Rune recommendations?

[Tek7]

I hit level 20 in early November and still haven't purchased any runes.

/me dodges rotten tomatoes

So what runes do you guys recommend?

I play Morgana as my main (MUST MELT FACE) and I've taken a liking to Blitzcrank as my alt, but I'm all over the board otherwise (and my Pokemon-esque mission to play every champion continues).

Ideally, I'd find a set of all-purpose runes that work well for Morgana and Blitzcrank. But if I need to buy a set of runes specifically for Morgana, well, I think I could live with that (assuming I can buy two sets of runes for ~13,000 IP).

 

[Tek7]

Okay, how about this at level 20 and this at level 30?

Or should I just hold off until Riot adds the new runes?

 

[Mostly_Harmless]

No matter what you choose, always make sure to get the per level runes over the flat runes. You get double their worth at level 18 and more than the flat rate after level 10.

 

[Turbo164]

No matter what you choose, sometimes make sure to get the per level runes over the flat runes. You get double their worth at level 18 and more than the flat rate after level 10.

It depends on the champ (and overall matchup). Someone who has a weak early game + strong lategame like Yi or Olaf, doesn't benefit much from per-level runes as they'll still start 0-5 and try to climb to 37-6 as the game passes 45 minutes. If they got Flat runes, that would make their first few levels much less painful, hopefully making them 2-3, which gives them the money and XP to start owning faces at 25 minutes instead of 45. Junglers also (used to much more so) want the flat runes, because they are dealing and taking damage constantly starting from level 1, rather than safely last-hitting for the first 10 minutes.

For Morg I would consider:
Red: Magic pen, no question.
Yellow: MP5/level is great. If you buy a lot of mana items (or you expect to get jumped on a lot by Talon and run out of life before you run out of mana), Armor/level could work instead.
Blue: AP/level works, Flat Cooldown Reduction (the per levels don't pass flat until about level 13 iirc, and the extra fraction of a percent won't affect what items you buy to reach 40%), Resist (flat or per level) works.
Quints: AP (flat or per level) is nice, moreso than Magic Pen or Spellvamp imo because it affects Black Shield. Flat health or Movespeed are decent on any character.

Blitz:
Red: the new Destruction hybrid runes should be fantastic, since blitz always does some of both damage types. The magic pen from morg isn't bad if you want to save money (and likewise, she'd do fine with the hybrids as well; heck you could buy 4-5 of each and grow them to 9each over the next decade if you want)
Yellow: MP5/level works, Armor/level works.
Blue: Flat Cooldown Reduction probably gets the nod so you can hook from the bushes more early game (and spam Power Fist and Ult more later). AP/level, Resist (flat or per level) work too.
Quints: Destruction if you like doing damage with blitz. If you prefer getting assists by spamming grabs/knockups/silences, might prefer Movespeed or more Cooldown Reduction (Power Fist with 40% CDR is fantastic!). AP or Flat Health can work, as can AD (but that wouldn't really overlap with Morg, and I think the Destruction would probably be better anyway).

 

[jamdrew]

reds: magic penetration
yellows: health/level
blues: ap/level
quints: flat AP

yellows make you a lot more tanky making you more resilliant to ganks, flat quints to give you extra lane sustain with your passive, yellows/blues will give you bonus while you are able to stay in lane for entire game because you are morgana~

 

[Tek7]

Ugh. I still haven't chosen my runes. They're not all that important when I play one bot match every 2 weeks...

Still, I'd like to have it done just to have it done.

Are there any changes to the experts' recommendations since Riot added the new runes?

 

[Tek7]

This is what I went with.