Something to do with IP

Zyorhist·Oct 29, 2014·7 votes·1,162 views

I know that this has been suggested before, but there really needs to be something you can do with your IP once you have everything. I don't currently own everything but I am getting incredibly close, as I only need some more runes then I'm done. I was thinking and honestly I would be willing to pay 10x or even 20x the RP required for skins in IP, (ex a 975 RP skin, I would be willing to pay 9750 IP, or even 19500 IP) just to have something to use my IP for. It seems pointless to even earn it when you have nothing to use it for. I know new champs will be out eventually and I know Riot has been trying to release things for you to spend IP on, but a mere 1500 on something every couple months doesn't keep it from piling up.

9 Comments

HalloweenDeathOct 29, 20146 votes

I'm over here with the smallest champion pool known to man kind and there are people complaining about having too much ip... cries

thesiOct 29, 20142 votes

Lemme guess, only the 3 free ones, Tristana, Alistar, and Garen? TBH, having a small pool is much nicer than a large one while you are learning. I bought the bundles in the store and I feel it was a huge mistake. I now have a bunch of champs I don't know all that well and trying to learn them all is a bit overwhelming.

I'd suggest if you want to build up your pool, start with some of the cheaper ones you like from free week. By the time you feel confident with them, you should have enough IP to move onto another champion. Also, always try to get your daily win in, even if it is only a bot game. 150 ip 7 times a week adds up.

HalloweenDeathOct 29, 20141 votes

Lemme guess, only the 3 free ones, Tristana, Alistar, and Garen? TBH, having a small pool is much nicer than a large one while you are learning. I bought the bundles in the store and I feel it was a huge mistake. I now have a bunch of champs I don't know all that well and trying to learn them all is a bit overwhelming.

I'd suggest if you want to build up your pool, start with some of the cheaper ones you like from free week. By the time you feel confident with them, you should have enough IP to move onto another champion. Also, always try to get your daily win in, even if it is only a bot game. 150 ip 7 times a week adds up.

It's a game and having a few champions is boring as fuck. The more champions the more fun you will have.

ZyorhistOct 29, 20142 votes

I'm over here with the smallest champion pool known to man kind and there are people complaining about having too much ip... cries

if only I could gift you some of mine...

Rew711Oct 29, 20143 votes

Well, there are a few ways to spend IP that come to my mind:

Gifting IP is a good choice. Really, if a friend who is new wants a champ, but can't get it yet, help him out. This can also go for Runes.
Icons: these things will be seen by everyone, but there are a lot of them that are and will be unused since they are just for RP.
Skins

– Wards are hardly seen. So making skins for them is an idea, but not an idea worth real money. Seeing as you place it and run off to fight. Really, who's going to buy a ward skin unless they really feel like it.
– Skins for champions. These are more worth it than the ward skins. But as someone who understands that money spent will not just return. Some of the skins are just crazy expensive. Spirit Guard Udyr is my exception to this (though still...) but some of the skins are really worth 10 dollars and only give a new look and some new dialogue.
Lastly, jackpots. Spend IP on a once a day lottery machine to try and earn things, such as more IP, a reroll ticket for aram, and possibly a 25 RP jackpot. Though the community hates free things for some reason...

DiljicOct 29, 20142 votes

Unfortunately when you buy a lot of champions (with RP) you are removing one of the major IP sinks. Did you also buy boosts and rune pages with RP? If you truly buy everything with IP you have played a very high amount of games and hopefully at this point not having a sink is secondary to simply enjoying the game and having the IP to buy a new champion as soon as it is released.

ZyorhistOct 29, 20142 votes

Unfortunately when you buy a lot of champions (with RP) you are removing one of the major IP sinks. Did you also buy boosts and rune pages with RP? If you truly buy everything with IP you have played a very high amount of games and hopefully at this point not having a sink is secondary to simply enjoying the game and having the IP to buy a new champion as soon as it is released.

I have been playing since the end of season 1...that equates to 3 full years now.

DarkSoul66Oct 30, 20141 votes

I dont suggest Riot let you buy skins with IP but maybe like recolors for champs that cost like 20,000 IP or 520 rp (Since it's just a recolor) that may be a lot of IP but this is a free game, and if Riot let you buy the same things as people who spend Money on extra things, many people would stop buying RP causing riot to lose A LOT of money since almost everything they earn is from RP purchases.

ZyorhistOct 30, 20141 votes

The thing is that if you made it so you could buy skins with IP, they would need to be heavily priced, so as to prevent people from collecting them all on RP alone. I know that I personally have spent $1410 usd on league since I started, and now I'm to the point that I only spend when I find a skin that I really want, or something new comes out that I can only get with RP. Otherwise I just pick up new stuff with IP because of the stock pool of it. If I had things to blow my IP on I would be more inclined to get RP and use it when I want something and I just spent all of my IP on other things.

Anymore its just like "New champ? Ok 7200 IP" but it used to be "New champ? ok I'm dropping $20 for the bundle"...I just don't have anything to dump my IP into so I have no inclination to spend RP.