The Experience for Beginning players is Awful
Recently i created a smurf to screw around on flex queue (not troll per say) and also to play early pvp and bot games with a friend i introduced to the game. I forgot how God awful it is to just start out in league. My main gripe is that it promotes bad habits with players and teaches them only to play League of Legends Lite Where there are never junglers, so many never learn, and you have very little access to masteries or runes,. This makes it hard to learn how to use masteries in a real game, not to mention not having a keystone full mastery when you begin on an account feels sooo bad, champions like zed do significantly less damage in trades without their masteries set, and while i don't have trouble with them, the bots seem to have a huge stat advantage with their ability to have masteries while the players do not, i noticed my friend getting out-traded hard by bots simply because the bots had access to thunderlords decree and ignite while he only had ghost, heal, and nothing in his masteries because it was hardly available, even i noticed my champs feeling more wonky without any masteries and runes. Masteries should be fully available at an early level in my opinion, after all, masteries are significant and it'll be harder for noobies to learn or play well without them.
The grind also seems to take forever, but i wouldn't shorten it too much. Although with no smite till level 10 I've noticed new players feel very uncomfortable getting out of duo top, and tend to be actually scared to jungle. Jungling is a major role in this game, and the new players don't get any experience with it, an sometimes avoid it. New players should also be given full access to summoner's spells from like level 3 or even level 1. Ghost heal is not that efficient on most champions, and the bots "seem to have superpowers" as my friend put it, when they take exhaust ignite each game and new players don't have access and thus don't understand what exhaust and ignite are capable of. I know it's been said before, so i'll go easy on this subject, but Runes cost too much, way too much, and unlock a little too slowly as well.
Seriously though Riot, if you're not thinking about changing the beginner experience, then you should be, i'm an experienced player, and going through it again i find it very tedious and un-fun, almost entirely because of the ridiculous amounts of restrictions keeping me from fully playing the game.