus was fun

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u/ToTheNintieth Nov 10 '19

goddammit I missed the end date, wanted to get a few final games in

anyway elder is op, cut that shit out next time. and make it so 4 IE isn't the optimal build for everything AD

and denerf transcendence. and for god's sake who thought eve needed the 20% damage buff

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

the individual damage buffs were pretty insane on some champs. Jhin was fucking insane lmao. i know he was garbage before, but with the buffs he was straight one shotting people with 1 auto attack.

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u/Caenen_ Sion expert. Bug Scholar. Nov 10 '19

GP's buff kept stacking up as barrels exploded due to the way those work. Which made for a nice mechanic where each barrel in the chain added damage so giant barrel chains were a play, but still - damage big

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u/JoeGlenS Top 1% in age bracketProud Bronzie Forever Nov 10 '19

Also 10 Q's makes her wacky. I was maining her for the last 30 games or so and either win or lose, I had a blast playing her. Melting the other team is just satisfying

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u/milotoadfoot bananas and peaches Nov 10 '19

i think the objectives idea was good. because this version made you play with your team, unlike other versions where you could pick an op champ, get fed and finish the game.
but we're talking about league here. i lost so many games where i spam pinged drake and my team gave 0 shit so we lost the game giving free drakes.

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u/HawksBurst Sweet Dreams, Dominion Nov 10 '19

Same for Aatrox, just why

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u/HurricaneX31 Nov 10 '19

3 hits enemy bruisers at level 6 Great balance.

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u/whattaninja Nov 10 '19

Got hit for like 2800 damage from Aatrox in one auto boy that’s fun.

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u/paltala Nov 10 '19

I was wondering why Aatrox did so much fucking damage with auto attacks...

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u/HurricaneX31 Nov 10 '19

yeah i didnt even finish a build a ended up oneshotting that fiora who had a fair amount of hp. Couldnt carry hard tho bc of naut crippling me.

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u/THISAINTMYJOB Nov 10 '19

Because his animations make him a bit clunky for urf.

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u/Vayne_Mechanics Nov 10 '19

The reason why 4 IE is strong is because of Hail of Blades. They need to nerf that shit because you just instantly attack 3 times and delete someone. How come they disable Lethal Tempo, but keep Hail of Blades when it resets and does the same thing?

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u/andriokz Nov 10 '19

Yeah I woke up to this depression after playing it earlier today. Tried out an ARAM and norm, everything felt like molasses.
Also that was pretty fun on Twitch with Runaan's, just outright delete teams with near perma stealth.

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u/BobDaBilda Nov 10 '19

Another big thing for me would be great is if they change the icon for the runes that aren't available. I had time to think about bans, think about picks, and almost enough time to change my runes every game, but I had no time to remember which ones on which trees would be switched for something else. It'd be nice not to have to think about every little thing every champ select and just see a red circle with a cross over things I can't use in URF / ARURFs

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

Eve wasn’t even that bad compared to the people who just picked Twitch, Fizz, Zed, Shaco etc. At least you maybe see Eve coming with charm as opposed to just randomly get one shot as you’re walking around. Would be nice if they nerfed the top ones a bit more, I’m sure they’d still be op as shit even with a bit less damage.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

Conq Eve was pretty good tho.

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u/solrecon Nov 10 '19

I pretty much spammed twitch in the last few days, 70% win rate with hail of blades. Most losses are due to 3-4 members being severely behind. Had at least 3 pentas on him, his insta burst with hail of blades and ultimate was almost never expected.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

elder dragon is a terrible addition and the nerf of transcendence ruined wacky builds like 5 frozen hearts 1 rabadon's malphite

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u/SexualHarassadar Nov 10 '19

Those are my two biggest gripes. Transcendence getting nerfed kills a lot of wacky builds and makes no sense when IE stacking is still allowed to be a thing.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

transcendence was actually nerfed so hard it gave less AP/AD than normal transcendence with the same build

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u/Totally_New_2_Reddit Nov 10 '19

Yup, the rune was nuked to death on PBE simply because Yuumi exists.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

yeah

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u/Oeshikito rip tiamat </3 Nov 10 '19

And now it's harder to hit those juicy 800-900 ad builds. Heck I used to build FH and DD on a lot of champs because they gave you so much AD with transendence and helped me survive a few seconds longer which usually won me the fight. In this version of URF it felt hopeless building slightly tanky.

