Riot, 1 Chest Per Champion Is Out Of Sense

Bauble··1 votes·832 views

For me and similar people who can only afford 0-2 games per day it is important that those particular 2 games are fun. But how can it be fun when I'm forced to play champions I don't like only because of chest? Playing a champion you like couple times, getting chest and then saying 'good bye' to him till the next year is very, very, VERY frustrating experience. Playing champions you like and knowing that you lose chests because of that feels relatively sad. Its just lose-lose choice.

You can say it was done to prevent people sticking to 1 champion and playing him all the time, that's good. Let's say I play 6-8, and I got chests with all of them, then what? I'm still forced to play champions I don't like after that, 85% of the year. So how many champions a player is supposed to like according to Riot? 20? 48?

Seriously, such an unexpected and painful design mistake from such an experienced and respected developer. I'm playing since S2 (euw) and this is the very worst period of league for me personally. Just because of the simple thing described above. Honestly, it was so much better without all this 'free' Hextech stuff. We don't need 'free' things at the cost of turning game experience into frustration, Riot.

11 Comments

POV w Kat2 votes

Considering that they are giving us free stuff, it's really not out of sense.

Bauble1 votes

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Considering that they are giving us free stuff, it's really not out of sense.

It is, for people who don't like to miss free stuff (~all) but can only play 0-2 games per day (~some). Why did they forget about us? We are players too, we buy their stuff and like their game.

The Deckowner2 votes

You dont have to get hextech chest to have fun.

DrCyanide1 votes

No, you're forced to play champions that you don't know that you like yet :)

Zerolera1 votes

How are you being forced? You want chests which represent free things which Riot is not at all forced to give you.

Pheonixwish1 votes

I think the argument for this is that if you only like a certain small pool of champs, you don't have much use for other champions skins...or other champions at all. While opening chests is fun, it's more geared to "collector" players than specialized players like us ^^

Of course, this might change if the mastery 6 and 7 updates are allowed to pass.

Bauble1 votes

{quoted} Of course, this might change if the mastery 6 and 7 updates are allowed to pass.

And what are Mastery 6 and 7 about? Never heard of them honestly -.-

Pheonixwish1 votes

Well, they're a continuation of the champion mastery system already in place. Apparently you will need to score an S rank in order to obtain champ-specific hextech tokens. Then you will need to combine those tokens with some champion essence and champion shards iirc. If you only open a few chests per season because you don't play many champions, then you can never get those ranks.

Fovere1 votes

Personally I love an excuse to play different champions.

Wish the keys were a bit easier to get tho

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

Screw around with different champions in Featured Game Modes, then.

Also, you're not forced to go for chests. Play whatever you find fun, the hextech system is just a bonus.

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