Give us a item shop!

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No.

The minute we're allowed to pick our items is the minute you'll see the exact same items every single game.

Furthermore, it will turn into a meta where everyone waits to buy items until the last few rounds, because if you buy items early -- someone can just go buy the item that counters it. Whoever buys items first loses.

Also, people will start hoarding gold from the first few rounds of the game because item power > champion power, and if you can just horde 200 gold and survive until the mid-late game, you can just try to 3-star literally any two champions it doesn't even matter, and then just load them up with the optimal OP items and boom you win.

Item shop is a horrible idea.

No.

The only way to alleviate the RNG-ness of this game mode is at least being able to pick your own items. Fighting with no items against someone who has 4 them is anything, but fair and besides most of the time the same composition wins right now, so your arguement is pretty much not valid.