Rent a champion?

BlackMatt13·Jun 25, 2015·27 votes·2,481 views

All i want to say is that i believe we should have to option of renting a champion. I dont have any prices in mind but i feel an option to rent for (x) amount of games, (x) amount of days or an even cheaper option to rent a champion for a single game against bots. I feel this is just what the league community needs as we will get a feel for new champions and weather or not we should buy. Another idea could be, every month or so, we get to unlock a free champion that then we swap the next month. This basically gives us the chance to choose the free champion rotation, while still keeping it at a balance.

34 Comments

Silents429Jun 26, 20156 votes

That's free week.

Meeks011Jun 26, 20152 votes

Though you can only rent the champion you want one every 3 months.

Silents429Jun 26, 20151 votes

Then buy the friggin champion?

MVDuneCatsJun 26, 20153 votes

Which totally defeats the purpose of "try before you buy".

"I don't want to buy Shaco until I can try him first." "That's what free week is for." "But he hasn't been in free week for 5 months now." "Then buy him."

Yep, totally fixes everything.

Silents429Jun 26, 20151 votes

You can't muster up 3150 IP?

And since OP hasn't bothered giving prices on this, no fair price to rent exists, this is the nature of the games free to play model, we grind up to buy what we want, there are dozens of ways to find out if you will like a champion without playing them.

MVDuneCatsJun 26, 20151 votes

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You can't muster up 3150 IP?

You could say the exact same thing for 6300 IP. If you don't think the game needs a try-before-you-buy feature, then just say that from the start.

Heckin SupportJun 26, 20152 votes

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You can't muster up 3150 IP?

And since OP hasn't bothered giving prices on this, no fair price to rent exists, this is the nature of the games free to play model, we grind up to buy what we want, there are dozens of ways to find out if you will like a champion without playing them.

That's not the point. What if they buy it, hate the champion? Thats 3150 IP down the drain they could of used on someone they'd actually like to own.

Silents429Jun 26, 20151 votes

Then they buy a new champion. It's just IP.

Puri Puri TaricJun 26, 20152 votes

ip points are so easily gathered its laughable that people still dont have every champ bought with ip like me.

ImpossibleGTJun 26, 20151 votes

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ip points are so easily gathered its laughable that people still dont have every champ bought with ip like me.

Basically what I was going to say, but with less tact. I long ago bought every champion I was actually interested in. It really doesn't take that long to build a large pool of IP if you play regularly. If you're worried about not liking a new champion, ask around whenever you see one in your game or check out videos on YouTube.

R2D20Jun 25, 20154 votes

Isn't this what free week is for...?

karkaniJun 25, 20152 votes

but they always include ashe or garen or those 450ip champ which is stupid and take up space, and most of the time you usually have most of the 8 champs in free week which makes free week kinda useless most of the time

IS1a442cd69a169ed293a39Jun 26, 20151 votes

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but they always include ashe or garen or those 450ip champ which is stupid and take up space, and most of the time you usually have most of the 8 champs in free week which makes free week kinda useless most of the time

but 2week after the new champ released

MVDuneCatsJun 26, 20152 votes

Free week serves multiples purposes. If it only served the purpose of "try before you buy", then it would make sense to remove the 450 IP champs from it. But because Riot wants to include at least some of the easier to play champs for newer players, that's not going to happen.

Part of the reason Ashe shows up so often in free week is that the pool of ADC champs is so much smaller than mid, top and jungle. The pool of support champs is also very small. The pool of champs for Mid, Top and Jungle are at least 50% larger than the pool of ADCs and Supports. Because of that, I'd like to see a 50% increase in the number of Mid, Top and Jungle champs in the free rotations. In other words, add 1 more of each, for a total of 13 champs on free week.

That mitigates the problem to some degree. Though it still doesn't entirely deal with the fact that players are forced into trying out champs on Riots schedule, rather than their own. In general, I'm not a fan of when games dictate when I should play a certain way. For example, if I see a champ on free week that doesn't show up as a free champ all that often, I feel like I have to try playing them this week even if I don't really feel like it. If I don't, I may not get another chance for quite a few months.

