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

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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 Dellron31 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."

Spartan DMG 024 votes

lol

Rvpwns3 votes

Beyond the Void: Season 2 - Episode 9 (Mid-Season Finale)

Lucian and Darius split up and flanked the tank (lol see what I did there?) while Katarina continued to demolish the void soldiers on top of the tank. The following dialogue is yelled over the constant screaming and gunfire of this battle.

Katarina getting tired "Ugh! What is going on? I've killed like a thousand of these soldiers and they keep appearing out of nowhere!"

Darius "They're voidlings. You have to get inside the tank and then only will they stop spawning at such a fast rate!"

Darius saw that a void soldier's weapon was blasted out of their grip due to Lucian's hit. He then dashed towards the soldier and swung his axe in such a way that the torso was perfectly separated from the legs. With the amount of violence that took place near the tank, the color started to change from purple to a dark red.

Lucian "I can't keep up much longer. These guns are about to run out of juice!"

Draven "Clever sexual innuendo, bud."

Ah, yes. Draven. What was this s**thead doing? Nothing. In fact, he managed to pull out on of the beach chairs from a tent and sat down with a whiskey in his hand.

Lucian looking at Draven while fighting "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"

Draven "Damn son! That multitasking is so cool!"

Darius "Don't mind him! He'll succumb to fate eventually!"

Draven concerned "Which is... what exactly?"

Lucian "NO! These guns are out.. guess I'll have to go old school style!"

Draven "Maybe they're out because you've been f**king too much!"

Darius "Shut him up!"

Lucian swung at a soldier with his gun and then shoots at Draven. It hits him square in the chest and he falls off of the beach chair.

Lucian "Okay. NOW it's out of juice."

Katarina effortlessly spun around and killed many soldiers at once until she finally reached the opening on top of the tank. She then pulled it open and jumped in. To her surprise, there was no one in there. Until she saw a little creature... he looked cute. But once he turned around, Katarina backed up in fear.

Gnar "Shhh! Don't be so afraid, honey."

Katarina snaps out of fear mode "NO!"

Katarina dashed towards Corporate Demon Gnar and swung at him swiftly. However, he was well trained since he responded by swiftly dodging all of her attacks. She found this very attractive. The demon Gnar then threw his blood-ridden boomerang at her, which knocked her out.

Lucian getting tired "What's happening in there?! She should be done by now!"

Darius "If she doesn't return in five minutes, we'll have to retreat!"

A purple lightning stuck the ground in front of them. And then there stood the culprit, Malzahar.

Malzahar charging his powers "Time to go to hell, my friends."

Darius to Lucian "Run!"

Both of them stopped fighting the soldiers and ran in the other direction. Malzahar laughed as his charging completed and he dropped plasma balls from the sky.

Lucian looking at the sky "Oh this is NOT good!"

Meanwhile... Shaco, Jhin, and Swain finally reach their destination.

Shaco "Woooooooow, our dreams did not lie to us."

Swain "Yeah! Except that there were a few beautiful nymphs here and Sona was waiting for me in a hut over there..."

Jhin "No, no. That's just you're concussion talking, Swain."

Swain feeling his head "Oh"

Shaco "Anyways... HECARIM! HECARIM!"

Jhin grabbing Shaco's arm "Shhh! What are you doing? This place may be filled with savages!"

Shaco "Soo? Isn't that a good thing?"

Swain "He's got a point."

Jhin "Shut up, Swain. And no, savages are NOT a good thing."

Hecarim appears from the fog. He is dismayed for some strange reason.

Shaco "YES! FINALLY! Woah, what the f**k is wrong with you?"

Hecarim "After three years of keeping it in, I finally came out of the closet."

Swain confused "Whaa-?"

Jhin getting pissed "I swear-- if you talk ONE more time..."

Shaco "Finally! We get to meet someone that is openly gay!"

Jhin "That was unusually kind of you, Shaco."

Shaco "Shut up, you d**ktwab."

Hecarim starting to cry "Please! I need you to help me solve this issue."

Jhin before Shaco could say yes "I'll help you. Shaco has to stay with Swain anyways."

Shaco whispers to Jhin "I'll deal with you later!"

Both Jhin and Hecarim disappear as they walk deeper into the fog.

Shaco "If you even DARE to speak once, I will cut your d**k off and shove it up your -"

Viktor "HELLO BOYS!"

This sudden appearance shocked both Swain and Shaco. Viktor did not hesitate and instead, he started to fire his laser at them.

Shaco "AHHHH!"

