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New free champion rotation: Illaoi, Jinx, Nami and more!

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Greetings Summoners!

WATCH YOUR BACK: The Hunt of the Blood Moon brings 10 extra champions to the free rotation for the duration of the event. These 10 champs will also be selectable for the Hunt of the Blood Moon game mode.

Here are this week's free champions:

 

Ahri - the Nine-Tailed Fox
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Mage
Secondary Role Assassin
Akali - the Fist of Shadow
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Diana - Scorn of the Moon
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Mage
Elise - the Spider Queen
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Mage
Secondary Role Fighter
Katarina - the Sinister Blade
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Mage
Kennen - the Heart of the Tempest
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Mage
Secondary Role Marksman
Lee Sin - the Blind Monk
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Assassin
Talon - the Blade's Shadow
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Fighter
Yasuo - the Unforgiven
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Assassin
Zed - the Master of Shadows
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Fighter


Illaoi - the Kraken Priestess
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Tank
Jinx - the Loose Cannon
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Marksman
Karthus - the Deathsinger
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Mage
Kassadin - the Void Walker
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Mage
Nami - the Tidecaller
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Support
Secondary Role Mage
Renekton - the Butcher of the Sands
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Tank
Sivir - the Battle Mistress
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Marksman
Soraka - the Starchild
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Support
Secondary Role Mage
Vi - the Piltover Enforcer
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Assassin
Volibear - the Thunder's Roar
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Tank

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

See you on the Fields of Justice!

81 Comments

King Dellron49 votes

#A Corporate Matter Episode: Don't try and change who you are. Unless you're changing it to Batman

Warwick "My parents are dead, I am all alone in a city that doesn't care who you are. A city that is Rife with crime. a city that needs someone who can clean it up. That's where I come in. Me and my trusty butler are going to put a stop to the crime in this city. Once and for all!"

Gnar "I'm your boss, not your butler."

Warwick "WELL YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ACCENT! AND IF I'M GOING TO BE BATMAN I'M GOING TO NEED A BUTLER!"

Gnar "You're a guard dog, not Batman."

Soraka "Sorry to say, but with Warwick's lore. I don't think anyone is going to think of you as batman. I mean, you are kind of a jerk."

Teemo "Kind of? Girl, he pretended to love you in order to rip your heart out. Just so he could be better at kidnapping people to be experimented on."

Warwick "And every day I apologize for what that Warwick did to her.

Soraka "And I understand that that was a different Warwick then you. But I don't know if everyone else will enough for you to be batman."

Sona "..."

Warwick "You guys just don't understand! I'LL BE BATMAN, YOU'LL SEE!" "Runs away crying."

Soraka "Sona, why do you have to crush people's happiness and spirit like that?"

A little while later:

DrMundo "WAHHH, EZREAL SERVANT. WHY IS SCARY DOG MAN IN OFFICE?"

Ezreal "That's Guard Dog Warwick sir, he works for us. He said he had something important to ask you."

DrMundo "Ah, Corporate Mundo see. You not ask for raise, right?"

Warwick "Who writes the lore?"

DrMundo "What you say, doggy person?"

Warwick "Who writes the lore for League of Legends? I need to make a few changes."

DrMundo "Aw, that be Corporate Jinx."

Ezreal "What, we don't have a Corporate Jinx."

DrMundo "Yes, Corporate Mundo hire her to write good story for angry players. She no like people and stays along in her closet. But maybe doggo she like more."

Ezreal "Boss, are you having an episode again?"

DrMundo "No, me just want watch favorite sport game. Best player Tom Brady is win game!"

Ezreal "Sir, it's over half time and they only have 3 points. The other team has 28. This game is over."

DrMundo "No no no, Corporate Mundo see future. They win, trust in boss."

Ezreal "Yeah yeah sure. And next thing you know Galio will be getting a rework. Come on sir, we know this stuff ain't happening. Follow me, you need to take your medicine. Sorry about him, he gets like this sometimes."

Warwick "It's alright, I can smell her now." "Runs away."

A minute later:

Warwick "MAKE ME BATMAN!"

Jinx "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Warwick "Oh sorry, my bad. Make me batman please."

Jinx "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Warwick "Please stop screaming, I'm sorry."

Jinx "I'M AN INTROVERT, I WORK IN A CUPBOARD UNDER THE STAIRS FOR A REASON! YOU DON'T JUST COME BARGING IN HERE ASKING TO BE SOME COPYRIGHTED SUPERHERO!"