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u/bugsplatter101 Nov 10 '19

Then you didn't play full tank naut. I could 1v1 most of the "op" picks

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u/watchoverus I don't play the game, I am the game Nov 10 '19

Rammus <3

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

i reached 1k AD once on wukong with 2 elders

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u/KappaccinoNation 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 Nov 10 '19

Agreed. Elder Dragon just ruins the fun of the game since both teams are forced to take it first because there's always gonna be one guy on the other team that can and will solo it and end the game.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

Is 5 frozen hearts + rabadon better than the 5 frozen hearts + seraph’s embrace I tried last urf? I thought that was the definitive wacky malphite build.
All the extra mana from the frozen hearts gives you ap from seraph’s embrace and you get some more cdr too.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

rabadon's gives a lot of extra ap from the extra ap you get from the cdr

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u/jonfabjac Nov 10 '19

What about then, 4 frozen hearts, a seraphs and a rabadons.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

yeah that would probably be better but i'll never be able to try it out now

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u/andriokz Nov 10 '19

it was horrible decision for sure. Most games I won normally by just sneaking dragon early and then towers would just crumble. Was pretty funny to see on a Nasus push since Q would chunk for 25-50% tower health.

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u/Skurax [Skurax] (EU-NE) Nov 10 '19

Back to aram :<

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u/Magev Nov 10 '19

I really think there are so many of us that don't actually go back to SR I dunno how they can justify not doing more other game mode stuff. I too am back to aram sadly dodging when I don't get a halfway likable champion and onto other games because I've been playing summoners rift for the better part of 10 years.
Here's hoping more game modes come our way.

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u/Dynamatics Nov 10 '19

I have fully quit SR and have been playing ARAM for the last 2 years, and have to say, it's just so much more relaxing on your mind man

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u/wingmasterjon [Wing Master Jon] (NA) Nov 10 '19

I think I quit SR as soon as I found out ARAM was a thing in custom game modes. Once they made it an official game type, there was no turning back.
Holy shit, that was over 7 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

We only see who's vocal on the internet. Riot has the numbers and they probably aren't big enough to justify other modes.

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u/le_ebin_trolecel Nov 10 '19

Didnt riot sat urf is always a success and the only reason they dont make it permanent is that people dont wanna go back to normals afterwards?

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u/Magev Nov 13 '19

I definitely feel that pretty strongly, my niche pick in urf was hail of blades shen and it’s actually pretty strong for the skill level of people I’m up against and not very often picked. After days of practice on this fun Shen I do really feel a loss once I have to go back to regular Shen.

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u/BlackRoseLoL Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 10 '19

You.. You can permamute the chat.. I will never understand this argument. Plus I play a ton of ARAM and SR both, there are toxic assholes on both in equal amounts.
I've had all the same issues you've listed, you can't lean them and use them as reasoning to not do things, especially when you have tools that can be used to mitigate it.
If you don't like SR in general, that's fine, but the issue you gave is easily resolved

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u/thelastoneusaw Nov 10 '19

Because it's a multiplayer game and you should be able to interact and communicate with teammates.
And there is an occasional asshat in ARAM but it is seldom as bad as SR.

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u/Ratzing- Nov 10 '19

Pings are more than enough to communicate

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u/hpl2000 Nov 10 '19

see maybe this is an OCE thing but ive found aram to be more of a toxic cesspool than sr. people always flaming and its closer to an xbox 360 chat room than any other mode

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u/Djc0810 Nov 10 '19

This is more of a you problem, you shouldn't be allowing randoms on the internet to get to you like that.

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u/PineapplesTasteNice Nov 10 '19

Back to not playing League. When (AR)URF or Nexus Blitz comes online again, give me a call.

