League of Legends Community - Champion Rotation Schedule Announced!

Champion Rotation Lineup
Like all good things, the launch celebration has to come to an end. Once we have the store up our plan is to have a rotating set of 10 champions free at all time. Our goal is to give new players some great starting champions to play with, and to give players a chance to try out champions without having to unlock them. To meet our first goal (great starting champions), we’ve tried to create a list of champions that have a number of Melee, Ranged, Tank, Support and Mages in each grouping of ten.

Here is what we are thinking for our rotating champion schedule:

Week One

Code:

Champion        Type

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Jax                Melee DPS

Ashe                Ranged DPS

Corki                Mage

Taric                Support

Heimerdinger        Support

Master Yi        Melee DPS

Ryze                Mage

Sion                Tank

Blitzcrank        Tank

Warwick                Melee DPS

Week Two

Code:

Champion        Type

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Annie                Mage

Ashe                Ranged DPS

Zilean                Support

Katarina        Melee DPS

Gangplank        Melee DPS

Ryze                Mage

Singed                Tank

Teemo                Ranged DPS

Blitzcrank        Tank

TBD                Melee DPS

Week Three

Code:

Champion        Type

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Jax                Melee DPS

Morgana                Support

Fiddlesticks        Mage

Kayle                Tank

Master Yi        Melee DPS

Alistar                Tank

Tristana        Ranged DPS

Twitch                Ranged DPS

Yeti                Tank

TBD                Melee DPS

Week Four

Code:

Champion        Type

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Fiddlesticks        Mage

Taric                Support

Kayle                Tank

Malphite        Melee DPS

Nassus                Melee DPS

Veigar                Mage

Sion                Tank

Sivir                Ranged DPS

Soraka                Support

TBD                Tank

If your favorite champion isn't on the list, you can always unlock them by playing, or with Riot Points.

Q: How much do these overlap with the Collector's Pack? How much will these champions cost?
We can't announce the final pricing yet, but I can show you whether the champion will be priced as Heroic, Epic, or Legendary (with Heroic champions costing the fewest Influence Points or Riot Points to unlock).

Number of Champions:

Code:



Type                                Week 1        Week 2        Week 3        Week 4

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Mage                                  2          2          1          2

Tank                                  2          2          3          3

Melee DPS                          3          3          3          2

Support                                  2          1          1          2

Ranged DPS                          1          2          2          1



Collector's Pack Overlap          2          4          5          6

Heroic                                  3          3          3          3

Epic                                  4          3          5          6

Legendary                          3          3          1          0

Q: Why do different champions need different amounts of Influence Points to unlock?
We felt that some champions that were straightforward to play should be able to be unlocked early (we called them Heroic). There were also some champions that we felt were especially fun to play or required a lot of skill to use which require more Riot Points or Influence Points to unlock (these are Legendary champions).

Q: What about the TBD champions?
Well, we’re working on a few champions here at Riot Games, but we’re not ready to announce them yet. We also won’t release a champion that isn’t finished or could benefit with even more refinement. However, we would like to get new champions into the rotation once they are finished, so we’re saving a spot for them.

Q: This would be better if you swapped my favorite champion in and took out this other champion.
That’s not really a question - but if you do have suggestions on how to improve the rotation we can still make changes to the lineup. But please do suggest who you’d like to swap out in order to add another champion so other people can react to who would be missing as well. We’ll read this thread.

Q: When is week one?
At the moment we’re measuring reactions to the launch celebration and working on making a great store. Week one will be the first week with the store, and our aim is to announce the launch of the store soon.

Note: Credit for this post goes to RiotChris