Talk:List of champions/@comment-130.166.220.137-20130329231814/@comment-4022742-20130601082553

RIOT have stated that the higher price is just for the first week to discourage people picking them up on release, in order to wait for the top tier players to figure out how to play them and then mimick that play style...

Since this price bump is only for the first week, it's not really a price drop, but a removal of restriction.