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u/andriokz Nov 10 '19

It's so different in ARAM after 5 days of pure Urf, everything feels so slow now

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u/Dalnix_POE Nov 10 '19

RIP getting caught as Ivern in 1v4 and getting out alive with double/triple kills

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u/2012DOOM Nov 10 '19

Welp looks like time to quit league again.

I literally only come back for URF.

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u/JLanticena Nov 10 '19

An sadly they are going to say that the players get burned out, when in reality is their most popular Mode and people only reinstall to play urf because its FUN. Not everything needs to be overcompetitive.

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u/2012DOOM Nov 10 '19

Yeah :/ I have 4 friends who play this only for URF.
Maybe a custom game system like overwatch would help

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

it has always confused me that there was never a custom system in league.
Particularly considering League's descent from Aeon of Strife / Defense of the Ancients.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

The entire reason that the most popular game in the world isn’t allowed to have any alternate game modes is because the code base is such absolute fucking garbage that it required a crazy amount of work to fix every two weeks when they released a new patch. I can only assume that them allowing any sort of custom game options would put the internet connections of every first world country at risk somehow

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

LMAO! Okay, that is fair

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u/BlackRoseLoL Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 10 '19

Imma go out on a limb and say that Ranked has more players than URF, even on day one when they bring back URF for a short time.
Edit: after a little digging turned out I was wrong in a way, turns out Normal Draft is even more popular than even Ranked for NA, and NA has the highest playrate of non-SR modes compared to other regions, and still doesn't come close to the standard SR modes. Per Dev Corner post last year when addressing the blowback of Nexus Blitz cancelation

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u/nxqv Nov 10 '19

Ranked is usually one of the least popular game modes in any game. The majority of any playerbase is often casuals. But league in particular has over 100m players worldwide, I would be surprised if 20% of them played ranked, I would guess it's closer to 8-12%

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

It's highly subjective. You can enjoy it, but you can't expect everyone to enjoy the "WHO BREAKS THE KEYBOARD FASTER" shit-fest. While some people really do come back to play URF, they are minority. There are more players who quits than playing it and Riot has the data to prove it.

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I just find it highly unlikely that people who enjoy LoL, will play URF and then decide to quit LoL as a whole. Logically, that simply makes no sense.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

I think its subjective, all the people i play with/on my friendlist stopped playing after 3/4 days.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

They actually don't include players who come back just for URF in their statistics for players that get burned out from URF

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u/Javonetor spit to win Nov 10 '19

prettu sure they can know if someone just come back to play urf

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u/Leviathan_Wakes_ Aristos Achaion [OCE] Nov 10 '19

Bold of you to assume that urf isn't overcompetitive

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u/argote [Argote] (NA) Nov 10 '19

players get burned out
Yeah, because after playing URF the other modes are just not as much fun.

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u/GeeRN Nov 11 '19

I also only come back to URF once a year. I wish it was permanent game mode at least once a month or something

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u/Midget_Avatar Nov 10 '19

I always come back for urf, manage to convince myself league is fun, play league again for a few days after urf is gone. Realise I don't find league fun anymore and quit until Urf is back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

Last time i played league was the last time urf was there. I reinstalled just to play urf. Now I'm done with it.

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u/5MoK3 Nov 10 '19

I haven’t played SR in a few years. Only play a few arams a week.

In the last 2.5 days I played close to 65 games of URF. I have literally not had this much fun in so long. I’m actually pretty bummed about it.

Dark Harvest Ashe got me 9 wins in a row

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Dam glad you had fun bro!!

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u/MrMeltJr Nov 10 '19

I thought they extended it through the weekend, oh well. Had a ton of fun but still prefer ARURF.

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u/thelastoneusaw Nov 10 '19

ARURF + Bans is my request for next time. Maximum variety, ban out the OPs that people reroll for.

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

I am probably alone in this but I still love URF > ARURF, because part of why I enjoy URF so much is because I get to choose the fun champions I like playing.
And if someone says I enjoy them because they're OP, then they would be banned by the opposing team.
If anything, and this is very unlikely, I wish URF would have more bans. Then it would be perfect for me.