It's something I've tolerated so far, especially considering it's the only way that LoL forces me into playing the game in a way I might not otherwise play. Heroes of the Storm, which has been pointed to in this thread as a model of good design, pushes you into playing certain champs on certain days. Want to do daily quests for gold to unlock Heroes? You might be forced into playing a hero type that you don't enjoy, or from a group of heroes that you don't like. With LoL, the equivalent is the first win bonus, which is far more flexible.

iMaXiMiLLiJun 26, 20151 votes

but when the week is over (unless you play LoL all day every day) you probably don't have enough IP to buy a champ you enjoy.

ReinartJun 25, 20153 votes

Yes, but only if it was IP based.

Snake TownJun 26, 20153 votes

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/ac/acc92f8954b5af56dc292d3246d5b35d2064dd084dc930813891520f0c29fed3.jpg

TaricrageousJun 26, 20153 votes

I actually like Heroes of the Storm's "Try champion" option. You can try any champion in a custom game, control the minions (you can enable and disable them) you can level yourself with one click and so on. I wish Riot had that, too.

ShaftyMegeeJun 26, 20151 votes

It's not even a custom game though, it puts you inot the tutorial with the champ you're trying. Though still better than not having a try out button

BeatzBoyFTWJun 26, 20152 votes

Well this is one way to get Yorick into the free week rotation.

Boards be like, full of "Yorick needs buff/nerf/rework" threads.

ChaoticPineconeJun 26, 20152 votes

i thought trying champions was what free week was for.

And people might say that renting champions is an IP dump similar to tier 1/2 runes (i assume that it would be IP based, since you can just unlock the champ with RP anyway). Its not worth renting a champion for 10 games when you can put that IP to unlocking the champion permanently. Its nice to have when youre low on IP to try out champs, but in the long run it puts you even further behind.

TotalJerkJun 25, 20151 votes

A long time ago it was doable in other regions. The issue was that there was a backlash when they suggested introducing it to NA.

theragingnerdJun 25, 20151 votes

YES I GET TO PLAY THEM WITHOUT WAITING 14 WEEKS FOR THE UNPOPULAR CHAMPIONS

thepay3Jun 25, 20151 votes

bump

RoyaiChaosJun 26, 20151 votes

inb4 people complain that Riot just wants more money if they make this.

The Bard DogJun 26, 20151 votes

Heroes of the storm already does this. but you don't have to rent the heroes. you get to try them for free. but riot will never do that. and that's why in the long run heroes will be the MUCH better game. there's also no noob traps like rune pages, runes, and 2 year old champions that still cost 4800 ip

iMaXiMiLLiJun 26, 20151 votes

I would love this considering how annoying it is to grind for 6300 IP and I am not a big fan of spending money on the game

FastAsHeckJun 26, 20151 votes

meanwhile in heroes of the storm you can try every single champion for free with bots

MacDthreeJun 26, 20151 votes

If Riot were to start making it where people could cheaply test champions, they'd see the actual purchase of champions fall way of in my opinion. I have several friends I play with, that seriously do not care who they play. They are pretty decent with most everybody. And they would absolutely take advantage of that. Why ever buy udyr if you can rent him 4 times in a row for the same price and then switch to another champ?

MathbalnaseJun 26, 20151 votes

Because in the long run (if the system is implemented competently), it would still be cheaper to buy than to rent.

AnubhyzJun 26, 20151 votes

I think for like a buck you should be able to rent champion for x period of days. So that before you spend any real money on a champ that you think looks fun youll get a chance to see if its actually along your play style. Ive bought champs that i thought looked like they would be fun, or i would like the mechanic behind that i will never play again.

BlackMatt13Jun 26, 20151 votes

All of you saying this is what free week is for, i understand apart from the point that we don't choose what champs are in free week. This is where my second idea comes in, where every, lets say month, we choose 1 champion to unlock for free, then the next month that champion becomes locked again and we choose a different one. This lets us try out a new champion that we decide we might want to buy.