User blog comment:Themguyman/Picking your next champion/@comment-137.226.66.4-20130115143915

I usually buy old champions when I get bored playing a certain role and want a cheap way to expand on the choices I have. Alternatively, I buy old champs after having fun with one I don't own yet during free week.

New champs have much more of the "oooh... that looks cool, I want one of those" attraction.

As to playing them in roles where they don't fit in, I blame two things: lane assignments and pro tournaments. Some people will just want to play their newly acquired champs at any cost and if they don't get to play a lane where the champ fits in, they just go to a different lane and pick the same guy, anyways. And then there are tournaments where people see unconventional strategies and get this crazy idea that just because some pro could pull it off well, it must be OP. Like having two junglers or playing AD Kennen. Sure, it can work, but PLEASE don't do it if you have no clue what you're doing...