Suggestions: Allow players try out all heroes in the Practice Tool.

I'm relatively new to the game. I've been playing since early this year and started playing ranked last month.

It took a little while for me to actually start enjoying the game and the only reason I'm still playing the game (and really enjoying it) is because friends forced me to play to some extent. A large part of the reason I found it hard to enjoy the game when I started is because of how incredibly unfavourable the game is if you're new and there are a plethora of ways this is the case:

1. Summoner Spells being locked out to low level players. When I first played against someone with flash with no access to the spell myself I was really frustrated. It just wasn't fair. I don't think making Summoner Spells rewards for levelling up is a good idea. These feel like core gameplay features not rewards like loot crates can be.

2. Runes (which I'm glad are being updated) which put veteran players at an immediate advantage before a game has even begun - to be honest I'm still affected by this in my games.

3. The abilities and playstyles of champions that I have no way of truly understanding until I've both encountered them and had an opportunity to play them myself. I like the diversity of the game that having so many champions provides, but written descriptions of champions' abilities is insufficient if you want to learn how to play around them. An example for this I'll give is Katarina. I've watched her abilities on her description page and read up about her but still don't really know how to play against her because I've never played her. And this is where my suggestion lies.

It would be a great help if it were possible to try out all heroes in the Practice Tool. This serves a two-fold purpose. I can both determine which champions I want to purchase and I can get familiar with the mechanics of champions that I regularly encounter. I am much more inclined to purchase a champion I have tried out than buying one blindly. It's too much of a stab in the dark. Sure, some champions sound like they'd appeal to my playstyle greatly, but this isn't necessarily the case. I bought Bard with RP not long ago because he seemed cool but when I played him I didn't enjoy it. I have since refunded him, but the system isn't exactly refund friendly so I can't do that every time I want to try something out which makes me really hesitant to purchase champions in the future.

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I know the free week champions exist but having to wait 2 months+ for a champion I desire to try out to enter the rotation is a bit much.

I would appreciate if my perspective as someone new to the game is taken into consideration because I understand Riot is seeking to appeal to newer players by doing things like reform the runes system; I feel this could be an improvement to further support that.