If you remove dominion use those extra resources to improve the new player experience. . .

IsmokeOregano·2/11/2016, 5:18:04 PM·11 votes·532 views

My thought on how this could be done:

Tier 1 and 2 runes are a joke. Remove them, keep only tier 3 runes. Offer new players an IP discount for runes based off their level. Add a new tutorial, stop telling people to build thornmail on Ashe. Teach new players the different roles and how to navigate the suggested items page. Offer IP boots to new accounts that group with friends to encourage teamwork, since dynamic queue is heavily encouraging 5 man pre-mades. Add a "beginner" queue that only allows accounts under level 10. This would provide an environment for new players to learn the game and smurfs can head straight to the normal draft. [Disable the banning phase??? New people should have access to try all the champions] Give new players 10 mastery points to start off, unlocking 1 new mastery each level after 10. This way it's an even playing field in the "beginner" queue. Tone down jungle creeps in this queue to compensate for level differential from normal draft. Give new players 6300 IP to start so when they like a champ on the free week it isn't immediately unavailable the next week, that is hard and confusing to new players. Alternatively, make a handful of champions permanently free. Offer a reward to accounts that make it to level 30 with good behavior to encourage sportsmanship in the game, as well as teach players how to deal with toxicity at an early stage (and promote smurfs to use good attitude as well).

3 Comments

Aranatar2/11/2016, 8:48:00 PM3 votes

I agree a lot with this post. Recently started a smurf to play with a friend that just started. I cannot explain how bad this game is for beginners. Lots of champions that they have no idea how to use. Masteries are hard to know how to use when you get one per level and runes are ignored because why waste ip that you could be using to get champs on useless tier 1 runes that you don't know how to use. Why are summoner spells locked till you hit a certain level? I keep having to say "stick with it till get higher level, it gets more fun"

Dragonlord71372/12/2016, 6:47:01 AM1 votes

TBH I'd rather they just removed tier 1 runes and made tier 2 runes free. This way the power gap of owning tier 3 runes is smaller and you can make weaker but workable rune pages easier as you can have a weaker version of each rune until you can buy the tier 3 runes.