I feel like after a games been out for 8.5 years, they should make it easier to get champions, not harder. Let me say, I love the new runes, and the champion shards is a COOL concept. But the way its working out.. the essense gain just isnt worth it. I'm already lvl 42 and i havnt been able to buy many champs despite playing so many games. Others agree?
i cant move wtf3 votesI do not like it with a shard, I do not want to buy Urgot, I do not want to even try it, I do not like blue essence, Riot
Mysticman892 votesI mean. It's objectively faster to get champions. It certainly feels slower, but data and math pretty consistently show it's faster now on average as long as you're not one of those people playing 8+ games per day.
bloodthug2 votesi play a lot more than 8+ per day and it definatly is slower even at 6-8
Mysticman891 votesMore than 8 might be slower although it's probably closer than you think.
But its provably faster below that, albeit not by much (unless you count how it's cheaper to get champs by upgrading shards rather than buying them directly, in which case the cut off point for faster is harder to define but more than 8).
Proxy3452 votesEach 40 minute match used to give at least 100IP so it was really easy to get a 6300IP champ after binge playing for awhile. Normal matches to be exact because those are typically longer anyways. I know this by having played over 2000 normal matches already since S2 lol
DemonBoneJangles1 votespersonally the fact that now the champions you own are almost directly tied to your summoner level will quickly force this game into a pay to win game by making the higher tiered champions harder to get for anyone not able to play more than 1-3 matches a day