New week means new free champions for LoL Account owners. The free available champions change every week and this week’s free champions are the following:

Aatrox – the Darkin Blade

Caitlyn – the Sheriff of Piltover

Dr. Mundo – the Madman of Zaun

Jinx – the Loose Cannon

Kindred – the Eternal Hunters

Malzahar – the Prophet of the Void

Mordekaiser – the Iron Revenant

Nidalee – the Bestial Huntress

Ryze – the Rune Mage

Zilean – the Chronokeeper

How Free Champions Picked for LoL Account

Being a player of League of Legends and an owner of a max level LoL Account, I still wonder how Riot pick the rotation of the free champions. I have always thought that they just have a random generator for this but looking upon it, they have some criteria considering before deciding on who to make freely available for the week. Here’s what Chris from Riot said regarding this topic:

Champion Rotation Goals
1) Give new players some simple Champions to play
2) Provide a balance of types of Champions for new players
— This allows new players to make balanced teams
3) Allow players to preview all Champions eventually

Given these goals we look at player feedback, and decide which Champions should be free next week that allow us to meet these goals.

It is pretty vague on the reply but at least we now know that they do consider some factors and they just don’t throw free champions weekly at random. Yes, it is pretty disappointing sometimes that you want to try one certain champion but he or she isn’t available for the week. Now you can think to yourself “ah maybe that champion is not going to be good for the weekly balancing of free champions.” Also, remember, free champions are more for new players. Veteran LoL players are assumed to have unlocked many champions already and free champions are for those who are new to the game and still cannot afford to unlock their favorite champion.