New Free Champion Rotation (Season One: Week 38) | LoL - League of Legends

New Free Champion Rotation (Season One: Week 38) | LoL - League of Legends

Greetings Summoners! This week’s 10 free champions have been rotated.

Here are this week's free champions:

Week 38 (this week):

• Ashe
• Blitzcrank
• Heimerdinger
• Rammus
• Singed
• Twitch
• Veigar
• Poppy
• Karma
• Nocturne

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

See you on the Fields of Justice!

Blind Monk and New Champ Rotation

Last year, around this time, we were forced to say our goodbyes to a loved and cherished friend, taken from us so tragically and so senselessly before his time. On April 1st 2010, we bid farewell to Urf the Manatee. It was a trying time for all of us all, and many came forward to pour their hearts out and memorialize this noble prince among Sea Cows.

If there’s anything that the death of Urf the Manatee has taught us, it’s that people deal with grief in different ways. For instance, take this gentleman here. Lee Sin was so shaken up that he actually ran off and joined a monastery. Now he’s Lee Sin the Blind Monk. Hey, what do you mean you’ve seen him before?

OFCHokkaido: I swear if this is another april fools joke I might cry =[

Greetings Summoners! This week’s 10 free champions have been rotated.
Here are this week's free champions:
Week 37 (this week):

• Master Yi
• Nunu
• Ryze
• Taric
• Mordekaiser
• Shen
• Kog’Maw
• Galio
• Lux
• Caitlyn

Wondering how we picked this week's free champions? Read up on it HERE.
See you on the Fields of Justice!

War on the Greys: My Thoughts

   With all the posts about the summoners code popping up, I felt it was necessary to write a full blog post about the subject at hand. For those of you who have not read earlier posts of mine, I made it obvious that I was against the pact to join the followers of the summoners code. That being said, I am in no way against the code. To clarify, I cannot in good judgement accept a code of conduct that neither I, the community, nor the riot staff can or have followed themselves.

   The Summoners Code itself is wonderful. I enjoy the fact that Riot is attempting to take a stand against players with attitude problems. Unfortunately it's a code of conduct that nobody can really abide by. Lets face it, you as a company are potentially trying to fight the internet itself. Because it's a team game, there will always be players on your team that cost you the game. There will always be players who swear, feed, and in other words, throw the game because honestly, they don't care about you. What riot fails to realize is that a good majority of those players probably accepted the Summoners Code without reading a single line.


   I'm sure there will be some who try their best to be a positive asset to their teams, and work hard to help their teammates wherever possible. Please, keep it up. The issue I am trying to make is that you don't need to sign a contract in order to do so. Your personality is part of who you are, and people like you make these matches great.


   Here is a portion from a Riot-Supported thread on their site:

For you see, there is a problem in this community. Some more politically correct summoners would like to ignore it, or pretty their words or skirt around the issue we all know plagues this community. The problem I speak to you is, of course, the Greys.

Ignorant, disagreeable and brutish, the Greys would try to portray their cause one of freedom of choice, but in reality it is a backward clinging to traditional values that hold no place in modern, civilised society. I, for one, refuse to live in a world dominated by the presence of Greys and subject to the tyranny of the Grey Agenda.




   This person is essentially calling out anyone who has not accepted the code in a negative manner. Something that is against the forum rules, but Riot supports it. About a month ago, riot had to fire one of their interns because even he could not follow the code. Look back at the quoted portion above, and replace the word "darkies" or "greys" with any other racial slur you can think. Whether or not this post was a joke or not, it's still negative and should not be supported by Riot. Some are even throwing around "darkies" which is considered as a racial slur for African-descended people in many anti-grey movement threads.


   Like I have said in previous posts, I cannot in good judgement accept a code of conduct that I, nor the League of Legends community can or will abide themselves. Most who will publicly follow the code, but in game act no differently. People who will hop on a smurf account and feed, because it doesnt effect themselves. Players who only care about a badge on the forums, and have posts that stand out regardless of the content. Summoners who generally don't care about your code. If I have to be punished by having my posts be overlooked because I understand that accepting the code doesn't mean people will follow it, then fine.


   I still say this, I will try my best to follow the code and be a positive teammate for the sake of the match, But I cannot, and will not lie to you, to the community, and to myself by accepting the Summoners Code until I finally see a positive change in the community.


~Hokkaido


If you agree, I humbly ask you to support my thread (which I lazily copy/pasted from my own blog) at this link: http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=592477

Sorry Riot

I cannot in good judg