League of Legends Rune Buying Tips

What runes to buy when you become level 20

Many new League of Legends players don’t know how to spend their ip.  Runes, Champions, more rune pages, and sometimes ward skins, there are many things you can buy.

So I am here to solve your problems!

1.       Don’t buy any tier 1 and tier 2 runes!

If you are under level 20, don’t buy any tier 1 and tier 2 runes.  Tier 1 and tier 2 runes are cheap but you won’t be using them when you are level 30. 

2.       Don’t buy champions every time you have some ip. 

You have to save some ip for runes so don’t use all your ip.  Buy maybe 1 expensive champion and few cheap champions that you really want to play, and save rest ip for runes.  When you become level 20, you will face players with runes.  If you don’t have runes while your enemy has almost full rune set, you will surely have hard time playing. 

3.       When you first buy runes, buy runes that can be used by as many champions possible. 

When you are low level, you still don’t have many champions and you might not know what kind of champs you are good at.  So buy runes that can be used by many champs.

Here are some runes that many people use and that can be used by almost all champions that are in same category.

Rune type

Rune Name

Rune Effect

Rune Price per 1

AP Champions

There are many different rune setting you can go, but this setting will cost you the least ip since you can use same seal and glyph for other types of champions too.

Mark	Greater Mark of Magic Penetration	+ 0.87 magic Penetration	410
Seal	Greater Seal of Armor	+1.41 armor	205
Glyph	Greater Glyph of Magic Resist	+1.34 magic resist	205
Quintessence	Greater Quintessence of Ability Power	+ 4.95 ability power	1025

AD Champions

Getting ad runes for ad champions will benefit you in many ways: easy cs, and hits harder with skills.  Because minions don’t have much armor, getting attack damage helps more for taking cs.  You could get Greater Mark of Armor Penetration for late game if you feel like taking cs is easy.

Mark	Greater Mark of Attack Damage	+ 0.95 attack damage	205
Seal	Greater Seal of Armor	+1.41 armor	205
Glyph	Greater Glyph of Magic Resist	+1.34 magic resist	205
Quintessence	Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage	+ 2.25 attack damage	1025

Support Champions

Add gold quintessence runes if you want to play support.  Because supports don’t take any cs, it’s best to get gold runes so they can buy wards and other items.  Investing on gold mastery will synergize well with the gold rune.  On Mark, you can use many different runes depending on your support’s role.  You can choose one of those three marks.

Mark	Greater Mark of Attack Speed	+1.7% attack speed	410
Mark	Greater Mark of Magic Penetration	+ 0.87 magic Penetration	410
Mark	Greater Mark of Armor	+0.91 armor	205
Seal	Greater Seal of Armor	+1.41 armor	205
Glyph	Greater Glyph of Magic Resist	+1.34 magic resist	205
Quintessence	Greater Quintessence of Gold	+1 gold  / 10 sec.	515

                Most junglers

Mark	Greater Mark of Attack Speed	+1.7% attack speed	410
Seal	Greater Seal of Armor	+1.41 armor	205
Glyph	Greater Glyph of Magic Resist	+1.34 magic resist	205
Quintessence	Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage	+ 2.25 attack damage	1025

               Other Popular Runes

Mark	Greater Mark of Armor Penetration	+1.28 armor penetraion	410
Seal	Greater Seal of Scaling Health	+1.08 health per level (+19.44 at 18)	410
Quintessence	Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed	+1.5% movement speed	2050

If you have any suggestions or questions, post a comment.  I will try to reply as soon as possible.