A Poor mans guide to Runes?

[quote=BlueYonder]So as you know about half of the users of LoL actually pay money out of pocket. I am one of those who dont. It is very hard to choose between buying a new Champ or spending the points for runes. In upper level games runes make a pretty big difference in your gameplay so i was wondering which rune set up would be the most helpful for all the different types: ad,ap,tank,support champions. The best i can come up with is this: 9x attack speed Marks 9x dodge seals 9x cooldown glyphs 3x health quints What are your thoughts?[/quote]

[quote=B-Wong]You have 2 rune pages. You're not going to be able to cover all of the general runes unless you have 3 rune pages. 1 for physical DPS 1 for casters 1 for tanks All champions fit, a single rune page cannot.[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]Health quints are universally good for any champion. Greater Glyphs of Shielding and Greater Glyphs of Focus are also universally good. Greater Seals of Clarity/Evasion work on most champs. As for marks, you usually always want Desolation or Insight - personally I find Insight to be more useful, but that's because I usually play mages. There's no be-all-end-all good Mark for all champions.[/quote]

[quote=Diesel]I found a good synergy for all champs runs something like this: 9x MPen/ArP Marks [Red] 9x AtkSpd/Armor Seals [Yellow] 9x FlatMana/CooldownperLevel Glyphs [Blues] 3x FlatHP/FlatAP Quints [Biggies] Switch off for Tanks or Squishies, or whichever you depend on most. Been using that for nearly 800 games.[/quote]

[quote=RaNuD]Diesel said most of what should have been said I think. I'd like to add Mana Regen per level for Yellow runes. Unless you play those manaless heroes a lot, those runes allow you to spam your spells with most champs. For blue, the CDr per level Diesel mentionned seem better than flat mana to me. (btw, HP quints cost HELLA'LOTS, but they're pretty kickass. I prefer having 3APen + 3 MPen though. Personal much I guess)[/quote]

[quote=WorldsDeadliestBaker]Get your Health Quints now! Festive ones are discounted. I would say that [color=red]Marks - Desolation/Insight[/color] [color=yellow]Glyphs - Evasion/Clarity[/color] [color=blue]Seals - Focus/Shielding[/color] [color=orange]Quints - Desolation/Flat HP[/color] are probably your best bets. But that's just me :)[/quote]

[quote=Visfarix]So far I'm finding that the best universal runes are as follows: Marks: ArPen for physical, MagPen for magical Seals: HP for manaless champions, MP regen/level for everyone else Glyphs: Straight CDR Quints: Straight HP Of course, because these are the universal runes, they will not be the best possible choice for every champion. Instead of setting 2 or 3 universal rune pages that can be used for every single champion that falls under each class, what I like to do is identify which 3-4 champions I'm most likely to play for a week and then setup rune pages for them accordingly. Sure this means you might limit yourself to only a couple champions and setting up rune pages is annoying, but I find it helps me discover and learn more about rune crafting for champions and what works best on each champ. Plus you'll be surprised how often rune pages set up specifically for one champion can easily work on another champion.[/quote]

[quote=JACN]In my personal opinion, The first runes anybody should ever go for are as follows. Flat Health Quints Armor Pen Reds Magic Pen Reds You will need these runes on damn near every champion you will play. They are by far the best bang for their buck. Other good choices are MP5/lvl Yellows, and Cooldown/lvl Blues(Most people grab the flat ones, the per lvl ones are better late game, if you play a Carry, get the ones per lvl). I suggest those as well.[/quote]

[quote=DEWO]Universal for me: Marks Seals Glyphs Quits Physical: ArP Dodge CDR/AS/Mres ArP/FlatHP Caster: Mpen AP/lvl AP/lvl FlatAP/AP-lvl/FlatHP Tank: Mpen FlatArmor FlatMres FlatHP[/quote]

[quote=Trojan995]I grab HP5/lvl yellows for all my champions, namely because I can't afford any more than 1 set of runes at this point in time, and it greatly helps the laning phase. I find that I benefit from these runes almost every game, and they're entirely universal. If you do play manaless champions a lot, I'd say grab health regen yellows. As for reds, blues, and quints, I'd only be reiterating what others have said by saying MPen/ArPen reds, CDr blues, and flat health quints.[/quote]