Acquiring new champions is arguably even more difficult than last season. Here's an idea.

Medamaude··5 votes·425 views

I feel like blue essence and IP gains have been too low since season 2, especially for newer players. Last season, buying a single 6300 IP champion would require nearly around 60 games if they were all victories, more with defeats mixed in. That's a lot for a regular player. Imagine how daunting it must be for newcomers.

With the new system, I honestly feel it's even more difficult to get new champions. You have to get lucky enough to draw expensive champions, or champions you want to own. And even if you're lucky enough to draw a champ you like, you still have to pay for it with precious, rare blue essence.

I have an idea, why not let players choose 1 champion to keep from the free week rotation? I think that's very reasonable, it's enough to give players a little incentive to keep playing, but not too much to be abused and lower your sales (which let's admit is a big reason why champions are hard to obtain). It's a good idea in my opinion, thoughts?

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Automated Riven4 votes

I swear to god I am gonna make a brand new account and spam games until I unlock everything and see how long it takes. It's so much faster now then it used to be. When I started it took me three years to unlock every champion. And I started in season 1. And then I unlocked everything on release as I still do. You need people don't even know what's good when you don't have to spend 300k IP on runes (which used to get reworked every preseason forcing you to buy the new good ones)

MohawkBird1 votes

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Automated Riven1 votes

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It's only faster if you are newer to the game. Once you get past around level 40 or so it becomes much harder.

Until you count the loss of rune purchases and the reduced price if you have a champ shard. Then suddenly its significantly cheaper. Keep the circlejerk alive and well tho. It may work out for you.

Steamed Spinach2 votes

I like it. I'm a low level player so I can't say for sure, but it's so hard getting new champs for me that I expect it's the same for lvl 30+ players too.

Fndrunk2 votes

I think it's faster now than it was before, however, I do believe more needs to be done if Riot wants to recruit new players and keep them. Right now it doesn't feel worth my time to do more than the first win of the day. Even then, it's not worth the time to do anything harder than intro AI on twisted treeline. Playing an actual pvp match yields such a menial amount more per game than an AI match that it's just not worth the extra 30 minutes of playtime. I think we need to see an increase in xp/be per game for pvp. Perhaps if instead of a chance to loot several champion shards, you just had a chance to loot a champion, no strings attached. I personally would be more inclined to play a different hero if I knew I owned that hero and could play them whenever I wanted.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votes

As an otp i really don't care about essence sh*t and all but.... I ******* don't agree with these post crying about new system. With the new system i get fastly many new champ.

Kaìju1 votes

Champions go on BE sale.

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