The game also refuses to give clear advantages to people who are willing to spend money. You can buy champions and extra rune pages and boosts with money, but a diligent free player can get any champions he wants with enough IP you get from games, and extra rune pages are just to make your life a bit easier, you can just alter your original when you need different bonuses. The things that really matter, IE masteries and runes are either acquired with IP or leveling up. If you're willing to spend a
fair bit of money, you can get stuff faster (buying champions and IP/XP boosts) but you'll get them anyway even if you don't pay a cent.
In another note, I just carried my team through backdooring.
Yorick hitting your turret? Enjoy taking ages to kill him. He died? Oh, his ulti was up, turret asplodes anyway. With rank 3 ultimate you literally push turrets twice as fast, and just revive back to push even more if you die. We won with 10 kills less, but with our 70% of our turrets still intact, while they lost all 3 lanes.
Everytime, it ended up going like this:
Yorick: OMEN OF DEATH ARGLEBARGLE.
Ryze: Omg wut u doin???
Yorick: I'M BURYING YOUR TURRET.
70% of turret's health later, Ryze arrives.
Ryze: Die b1tch
Yorick: Problem, officer?
Ryze: RUNEPRISONOVERLOADRUNEPRISONOVERLOARDARKJKSAJDIJ OMG Y U NO DIE???
Yorick: KEKEKEKEKE
Turret goes down, team arrives, kills me. Get back up, repeat.
Or my favorite:
Yorick: Burying inhibitors, errrrrvday.
Team spawns, focuses me down, and inhib survives with 1% health.
Team: NOOB, I KING.
Then omen of death kicks in and I autoattack the inhibitor once.