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New free champion rotation: Kalista, Gnar, Xerath 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
Ashe - the Frost Archer
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Marksman
Secondary Role Support
Gnar - the Missing Link
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Tank
Kalista - the Spear of Vengeance
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Marksman
LeBlanc - the Deceiver
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Mage
Lee Sin - the Blind Monk
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Assassin
Leona - the Radiant Dawn
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Tank
Secondary Role Support
Nocturne - the Eternal Nightmare
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Assassin
Secondary Role Fighter
Shyvana - the Half-Dragon
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Fighter
Secondary Role Tank
Xerath - the Magus Ascendant
Attack
Defense
Ability
Difficulty
Primary Role Mage
Secondary Role Assassin

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

See you on the Fields of Justice!

81 Comments

King Dellron37 votes

A Corporate Matter: Episode 27.

One week ago:

Gnar "I am getting real tired of being locked up here, when is someoone gonna save us."

Soraka "I don't know what you want me to do about it. I was made to heal, not blow up walls."

Sona "..."

Soraka "Well then, why don't you. Your power chord does quite a lot of damage."

Sona "..."

Soraka "Your fingers hurt? That is the worst excuse i have ever heard."

KogMaw "Alright, settle down there girls. We just have to be patient, these things always work themselves out."

Soraka "I for one am tired of your optimistic junk, how can you be like that?"

Gnar "Soraka, are you ok. You don't seem like yourself. Are you hungry, do you need a snickers?"

Gangplank "Ooooooh, oooooooooh."

Soraka "Ah great, now what?"

Gangplank "Guys its me, i am back from the dead as a ghost. I can phase through walls and get you out of here."

Gnar "Spooky gangplank? But wait, you aren't dead."

Gangplank "What do you mean, i'm not dead?"

Gnar "Haven't you kept up online, you survived miss fortune killing you. Now you are back, and this time its personal."

Gangplank "Oh, uh i see. Well, this is embarrassing. I uhhh, gotta go for now, be back soon." "Phases away"

Gnar "WAIT NO, TAKE US WITH YOU!!! Ah, darn it."

Soraka "GOOD JOB, CORPORATE GNAR. YOU SCARED THE SPOOKY GHOST AWAY. NOW WE ARE DOOMED! AND WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU HAD WIFI IN HERE!"

Fiddlesticks "I heard yelling, whats going on in here?"

KogMaw "I assure you its nothing, my good sir."

Gnar "argh, ack. he, lp."

KogMaw "Oh nevermind, it appears Soraka is strangling Corporate Gnar over there. She seems to have lost it."

Fiddlesticks "NO, DON'T HURT HIM! BACK AWAY! HE IS TOO IMPORTANT TO THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!!!!!!!" "Unlocks Cage Door."

Sona "!!!"

Fiddlesticks "Feel, need, to, BOOGIE!!"

KogMaw "Smack! Haha, got him. But sona, did you really need to yell, DANCE WORM?"

Gnar "ahghghahgh."

KogMaw "Alright Soraka, you can drop the act now. It worked, we got him."

Soraka "Act, what act? Oh hey, the door is open and Super Fan Fiddlesticks is dead, yay."

KogMaw "He's not dead, i just smacked him on the head with my teapot."

Gnar "Cough cough." "Ok soraka, we are definitely getting you a snickers bar. Unless you don't want one, thats cool too. Just don't try to kill me again."

KogMaw "Well, if guys are ready, let us set sail out of this place. Super Fan Fiddlesticks left the door open."

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!"

Gangplank "I AM BACK, AND HERE TO RESCUE YOU GUYS."

Soraka "Little later there buddy, we got ourselves a way out."

Gangplank "Wait, really? Ahh man, i can't even save you guys. And why is there a dead guy on the ground."

Gnar "He's not dead."

Gangplank "Shame. So, since everyone i cared about is dead, i can't do anything right. And half my city is on fire, wanna go to a bar. Gragas owns it, me and him are friends and i get free drinks and a place to hide. You guys are welcome to take shelter there with me until you can go back home."

Gnar "Sure, whatever."

Later, at a bar:

Now, you may be wondering why Gragas can own a bar, but Graves can't have a cigar? Well, its simple. Gragas's bar doesn't serve alcohol. It serves brew. Which is mostly just lon lon milk. Now, it makes you act like you are drunk, but trust us. Its completely different than being drunk. (Thats how you guys at riot wanted me to say it, right?)

Gangplank "Take a seat over there, i am going to go and check out the place."

Gnar "Hey, is that Veigar?"

Veigar "Why yes, "Hiccup" its me."

Gnar "I sense something different about you. YOU'RE THE FREE ROTATION VEIGAR! The one that escaped so long ago. We had everyone out looking for you."

Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Veigar "Its hard to find anyone in Bilgewater. I escaped here, plotting my revenge on Corporate Lee Sin. Sadly though, my dfg ran out of juice. Now its just as useless as me. My whole plan revolved around it, so now i have just been here, drinking Graggy Ice."

