TIER 3 RUNES ARE WAY TOO EXPENSIVE AND TIER 1 & 2 RUNES ARE USELESS!

MoonMoh·5/13/2016, 2:24:30 AM·13 votes·2,853 views

So the other day, I got into Akali, I really like her and am considering maining her. I played a lot of normal 5v5 games with her before considering ranked, so I go prepare by creating masteries and runes just for her. The masteries were fun to make, but the runes on the other hand weren't. I planned to have Greater Quintessence of Spellvamp x3 (2050 Ip each), Greater Seal of Energy Scaling Regeneration x9 (820 Ip each), Greater Glyph of Energy x9 (820 Ip each), and Greater Mark of Hybrid Penetration x9 (820 Ip each). All these runes have a combined cost of 28290 Ip which definitely not cheap and maybe even a waste of time. With this amount of Ip, I could easily get up to 29 champions. In order to get this much Ip, it would take me 283 games (assuming that I'd get 100 Ip from each one). Since the average summoner's rift game is around 35 minutes for me, it would take me about 9905 minutes / 165 hours / 7 days / 1 week worth of gameplay to get this much Ip. However, when you consider the fact that I only play about 5 hours of LOL each day, then it would take me exactly 34 days (Just over a month) to earn enough Ip for this one rune page (excluding the cost of the additional rune page). Another problem I see with runes is that nobody (I know) ever buys tier 1 and 2 runes because they see tier 3 runes and decide it's a better deal to just save up for them and wait until they are level 30, so nobody ever gets them. If I were to attempt and solve this problem, I would suggest taking away the tier 1 and 2 runes, leaving just the tier 3 runes which would be available at every level. However to avoid imbalance, the price of these runes would be as expensive as they are now, and as soon as you reach level 30, the cost of every rune is halved.

13 Comments

DorkunedAuras5/14/2016, 4:38:38 AM2 votes

I'm just gonna give some advice here. Energy runes are a noob trap. Energy champs are balanced very precisely around having a manageable energy system. While hybrid pen runes are solid, getting energy/energy regen is just not worth it. It's better to get a few offenses/defenses over energy.

Same thing with Spellvamp, getting 6% spell vamp early is near useless and akali gets a lot from her passive + gunblade anyway, that if you really want early sustain, get AD quints to work off your passive. Might be slightly less vamp, but you'll get actual power from it.

Sylverblitz5/13/2016, 3:48:16 AM2 votes

Later this month all tier 2 runes will be going to 1 IP each available at level 1 and tier 1 will be going completely. I would like to see tier 3 drop more in price but until then the tier 2 will be a lot more appealing while you save and hope for a drop of the others.

snipex605/14/2016, 2:24:03 AM2 votes

I agree. Runes are actually very expensive. Most of the people i play need different rune pages and saving up for a huge amount of ip is just not worth the time. I think the prices should be lowered for a more balanced game.

RealToxicVibe5/13/2016, 2:27:52 AM2 votes

This is so true. I main katarina and building just 1 page for her is a huge pain in the ass. Runes are just bullsh*t in my opinion.

FourVsFive5/13/2016, 3:04:56 AM2 votes

Make more sense to make all runes cost the same, I say make all Tier 3 runes cost 300ip and quints 900 ip. Simple easy and affordable. Point being all 9xsets (or 3xquints) will cost 2,700ip, instead of ranging from 1,900 to 7,300 ip.

Lycanoon5/13/2016, 2:34:03 AM1 votes

I would suggest using your available 2 rune pages for universal setups... I mean...I'm a F2P as far as this game goes, and it works out pretty well in my favor.

Pg. 1 for Ranger/Melee/Tank types Pg. 2 for AP or Hybrids

Masteries are easy to flick the switch to if ya got a mouse wheel... coughs

As far as the cost of runes...yea, they suck. BUT! they're reducing the price of T2 runes to 1 IP each so you will see a LOT of up and coming lvl 18 - 30s using t2 runes... I know I will be using those "trashy" runes til I have enough for my T3 setups.

DragonShea5/13/2016, 6:57:30 AM1 votes

just wait until the 18 of may.

Errastas5/13/2016, 3:33:45 AM1 votes

Put in the time like everyone else. They're a permanent boost to your character and useable on multiple champs. Long term investment.

Also probably around 100-150ish games for 30k ip and if it's too slow, speed it up with an ip boost.