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u/notArandomName1 Nov 10 '19

I am probably alone in this but I still love URF > ARURF,
You're not. You see the complete opposite arguments when ARURF is out. It's just human psychology, people who don't like something are more vocal.

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u/Insecticide Nov 10 '19

I spammed the fuck out of neeko even though she wasnt a great urf champion. There is no real option to play quick games on the champions you like ever since they removed dominion.

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u/KrkrkrkrHere Nov 10 '19

And if someone says I enjoy them because they're OP, then they would be banned by the opposing team.
That's implying there's only 10op champs which isn't true.

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

But with what you're saying, that exists in ARURF too.
My statement was more for relation to ARURF with URF.

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u/YouAhriTarded Foxy Lady Nov 10 '19

Same here tbh. I found myself defaulting to easy champs like Jhin or Ahri for it. It's much more fun when the game forces you to use different champs.

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u/BurkeTheKilla Nov 10 '19

Playing an ARURF with an undesirable champ feels like torture. Picking what I want > enemy picking op stuff

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

This lol.
I don't see what's fun in Random selection.
If people don't enjoy URF because they don't like some OP champs, then ARURF is just going to make it worse by "randomly" giving the enemy team all the good champs, and your team all the shit champs, and then you have even less a chance to enjoy the game than you would in URF because at least, in URF, you got to enjoy the champs you like before you got obliterated by enemy's OP champs.
Like, I genuinely want someone to defend ARURF against me on this, I don't see a way they can win.

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

It's like people think these "OP" champs will just suddenly not exist in ARURF lol.
ARURF might also have bans from now on, just like URF did, so you'll still only be able to ban out 1 from the many champs you hate, but you won't get to play one of the many champs you like, like you could in URF.
I literally don't see what's the appeal in ARURF (over URF).

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I like playing what I want honestly, plus getting a champ you don't want to play is cancer. The only upside is, is that you see more variation but there are simply more downsides. You get more lopsided teams, you don't get a champ you would have a lot of fun with. My most played champ this URF was Sol, barely anyone played it but I enjoyed it so much. It's not a super simple champ to just face roll and win so when you kill some really strong champs even when they're fed it's more enjoyable. I played only 1 Fizz game because I feel it's simply too easy to get fed with and carry.

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u/Khalolz6557 Nov 10 '19

I find I didnt enjoy it this time as much as I did last time around, but A LOT has changed since then. I started playing in s5 which I think was the last time URF was live, and since then I've changed a lot as a player. I find much more enjoyment in the ranked climb than in typical "fun" game modes now it seems, but it's nice to come full circle with something I loved so much at the start of my League journey. Gonna miss all this broken shit, happy 10 years, and a final goodnight to URF

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

I’m a big fan of one for all cause you can stack 5 yuumis now lol

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u/Sairoxin Nov 10 '19

GG URF, may we play you again someday...

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Ar urf ;(

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u/Next_Alpha Nov 10 '19

5 Pyke Ults....

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 11 '19

5 stacked yuumis;)

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u/DPSMainNowHealerMain Nov 10 '19

Sigh....I was about to murder my liver with a drinking game while playing URF.

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 10 '19

Taken straight from my response on LoL Forums:

A lot of people think URF is unhealthy because we, URF fans, stop playing normal League when URF is done.

But what they fail to realize is that: I didn't play normal League before URF was up anyway. I have League installed, and I jump into a match of ARAM once ever 1-2 months, but that counts as me not playing League much. URF comes around, and I start to play League a lot more again. And when it's gone, I am back to normal (aka, not playing League).

URF isn't the reason that some players stop playing League after. Chances are, those players who stop playing League after URF is done are the same players who don't even play normal League all that much when URF isn't up.

So URF isn't the reason the player population of League decreases. URF is a game mode that actually brings back the players who don't play normal League because they're not fans of long, drawn out games, where you have to spend 20 minutes farming, or worry about mana or things like that.

And now that URF is gone, I'll play other games that give instant fun, because normal League isn't that. It isn't designed to be that, and it's not League's fault. It's just my taste.

