The Shop and Item Sets
Item sets are great for new players get familiar with items and make a game plan before the game while still in league of legends. That's Grrrrrrreat!
What does it offer to more experienced players? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa itsy, bitsy, teenie, weenie, yellow polka-dot Bi-barely anything.
More experienced players most of the time are familiar with the items already, honestly they even prefer all items with or without categories vs an item set. Why? Because most cases our builds are dynamic, changing to the games situational needs. In this case, the only good item set, is a set with all the items in the champions class; ie APC, ADC, ect. What could be possibly done to make it more worthwhile? Well you could make champions that require super hardline builds or
Make a "buy set" button to buy all the items in a subcategory(like starting items) in the shop. The game will purchase left to right, making a sort of "que", so if I have 3 items in my subcategory and can only afford the far left and centre item it will prioritize those. Also be sure that the undo function works with this purchase, and the items you want excluded Riot, like a elixirs or homeguard, are not refundable even when purchased in this manner.
This will primarily help early game, when 10 seconds makes a difference when getting to the jungle, or back to lane, because those 10 seconds can mean losing enough creeps and BAM, guess who hit level 6 first? NOT YOU. Mid and late game usually give you enough time not only to manualy buy items, but go ahead and have a debate on what to get. Furthermore buying the pots is raaaaaaaaaaaddddddddd annoying, the game cant handle quick buys sometimes, especially with pots and wards.