League Of Legends brings back Pick URF today and starts the Pulsefire event

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League Of Legends brings back Pick URF today and starts the Pulsefire eventURF is back, and this time it’s… balanced?

URF is back, and this time it’s… balanced?

The wacky Pick URF mode returns toLeague Of Legendstonight for another few weeks, once again turbocharging wizards' abilities for intense MOBA murders. It’s pretty popular. Today’s also the start of Pulsefire 2020, a timecop-themed event with missions, cosmetic rewards, new paid skins, and a messy blast of other loot.

Ultra Rapid Fire mode cuts casting costs from abilities, greatly reduces cooldowns, gives more gold, puts cannons in your base to fire yourself out far, and generally leads to intense ability-spamming murder. It has been weird for League. It started as an April Fool’s gag in 2010, it was so popular Riot kept bringing it back, but it became too popular and caused actual problems for the game.

It’s often been seen as All Random URF, where the game randomly assigns a wizard for you to play. This here is Pick URF, where people have a say and will doubtless flock towards the best wizards. Trying to keep things in line, Riot have nerfed and buffed a load of wizards for URF’s return. As if URF can be balanced? See thepatch 10.10 notesfor full details of those changes.

Then there’s Pulsefire 2020. This event is built around the latest batch of Pulsefire skins, which have some sort of dystopian future cyborg timecop theme. Sure. The Pulsefire Lucian, Ekko, Fiora, and Pantheon skins will cost 1350 RP (£9) each, though loads of Pulsefire cosmetic bits and crafting materials can be bought with tokens earned in the event.

Riot are also selling a Pulsefire Pass where you can earn extra tokens and points and essences and emotes and bits. Look, it’s messy, so I’ll point you totheir big event page.

Both Pick URF and Pulsefire 2020 will kick off at 9pm tonight (1pm Pacific). Pick URF will vanish at 7:59am on June 5th. Pulsefire 2020 will run until 7:59am on June 16th, then you’ll have until June 30th to redeem tokens for event goodies.