It's too easy to get to level 5 in Mastery. I would have to suggest cutting experience by 1/5 on both winning and losing because it's just way too easy. An Ekko on my team (and mind you Ekko has only been out for just under a week) already have Level 5 Mastery.
Reduce the xp on mastery or make it to where they have to hit level 30 for that brilliant looking mastery emote.
Sarutobi1 votesremember that this level 5 is only the start, im sure once they work out all the kinks and decide what else could be a reward they'll up the level, as well as make it difficult to level up. you have to remember as well they dont want it to feel like a grind or else youll see people who will troll because theyll be close to maxing out said champion and cant use them, or something like that!
JRobin311 votesI would say that rank five is still somewhat meaningful, but will soon become obsolete. However, just extending the grind to higher levels of mastery is only a short term solution as players eventually grind out the mastery even on champions they lose games with. I think that champion mastery has the potential to become more meaningful if RIOT works out long term stability. Higher ranks of mastery, in addition to requiring more grind, could be subject to some sort of decay. The simplest form of decay would be not playing a champion that you achieved a high rank with. If players keep their champion rank for years it would be like saying that since you learned a champion in season one, you still know the champion even though it may have gone through a major rework. It wouldn't make sense. So I suspect RIOT will implement something that decays champions from the higher ranks based on not playing them. And I also envision that the system will be ideal if players are forced to choose between maintaining the highest possible rank on a few champions vs maintaining a high rank on some champions vs a low rank on too many champions to maintain.
This only has importance if RIOT is looking at Champion Mastery as a way for players to show off their most played champions in the long term. I say this because maybe RIOT has a different vision about what Champion Mastery means. In a vision, where Champion Mastery means only basic familiarity. RIOT can take a "collect them all" approach where players simply grind out the games necessary to get mastery and then players can show off that they aren't complete noobs at the champions they are playing (unless that champion was reworked, or nerfed, or bug fixed or "last season" or otherwise changed in one of those rare patches RIOT makes to the game).
