Riot pauses support for URF, Ultimate Spellbook, and others to go all in on new deathmatch mode

For many League of Legends players, the rotating game mode schedule has turned into an indicator of when URF is active. This year, Riot Games intends to change that by introducing a new mode to the playerbase. Unfortunately, the cost of a new game mode in League is putting support for the game’s existing modes—URF, Ultimate Spellbook, and One for All—on a tempory hold. 

This summer, League will introduce a 2v2v2v2 deathmatch mode. This mode is expected to take up a lot of developmental resources from League’s game modes team, so players shouldn’t expect any major updates to the modes that are already in place until the back-half of this year.