Small Change that could make level up capsules not feel so shitty
Right now the system is tuned to give you around 810 BE total in value out of every box. Which means you will always get the same champs/shards in every box as it is CLEAR the system is tuned to keep the value of the capsule near this every time.
It is usually some combination of 450 IP champs and maybe one or two 1350 champs. this is an eye roller most of the time as you get ryze/garen/annie/poppy/ etc over and over. That feels awful. Because one of the cool parts of the system is IF you are lucky enough to get a champ you want to upgrade in the capsule you CAN upgrade it for cheaper.
But the system right now is clearly tuned to never give out 4800 IP and above champs except from what I hear are "milestone levels" which to me is total shit.
There should at least be SOME chance you get a good shard out of a regular level up. Here's my suggestion:
When you open up your capsule it is set to only have one champ shard initially. If that champ shard is a 4800 or 6300 champ then that's the only shard you get. This shard alone is already more valuable by 150 than the baseline it usually gives so giving you more than one shard would be unnecessary. If it is not a 4800 or 6300 champ then it just defaults to the base line of giving you 810 or whatever the minimum is. (810 seems to be it for me)
What this does is it adds some excitement to opening up a capsule. Let's say you really want one of the newer cool champs? Or even just a more popular champ like Yasuo. You now have a chance at every level up to get one. It may be smaller. It may only happen every few levels, but it can and will happen.
Right now I have leveled up to almost 40 and gotten only one shard worth a 3150 IP champ. That's inexcusable in my opinion as the level up system now feels awful. It basically means the one exciting and fun way to grind out new champs "get them at a discount MAYBE if you are lucky" isn't really there. You know you are never going to get that champ except at milestone levels which takes forever to grind to. I don't mind how slow leveling is. I don't mind how little I Get per level, but not having ANY chance at anything newer or good is just really really shitty to me.
A good example is I'm an adc main and a lot of the adcs are 4800 +. Vayne, Xayah, Kog'Maw, Lucian, etc. This means that I will never randomly get one except for at mile stone levels which is a joke.
Please just give us a decent even if relatively small chance to get a good champ out of every level up. and if the occasional time we get one if its a champ we want, we can sit on it and upgrade it for a little bit cheaper so the system doesn't always feel garbage like it does now.
I actually think the system could be good because of the discount on upgrading a champ shard you have compared to its actual price, but with the guarantee I will keep getting a ton of 450 and 1350 IP champ shards that excitement quickly goes away.