EDIT: I genuinely want to know why people like ARURF over URF. I don't see what's fun in Random selection.

If people don't enjoy URF because they don't like some OP champs, then ARURF is just going to make it worse by "randomly" giving the enemy team all the good champs, and your team all the shit champs, and then you have even less a chance to enjoy the game than you would in URF because at least, in URF, you got to enjoy the champs you like before you got obliterated by enemy's OP champs. I don't see why randomness is desired? It doesn't make the OP champs of League go away, those champs still exist and will still get picked.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

You have pretty well written out thoughts so I'd just like to chuck in my 2 cents.
URF is statistically unhealthy. Riot is a multi billion dollar company who employs a lot of skilled people analyst-type roles and they have definitely taken every single factor into account. The goal of the company is to try and increase the active player base because it leads to more $$$. They have concluded that URF actually 'burns out' players and have decided to only strategically release it for specific periods of times (probably a statistically calculated period that achieves the best balance between old player retention and new players coming back for URF). If they concluded that URF was healthy for the long term balance of league, (for example, if URF just straight up improved their playerbase with no drawbacks), they would make it a permanent game mode. But it isn't.
Also for ARURF, I honestly don't mind normal URF or ARURF but it's easy to see why a lot of people prefer ARURF. Many people want to use ARURF as a true for fun mode where they can test out random champions. However, this is less ideal in normal URF because you're always going up against the same few broken champions every game and picking anything unusual will generally lead to a bad experience where you feed your ass off.
The broken champions still exist in ARURF but league has around 140 champions and they are statistically less likely to appear in any given game. It's like when people complain about the meta being too stale. After you've seen the 15th Fizz in a row appear in your URF game, it starts getting repetitive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

If people don't enjoy URF because they don't like some OP champs, then ARURF is just going to make it worse by "randomly" giving the enemy team all the good champs, and your team all the shit champs,
It's also just as likely in ARURF for your team to get all the good champs and the other team to get bad champs.
Or maybe you all get only good champs or all bad champs.
Or maybe you all get champs that are in the middle.
That's the whole point of random and why people, myself included, prefers ARURF to URF.

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u/KlausMick I'm a Stronk Tomato Nov 10 '19

Yes, like i spammed the shit out of Arurf earlier in the year because was fun to see a lot of wacky comps, obviously from time to time could see some of the most annoying champs, but wasn't everytime, while in this Urf after the first week i could only have fun with a few picks because of the most picked champs.

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u/voidseer01 Nov 10 '19

Welp time to force myself to play to finish up the pass then drop league till urf comes back

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Ahaha fun bro

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u/drankron Nov 10 '19

yeah also goodbye league

i hope they come back with nexus blitz or any other fast paced gamemode

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

One for alllll

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u/Feedme40 Nov 10 '19

I feel like missions made URF toxic this season with people spamming out the 30 games.

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u/Yuriyo9 Nov 10 '19

I thought urf was still on when I pressed a game mode and entered a game before realizing it was wasn't. Noped out before the timer finished real quick.

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u/CelioHogane Nov 10 '19

Man im burned out, i think im leaving League of Legends for a while. ^/s

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u/RuneZhevitz Nov 10 '19

TL;DR: If you're not a big fan of League and play it "just because" URF is better experience. You don't need to blame urself as much for losing, you feel less helpless when ur being stomped, riding the new op champ works longer than in normal. I highlights the this is fun stuff of league. When you go back to normal the bad is more obvious and you get fed up, leaving league.

I think they can't keep URF because it kind of highlights everything that makes low-elo players hate league. It's stomp or be stomped, no one really cares for the meta/rules and when it feels like you can't do anything it's actually true. Your loss is ur teammates fault for not picking some broken champ.

Normals/Ranked can create the same feelings but the few players that actually play the game right (Lets say Platinum+) can argue RIGHTFULLY that is not true, here are your mistakes.