Beyond the Void will return February 27, 2017!

nibbles the dark1 votes

Best comment ever make one of Jinx

The Last Zica8 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 SonaSona and TaricTaric 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.

iankim12891 votes

Are you high? First the free rotation champions aren't in ranked to be auto filled and who even play normal draft(if you want to wait longer to have a slight chance of getting your role, sure go for it...) and riot can't encourage people to play support BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE MOST BORING THINGs TO DO IN THE GAME... yeah sure some need skill e.g. thresh, and supports are crucial but the thing is we don't want to play supports... and the 10 champions is pretty fine and Riot really doesn't want to change that either because its for a taste for a chamotion and considering they make their money of these champions if people happen to buy them, giving a different 10 free is pretty generous... there aren't many free things in this world because if your give free stuff, people ask for more... no there doesn't need to be more supports, no free champs don't need to rise, and autofill... yeah auto fill screw that... but you can't encourage people to play support by making 60% of it supports... I see at least 3 supports here and wasn't there that month thing for supports... yeah... I mean if you can make supportsm be crucial to the game, maybe but you know how middle used to be meta and people played mid and now jg is meta and people play jg... probs the only way to raise support players is to make it meta... (btw you are talking about player friendly like they down even know how the game works... new players probs don't even know what supp is until lvl 20 and bronze players can chuck out abilties...) although autofill is annoying, Riot is probably doing what they think will help us the most... because you know what you'll do when they remove autofill... you'll either complain about longer queue times or whatever the pros/youtubers complaint about...

The Last Zica3 votes

No, are you? Normal Draft is a thing, and you don't seem to have much constructive to say. You also seem to have a very narrow view of what is a very large and diverse playerbase.

TheArielXgg7 votes

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

The Last Zica9 votes

Garen Dreadknight Garen has a free Twitter promotion and should be removed from the free rotation permanently, or at least as long as that promotion exists. He is also in the level 1-6 rotation, which further makes it unreasonable to have him in the main one. He was selected twice in 2016 so far - that's too much for a champion that's already overly available, even to new players, anyways. Alistar Unchained Alistar's YouTube promotion is broken and unadvertised and he should be added back into the free rotation, or his promotion should be fixed and put back on the promotions page. New players should not have to ticket Blitzcrank Bot for a promotion many who've seen the promotions page still don't even know they can get. Tristana Riot Girl Tristana's Facebook promotion works and she's not in the rotation, as it should be. The other 2 need to be fixed to match.

TheArielXgg5 votes

Yep, they shoul do that [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

MisfortuneSuport6 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]

GrayBlood5 votes

whys garen even f2p hes nearly always free

The Last Zica7 votes

Garen Dreadknight Garen has a free Twitter promotion and should be removed from the free rotation permanently, or at least as long as that promotion exists. He is also in the level 1-6 rotation, which further makes it unreasonable to have him in the main one. He was selected twice in 2016 so far - that's too much for a champion that's already overly available, even to new players, anyways. He's rated 5 of 10 Difficulty, too - why should a champion Riot rates as NOT low Difficulty be so over-represented? Shouldn't that be saved for Difficulty 1-3 champions? Alistar Unchained Alistar's YouTube promotion is broken and unadvertised and he should be added back into the free rotation, or his promotion should be fixed and put back on the promotions page. New players should not have to ticket Blitzcrank Bot for a promotion many who've seen the promotions page still don't even know they can get. Tristana Riot Girl Tristana's Facebook promotion works and she's not in the rotation, as it should be. The other 2 need to be fixed to match.

Garen DEMACIA!

AgeOfTheMage4 votes

wheres the 2nd support? all i see is nami

The Last Zica3 votes

They're probably calling Zyra the 2nd support despite her total lack of heals/shields or tankyness. Which is exactly why there need to be more than 2 Supports in the rotation... anyone can damage/zone-support, those slots need to either need to be reserved for more Support-specific champs or there need to be more Support slots.

AgeOfTheMage4 votes

ik, im joking (i hate zyra supports so much, unfun to lane against)

thirst nuts4 votes

They might also be calling Anivia the second support, which is more supportish than Zyra , but it's still the point. Get it together Rito.item 3070

The Last Zica4 votes

While Aniv is support-tagged and does at least have a stun, the wall tends to make her more of a troll than anything else, so horrible to spend a "Support" slot in the rotation on, since not many people will be able to play her as a proper Support.

