Idea: Missions for Unlocking Ranked Play
So, a lot of people including me rushed, and still rush into ranked on hitting level 30, a large portion of which still not knowing the majority of basic things by the time they reach this level looks at self and so end up doing bad in their placements and subsequent ranked games and not really learning where they are going wrong.
If upon hitting level 30, instead of unlocking ranked, an option was to come up with mission for unlocking ranked. In which, for these missions you would be autofill protected, getting to choose a primary and secondary role as usual, and placed into a normal game with missions depending on the role, for example getting adc, the missions could be something along the lines of:
- get at least 70 farm in 10 minutes
- end with a vision score of at least x
- purchase y control wards
- die less than z times
- etc. (with the values being set around that being a reasonable amount for being "okay/decent" at the game, not say the average for a bronze 5 0LP player.)
and so on with different requirements per role, for example, jungle needing x amount of jungle creeps, etc. and the missions being at a level that you need to know a decent level of game knowledge on things like how to farm effectively, how to die less, vision, etc.
Once the missions get completed for a role, that role no longer becomes available to pick in the missions for unlocking ranked tab and once the missions have been completed for each role, ranked unlocks and is then played as normal. (NB: this would be a different queue type for picking your role, where you still get placed into a normal game, not the normal queue type meaning you could still play any role that for the missions is no longer available by queueing up just for a normal game.)
If Riot introduced this it would encourage players to learn the game and work out what they need to do to improve their mechanics so when a player hits level 30 they don't rush into ranked knowing nothing, get placed at a low rank, and get stuck there, not have the willingness to improve or even the knowledge of where to start.