The painful reality of blue essence.

Quite simply. the season 8 system sucks.

As all of you probably know, you earn blue essence now from disenchanting champion shards you get from leveling up or the occasional chest. This has become the primary way of obtaining the primary component in keeping this game interesting for players on the rise and newer players in general. The appeal of League of Legends is trying new things and finding out what works for you. However, it's kind of hard to try new things when it is nearly impossible.

Side note: This isn't including the 1-30 rewards. This is focusing on the people who started S8 at level 30.

Here's some quick maths: Looking back on my victories and losses in my match history (excluding first win of the day bonuses (ill get to it later)), I had about a 50/50 win loss ratio, which is typical for most players. When averaging out the experience, I got 190 exp average per game I played. After level 30, it takes 3300 (rounded up) to level up. So if you wanted to level up in one day, Including the first win of the day bonus which is about 640 exp, earning an average of 190 exp from a 50/50 win loss ratio, it would take 15 games in 1 day to level up. Of course, some people win more, so lets just lower that average down to 10 games to be very generous. The average silver games takes approximately 30 minutes (rounded up from 28:35) to complete. That would mean it would take approximately** 5 hours a day ** to level up. If that's not bad enough, you get a champion capsule with RNG champ shards and essence. Some people get really lucky and get 6300 essence champs to turn to blue essence, but for the majority of people, that doesn't really happen. You're able to get up to 5 champion shards per capsule, but you're way more likely to get fewer. so lets say you're really really REALLY lucky and you get 3 shards for 270 essence each. That equals 810 essence a capsule. So far, it takes us 5 hours to level up, and you get 810 essence per level up. In order to buy riven, when the RNG is mostly in your favor, it'll take you 30 hours (split over 6 days to get that sweet first win of the day) to unlock one champ that costs 4800. However, nobody is this lucky and we get 90 essence champions all the time.

TL;DR: I've been farming essence for weeks now to buy riven, and in the meantime i've played roughly 60 games in February, and I'm only at 4200 essence. I hate this.