Gnar "So, you think you might want to go back to the free rotation. A lot of players want to play you, and White Mage Veigar said he is not painting himself purple again."

Veigar "Ah, sure. Not like i have anything better to do. But i am keeping my dfg, even if it doesn't work anymore."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vribwyvnw3c QUEST COMPLETE!!!!

Gnar "Yay, if you somehow make it back fast enough, you can be free this week."

Veigar "Oh, and by the way. I talked to Final Boss Veigar. He is really upset about the the changes made to us. Even more upset than i was. He might go after Corporate Lee Sin and demand buffs. He also said something about Blitzcrank, not sure what that is about."

Gangplank "Alright guys, it will be safe here until i find a way to get you back home."

Present day:

Gangplank "Seems that its almost time for you lads to leave old Gangplank."

Gnar "Which reminds me, i have been meaning to ask. How did you get your new arm?"

Gangplank "Oh, i followed T.F. and Graves to piltover. You know, to get revenge on em. While there, i found this arm just lying around by a broken building with an X on it. Being the pirate i am, i claimed finders keepers and took it."

Meanwhile:

Jinx "Hey there fat hands, or should i say fat hand. Hahaha."

Vi "Hey, would you shut up."

Jinx "What happened, did you lose your hand. Finally punch something as hard as your head, or did you just forget where you put it?"

Vi "I didn't lose it, i just misplaced it."

Jinx "Thats the same thing honey. Oooh, the great and might Vi has lost her power fist. You should find it. its bad for your back to have all that weight on only one had. And i don't want to have to fight a cripple."

Vi "Oh just stop talking so i can punch you."

Jinx "Good luck doing anything like that."

Back at Gangplank's hideout:

Soraka "Oh yeah, and what is with the human skeleton that's been hanging on the wall. Its got some pretty cool designs carved in it, but it has been freaking me out."

Gangplank "Glad you like it, that is called Scrimshaw. That particular skeleton belongs to a docter who lied about his ability to save body parts."

Gnar "Alrighty then then, when can we leave?"

Gangplank "Well, the only way i can find is to fire you out of my cannons, and hope you hit your target. I will give you each an orange. As long as the impact doesn't kill you right away, just eat an orange and everything will be k."

KogMaw "Oh dear, i am pretty squishy. I think we can do it though, so here we go again." "Launches!"

Gangplank "I will miss that annoying little Yordle. Time to plot my revenge. Hmm, maybe turn those cannons into some sort of pirate mech. Nah, only an idiot would think of doing that. Wait a minute."

(Hey guys, thanks for reading this week. Sorry about this one being a little long. I wanted to wrap the bilgewater stuff up. And you didn't get one last week. So i think i can afford to make this one longer than normal. And since i didn't get one last week, here is a shorter one in the comments. You can read it now, or later if this one was too long for you.)

King Dellron15 votes

A Corporate Matter: Episode Fuzzy.

Malzahar "Ok it is time for me, Art Master Malzahar. To find the next skin for the league of legends."

Malzahar "Oh, you shutup jimmy. What do you know, you are just a voidling anyways." "Searches through dimensions for the next skin."

Malzahar "Haha, got one. I wonder its going to look li- HOLY !@#$ WHAT IS IT!"

Fizz "I am Cottontail fizz. I love to play with kidz. If i don't like you, i feed you to my giant rabbitz"

Malzahar "PUT IT BACK, GO BACK. GET BACK IN THERE!!!"

Fizz "Playful/Trickster"" You can't put me back, i'm the Cottontail man."

Malzahar "Alright, fine. I guess some demented players might buy you. And you are kinda like a Teemo, that someone hit the turn into fish button."

Fizz "Good, i shall be the best skin that there ever was."

One day later:

Gnaritem 1063 "Art master malzahar, what is this i hear about an easter skin."

Malzahar "Its nothing sir."

Gnaritem 1063 "I specifically told you, no more easter skins. No more Christmas skins, they are called snowdown skins now. no more holiday skins except for the harrowing. I thought you understood."

Malzahar "I do, but you see. This isn't an easter skin, because we are releasing it in August."

Gnaritem 1063 "Darn you and your loopholes. Where is the thing anyways?"

Fizz "RIGHT HERE!"

Gnaritem 1063 "HOLY !@#$!@#$%^"

Malzahar "Yeah, me and jimmy had the same reaction."

Gnaritem 1063 " Ok, there is something wrong with you guys. And why is there a carrot running frantically around me?"

Malzahar "Uhhh oh, it was nice knowing you."

Gnaritem 1063 "What do you mean? OH AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Fizz "I LOVE GIANT WABBITS!!!"

Malzahar "I mean, how could we not release this on the league of legends community."

FateDestinyHP1 votes

Ahri Hi

zackied1 votes

D- Dark Age of Camelot...item 3070 I miss u...

Street Jimby27 votes

So Nocturne - The eternal nighmare can be free but Graves cant have a ci-gets shot

Ralanr4 votes

Graves is too manly for a cigar anyway.

honorspell6 votes

im sorry but cigets shot sounds like it should be a thing.

