Features that would improve League of Legends

League of legends has over a hundred champions available, a lot of runes to fit every situation, masteries to compensate your play-style, a very nice spectator mode and many more fun and useful features with Riot adding to them constantly. What about the features that it doesn’t have though. Let’s take a look on some cool features that we would like to see implemented soon.

 

Buyback/sellback

The ability to sell and/or buy back an item for the same amount of gold. I am willing to bet that many of us have bought two pairs of boots or sold an item by accident and losing great amounts of gold, with this new feature though you would be able to sell back your second pair of boots or buying back your B.F. Sword without losing any money, as long as you didn’t close the shop window.

Replay system

LoL Replay is an amazing tool and if you are not using it already, do it. It is though an unofficial tool, it can be dropped by its creator and stop working in future patches or people might not just know about it. Having an official replay means that everyone would have access to it and it would work for ever. Many games have that feature so it is not something innovative or obscene; I believe that it is just a matter of time until it goes live.

Customizable suggested items

Being able to customize your suggested items in the shop bar on the fly without using a third party program would save you so much time and make your life that much easier. You don’t need the same items every match especially those outdated suggested default items that some champions have as recommended.

An easier to navigate shop

The shop right now is rather slow to navigate if you are not completely used to it. As stated before the suggested items are not always good for your champion and there is not search function either. Think of playing with a friend that doesn’t know much and he asks you “hey what should I build on X” and you respond “Frozen Heart”, your next response will be you telling him to “Go to defense->armor and scroll toward the end to find it”, doesn’t sound that fast to me hopefully the enemy jungler is not ganging you at that time. If he had a search option though, he could just type in the name and find it himself.

An extra slot for wards

Supports don’t have lots of money in a game, they usually run around with some of the components for an item and wards, lots of them. They are squishy, under geared and under leveled, on top of that they have to sacrifice one slot to carry the wards, due to that they miss out on a stat, be it armor, life or magic resist it is a stat that they can’t afford to lose. On the other side a farmed up AD carry has all his slots filled in order to out scale his opponent and therefore he can’t buy a ward to help out. So having an extra slot that can only be used to support up to a full stack of wards can make everyone’s life in game so much better.

A remove/kick player option in champion select

It is a good day, you are back home from school or work, all you want to do is play a nice match of LoL and enjoy your favorite game. Suddenly a wild Soraka appears with promote and revive demanding to go mid lane or he will AFK at base. What do you do? Leave and get a time penalty because of some troll or go in and pray that he is just making a bad joke? Either way your mood is ruined. How great would it be though if you had option to vote kick that guy out of the game without any consequence on you or the other three reasonable people in your team. The warm light of justice will shine once again upon Valoran.

Teammates' summoner spells visible on the UI

Nothing more than what the spectator mode has right now. Two little icons next to your teammate’s portrait that indicate if their summoner spells are available or not. Simple yet highly effective.

More summoner icons

This has been around for a while now; the game has the same summoner icons since its release almost three years ago. The only exception is if you have the Pulse fire Ezreal theme and have that one more icon to use. I understand that it doesn’t affect the game in any way but having something better to look at next to your name is never bad.

More freedom in key bindings

Right now by default you have your abilities on Q,W,E,R with the option to smart cast them using the Shift key as a modifier (Shift+Q, Shift+W etc). What you can’t do is swap that around, if you want your spells to be smart casts by default without the use of shift you either have to replace Q,W,E,R or bind them to completely different keys. What I would like to be able to do though is use Q,W,E,R as smart casts and the Shift key as a modifier for normal casts. In general, we have many buttons on our keyboards, give us more freedom.

Invisible mode in chat

This might just be me being obnoxious or antisocial but I would like to have the ability of loging into LoL without any of my friends being able to see me. Sometimes I just want to play a game alone, just log in, get in queue, put on some music and play. I understand that this isn’t an IM program or a social network but I would love to see it implemented in the future.

The one thing I never want to see featured

Achievements.

I know many of you are like “what is this guy saying, achievements rock” but let me explain. Unless achievements are implemented in a way that they will not affect a match and give something as a reward I would be fine with it, but there are many variables.

Let’s say that Riot implements an achievement to get 10 kills in a solo queue game vs. players, suddenly every game you will have at least one person asking to get all the kills so he can complete the said achievement, every team fight you will be thinking “I must not kill or he will be angry and he might goes AFK”. How can this be good?

The achievement I would be fine with is something like this “Reach X amount of victories in normal or ranked solo queue”, reward: 5000 ip or 2 rune pages or a skin or a cool summoner’s icon. Those achievements I can get behind, but how many of those can you have. Maybe if was available for every champion and you get that champion's icon as your summoner icon, that would be good.

Maybe I am just paranoid but if they don’t design this perfectly it can so easily become a minefield and you can be standing in the middle of it. The game is great as it is, none of the above features is vital but having a better game experience and more options to go with it, is always something to look forward to.