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New free champion rotation: Anivia, Garen, Jinx and more!

Riot·12/19/2016, 8:13:36 AM·1 votes·22,295 views

Greetings Summoners!

Here are this week's free champions:

Anivia - the Cryophoenix

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Mage

Secondary Role Support

Garen - The Might of Demacia

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Fighter

Secondary Role Tank

Jinx - the Loose Cannon

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Marksman

Nami - the Tidecaller

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Support

Secondary Role Mage

Pantheon - the Artisan of War

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Fighter

Secondary Role Assassin

Quinn - Demacia's Wings

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Marksman

Secondary Role Fighter

Warwick - the Blood Hunter

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Fighter

Secondary Role Tank

Zac - the Secret Weapon

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Tank

Secondary Role Fighter

Zed - the Master of Shadows

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Assassin

Secondary Role Fighter

Zyra - Rise of the Thorns

Attack

Defense

Ability

Difficulty

Primary Role Mage

Secondary Role Support

Wondering how we picked this week's free champions? Read up on it HERE.

See you on the Fields of Justice!

49 Comments

King Dellron12/19/2016, 6:06:25 PM31 votes

#A Corporate Matter Episode: The Great Poro Migration

Braum "What's that, Señor Porokins?"

summoner 31 "Migration."

Braum "Oh that's right, the Great Poro Migration. Corporate Braum nearly forgot. We must go at once! Mrs. Pordo, you are in charge of ze office while we are gone."

summoner 31 "Party."

Braum "And no partying while I am out."

summoner 31 "Party!"

Braum "Oh alright, just keep it small and have everything cleaned up before I get back."

Over in the Frejord:

summoner 30 "You all know what time of year it is."

summoner 31 "War!"

summoner 30 "Yes, it is time for me and Red Poro King to go to our annual war over dominance of the Frejord. With the help of the summoners, she shall decide who gets to rule for the next year."

summoner 31 "Only fair way!"

summoner 30 "The men shall stay, take a side and fight with us. But the women and children will be migrated to Summoner's Rift. It is quite lovely this time of year, I am sure you will enjoy it."

summoner 31 "Vacation!"

summoner 30 "Since we are an unruly species, I have once again called upon our Guardians, the Braums of Runeterra. To aid in this troubled time."

Braum "We are ready to assist."

summoner 30 "You must all get going, the fighting will start soon. Wish me luck and enjoy yourselves."

summoner 31 "Kill them all."

Braum "If you don't mind, your Porlyness. I have baked up some extra special Poro Snax. I hope they can aid you in your great battle."

summoner 30 "Thank you dearly, Baker Braum. Not only for this, but for yearly providing everyone with Poro Snax at no cost. You are a true friend to our kind."

summoner 31 "Besties."

Braum "COME POROS, ANDALE ANDALE!"

summoner 31 "CHARGE!"

Braum "NO, DON'T EAT THAT. DON'T TURN AROUND. YE MUST KEEP MOVING!"

Braum "Ye must run like Dragon that Dragonslayer Braum's shield is made from is chasing you."

summoner 31 "Scary."

Braum "Keep on the path. NO PORO, DON'T JUMP OFF THE LEDGE!"

summoner 31 "Weeeee."

Braum "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! El Tigre Braum never understand why ze do that."

Braum "It is fun for them. She will be fine, ze are very fluffy."

Over on Summoner's Rift:

Graves Man, the snow is finally here. I have been waiting for what felt like years."

Karma "It's so nice and fluffy too!"

"Rumble Rumble."

Graves "Whut in tarnation?"

summoner 31 "Snowy map!"

summoner 31 "Finally."

summoner 31 "Thanks Rito."

Graves "Uh oh, STAMPEDE!"

Karma "Well, you have fun. I'm going to abandon you now. Don't worry, I will get myself back for this later. Bye." "Mantra E's away."

Graves "Wait, your Mantra E can affect us both if you would just stand a little- Oh doggone it, I hate mid lane Karmas." "Gets trampled by an army of Poros."

summoner 31 "Oops."

summoner 31 "Shoulda moved."

Graves "Uhhhhhhhhhhh. I wish I never gave up smoking."

The Last Zica12/19/2016, 6:53:24 PM8 votes

[slayer-jinx-unamused] I remain very disappointed we're back to no additional Supports; only 2 just isn't enough for good team compositions with the playerbase League of Legends has, ESPECIALLY WITH AUTOFILL ENABLED. While Brand and Blitzcrank were bad picks for the list, the rest of the list was pretty solid and made for better games IMO, especially Sona Sona and Taric Taric which are relatively new-player-friendly and don't lend themselves to stealing CS. While a full extra 10 isn't necessary, I think at least 2-6 extra slots to provide a better variety of Supports and account for the ever-increasing number of champions is a really good idea that should be implemented permanently.

