User blog comment:KaptnKrok/How do you guys pick your champs?/@comment-4542190-20140425215936

Well, personally, I have my faves in every lane, even though I haven't played all the lanes the same.

So far, I have played top most of the time. My favorites there include Garen (overall favorite hero, went 9/1/10 last game), Jayce, Aatrox, Jax, Riven etc. Other most played lane is bot, either as carry-faves include Draaaaaaaven, Lucian, Cailtyn, Miss Fortune or as support-Lulu, Leona, Lux mostly. I have no problem playing as support if I have to. It's just that, most of the time, our carry feeds, despite my best efforts. And I can't do much there..

Mid and jungle haven't played much-trying to learn currently but not to the point of "starting from basics, 1.0.1" and such. I know mostly how it works, I just need to play games (which can be hard with all..non-descripts rushing "mid or feed" and similar). Have my faves there as well.

So, in a nutshell, I play my faves most of the time. And like you, if I haven't played a certain hero I like in a long while, I opt to play him/her.

Regarding buying, again, I know what heroes I like and get them. Before I get involved in a game like LoL, I study well beforehand (my friends used to call me "walking encyclopaedia" back from classic DotA, asking me stuff like "how to build this guy?" or "how to level up this other guy?" all the time). So, I know from before which heroes I like and go for them (since not all are free from the start here). At the moment I have >20k ip saved up, was looking at some I don't have yet, but I'll probably get Braum as soon as he comes out. Also, I think I'll get the 2 rune pages in the price of one.