Easy fix regarding people who 'first time' in ranked, whether new champion or not

Chalze··2 votes·1,467 views

For the longest time now there has been a very consistent kind of boards post; the kind where people state the very real issue of having people play whichever new champion that just got released first time in ranked. A lot of people have been asking for a fix such as having the new champion unplayable in ranked for the first week or two, but I propose something more secure.

Though to be honest, I doubt it's a new idea, but it's pretty much failproof. Instead of making the new released champion unplayable in ranked for the first week or two, how about we just make it so no one is allowed to play any champion without having at least MR2 or MR3 with them? That way not only are people unable to play new champions first time in ranked, they're not allowed to play any champion first time in ranked. According to my roommate who bingeplays Mobile Legends, they have a system where you're either not allowed to play champions in PvP or Ranked if you don't have enough "experience" with them, basically the same thing as our currently implemented Champion Mastery Rank system.

I'm not sure why Riot hasn't done this already, it seems pretty obvious, easy and failproof to me. Though this solution, being this obvious, I doubt it's really a new idea so I apologize if anyone else already has suggested this.

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4 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon4 votes

Because gating someone's ability to play in ranked on how many games they've grinded out (Read: Played, not necessarily lost or won. 20% winrate m5 would be able to play, but 80% winrate m4 wouldn't be able to) is totally a great idea.

And because champ swapping isn't a thing, either.

Chalze1 votes

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Because gating someone's ability to play in ranked on how many games they've grinded out (Read: Played, not necessarily lost or won. 20% winrate m5 would be able to play, but 80% winrate m4 wouldn't be able to) is totally a great idea.

And because champ swapping isn't a thing, either.

MR2 to MR3 is hardly a grind. I specifically said MR2 or MR3 but honestly in my opinion MR2 would be perfect since on one hand it's relatively safe to assume MR2 isn't often reached by 'lucky win streaks' (since first win on any champion gets you around 2/3 of the way to MR1 already).

I'm not entirely sure about swapping, though I'd imagine some solution could be made if it means not having first timers in ranked ruining games. I have one in mind but it's a bit too complicated to type out right now since I don't have long until I need to go out for the day but I'll see when I get back later tonight.

agac42341 votes

this is a really bad idea for new players. imagen u have 10 champions for midlane but u only play 3 and those 3 get banned now ur fucked because u dont play the other 7 chapions even tho they rae easy to play champions like annie. and u will have to dodge the game

Dragneels1 votes

I'm actually curious as to how Riot is going to fix this honestly. I always have to ban new champions in ranked for at least 2 weeks after they get released, because I know mentally challenged people will pick them first timing champs in ranked and then going 0/15. (in low elo at least, idk about high elo but im sure people there are smart enough and good enough to get to know the champ first before actually playing it ranked, excluding smurfs)

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