Let us change summoner spells and runes on first shop

phpBP·11/28/2019, 8:56:50 AM·1 votes·1,090 views

It's one thing to lose on champion select because your team individually clicked LOCK IN for an inferior team composition, and the rest of the team didn't dodge as a result.

It's another thing when you are last pick, your pick is taken, you make a last second champion change, you go look runes up, take half a second too long to confirm changes... and you get the default inspiration rune page instead, and that's basically lane over if you're a laner and game over if you're not. Similarly if you forgot to swap smite from your previous match (though your team is able to warn you about it).

Runes and spells you don't lock into; those things you're locked into. They can lose the whole team games in entirely preventable ways. Yes, it's true, you can play around your surprise runes and spells (consider that actually seeing your runeset is hidden behind a fairly obscure keybind or bit of the interface). But, this is much more commonly the source of tilt and frustration and inting and raging and flaming.

It really doesn't have to be this way. So long I doesn't leave the podium, please let me change runes and summoner spells from the shop. If it really needs be, if you really think that this sort of mistake should have some form of in-game consequence, make it cost 25 gold to change spells and 25 gold to change runes so you end up behind on potions instead of being behind on stats.

5 Comments

Veloz Destello11/28/2019, 9:09:44 AM2 votes

So basically you are telling me that I cannot build at lvl 1 according to which playstile I think you are going to take because you are not able to pick runes properly in the 5 minutes the champion select lasts?

blindasleep11/28/2019, 9:22:10 AM1 votes

Would be really hard to implement, and besides if someone does an unusual/niche build or you run an ineffective one they should be rewarded and you should take what you can from the situation as a learning experience, and try to overcome it. If you succeed you can take pride in your ability and if you fail you know it's something to look out for in the future.

phpBP11/28/2019, 11:47:33 PM1 votes

Veloz does have a point — you should be able to choose between item 1055 or item 1054, between item 3850 or item 3858 depending on your matchup, and runes/spells are part of it

In fairness, the emergency eject button from champion select does exist, and it's dodging. Maybe there should just be an additional five second between things locking in and the game starting for you to make that decision?

At the same time there are other reasons why dodging is shitty — you'll probably be put in a brand new lobby with many of the same people who will likely now ban your pick, etc.

I think all in all the best option is to allow this at first shop but make it cost gold to do this, so long as you still have enough money to buy the support starting item…