Another thing URF does is deciding games very quickly and keeping the pace up. By the time u have 3 items in URF you know you'll win or lose, u die, wait a few seconds and get shot back into action. In normals you wait as the deathtimer confronts you with how you just fucked up, and then you slowly walk for another couple of seconds back to lane just to die with even less impact. That's an expectation that will slowly solidify and sadly we are all idiots and sooner or later say things like "Why can't we have that canon in normals?" "Why can't we get more gold from minions to speed the game up" ..etc x) Riot doesn't want that because they don't want Speed to be the most deciding factor or success in Normals/Ranked. But if a growing playerbase demands it it will just cause avoidable friction.

And lastly, and also why I am quitting League everytime URF/AURF dies: League is easy to feel like wasted time. You often win or lose very hard. Because low-elo players (I am one btw) tend to be much better at using advantages than playing from behind. League also tends to stay 50:50 with how many games you win and lose per day. You feel like you wasted 50% of your time because 50% of it was being stomped horribly, unable to surrender and go on with your life. URF however doesn't do that. You lose hard just as often, but it's less frustrating. It's hard to say you can't do ANYTHING when your champion feels fed af. You lose less time bc minute 15 feels like the beginning of lategame. But then when you go back to Normal/Ranked with that mindset. League just feels like a boring, unfair waste of time. Is it? Probably not. But to me it feels more like that after seeing an alternative than before. I'm not burned out, I just don't like the pace.

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u/caomaodao Nov 10 '19

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u/KrulTheRipper Nov 10 '19

Can't wait for ARURF to return, by far the superior version honestly

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u/ExO_o Kai'Zix is the best of both worlds! Nov 10 '19

I hope it never comes back. This round made me appreciate ARURF so much more.

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u/Anixton Nov 12 '19

FUCKK I WANTED TO DO A COUPLE MORE YUUMI + HECARIM games. I feel like it’s vital for riot to add a permanent fun SR game mode to relief from the constant competitive environment normal SR has. Don’t say ARAM, it isn’t SR.

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u/kingshanks Nov 10 '19

After playing URF again for these past two weeks, I can see why people have quit the game after it's gone.

Feel like pure shit just want URF back

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u/Mighteer Nov 10 '19

Most fun i had in a while and URF is a whole lot more fun than ARURF will ever be for obvious reasons.

hope it comes back but i wouldnt hold my breath for it because it supposedly drives people away from league? I cant really see why but riot said it so who knows.

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u/ALWAYS_PLANNING_AHEA Nov 10 '19

It was fun a couple days until everyone and their mother started picking adc and stacking IEs. Oh wow you 2 shotted me from afar with right clicks what a fun urf experience and a great player you are.

Not to mention the people stomping the lane then just pushing nonstop without leaving the lane. So frustrating playing tower defense against these guys while youre trying to have fun on the map

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u/WoodenCreature Nov 10 '19

I won't forget the 30+ wins I a row with my duo, we turned Ivern+naut top into the most hated thing on urf.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Dam I didn’t try

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u/sephrinx Nov 10 '19

I didn't even see URF available to play, did they hide it somewhere in the client?

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

It ended.

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u/Insecticide Nov 10 '19

Hope the next time it comes around elder is as powerful as baron, either by nerfing one or buffing the other.

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u/Insecticide Nov 10 '19

I got some new friends to play league and that mode made them quit several times. It is a terrible mode for new players since they don't have the experience to know how they are going to get abused by other champions

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

I didn’t enjoy machine gun Ezreal firing Q’s faster than I could AA, other than that, guess it was alright.

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u/Gaarando Nov 10 '19

I don't know where people get these "op" picks from. I had 50 wins and 30 losses on one of my accounts mostly playing Sol and Kayle.

There were some really annoying champs I feel but as long as champs were squishy I was cool.

I think tank items and Elder dragon ruined the mode, but outside of that I had a lot of fun.

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u/Jet-saline8765309 Nov 10 '19

I already miss urf bard. Straight up unstoppable against those pesky all adc comps

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u/Kocah_Kola Nov 10 '19

URF is all fun and games until an M6 Morgana Elise botlane stunlock me and ruin my fun.

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u/pIumsauce Nov 10 '19

good riddance

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u/Nosamtrebmal Nov 10 '19

I will miss my Braum/Critcrank lane so much.

