Summary
Ultra Rapid Fire (URF) is perhapsLeague of Legends' most famous Rotating Game Mode (RGM). The game mode either shows up with a normal draft, or with random champions like in ARAM. The rules are simple: all champions have 300 Ability Haste and no Mana or Energy costs.
This translates into absolutely chaotic gameplay, and an entirely new meta. Champions that dominate solo queue rarely work here, and some that you might’ve forgotten entirely about will be broken. These are the ten best champions for URF, ranked.
10Smolder
The Fiery Fledgling
Smolder is LoL’s best infinitely scaling champion at taking advantage of the URF Ability Haste. He can go full AP, bruiser mage, full crit, and anything in between. Regardless of which build path you choose, you’ll be a nightmare for your enemies.
With no CD on his abilities, he stacks his passive ridiculously fast, while having an excellent defensive tool on his E always at the ready. His execute is also completely unbalanced, which makes getting kills with him very easy. You’ll reach 225 stacks so quickly that you’ll often snowball out of control before your enemies can even respond.
9Shaco
The Demon Jester
Shaco has the advantage of being able to go for a full AD/Crit build with Voltaic Cyclosword, or full AP build for the nightmarish boxes. He isalmost always invisibleand can have nearly permanent ult up-time, which just turns the mind-games up to 11.
This makes him an extremely safe pick that can always have an impact, with very few downsides. On the other hand, he is still extremely squishy, and doesn’t really have an angle to experiment with tankier options. You’ll have to play very safely and master the use of your clone well, or you’ll die very often.
8Nunu & Willump
The Boy And His Yeti
Nunu is countered by range, but if you’re playing vs melee champions, you are in for a treat. There are no tanky paths on this one. Nunu just goes full AP at all times and oneshots you with his E. This means that he also explodes in a matter of seconds, theoretically.
He has seemingly infinite sustain, as long as he can Consume something (or someone) and can secure neutral objectives with that same ability. This makes him actually quite good at surviving, as long as she isn’t CC’d or outright oneshot.
7Sion
The tank to out-tank all tanks. This guy has a really rough time early, especially in ranged match-ups, but as long as he gets Heartsteel and keeps stacking his W, he will be immortal. In addition to this, Unending Despair is completely unbalanced on him in this game-mode.
You will be dealing and healing ridiculous numbers. As a massive tank, he is extremely vulnerable to champions like Vayne or Kayle, though. He will have so much HP by the end of the game that any champion who consistently deals percentage max health damage will destroy him.
6Fizz
The Tidal Trickster
Fizz is one of the classic URF picks. He is quite dangerous in a normal Summoner’s Rift game, but with his untargetable E on a cooldown below two seconds, he becomes a true nightmare. Not only can he one-shot you with his normal glass-cannon Ability Power build, he has an extra trick up his sleeve in this game mode.
Tank Fizz is actually viable in URF, and is extremely powerful. You just go Iceborn Gauntlet into full tank items, turning into an immortal fish that slowly but surely suffocates your enemies.
5Kayle
The Righteous
Another massive tank-shredder with one of the most broken ultis for URF. Kayle can go full AP glass-cannon, AP bruiser with Riftmaker, mixed damage on-hit, whatever is best, really. She is a ticking time bomb, regardless, becoming nearly impossible to deal with when she reaches level 16.
Usually, the downside to this champion is that she is immobile and that her ulti has a really long cooldown. But guess what? It has no cooldown here, so she essentially has no downsides.
4Vayne
The Night Hunter
The counter to all broken tanks in URF, which also benefits a lot from flexible builds. If you are unlucky enough to go into no tanks, you’re able to still go Voltaic Cyclosword crit, dealing absurd damage with your Q+ energized autos.
Ideally, though, you go on-hit with Jak’sho and become every tank’s nightmare. Vayne is a bit tougher to play due to her low range, but having almost permanent invisibility during her ult and getting absurd attack speed numbers makes her really strong.
3Jinx
The Loose Cannon
The third ADC on the list, and another versatile menace. Jinx can go full lethality and become a W+R artillery unit, or a normal crit/Attack Speed build with Lethal Tempo and get to such high AS numbers that her rocket launcher will shoot like a minigun.
Not only is she flexible in her builds, she is the champion that benefits the most from URF’s 2x multipler on Attack Speed from items, due to her passive.
2Maokai
The Twisted Treant
Do you want to go full AP and poke with your E and Ult? You absolutely can. Do you want to go full tank and literally never die? Be our guest. Maokai does it all, with style.
His passive is absurd in URF, he can spam enough Es to reforest the entire Summoner’s Rift and his Ws giving him untargetability so often is beyond annoying. This champion was seeminglybuilt for this game mode.
1Lucian
The Purifier
URF Lucian needs no introduction, really. Imagine having an ADC that can poke, has a permanently available dash, deals absurd damage and who can also build bruiser. That is what Lucian is in URF, and that’s why heis the most OPchampion in the game-mode.
He can go attack speed with crit, use an energized build around Voltaic Cyclosword, or use a tankier build around Iceborn Gauntlet. He has little to no downsides, and is good at every stage of the game.