Warwick "I'm sorry. Can you help me, pretty please?"

Jinx "Awwwww, you are so cute. Alright, what do you want?"

Warwick "I'm tired of all us Warwicks getting a bad name. Hated by all for being nothing more than a bounty hunter. Most of us are actually man's best friend. I want you to change our lore so we're Batman!"

Jinx "Well I can't just rip-off Batman, pretty sure Black Panther already did that. Besides, Batman doesn't kill people."

Warwick "Oh right, that's a problem. BATMAN IF HE WAS WOLVERINE!"

Jinx "Now that's something I can work with. Give me a few minutes."

Warwick "So, how do you like working here?"

Jinx "It's great. I mean, the lore was a mess when I came on board. But after I got rid of a few stupid things. Like the institute of war, the League of Legends. And basically everything the game was based on. I got it to be pretty good. Definitely a step up from where I was. I used to just be a fanfic writer for League. Then they made me the actual writer. And people say I'm crazy."

Warwick "Oh, for my new lore. Can you make Soraka not my enemy? Make it Singed instead. I don't know why it made us friends before. That guy creeps me out."

Jinx "Yeah, he so old and freaky looking."

Warwick "You seem much saner than the other Jinxs."

Jinx "Oh, you haven't read the fanfiction I still write on the side. I channel all my cray cray into there. Trust me, it would make even the other Jinxs sick."

Warwick "I'll take your word for it."

Jinx "Aaaaaannnnd done. Your new lore in finished. Warwick is now the mutant vigilante bent on cleaning up the streets of Zaun by any means necessary. I also added that he was an unwilling test subject, taken by Singed. As a little reversal of what he used to do."

Warwick "And now I return to my constant vigil, awaiting yet another crime. It's up to me to protect this city. Because with great power, comes great re-"

Jinx "Come on man, you can't just rip-off every superhero."

(Alright, so I didn't get as much time to work on the website this week as I had hoped. Also, making a website is harder than tv made it seem. But I am making good progress. It's starting to look really nice. I'll let you guys know how it's progressing next week.)

Jesse Pinkmân1 votes

You fast

King Dellron3 votes

The fastest keyboard this side of the Mississippi!

Enlegacy7 votes

Wait the website is actually happening? HYPE!

King Dellron6 votes

Yeah, it's gonna be pretty sick when it's up

Ohmei3 votes

Introverted Jinx is something that I never knew I wanted. Also Corporate Mundo being a Tom Brady fan.

midnight oil249 votes

I like Jinx in this. I identify with her. I feel safe reading her lines.

Good job as always, Dellron. I know I don't comment often, but I read your stories and the quality is out of this world

King Dellron6 votes

Thanks, that really means a lot. Glad you enjoyed it ♥.

midnight oil243 votes

Aawww, thanks for replying ^^

Permission to friend you? It'd be fun to play a round sometime. If you don't mind having the worst player in NA on your team, that is :P

Demoralized

Glad to see more of these stories, and gl on your new website i am looking forward to seeing it :))))

midnight oil242 votes

Just noting that you replied to the wrong person. He's not gonna see this unless you reply to his last thing.

Demoralized1 votes

oh crap sorry my bad i didnt see :/ im blind af

AxemanE 5 votes

WEBSITE HYPE

Thunderbird3301 votes

Sona: crushing people's happiness and spirit since <insert year that makes sense here>.

Well done again, I love Lore Writer Jinx!

Impulse277 votes

What is up with the double Rotation?????[zombie-brand-clap]

Jad9 votes

Fairly sure it's for a new gamemode the are releasing. Only assassins.

Itsbeghdev2 votes

Ah, ofc. Wonder if it'll be usable in normals while the game mode is out. Looks consistent with what I've seen in PBE videos.

Dabrick015 votes

I'm assuming it will. Just like the support rotation.

My question is will this happen every time this gamemode happens? I don't want Kat filling up my games once a month.

AgeOfTheMage6 votes

So many annoying champs this week D:

andrea2 votes

Yeah I'm not playing ARAM this week.

johnson20161 votes

ARAM is completely unplayable this week first three starts people dodged, finally got a start but absolute garbage team then lost because the other team actually rolled some non free champs, next start someone dodged, next game got the absolute worst possible team almost and someone rather than dodging flashes out of base and starts inting right off the bat so gg there.

