Wait to Buy Runes!

Mat7itan·Oct 26, 2015·1 votes·468 views

It's almost that time of year. That one magical time of year when Riot actually puts runes on sale. If you want runes I highly recommend waiting just a few months because this way you will be able to get twice as many runes as you could now, but make sure you don't miss it because this is the only time that runes will go on sale because Riot wants you to play 50 games so that way you can buy one set of runes the rest of the year. Good job Riot!... If you can't tell I am just a little salty. Over 7k Ip to get 9 runes that I need for only 1 runepage right now. In all seriousness if you want to get runes wait. You get more for your time, and because of that you get more rune pages.

8 Comments

Drive By MaxOct 27, 20153 votes

And honestly, runes are supposed to be expensive, as the most basic rune pages you should have don't cost that much, anything past that is mostly just a long term goal to make niche things stronger.

Mat7itanOct 27, 20151 votes

For these tier 3 runes AD and Ap Quints, MR Glyphs, Armor Seals, Ad Marks, and Magic pen. Marks (good basic rune pages) it cost just over 20kk.

EndlessSorcererOct 27, 20151 votes

2(3*1025)+9*420+3(9*205) = 15465 IP

It's significantly less than 20k. And that valuation was from before they put them on sale permenantly.

IIRC, the cost has since been halved.

Drive By MaxOct 26, 20151 votes

50 games for one set of runes? What. The most expensive runes are about 1-2k, which I can earn fairly quickly, much less than 50 games.

EnvironmentalistOct 26, 20151 votes

Maybe 50 games if you go 0/20 each game and receive like 34 IP each. :P

Mat7itanOct 26, 20151 votes

The most expensive runes are quints which are 1-2k for one. so around 4-6k for 3. And I thought I was overexaggerating about the 50 games, but using my last 21 games as a reference it's actually pretty accurate. I added the post I made about that to this post.

BaunjoOct 27, 20151 votes

Do not listen to this guy, runes are very very important. You should be spending most of your ip on runes until you have them all and if you want champions i recommend using RP. But honestly waiting that long is a terrible idea

Mat7itanOct 27, 20151 votes

I know they're important which is why whoever designed the system is an idiot.