I think simply fixing the # of champions in the free rotation at 10% rounding up of the number of total champions would strike a good balance going forward. 14 for now with 6 of the slots dedicated to serious Supports, rising to 15 sometime in 2017-2018 when champion 141 comes out. Probably keeping the % of Support slots roughly proportional... around 3/8ths perhaps? Attention should probably be given to ensuring there's always a tank Support, a heal-ally Support, a strong shield-ally Support, and a Crowd Control-heavy Support (it usually won't take 4 champions to fill all these slots since there's a fair bit of overlap, such as with Morgana being strong in both CC and shielding,) and that at least 2 of the 6 Support champions are highly new-player-friendly.

I believe this will strike a fair balance between consistently giving users enough options to play Support when they get Autofilled while still selling Support champions to people who grow attached to them. That's the main reason I'm not suggesting keeping the rotation at 10 Supports long-term (though I'd be OK with that) - there aren't really enough Support champions to fulfill quite so many without severely devaluing buying any of them. That is something however that needs addressing itself - there need to be more good Support champions in the next few new champions released! I do definitely want to see the rotation permanently raised at least a little from the previous 10 total to fit a greater variety of Support champions in and improve the average team comp. Either that or Autofill absolutely needs to be turned off, permanently, because attempting to force people to play Support when they'll just dodge because they have no good options handy and have no desire to spend IP/RP on buying any when they don't want to play Support in the first place is CLEARLY NOT WORKING and only further increases queue times due to dodges. The bottom-line is Riot needs to encourage people to want to play Support, not try to force them to. Autofill does not work, especially not without a lot of free Supports. Either the number of free Supports must be raised again or Autofill has GOT to go.

TheArielXgg12/19/2016, 8:20:18 PM7 votes

Garen on the free champion rotation? Really [slayer-jinx-unamused]

MisfortuneSuport12/19/2016, 7:39:19 PM6 votes

MissFortune It is a good day.

For Zyra.

To die.

It's already raining. See you on the Rift, plant girl![slayer-jinx-wink]

GrayBlood12/19/2016, 7:51:57 PM5 votes

whys garen even f2p hes nearly always free

AgeOfTheMage12/19/2016, 6:53:53 PM4 votes

wheres the 2nd support? all i see is nami

sznd octopus12/25/2016, 9:41:57 PM2 votes

Garen is free it doesn't make sense to have in in the rotation.[slayer-jinx-unamused]

Frigorenoctre12/19/2016, 11:19:56 PM2 votes

What's a Warwick?

FearaRoderickz12/20/2016, 12:47:09 AM2 votes

These aren't live yet?

ArcticBlaze12/20/2016, 12:53:02 AM2 votes

PLZ HAVE LUCIAN

IM ABOUT TO GET OVERWATCH AND I WANNA PLAY HIM ATLEAST ONCE************

jåv12/20/2016, 1:02:54 AM2 votes

Hi Riot employees, I'm an NA Summoner and the rotation hasn't changed for me. I live in Maui, Hawaii. Please fix, Thank you

Aqamdax12/20/2016, 7:53:51 AM1 votes

Dear Riot.

Are you aware, that there ARE other support champions than just Nami ? Just wondering, because couple of weeks ago she was free for 3 weeks in a row. I completely understand your motives of trying to make more people love playing support, but I'm just saying that there are MANY other support champions than just Nami...

xMuted12/20/2016, 4:32:55 PM1 votes

RIP Blind Pick Players for a week... Zed in free rotation; smh.

cooldude34412/21/2016, 1:08:01 AM1 votes

Camille = death

presidentduckman12/21/2016, 4:57:39 AM1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

creeper7812/21/2016, 11:03:20 PM1 votes

Katarina

Katarina

um isnt she op

creeper7812/21/2016, 11:04:00 PM1 votes

Zed GIFT ME

BLACKDEA7H12/23/2016, 12:12:01 PM1 votes

well this is gowing to be fun because Zac and Zed are free to play

nibbles the dark12/24/2016, 10:07:05 PM1 votes

I'm a jinx main so its hard to get to play her when she's free to play.[slayer-jinx-unamused]

nibbles the dark12/24/2016, 10:11:56 PM1 votes

Starting my own series episodes come... randomly.

nibbles the dark12/24/2016, 10:20:42 PM1 votes

Episode one

AurelionSol Noting to do but explode useless planets ugh. Might as well go to Twisted Treeline.

Thresh Do dut dum stealing lives from orphans.

Hecarim Hi thresh.

Thresh Hello pony.

Hecarim My names Herciam.

Thresh Sure it is.

AurelionSol Hello useless beings.

Thresh Um I got brought back to life so... Hecarim I'm dead too.

AurelionSol Oh.

Continues on ???.

autothot12/19/2016, 11:55:50 PM1 votes

well, time to beat some zeds