advice on purchasing a champion?

Only Gray·Nov 1, 2014·1 votes·620 views

Hi people that have probably seen this question a bazillion times-

I've recently begun to play LoL and now I have enough IP points to purchase any champion. I'd like some advice on picking, as the last time I chose a champ (Mundo) it didn't work out.

I'm not too familiar with roles yet and I've stuck to twisted treeline for the majority of my games. From the current rotation I've mostly been using swain, which I really enjoy playing. I dunno if I should just grab him or wait and test out some more champs first. Is swain an alright champ for a scrub? Is there another character that'd be better? I love my ranged attacks and AoE. And healing abilities. Those are cool too. Advice appreciated. C:

And as bonus question, what determines the price of a champion? How good it is? How long it's been out? If I were to wait would it cost less to purchase a newly released champion?

16 Comments

Deep Terror NamiNov 1, 20145 votes

If you are unaware, Riot offers 3 free skins for subscribing to their social media. And if you don't have the champion that skin is for, you get the champion free too!

Twitter: Dreadknight Garen Facebook: Riot Girl Tristana Youtube: Unchained Alistar

Ok other than those, it depends on what you like. If you're looking for a ranged Mage like Swain Swain , you might also like Ahri Ahri , Cassiopeia , or Ryze Ryze . Swain is much better at self healing than Cass or Ahri (Ryze has no innate ability to), but Ryze also builds Rod of Ages item 3027 which helps make both him and Swain tanky (a common role for playing Top Lane on Summoner's Rift map).

Ryze is a good pick, but I hear he's going to have some changes (remove mana scaling) done which could possibly take Rod of Ages or Seraph's Embrace item 3040 out of his normal build. I think you should pick up Swain since you like him, and ask about Ryze after he is changed.

AlljoyNov 1, 20141 votes

> There was an error accessing your youtube account. You may try the workaround suggested below.

That's what I keep getting when I try to grab the Alistar Skin. : [

Deep Terror NamiNov 1, 20141 votes

I had an issue trying to get it as well (though, not an error, it said it gave it to me but didn't). Send in a support ticket and they will add it to your account.

Edit: You might also try taking the link from Youtube (it says "Unlock Unchained Alistar" in teh middle, underneath Facebook) instead of taking the one I posted which takes you straight to the skin claim on the LoL site.

AlljoyNov 1, 20141 votes

Ahh.

Thanks!

Deep Terror NamiNov 1, 20141 votes

Check the edit I made.

Fnatic JhinNov 2, 20141 votes

> There was an error accessing your youtube account. You may try the workaround suggested below.

That's what I keep getting when I try to grab the Alistar Skin. : [

This is what I did and it worked

comment on any of there videos. And try again it worked for me

Only GrayNov 1, 20141 votes

Thank you! (: EDIT OMG alistar is such a beast. I love you.

Fnatic JhinNov 1, 20143 votes

Save up for RUNES.

Only GrayNov 2, 20141 votes

Will do, thanks!

TonyTonyMordecaiNov 2, 20142 votes

This might be my opinion, but I didn't start saving for runes until I was around level 26, because you don't have enough spaces open on your rune pages to make an effective rune page. At this moment, just try to worry about getting champions, see what roles you like/attributes in abilities that suit your fancy, that way you can get more experience while playing the game. Also, try to make mastery pages for your owned champions, and work on those as you level up, because those benefit you, and they don't cost anything!

Only GrayNov 2, 20141 votes

Yup, I noticed the lack of spaces. I'll probably wait a while, then.

I have 5 runes and I've never purchased any. Are these just starter runes?

Thank you for all your advice. (:

TonyTonyMordecaiNov 2, 20141 votes

The thing is, runes don't become useful until you unlock the tier three runes. I honestly have no clue about those free runes, but that is pretty interesting.

Brenticus12Nov 1, 20142 votes

ALWAYS go for the champion you enjoy playing the most. You MIGHT get lucky and end up loving the champion you bought at random (I love playing renekton, thresh, yasuo and Vi and Vi was the only one I played during free rotation) but it's safer to go with whoever you enjoy playing.

I thought Jax and Tryndamere would be fun to play and bought them, but they're botb extremely boring to play, for me atleast. You might like them, idk, but that just goes to show you that buying a champion at random simply cause you saw someone else play them well isn't the best idea especially if you're strapped on rRP or IP

Only GrayNov 1, 20141 votes

Thanks for the advice!

AlljoyNov 1, 20141 votes

Go for the champion you enjoy playing first.

The ChinNov 1, 20141 votes

Honestly if you like Swain then you should just buy him, then you'll always be able to play him.

Try out other champs when they're on the free rotation to get a feel for what you're into.

Nasus is another champ that's kind of similar to Swain