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Tahil·12/5/2014, 11:18:00 PM·6 votes·795 views

So i automatically know that this is going to get alot of hate responses from people but im going to post this anyway.

Am i the only one who thinks that riot should give out more ip for won/lost games. I just started playing probably 3-4 months ago and i find it very and i mean very hard to catch up to people who have been playing since season 1 who have almost every champ bought or those who are at the point where they can just buy new champs as soon as they come out because they have thousands of ip stored up from not using any of it.

Most of the fun/interesting/good champs are 3150 and above and ive been noticing a pattern of how the games go. If you win depending on how long the games last you can get anywhere between 80 to i think the most i got was 130 ip after the win of the day bonus. at that rate getting the least amount for a win in order to buy a champ at 3150 you would have to play at least 40 games and double that if you want to get a 6300 champ. Now the other side. if you loose you are getting between 50-85 ip depending on how long the game lasts. So once again if you lost every game at 50 ip a game you have to play 63 games to buy a champ at 3150 and once again double that to buy anything at 6300 and above.

As i said before this game has been out for long enough that people who are the elitist and really good players already have what they want and it dosnt really matter but for the little guys like me who are just starting out it sucks trying to catch up.

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Nkeyo12/6/2014, 12:19:56 AM5 votes

So i automatically know that this is going to get alot of hate responses from people but im going to post this anyway.

Am i the only one who thinks that riot should give out more ip for won/lost games. I just started playing probably 3-4 months ago and i find it very and i mean very hard to catch up to people who have been playing since season 1 who have almost every champ bought or those who are at the point where they can just buy new champs as soon as they come out because they have thousands of ip stored up from not using any of it.

Most of the fun/interesting/good champs are 3150 and above and ive been noticing a pattern of how the games go. If you win depending on how long the games last you can get anywhere between 80 to i think the most i got was 130 ip after the win of the day bonus. at that rate getting the least amount for a win in order to buy a champ at 3150 you would have to play at least 40 games and double that if you want to get a 6300 champ. Now the other side. if you loose you are getting between 50-85 ip depending on how long the game lasts. So once again if you lost every game at 50 ip a game you have to play 63 games to buy a champ at 3150 and once again double that to buy anything at 6300 and above.

As i said before this game has been out for long enough that people who are the elitist and really good players already have what they want and it dosnt really matter but for the little guys like me who are just starting out it sucks trying to catch up.

In the beginning, the grind sucks, but as you progress and expand your pool to being "good enough", then you stop paying so much attention to it. I usually make it to 4k IP before I realize how much I have, and I'm still missing 30 champs or so. The more you play (and the less you're focused on just trying new champs), the less agonizing the grind for new champions gets; focus on improving your skills and you'll have all the IP you need before you know it.

Dateline NBC12/5/2014, 11:20:05 PM2 votes

I believe the ip grind is fine. If you enjoy the game, you will not mind it that much once you find a champ you really like. Without the ip grind; people would not want to buy champs with RP, taking away from riot's money.

TheRogueToad12/6/2014, 4:26:59 AM1 votes

Every once in a while Riot will have a free IP boost weekend. IP is practically useless for the veterans who've been playing for years, have obtained everything, and have nothing left to buy with it. So it's a way for newer players to catch up, while not offering a whole lot of benefit for the vets (or "elitists", as you call them).

Even though both types of players get the same reward, only the people who have things left to unlock ("little guys" like you) are able to actually do anything with this reward.

And I believe there is a great benefit in working to get things in this game. If you didn't have to invest time to get things, you wouldn't care one bit if your account was banned. You would just make another one and be just as well off.

If Riot wasn't able to take things away from people, then there would be no real way for them to deter people from acting in such a way that would get them banned.