UPCOMING RUNES AND MASTERIES OVERHAUL FEEDBACK

Dear Everyone in every team in every part of Riot Games,

OMG GUYS!!! <3 ! :D!!

First off. Thanks for bearing all the angst and rage and so much more that is unfortunately a common experience in league, particularly in the lower tiers. I worked as a security and network administration part time during college and highschool for a insurance brokerage company and having had a lot of friends in IT, entertainment, etc. I truly appreciate the hard work you guys do.

To take on a COMPLETE NEW GAME OVERHAUL like this is INSANE :D!

I have some good feedback, concerns, and nervously excited praise on this, and I've been playing since about season 4 on this account, and even earlier on my first account I bought at Walmart. I love this game!

I'm honestly terrified because it means that I'll have to restudy all the Challenger/Master/Diamond players on my favorite champs but ONLY after they work it out themselves!

I've only just started to dramatically play better and climb with ease - and this is significant because I've been playing ever since I could BUY a copy at Walmart. I've never been very good at climbing rank, but I LOVE THIS GAME.

I'm extremely excited about the changes! Supports won't feel so trapped in their roles or kits when part of our job is having to watch our teammates struggle or just make the same mistakes over and over again - and we ourselves may be playing a champion that is powerless to fight enough to stem the tide.

It would be EXTREMELY helpful to have the capacity to use runes and masteries to create a build that triggers most effectively when your own team is struggling against a much better one, giving the SUPPORT champ abilities that could really help give them a fighting chance to even the score without overpowering anyone.

The temporary increase in attack speed cap is WONDERFUL - I've been terrified of Kindred's removal of damage despite her increased safety and kiting - SO MANY lower tier players expect their jungler to work a lot of miracles when their team is falling behind.

It would be awesome to have a "training wheel" system or perk for all newer and lower tier players that falls off once they've risen to a certain level, perhaps silver, given them an opportunity to meet up with better and more experienced teams and improve their learning exposure and ability.

After over 6 years I'm fairly decent at any role and most champions, but have found that for whatever reason, I have genuine affinity for very few, none of which are considered "cheap champs" in lower tiers such as Yi, Teemo, etc. and am rather scared that the skill based champions being rather popular, may be nerfed a great deal more once the runes and mastery system comes out.

I DO NOT WANT to see a lot of champions having to be reduced in power suddenly because the runes and masteries overhaul.

It would be significantly more interesting and fun, in my opinion, to see the diversity of play emerge, though I am concerned as to being on teams that do not know how to use it very well, and coming up against players or individual players playing specific champions that have unusually high synergy with their runes and masteries as well as a degree of decent skill.

I am deeply excited and scared, but thrilled at the prospect!!

Just please, may people not nerf or ban Kindred or Xayah, Soraka, Rakan, Alistair and others into the ground. I'm scared of the banning response of other players to the new system that'll make my favorite and best champs unplayable.

I've invested so much time and IP and more into them and COUNTLESS hours and months studying and watching professional players and above all, soothing the rage so common Bronze.

I still carry my green echelon/ribbon with awe, gratitude and pride, and maintain it as fiercely as possible. It is the one thing I have which lets me know that despite not getting many kills, I made a lot of plays getting objectives, scaring off enemy players to save a teammate, and otherwise encouraged us to keep cooler heads and was appreciated.

New Honor System It is my hope that you will create a system that not only honors those who have invest so much IP into runes, but also have long carried badges of honor, teamplay, and more all this time into the new world of League.

It does not do to have all that time lost in favor of having to reprove yourself again, and again because the game has changed.

Good, honorable, and supportive players who protect the spirit of the game despite the toxicity of a lot of experiences, should not be forgotten.

Wishing you all the best in this unbelievable endeavor, -Tony "Phoenix Incite" Lee