Two useful suggestions for Ranked and Draft Mode
I see a lot of posts asking to ban new champions for the first few days from ranked whenever one's released. But Riot stated a while ago that they don't want to do this because it would delay the feedback to balance the champ, etc. It would just postpone the issue, they said. On top of this, there is the frustration of having that teammate that tries out a champion for the first time ever... in ranked. This brings me to the first suggestion.
##1. Champion mastery level 2 required to pick a champion in ranked. Achieving Mastery level 2 requires only two wins in normal games. It's a threshold low enough to achieve easily, but high enough to meet its purpose. As a side-effect, it may keep new players a bit longer away from ranked (since you'll need 20 lvl 2 champs), which I think is good because you're not really ready when you just hit 30 and having played a variety of champions certainly helps to improve. The Champion Mastery system has been out long enough now that as good as all seasoned players should meet this requirement already on their champion pool. "But what if I want to pick a champ I don't play for my buddy?" Continue to the second suggestion.
##2. Ability to 'swap pick order' with teammates in draft normals and ranked. Add a button next to every player like the one to 'swap champions', but in the previous phases of the draft. Click on the button of the player you want to swap positions with. Many times people are like 'can you first pick me this?' or 'Can I pick for someone else, I'd like to counterpick' but then issues arrive regarding what champion pool you own. This would also be a necessary change to go with the first suggestion here since a level 2 mastery requirement would make it much harder to pick champions for eachother. But with this, we could simply swap pick order which is much more reliable: no longer requires each other's champions and no more trolls who promise to swap and then don't. The only potential downside here is for Riot's wallet. I'm not sure how big of an impact this will have on the purchases of champions with RP, but I can imagine that less people would go for an instantly full champion pool. That being said, I believe that champion purchases is a tiny fraction of their income and most of these are probably people pre-level 30.
and have no idea what I am doing. Granted I am probably lvl 2 with him but have hardly played him since season 3. But not on all my accounts.