New Player Experience - Mentor Accounts (community volunteering project idea)

Hello,

Over the past few months (or years, who knows, time flies fast when playing League!) there's been multiple discussions about the experience of new players, tutorials, infos, beginner bots and all that. The thing is, every new player is different and remembering my own experience I can think of so many problems and stupid issues that nothing but a huge manual would solve (and who plays games to read fat manuals?). I was lucky - I had a bunch of friends who were playing League and patiently explained everything to me and corrected even those unique mistakes I was making. But not everyone gets that, so here's a thought:

How about allowing players to attach a "Mentor Account" to their main account? With requirements in games played/rank achieved or whatever would be the most sensible option. And with that account, allow them easy access to games with newbie players (either making it co-op only or matching two teams with a mentor on each to avoid abuse). With an option for the new players to check whether they want a mentor in their game or not (if one is available) and matchmaking built on that.

This way experienced players with good intentions could give back to community and have a non-comittal way of helping others (no need to befriend the newbies and feel like you have to keep mentoring your friend or feel like a douche) and newbies would get a good and, more importantly, UPDATED source of knowledge about the game without feeling like they're bothering someone who's not willing to help.

Since the Mentor Account would not be leveling up, it would make for a crappy smurf, and being bound to the main account, would mean the player wouldn't be safe from punishment. Also, signing up for the Mentor program could easily mean someone accepts the fact that any negativity shown in mentored games will result in a ban.

The idea came to me, because I had a free 30 minutes to spare while waiting for my chicken to finish frying and I felt like helping someone new to the game. I made a new account (hassle! and pointless in the long run) and went into a bot game to see if there's some confused player. Well, it was just smurfs/28 lvl guys all with flash/ignite and stuff. It's not really possible to do that right now, I'd have to troll my way through a bunch of games so that the system assigned me with actual newbies. Nobody benefits from that.

I know that there are many people in the community who wouldn't mind helping others given the proper tools, but many are also very occasional do-gooders and don't want to sign up for initiatives requiring bigger commitment.

Since Riot keeps saying they want the community to be positive, this could be a way to let the positive part of it do something nice and make entering the League easier on others.

Because let's face it - with an ever-changing game like LoL that just gets more complex, no amount of beginner hints will do the trick.

So yep, just a thought here :)

Tl;dr: Allow experienced players help newbies in an efficient way, when they want to and have time to, without needless commitments and engaging in complex social networks.