It would take hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours playing League of Legends to collect every champion without spending your hard-earned cash by the truckload. That’s why the weekly free champions handed out by Riot Games can be great for trying them all out before actually committing to buying anything.
Every Tuesday, 20 out of the 168 total League champions are selected to become free-to-play in unranked playlists. Here are this week’s free champions.
League free champion rotation—May 7 to 14
It’s another week in League of Legends, which means you can play 20 new champions for free. This week’s champion rotation list includes a nine-tailed fox, an angry horse, and an old man. So, there’s certainly something for everyone.
But that doesn’t mean every champion is good enough for you. According to U.GG, the League stat tracker, quite a few of these champions, such as Swain, with his shockingly low win rate of 47.08 percent, Rengar and his 47.61 percent win rate, and Nautilus, who has a win rate of 49.13 percent, are going to make League feel more challenging than it already is, and playing them will feel like an uphill struggle.
The champions currently crushing it on the Rift, and ones you can try out for free this week, are Akshan or Veigar mid, Blitzcrank support, and Jinx in the bot lane. These champions aren’t too difficult to master, but they do have a learning curve. However, once you get into the groove of piloting them, you’ll be trapping and hooking people in no time.
While these are only a few of the free champions, below is the full list of 20 free champions you can try this week in League:
- Aatrox
- Ahri
- Draven
- Hecarim
- Janna
- Karthus
- Kayn
- Nasus
- Nautilus
- Neeko
- Orianna
- Pantheon
- Rengar
- Sett
- Swain
- Sylas
- Taric
- Vayne
- Wukong
- Xayah
If you’re new to League and aren’t sure where to start, try Janna, as she is the easiest champion to master, or Vayne, because her kit is simple to understand, and she’s a great starting ADC.
This free-play rotation will update on May 14, with 20 more characters added. Any debuting League champions are added three weeks after release.
