User:EmmalineZaelynn/sandbox

Game-play modes
On April 1st, 2014, Riot Games released a video preview of a new game-play mode, Ultra Rapid Fire, which was to be implemented in the next preseason. This was their April Fool's joke to their players. The unrealistic changes included the elimination of resource management, adjustments to many items and abilities, as well as the removal of two champions, and three others being nerved. The resources that were said to no longer need management because of their omission from the game completely were mana and energy. Both of these had hindered the speed at which players could cast abilities if not managed properly and this affected the happiness of the players so they were ousted. The types of adjustments to items and abilities that were put into action involved both short- and long-ranged champions to be fair. The loss of mana and energy restrictions justified an 80% cool-down reduction upon entering the match. For those that did not benefit from this, like marksmen types, they were given twice the amount of attack speed to compensate. Also, for ranged champions, they had added a 25% critical strike damage bonus at the beginning of each game. The two champions sentenced to exile were Kassadin and Ryze. Kassadin was at least given a reason as to why he was taken out, which was based on the amount of global data bans in ranked games. As for Ryze, no explanation had been mentioned. The three champions that were nerved comprised of Shaco, Teemo, and Zilean. For Zilean, his Rewind ability got nerved because it could revive three or four teammates per use. That many teammates would include most or all of the team. There were also no indications on what was changed about this ability either. One of the last things shown that definitely screamed fake was the fact that the logo at the end of the video says Rito Games, not Riot Games. On April 2nd, 2014, Riot Games had their news section of the website updated with a blog stating that this was not to be the future of the game but that this was pretty funny. Although, this was not to be a real new game-play mode, they released it as a temporary play option to try out from April 1st to April 7th, 2014.