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My Thoughts On Runes

Baipe··1 votes·126 views

League of Legends is a very competitive game, and very fun at the same time. Unfortunately, having runes costing as much IP as they do, does not max out the competitiveness, and joy of the game. The reason is, to be able to play competitively(ranked) you NEED to have the correct runes. So, if a new player wanted to start to play competitively, first they would need the minimum champion pool of 16. Which, if you don't have time to play more than 3 games a day, will take a long time. Then, you need the runes which cost 1050-2050 IP each x 6, because you must have ap and ad runes to be able to try out new champions. Also, I am not including an additional support rune page and glyph/seals/marks. So, assuming someone bought all the 450/1350 champs and only a full ad page it would take forever for a casual player to play the game competitively. Overall, there needs to be a decrease in rune costs or even make them free to play any champion how you feel fit, to make the game more competitive and fun :).

3 Comments

Gary B Enkelis4 votes

I agree that tier 3 runes are needed to be competitive, but tier 2 runes are better than nothing and 1 ip each.

Riot also is aware that Runes need addressing and something like it's not very good if people just copy the best pages and that's it (I forget if they said something like this)

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/q/ask-riot-runes-splash-art-and-buttons

I don't remember the current costs but some tier 3 runes were made cheaper because they're popular. I dunno. Not enough maybe.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

you can play any champ with one of two basic rune pages... one for ad and one for ap you dont have to have 20 runes pages....

ad page 9 flat ad reds 9 flat armor yellows 3 ad quints 9 flat mr blues

ap page 9 flat magic pen rds 9 armor yellows 3 ap quints 9 flat mr blues

those are basic and you can get by with those while you build up IP for other runes.

the reason runes cost IP and you need IP to get them is cuz if you didnt and you used all IP on champs only then no one would buy RP to buy champs therefore RIOT makes less $. if you want runes for free then RIOT will just get rid of IP and make the only way to get champs is via RP

Baipe1 votes

Yes, I realized this a while back, but I think sacrificing a little money to make the game easier for beginners would even out the money in the long run, because it would probably bring in more players which means more money. Plus, most of the money spent on RP is for skins.

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