So yes, agreed, Rito really dropped the ball this rotation. Doubly so with autofill on since now autofills with no support champs can either go Nami, who can be unpleasant to play, or full damage support and probably cripple the ADC stealing CS, or troll support and probably screw their team over with badly placed walls. Oh, or they can dodge and make queue times longer, defeating the point of autofill. Which is probably the best option under the circumstances.

Involuntary autofill has got to go.

The Last Zica3 votes

For anyone who has not had the pleasure of dealing with an Anivia troll, or even just an Anivia that doesn't have a good grasp of how to use walls properly, I have a really good link for you that you should click right now and watch in full.

Seriously, this is not going to be a good week unless you have a Support player in your premade. It's dangerous to go alone, find one and stick to him/her for the sake of your sanity.

AniviaWALL!

AniviaWALL!

AniviaWALL!

grarrrg1 votes

(almost) Every time they put Zyra on rotation they put her in a 'support' slot. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that that is where the high-ranking players use her the most. It also doesn't help that there are surprisingly few "dedicated" supports to pick from.

Frigorenoctre2 votes

What's a Warwick?

The Last Zica2 votes

It's a dog who's up for a rework. Wait, why are they putting him in the rotation shortly BEFORE his rework? That does not make sense and they could have put a better Support in to make up for Autofill instead. Wasted opportunity.

Draclen1 votes

I find the best way to describe Warwick is a walking suppress with fur.

FearaRoderickz2 votes

These aren't live yet?

The Last Zica3 votes

They go live around midnight or in the early morning. They let people know what's going up around 6-18 hours early so it doesn't catch people completely off-guard as they're queueing for a game.

jåv2 votes

Ok thanks I thought it wasn't working. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

ArcticBlaze2 votes

PLZ HAVE LUCIAN

  1. IM ABOUT TO GET OVERWATCH AND I WANNA PLAY HIM ATLEAST ONCE************Lucian item 3070
The Last Zica3 votes

I have a great idea for you. How about you stick with the better game and don't support a company that treats its customers and over half of its employees like they're something you'd find signs about cleaning up in parks?

Seriously, Blizzard is horrible. They abuse their employees and cheat their customers. Look no further than how far Diablo II's support has deteriorated and how most of their community reps are treated for an example, but there are plenty of others. You're better off with Riot and League of Legends. Also, Lucian is mediocre currently anyways. They're going to buff him soon, you should wait for that to try him. It'll be worth it. Trust me. Riot's a company that actually cares about trying to balance things, whereas Blizzard has a proven track record of not being able to balance anything without 5 years of patches after the featureset is completely finalized.

Riki Hungry1 votes

Ah, what? Bluzzard customer service is widely known to be one of the best in the industry, and is easily one of the best qualities of the company

The Last Zica3 votes

Are you joking? That's the line the fanboys on their own forums/etc put out, but in the real world, you find things more like these:

http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=7773/blizzard-customer-service-is-horrible http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=172952/blizzard-customer-service-is-more-of-a-joke-than-a-tauren-marine

Not to mention my own personal experiences with their customer service and general treatment of consumers which have been so bad I actively and completely boycott the company. Their handling of Diablo 2 in the past decade, particularly for a game still sold at a fairly high price, has been nothing short of horrible and inexcusable given how cheap it would be to provide decent service. I have various issues with Warcraft III and the directions they've taken with their modern products as well.

Talk to any community rep completely off-the-record and I doubt you'll get any sort of positive view on them either. It's a very thankless, frustrating job that substantially amounts to acting as a spin doctor.

I don't know if they're paying you for that post, but if they aren't, they should be. I have extensive experience on which my previous post is based, and I don't have a single person I know offline who thinks Blizzard is a good company.

Not even one.

Not even one.

InTheKappaWeTrus4 votes

just because you're getting Overwatch why dose it mean you can't play league???? What is blizzard holding you at gun point to only play Overwatch? And if so send me info 2 save u from blizzard ;) kappa

jåv2 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

The Last Zica2 votes

How is it we suddenly have multiple people thinking the post doesn't go up until the rotation does?

sznd octopus2 votes

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

autothot1 votes

well, time to beat some zeds

shggfhdh1 votes

fuck yasuo.....

Aqamdax1 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...

xMuted1 votes

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

cooldude3441 votes

Camille = death

presidentduckman1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

creeper781 votes

Katarina

Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina Katarina

um isnt she op

creeper781 votes

Zed GIFT ME

BLACKDEA7H1 votes

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

nibbles the dark1 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 dark1 votes

Starting my own series episodes come... randomly.

nibbles the dark1 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 ???.

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