Suenrg3 votes

no Taliyah ? wow

72409691_DEL6 votes

Chogath is not here,Kled is not here,Taliyah is not here. GG riot, let grarrg to explain the streak later.

grarrrg6 votes

Dang, they're catching onto me... Current longest not-free streaks: Taliyah > ~35 weeks since last free Cho'Gath > ~24 weeks Kled > ~23 weeks And, as usual, honorable mentions to Tristana and Alistar

Altaìr3 votes

Trist has a special promotion where you can get her and a free skin (Riot Girl) by IIRC following the official League of Legends twitter.

Alistar's was also a promotion where you could get him and a free skin (Unchained) by subscribing to the League of Legends YouTube channel, but it's been disabled for whatever reason. If you contact player support you might get the skin.

grarrrg3 votes

Hence the "honorable mention". I usually save the explanation for when someone asks though.

Thunderbird3301 votes

Wait, is this legit? Why would Riot exclude Kled and Taliyah from the rotation?

grarrrg2 votes

Kled is currently at the high end of some champs average wait time. Aatrox, Master Yi, Annie... have average 'waits' of 20-25 weeks between Frees. So I wouldn't be -too- concerned about him yet (see also: Cho'Gath)

As for Taliyah...dunno. But she hasn't set any records, even excluding those purposefully removed from rotation she isn't there yet. Sion recently went 36 weeks. Kayle either went 38, or 50 depending on if you count "everyone gets a Kayle for free"-day as a 'free rotation' or not.

Thunderbird3301 votes

Well, okay, but when was she even released? I'd think Riot would want to showcase their newer champions a bit more...

Just curious, what's the shortest interval between free weeks? I swear it's like three or so for some champions (like most ADCs).

grarrrg1 votes

Taliyah was released ~37 weeks ago, her "free after release" week was the ONLY time she has been free. Why they haven't had her since, I really don't know.

Shortest interval, usually 4 weeks is the shortest they'll go, there might be a rare 3, but 4 is a pretty firm minimum (this ignores 'event' things, like the "+10 Supports for a month" or this week's "+10 Assassins"). Supports and ADC's are the most free champs (I think Supports -slightly- edge out ADCs overall), this is mostly due to them both having the smallest groups to pull from.

Altaìr1 votes

There are two things that go into consideration when putting champs into the rotation:

  1. Popularity
  2. Difficulty For Taliyah, it's really simple. She's unpopular. I mean when was the last time you saw Taliyah in game? Most people don't even know how her kit works either. Vector casting on her W is really short ranged compared to something of the same type of casting (e.g. Viktor E, Rumble R) and it's really annoying when you have to walk into range for something that starts your combo (especially when it's kind of hard to land when you're new).

For Kled... I honestly don't know. Response from the community on his release was positive, and his kit is pretty self explanatory IMO. I don't think you should worry about him yet, though.

Thunderbird3301 votes

I mean, that's fair, but how is she going to become more popular if nobody knows anything about her? I know she's in a bad spot right now, but I've still been wanting to try her for awhile, and she hasn't been free for apparently over half a year.

Itsbeghdev3 votes

I have a friend who is going to be mentally unstable this free week, but Karthus is on it, so it's all good.

