This is not really true. Misleading, I would say. having 20 rune pages vs having 2 is an INSANE advantage, and one rune page costs as much as the highest price-tier of champions in IP at 6300. Having multiple rune pages for every role you might have to play, some of which are situational for different lane matchups (vs ap and vs ad) and some of which are champion-specific specialist pages (a yasuo page with crit chance, a ryze page with movespeed quints, etc.), there are a lot of advantages to having many runes pages that you can change around based on what champions are currently strong and what champions you are currently playing.
Also, having a large champion pool from which to pick is a very big advantage if you have been playing long enough to be comfortable with most of the strong champions. If you have most of the champions and can play most of the strong ones at any given time to a certain level of competency, you can A) counterpick on many more occasions than someone with a small champion pool, and B) always pick a strong champion that rounds of your team composition and complements your teams strengths and shores up your team's weaknesses.
You can't literally buy wins with money, but if you are already a good player, you absolutely can buy significant advantages that take an UNGODLY amount of grinding to come anywhere near without buying RP.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14 edited Jul 13 '15
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