New free champion rotation: Camille, Draven, Kha'Zix and more!

#A Corporate Christmas II

"So glad it's finally time for Snowdown break. I have been waiting forever."

"That makes one of us."

"Two, actually."

"..."

"Four."

"Five."

"Alright, I get it. Everyone loves this time of year but me. Wait, what are you excited about, Recon Teemo? You are going to be stuck in that cage alone with no lights and no heat for the next week."

"Yeah, but I won't have to see your ugly face for that long."

"Wow, okay. I was gonna have Soraka leave you a blanket and enough food for the week. But now you can freeze and starve. And when we get back, we will see if you are still alive and worthy, Roman style."

"Sir, why do you hate Snowdown time. You should love everything."

"Because, all the players are either off, or they simply buy a ton of champs and skins with all their bonus money. Both ways mean no one plays the free champions. So my job is worthless. I might as well just make Camille free, not that anyone is going to notice."

"Aren't you at least a little excited for Santa to bring gifts?"

"No, he doesn't exist. I never get anything, you know why. Because the gifts from him are really just given down from the richer to the poorer. Under the guise of some magical being. Well, the only ones richer than us are the Gentlemen, and they are all jerks."

"Not me! But I only give out tea."

"I suggest you rethink your attitude there boss. Bad things tend to happen to those who don't believe."

"What is this, a cult? I'm going to wallow in my sorrow at my house. You guys have fun."

Later that night, after Corporate Gnar has gotten all cozy in his bed.

"Pat pat, ring ring."

"Is that a Poro on my roof? WHY IS THERE A PORO WITH SLEIGH BELLS ON MY ROOF!"

"Stomp stomp."

"Alright, you ain't burgling my house for the holidays. GET READY TO FACE THE WRATH OF CORPORATE GNAR!"

"Ho ho ho, slow down. We aren't here to steal anything."

"RYUGAWAGATEKIWOKURAU!" "Lunges at Santa Braum."

"Woah there buddy. Get knocked away!"

"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT!"

"We have come to teach you a real holiday lesson."

"Yeah, we are the Santas."

"Ahem!"

"Oh right, this guy over here is too fancy to call himself Santa, So he is Old Saint Zilean. Must be European or something."

"But, you guys aren't real. How can you be here if you aren't real?"

"You are right, this is all hallucination. Bad dream of drinking too much eggnog. Go back to sleep."

"Haha, I knew you guys didn't exist. Goodnight."

"Of course we're real you dumb rat in a suit. Get back over here."

"Alright, so not only is Santa real, but there is three of him?"

"There used to be four, but then one went baaaaaad."

"We each embody different spirit of Santa. I am kind nice part of Santa."

"I am the old wise part of Santa."

"And I am the sexy beautiful part."

"I can see that."

"You got something to say to me punk, you are not in a position to make insults. Here, let me show you just how sexy I can be." "Plops down on his side."

"Don't we get enough of this with your splash art? I mean, you hung it everywhere back home."

"Paint me like one of your french champions."

"This is really nice mansion you have. You should get family to fill its empty halls."

"I like my home nice and empty as it is. Speaking of which, can you get to killing me. Or whatever teaching me a lesson means. So my house can go back to being that way."

"We don't kill, just need to leave reminder on who the jolliest, happiest bunch of fairy tales is. Some punches to the face and a broken bone or two should do it."

"That'll teach ya to talk bad about the Santa Gang."

"One last thing. If you guys are real, how come I have never gotten a single present from you, ever."

"Because you are a jerk. But no fear, Santa Braum's friend has gift for you. His name is righty and he wants to hand deliver it to you."

(Merry Christmas, happy holidays. I hope you all got everything you wanted and everyone is maybe a little less toxic. Love you guys ♥.)

[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 and 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. At least some of the Supports should also be made available in Ranked unless Autofill is removed, too. Sooner or later Riot's going to have to address these issues. Will it be this year? At least to just start talking openly about the details of the next step?

OMFG I JUST BOUGHT THE FOLLOWING WITH RP FEELS TERRIBLE MAN

rework?

enters site sees Teemo http://pa1.narvii.com/5861/133af78eae4e8f20e71ac4b871973e872e72052b_hq.gif

You see here in rito we thought we should include some more champs from the recent rework all at once, and the recently new champ for everyone to enjoy. We believe that it will make this week much more fun for players who would like to try these champs and soon buy in the future.

Rengeazy is off the leash again. 1v1 me I dare you. Baking brownies for rito since release. True damage that crits? Sure. Pounded!!!! More toxic than my work shoes. Everyone owns him so theres no point.... Release the Devil!!! Laugh and I will cut your throat as Rengeazy. One shotting vaynes since the making of Static Shiv.

As happy as I am that and are free at the same time, why did you make Satan free the week after Christmas?!

Why Tahm??? We had him 5 weeks ago? And Camille this early?

hmm, as long as i ban teemo i will gladly go top fiora :3 (get ready camille players)

Only one support this week?

... why the heck is teemo free?!

Plz make yasuo free sometime

There isn't one champion in this rotation that isn't broken. Good job riot, good job.

I'm still stuck with the last week rotation plox halp.

Rengo and KhaZix at the same time, Wooooooooooo*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]*

this would have been a great week... if I didn't happen to own all of the champions