Blind Drunk6 votes

I don't see why LB has a 1 for AD? I thought everyone built her as an ADC! I swear, I've carried like every game I've played as LB ADC! I won my Bronze IV Series with that stuff!

Darfaller2 votes

Bro play this guy ===>Nasus I carried myself through Silver 5 with him and im half way trhough Silver 4. I have won every game with him, needs 400-600 stacks to be strong and viable.

RaspoutinEddy5 votes

Where is the best champ ever? Yorick

Darfaller4 votes

Who is that guy? I thought it was a weird item or an ability.

Roudhouse2 votes

Riot realized Yoricks ghouls cause ghost flu. It is like the flu. But with ghosts. Also you have it until you die.

PT Waluigi1 votes

"Why are there no skins for Yorick!?" Because that would incourage people to play a Anti-fun champ.

Teslablade4 votes

Bought LeBlanc yesterday with the premonition that she would be on rotation. I am a fucking Jedi.

aswin0274 votes

huh? kinda weird free rotation this time.. kalista and ashe was free recently.. i kinda hate it when riot never add champions like yasuo or zed into the rotation..

Kurt Côbain2 votes

I know right! Seriously I've been waiting for Yasuo, Zed and Rengar FOR WEEEEEEKS now but nope. its been like 3 months or so?

SkatingBurrito1 votes

dont use yasuo and zed in the low elo ur in, pretty hard ;)

aswin0272 votes

yea. i do know that.. but u know, just to try them out. like at least in a bot game.

saffat4 votes

Why why no yas

HiDá1 votes

harder champs to play are free only once in a while

aswin0273 votes

i guess i'll have to disagree with that. harder champs such as draven is a very common member in free rotation..

TheFirstGokun1 votes

Draven's on rotation a lot because he's an ADC, and the pool for ADCs is limited considering how they put like 2 on free week every time. They distribute across the roles pretty evenly.

Pyro Engineer3 votes

Well that seems cool and all but where is Varus and Rengar

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

Various has been in like 3 of them in the last 2 months...

TheFirstGokun2 votes

Various? He's like my favorite artist!

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

rip autocorrect

The 13th Day3 votes

Welcome to free Ashe week. Where 97% of all ults miss their targets by a mile. Happy ulting!!!!

lightdragoon8820 votes

And 90% of those misses will be west coast blaming their 70 ping.

Kenki2 votes

-if you have complaints about the server relocation, go to : http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/q8sJLh1M-na-server-roadmap-update-upcoming-na-server-move -if you simply replied because you thought your comment was funny or smart, too bad for you it's not. the only people that will complain are butthurt people who already have bad internet, or those who don't care about others in the east.

lightdragoon889 votes

You are just mad cause it is true.

Sentinel Hydra7 votes

It was a joke... And yes it it funny...

Isaacorion3 votes

Anivia : 34% more eggs under towers. Ashe : 95% less escapes. Gnar : 40% more houses no longer for sale. Kalista : 192% less summoner 11s being used. Leblanc : 60% more cooldowns blown on illusions. LeeSin : 99% more item 2043s being jealously killed. Leona : 100% more Praise the Sun.item 3069 Nocturne : 60% more dives from the jungle. Shyvana : the other 40% more dives from the jungle. Xerath : 36% more deaths during recall.

DrGhostWalker3 votes

Why havent they put Yorick in a champ rotation

Renzhe1212 votes

Because of Yorick unique playstyle (abilities vary from empowered next hit, AoE, and single target dmg) he has been banned from the weekly rotation until a change comes along.
Same with Poppy

stacking2 votes

So just when i bought Leblanc, you put her in the free champ rotation. Just like the time I bought Sona. Claps slowly

TheFirstGokun4 votes

Riot, why do you antagonize this poor soul.

livingchurro1 votes

When does the new champ rotation go into affect?

Kenki3 votes

every tuesday

Jabril1 votes

It be same champions over, over again :/. Im very grateful riot but you guys keep using the same champs

MuffleMouse4114 votes

Have you heard of the "IP" mechanic in the game? It really helps you play the champions you want, whenever you want.

livingchurro4 votes

What champions were you looking for? Taric

MagicalKoller1 votes

Leave a commentCassiopeia

PT Waluigi2 votes

Hello! I'm a comment and I have been left by my owner.

Kwar131 votes

It hasn't changed for me yet, I've still got last weeks champions

archieLegends1 votes

im just waiting for Jayce to be free to play :''>

PaffWasTaken2 votes

If you are lucky he will be with rare champsYasuo Zed Rengar in free rotation in about one or two months...

archieLegends1 votes

Why so long? :'< i was thinking maybe i should buy him but he's like 6300 and if i dont like him it would be a waste if i didnt like him in the end

Neseidon1 votes

Can u guys put Zed and Rengar free to play?

kirbykylestorm1 votes

im hoping caitlyn or khazix become free soon i really want to try them

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