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New players(or level 30's) playing normal's or Ranked Matches......Riot you should read this!!

CreativeMatrix·10/30/2014, 12:01:19 PM·2 votes·3,009 views

Edit: Please read the entire paragraph to understand my point. It seems some people just read one line and make judgement thus missing the entire purpose of the post.

I think Riot should implement a way to stop new players from entering normal or ranked with champs they never played before. I think with each new champ you should have to play at least 10-20 bot games before you can play a normal or ranked match with them. This will allow the person to acquire some experience before they enter a real match. The reason I say this is because you will have players who never played entering normal's feeding the enemy team because either 1. they don't know how to play or 2. they don't know how to play with the champion they choose. People who are level 30 playing a new champ should also go through this process so they don't enter ranked matches (especially ranked considering how important a skilled team is)with a champ they have zero knowledge or skill with.

I know this may hurt some players as they have skill with any champ they pick up but it will force non-skilled player to understand their champ before they enter real matches. What do you guys/gals think?

17 Comments

Brenticus1210/30/2014, 1:00:47 PM3 votes

Your allusion to MMOs is stupid. You have to lvl to 30 in LoL to even play ranked. In MMOs you don't need to kill a set number of creeps to use a certain gear in PVP. You can use the gear the moment you get it.

Gear in MMOs = Champions in LoL.

Bot matches, in my opinion, is not that great to really know how to play a champion. You can try out a champion and such to know their skills, but many of them are mechanically demanding and Bots don't give the incentive to play mechanically well.

jiujitsuPhD10/30/2014, 12:58:15 PM3 votes

  1. New champs in Ranked I can agree. New champs in normals? That is the point of normals.

  2. Feeding the enemy team has nothing to do with you playing a new champ. Feeding is usually the result of bad gameplay. One death because you mess up is one thing but feeding is another. You can read about the champ and understand their gameplay before you take them in and do perfectly well with them your first time.

  3. If you do not like solo que get a team and this will never happen.

  4. If you cant get a team then learn to carry so one bad person won't always be able to ruin your game.

stillserenity10/30/2014, 12:15:18 PM3 votes

if you think that pple with new champs are the reason solo que sucks for normal and rank well buddy gl on that one

Zyorhist10/30/2014, 3:31:32 PM1 votes

You seem to think that every time someone does poorly they are playing a new champ or are just bad in general. This is not true, everyone has a game where they do incredibly badly and it happens more than people think. Also there is a lot to be said about learning a champion simply from playing against them. I didn't learn MF from playing as her, I learned from playing against her and knowing what her kit was doing to me. The same is true for playing trundle. I learned from getting beaten to death, picked him up, read his kit, and proceeded playing as though I have played him for months. Everyone learns in different ways, some from doing, others from seeing, and yet others from reading. This means that even though it may be someone's first ranked game with a champ it doesn't mean that they will be unskilled with them.

Stars Shaper10/30/2014, 3:37:08 PM1 votes

I'd rather block players who keep sucking hard on champions they have over 9k games with.

Just saying.

The Mormonator10/30/2014, 6:35:50 PM1 votes

10-20 games...let's say it's 20 games. That's, at the bare minimum, 400 minutes of gameplay you'd have to log with ONE champion just to become eligible for pvp. Sorry man the answer is no. It's also a stretch but I have selected champion in ranked games that I have never played before so they could be traded to someone else. Your feature would not allow this to happen. No.

bL710/30/2014, 12:21:43 PM1 votes

No.

DrCyanide10/30/2014, 1:14:34 PM1 votes

No stinking way I'm playing 10-20 bot games before I can play a champion in Normal. 1-2 bot games are about all that are productive, after that you need to play against people in order to know what works and what doesn't.

While I agree that people shouldn't take champions they aren't familiar with into a ranked game, playing bot games with that champion will not make them familiar with said champion. They need to play against other people. Ideally, they'll have played at least 5 games with said champion in Normal, but some champions you can get by with less.