It now takes 882 hours to unlock a single new champion in League of Legends for a new player

It was calculated and reasoned in said post, it's just that the clickbait title was a little too good and people ran off without actually reading what it was for. Leading it to be sensationalized way more than it was intended lmao.

To quote it directly,

Right now, you can only get Blue Essence from the Battle Pass. And after you grind through the first 50 levels, you need to play for 882 hours to unlock a single extra champion!

They're referring to the amount of grind required without any of the BE rewards from the previous track. Now, why is this important? According to a Rioter's calculations

https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1hy3ohj/comment/m6erjkp/?context=8

"There are 4 champion capsules on the pass

There is 4750 BE on the pass excluding repeating rewards

(Both of these are frontloaded on the pass and thus require less engagement than cosmetics in general)

There are 6 passes per year

That is 24 champion capsules × year

That is 28,500 BE × year

Not including new player missions and rewards"

There is a cap on the amount of BE you can get per year now. The 882 hours figure is how much you would have to grind after you reach that limit, in order to purchase one of the newer champions.

Aka, new players will be hard pressed to catch up in terms of champion pool in a decent chunk of time. It used to be that, alongside their revamped new player missions and rewards, the lower XP curve meant you were showered with a pretty penny's worth of BE. Now with levels meaning very little, it's more so a time gate system than a reward system.

Honestly speaking, I don't know why this had to be an issue. They could have just made all the champions free for everyone at this point, no one cares about the "sanctity of the champion grind" lol.

!g*mers

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