Riot please consider Champion Tryouts!

GreenknightSea·May 10, 2016·3 votes·461 views

Riot would you please consider adding a "Try out" option on each champion's profile that allows you to play them in either a custom game, or maybe cost a little IP to play that champion in 1 game. The reason for this is because I always find myself wanting to buy another champion, but not knowing who I want to buy next. It would be nice to try out a champion's abilities to see how they relate to the champions I already play, and their individual description doesn't really allow you to see how the champion responds on the map. Who knows maybe you could even charge a little RP to tryout that champion for a week, and would go toward the cost of buying the champion in the future. Thank you for reading and considering this.

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3 Comments

ADCsBabysítterMay 10, 20161 votes

2 words: Free rotation

QuephaMay 10, 20162 votes

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2 words: Free rotation

I don't think that's a really sufficient solution. Free rotation feels fine for any time you're playing with/against other players, but just for testing out champions it seems like a mode with no other players and only bots would allow players to look at the abilities of champs they'll have to play against or try out.

Consider also the 'premium' period for new champs where they cost 7800 IP, clearly that is the point where players are most incentivized to buy a champ with RP, but they don't actually have a way to find out if they even want the champion, a simple custom game could actually improve Riot's RP sales of new champions because players won't be waiting until after the first free week when the IP price has been reduced to normal and they are less likely to spend RP.

GreenknightSeaMay 11, 20161 votes

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I don't think that's a really sufficient solution. Free rotation feels fine for any time you're playing with/against other players, but just for testing out champions it seems like a mode with no other players and only bots would allow players to look at the abilities of champs they'll have to play against or try out.

Consider also the 'premium' period for new champs where they cost 7800 IP, clearly that is the point where players are most incentivized to buy a champ with RP, but they don't actually have a way to find out if they even want the champion, a simple custom game could actually improve Riot's RP sales of new champions because players won't be waiting until after the first free week when the IP price has been reduced to normal and they are less likely to spend RP.

That is exactly what I'm talking about! Thank you for elaborating.