Small change to Champion Mastery and Leveling that I think would help a ton
As a long time player, it's always felt very very slow to gain IP, the only way to do it is to play games, and when there wasn't that much content this was fine, but now that there are 129 champions, soon to be 130, I think we need a second way to earn IP. I think if we were given IP for leveling up, say 200 ip for hitting level 2, 300 for 3 and so on, something along those lines would be SUPER helpful for people starting the game, or for smurfs, and it would cut the time that a high level player has to play normal games down as well, meaning they could get right into ranked and get to their proper placing.
I also think that you should gain, say 500 IP for hitting mastery 5 with a champion, capping it at 500 per champion would make it hard to abuse, plus getting mastery 5 with a champion is quite an achievement, and I think it should feel like you're achieving something, where as right now all you get is a fancy emote that you can use to BM with.
This is coming from someone who owns all the champions in the game and has all runes/masteries, so I'm not just whining that I don't have an easy way to gain IP, it's from seeing all of my friends who have started playing give up because the grind to get that super cool champion that they have their eyes on is just so long and hard (pardon the innuendo), and I think this would be a good way to help improve the IP system without being able to abuse it.