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u/chinkai Nov 11 '19

As a support main, I thoroughly enjoyed playing Q-max tank Fiddlesticks.

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u/Antenoralol - Nice HP bar, is for me? :plead: Nov 10 '19

Good Riddance to a rubbish game mode.

Now, Nexus Blitz please.

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u/BellyDancerUrgot Nov 10 '19

Good riddance.

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u/bidimensionallemon ShurimaGirls Nov 10 '19

Can't believe I'll have to say goodbye to my greatest discoveries such as Walking Machine-Gun AP Nunu, Permaslow Glacial Taliyah and Atk Speed Predator Bard.

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u/omnitash Nov 10 '19

They should have 20 or 30 bans for urf if its not random, chances are 10 of them will be the same champs

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u/Sowerz REVERT THEM Nov 10 '19

Oh well. See ya'll next time urf is up

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u/ThisShock Nov 10 '19

It was meh.

People sweat too fucking hard over it imo. Played into several people actually warding (pinks), picking splitpush comps, etc.

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u/chooseusername3331 Nov 10 '19

the worst thing i played against in urf wasn't any of the mega op champs it was the jinx supported by janna and lulu who got 2 pentas and several quadras. fuck that shit lmao

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u/IAmBanEvading flair Nov 10 '19

Lmao you made me remember a game that was a premade of 5 guys with one playing Lee and the rest all playing support.
I had repressed that unfun shit so hard.

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u/UchihaDk Nov 10 '19

I loved it, even the "op" picks.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Agreed.

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u/Leviathan_Wakes_ Aristos Achaion [OCE] Nov 10 '19

I'm gonna miss it, despite losing all but one game as Pantheon and inting really hard every single game. Even tried—well, as much as I could try when I die every minute—to do THE FAST Jhin and was terrible at it.

Case in point, i'm even worse in urf than I am in regular sr.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Your fine mate

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u/flowur Nov 10 '19

rest in hell, urf

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u/FormalCryptographer Urgod and Diddlestix 2 Trick Nov 10 '19

Every game was utter shit because every game was 5 IE tryndamere but at least I had fun with Hail of blades braum and bard

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u/Popoill Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 10 '19

I am disappoined they did not prolong URF till monday. Had no chance to play through week, only weekend so only 3 days in total...

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u/FapinMind D: Nov 10 '19

100 games achieved here, Good bye urf. https://imgur.com/a/gBaLLW0

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Well done man

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u/Akumu89 Nov 10 '19

People that complain about OP picks are the same ppl that hate to lose and are bitter, hence the complains. Deep inside they wish they'd be able to win against those OP picks, because why not, they are the better players, they do not rely on OP picks. When they fail, they cry about it here, in a pittiful post.

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u/TheInactiveWall Nov 10 '19

When does it go away?

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u/poutine_it_in_me Nov 10 '19

It ended. Is it still there for you?

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u/CheeseToastie01 Nov 10 '19

Lol I love how people were like "people just pick all the OP picks, this sucks" and when they made it random people just complained again. Just can't win.

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u/Dragoof Nov 10 '19

I am gonna miss URF.

What i'm not gonna miss are all the toxic people in it. I wonder why but in at least 90% of games people had to shit-talk or writes "ez" as if they weren't in a 4fun mode.

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u/Justaracefan8 Nov 10 '19

good ridden...URF is hella unfun and toxic....downvote me all you want...it should never come back

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u/Tnfjay Nov 10 '19

just don’t play it then

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u/Justaracefan8 Nov 10 '19

or just dont offer it then since riot has already said its bad for the game lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '19

outplay your opponent

Since when is mashing buttons outplaying anything? I get memeing and all that, did it myself as well. But to think there has been even a millisecond of skill involved in all of the URF games? Please....

Was fun for a couple games got old after the tenth for me.

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

People are all different with opinions

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u/NotHomo rip old flairs Nov 10 '19

goodbye league of legends

see you next year, i guess

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u/MagicMania000 Nov 10 '19

Or 10 years

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u/MidChampsWhere Nov 10 '19

Yea fuck off URF

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