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Champion Mastery Progression

Made in Zaun·8/7/2015, 5:29:20 PM·1 votes·751 views

Hello,

I was wondering what the mindset behind how champion mastery works was. From the name of the system and the intention, you would think that you progress through the champion mastery levels based on how well you do in each game, with bonuses based on whether or not you won. Instead, progression is based ENTIRELY on whether you win or lose. For example, I don't know if I've ever gotten a D and won, but I would assume that you would probably get a minimum of maybe 800 EXP. If you lose with an S+, you probably get a maximum of only 80 EXP.

What this ends up meaning is that no matter how well you do, when you lose, you make no progress whatsoever. For a win, sure, there's some variance in how much EXP you get based on your performance. But it basically is just saying that if you win, you level up, and if you lose, it doesn't matter at all, regardless of your score.

I'm not saying that individual performance has nothing to do with your win or loss, and that's why wins and losses should impact your score. But I think we can all agree that it isn't you alone that determines whether you win or lose. So when I see winning give literally 20 times as much exp as losing, it makes me feel like my individual performance hardly matters. And this is champion mastery, the one system in the game that is entirely geared towards individual players.

I was just wondering what the thought process was behind this, because this has made the leveling up process really tedious, not in an "I need to do better" way but "I need to get lucky with teammates" way. I've gotten 4 champions to level 5 and I'm currently doing my fifth one, and after encountering this apparent contradiction so many times I have finally reached the point where I want to post on boards.

9 Comments

Prospector Pete8/7/2015, 5:31:16 PM1 votes

Yeah :/. They need to increase the amount of mastery losing gives you depending on your rank. I've gotten a D before and won and got 1100 mastery, and I've gotten an S+ before and lost and got 250 mastery.

TraakSC8/7/2015, 6:37:51 PM1 votes

"But it basically is just saying that if you win, you level up, and if you lose, it doesn't matter at all, regardless of your score."

Kind of like the ranking system. Did you eat paint chips when you were a kid?

HeeroTX8/7/2015, 8:11:47 PM1 votes

Hi, Sorry, you must be new. Ahem... This is "League of Legends", a TEAM game. What is a TEAM game you ask? It is a game wherin you must work together with other people in order to achieve your goals. Your individual performance is a minor piece of a much larger puzzle that when combined shows how the glorious collaboration of disparate parts makes a beautiful masterpiece. But if any one piece is not in sync, then the whole structure can fall apart. To this end, EVERYTHING is constructed so that you will work TOGETHER with your team, you will fulfill one of 5 CRITICALLY IMPORTANT roles in order to help your TEAM achieve victory. For no man is an island, no ONE person is responsible for the success of the TEAM. You are ALL important vital pieces, that contribute and if ANY are missing, then the collective is doomed. For that reason, the SINGLE most important part of your player experience is how YOU as a player function within the TEAM and how your TEAM as a group succeed or fails together. For that reason, victory or loss is the HIGHEST priority criteria for mastery points.

Since you are so new, you may also be wondering. "Some of my teammates are not skilled, or behaving erratically, or not even playing at all. How can I rally my now topless mob into a cohesive fighting unit, thus proving my Janna support mastery?"

All your teammates AND opponents are nubs, Pentakill & carry harder scrub!