If you can get enough S games on a champion you should get the mastery just from that. The fact that you have to use essence, shards, and perms to get a mastery is nothing short of complete bullshit Riot. You literally have to pay to get a mastery 6 or 7 badge.
I'm done paying for anything more in this game until you change this.
Considering I was able to go from mastery 5 to mastery 7 in about 5 hours, you just sound salty
You can unlock champion shards for 1700 Ip and break them down into essence, it's pretty easy and was made for this reason.
I have like 3k of each essence saved up just from free chests, and you're able to buy champion shards with IP, which is a free currency. All you have to do is play the game and you can get there, you just have to not assume it'll be handed to you in 5 seconds after reaching mastery 5.
Yeah, I didn't really understand what the purpose of getting shards and essence and crap was. Mastery levels are to show exactly that: you've mastered that champ! Mastering a champ = high skill level, not how much essence and shards you have in your loot. Therefore, it stands to say, tokens for getting S and S+ (S- for M6) should be the only requirement. It's so frustrating when you have all the tokens you need but can't get that mastery level simply because you don't have enough essence or you don't have that champ/skin shard.
