Thanks for all the questions and feedback folks! We're heading back to work.
Hey folks,
We are excited to launch Champion Mastery to PBE! Announcement: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/features/champion-mastery-hits-pbe
I am here with the team to answer any questions that you have and listen to your feedback.
Could we have the option to have the mastered champion's icon as our summoner icon?
Does Draven say anything snazzy in-game whenever you play as him if you get him into S tier on your account? I mean, he is Draven, and we all know Draven likes to say snazzy things.
Something doesn't settle right about the lack of demotions/point loss.
Take me for example, on average I get about a 30- 40% win rate with Soraka in Team builder. I might get the occasional win streak like everyone else but it's mostly just losses.
My concern is I know I'm not a good player. I'm also not improving with every game as stated in here. The fact that there apparently won't be an option to turn off loading borders worries me.
Why? Because it means that after a certain point, after so many cripplingly horrible losses, I'm going to be considered a max tier Soraka. That means bad times for everyone involved.
My team is going to be expecting a level of play I can't ever hope to achieve. I just want to hide my border and draw as little attention to myself as possible. But this system is just going to give people more of a reason to rage at me than already happens.
Please please please consider the option of hiding any and all aspects of this program that can be seen by others. I get enough abuse ingame as it is, don't add even more to that pile.
How does the grading system work? KDA? Kill participation? Objective Participation? Gold per min? Graded on a curve? Or absolute? Points deducted if you don't use item actives? If you don't ward? How do you handle champions with weird jobs? For example, my KDA might be bad when I'm playing a tanky support, but I win every team fight because I get the enemy carries to focus me. How do you take stuff like this into account?
Assuming some combination of things, but I gotta believe that this will teach bad habits if not set up correctly. How does it work?
Many people have asked for champion icon as summoner icon as reward. How about changing profile banner as reward?
How do you feel about "At max mastery of a champion, could we unlock their champ square as a summoner icon?" http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2ytzyq/at_max_mastery_of_a_champion_could_we_unlock/ reddit thread
Multiple friends that I have talked to have compared this majorly to Smites mastery system, how do they differ?
Will Riot add champions icons as summoner's icons for top mastery reward? (IT WOULD BE EPIC)
Have your considered if someone gets a champ to tier 5 they have the option to change the default skin color? Like getting a golden zac or a red evelynn?
Why did you delete the GD thread that already had 3 pages?
Can you give everyone involved in this project a cookie from me?
Will this effect ranked at all? I know in Smite you can only play Gods you've mastered in ranked, will this be the case in League as well? Or will this be completely cosmetic for showing your appreciation for a champion?
Not to mention, what is the premade bonus? As show in the Picture Here
How long do you project mastery will take on average? 50 games? 100 games? 500+ games?
Who was first to reach rank 5 in internal testing? And on what champion?
Are you gonna be able to see your Tiers when you search for champions like it's shown in the first reveal of Champion Mastery? Like this:
I noticed the grades from the bottom are: D, C, B, A and then there's an S. What does that stand for?
Did you get inspiration from Smite?
The post introducing it says that grading is based crucially off where you play the champ, but a rioter stated that meta and nonmeta were gonna be treated the same, can you elaborate on this?
Will there be demotions and decay due to performance or lack of using a champion for an extended period of time or will this system be on par with Honor?
What kind of announcement will we get if we reach Tier 4 or 5?
Will the system take into account the amount of games you've already played as a certain champion? I know that a lot of people tend to main certain roles/champions and already have hundreds (if not thousands) of games as, say, Sivir or Orianna. Will that affect one's champion mastery upon initial release?