RakanButTHICCer2 votes

I'm TOTALLY not plagiarizing here :) "My parents are dead, I am all alone in a city that doesn't care who you are. A city that is Rife with crime. a city that needs someone who can clean it up. That's where I come in. Me and my trusty butler are going to put a stop to the crime in this city. Once and for all!" "I'm your boss, not your butler." "WELL YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ACCENT! AND IF I'M GOING TO BE BATMAN I'M GOING TO NEED A BUTLER!" "You're a guard dog, not Batman." "Sorry to say, but with Warwick's lore. I don't think anyone is going to think of you as batman. I mean, you are kind of a jerk." "Kind of? Girl, he pretended to love you in order to rip your heart out. Just so he could be better at kidnapping people to be experimented on." "And every day I apologize for what that Warwick did to her. "And I understand that that was a different Warwick then you. But I don't know if everyone else will enough for you to be batman." "..." "You guys just don't understand! I'LL BE BATMAN, YOU'LL SEE!" "Runs away crying." "Sona, why do you have to crush people's happiness and spirit like that?" A little while later: "WAHHH, EZREAL SERVANT. WHY IS SCARY DOG MAN IN OFFICE?" "That's Guard Dog Warwick sir, he works for us. He said he had something important to ask you." "Ah, Corporate Mundo see. You not ask for raise, right?" "Who writes the lore?" "What you say, doggy person?" "Who writes the lore for League of Legends? I need to make a few changes." "Aw, that be Corporate Jinx." "What, we don't have a Corporate Jinx." "Yes, Corporate Mundo hire her to write good story for angry players. She no like people and stays along in her closet. But maybe doggo she like more." "Boss, are you having an episode again?" "No, me just want watch favorite sport game. Best player Tom Brady is win game!" "Sir, it's over half time and they only have 3 points. The other team has 28. This game is over." "No no no, Corporate Mundo see future. They win, trust in boss." "Yeah yeah sure. And next thing you know Galio will be getting a rework. Come on sir, we know this stuff ain't happening. Follow me, you need to take your medicine. Sorry about him, he gets like this sometimes." "It's alright, I can smell her now." "Runs away." A minute later: "MAKE ME BATMAN!" "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" "Oh sorry, my bad. Make me batman please." "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" "Please stop screaming, I'm sorry." "I'M AN INTROVERT, I WORK IN A CUPBOARD UNDER THE STAIRS FOR A REASON! YOU DON'T JUST COME BARGING IN HERE ASKING TO BE SOME COPYRIGHTED SUPERHERO!" "I'm sorry. Can you help me, pretty please?" "Awwwww, you are so cute. Alright, what do you want?" "I'm tired of all us Warwicks getting a bad name. Hated by all for being nothing more than a bounty hunter. Most of us are actually man's best friend. I want you to change our lore so we're Batman!" "Well I can't just rip-off Batman, pretty sure Black Panther already did that. Besides, Batman doesn't kill people." "Oh right, that's a problem. BATMAN IF HE WAS WOLVERINE!" "Now that's something I can work with. Give me a few minutes." "So, how do you like working here?" "It's great. I mean, the lore was a mess when I came on board. But after I got rid of a few stupid things. Like the institute of war, the League of Legends. And basically everything the game was based on. I got it to be pretty good. Definitely a step up from where I was. I used to just be a fanfic writer for League. Then they made me the actual writer. And people say I'm crazy." "Oh, for my new lore. Can you make Soraka not my enemy? Make it Singed instead. I don't know why it made us friends before. That guy creeps me out." "Yeah, he so old and freaky looking." "You seem much saner than the other Jinxs." "Oh, you haven't read the fanfiction I still write on the side. I channel all my cray cray into there. Trust me, it would make even the other Jinxs sick." "I'll take your word for it." "Aaaaaannnnd done. Your new lore in finished. Warwick is now the mutant vigilante bent on cleaning up the streets of Zaun by any means necessary. I also added that he was an unwilling test subject, taken by Singed. As a little reversal of what he used to do." "And now I return to my constant vigil, awaiting yet another crime. It's up to me to protect this city. Because with great power, comes great re-" "Come on man, you can't just rip-off every superhero." (Alright, so I didn't get as much time to work on the website this week as I had hoped. Also, making a website is harder than tv made it seem. But I am making good progress. It's starting to look really nice. I'll let you guys know how it's progressing next week.)

Soireal1 votes

copy pasting sure is hard work

RakanButTHICCer1 votes

u got that right*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]*

InklingsAreLegal2 votes

This is why I play vs Bots

Cause I'm piss poor at the game lmao

Winged Font1 votes

Me too

midnight oil241 votes

So many I have to try ;-;

Who should I try first, Kassadin or Renekton?

And Kat or Talon first?

Otter Fire4 votes

Kassadin first then Renek, Kat then Tally. Kassadin is something to experience.

Sweet 1ou1 votes

Yeah so I haven't gotten the rotation yet it's still on last weeks :/

BoxerPeter9 votes

they announce it on monday and release it on tuesday

IceKacang101 votes

But Diana was just free 2 weeks ago!? What?

Wolfomite3 votes

I THINK it's for the new gamemode, which is assassins only. I'm not sure though.

Itsbeghdev2 votes

And assassin-y divers, like Diana and Lee Sin.

Itsbeghdev1 votes

and skirmishers

Sweet 1ou1 votes

Can someone gift me I just played vi for the first time and I am in love got an S I really want to unlock the champ. <3

smoking pot1 votes

you have a week to get her

RakanButTHICCer1 votes

may we start petition for car sales illaoi? she'd work for corporate mundo hit u with a checklist or phone and slam u with inflatable wavy dudes.... not the brightest idea but a new illaoi skin would be nice. I'm just not feeling void bringer atm

The Boring Nerd1 votes

If you guys are confused why they're so many assassins and double rotation. This is probably for the new game mode Hunt Of The Bloodmoon.

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