Making the game easier for beginners/newcomers and old players (who haven't played for a while)

MochinoCherry··2 votes·552 views

So I watched this video about League of legends. It was said that it's hard for new members to learn the game if they have no help. There was something mentioned about a buddy, which made me think that it would be perfect if league of legends had a buddy system. Here is my comment (that I wrote under the youtube video):

_Maybe make a buddy system for new beginners and reward the buddy for helping the new players. I mean even players who have played for some time have always something new to learn (even bc of the new patches all the time/or welcome old players back)_

One of the replies to my comment:

i would absolutely love this. As someone who has been playing for years i find it would feel rewarding passing on some of my knowledge to someone new to the game. Might even make some new friends out of it :D. This is something that needs to be done lol.

So what do you all think about this?

Not sure what the reward could be but I thought that maybe skins, wards etc would be good .

4 Comments

Kallian2 votes

yeah, id love to see this, i have a friend starting LoL atm and it'd be nice to have like a "crew chief" thing in league where you can talk to only your friend, giving them advice, telling them what to build,etc

Sona Ping1 votes

"it'd be nice to have like a "crew chief" thing in league where you can talk to only your friend, giving them advice, telling them what to build,etc" But we have that; it's called Mumble.

Affinity21 votes

might want to change the title but good idea

Sona Ping1 votes

It's a fine enough idea but you would have to remove the reward from it. The problems are first, that over-justification effect, and that it would mostly attract people who have no interest in helping new players but are only in it for the reward.

It would make new players feel even worse about League if there was this huge knowledge barrier and the primary route they see to over come that is a mentor system where the mentors don't even care about mentoring them, or are even toxic.

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