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Mastery System Should Be Tied To Ranked

Xonra·7/7/2015, 4:16:21 PM·2 votes·317 views

Hear me out before you downvote, please.

I feel that, while I'm not a huge fan of a barrier of entry into ranked, I feel that someone should at the very least have a champ mastery of 1, if not 2 at the very most to play a champion in ranked.

I say this, because I'm noticing more and more people playing champions in ranked that they have never played more than once at most in ARAM, or never, and it tends to show.

Just this week

  • First time Shyv jungle - 0/4/1 did not gank one single time (not exaggerating)
  • First time Thresh support - 0/9 - Not sure they even play ranked as they asked how to build nearly everything from start to finish
  • First time Ryze - Decided to just afk because he didn't know how to play Ryze against Darius and "couldn't find a guide".

Just a few examples, but really, no one should be playing a champ for the first time in ranked, ever. It makes your chances of being successful so much slimmer.

9 Comments

Live2LetDie7/7/2015, 4:21:42 PM2 votes

Couple problems:

  1. The system just came out. I played over 300 games with thresh last season but maybe 10 this season. Why shouldn't I be able to play with him??
  2. If I got put into the adc role, the only one I'm iffy about, then I won't have an adc because I didn't practice with them? All in all it won't work because of #2
SmokedAlmonds7/7/2015, 4:27:56 PM2 votes

That would be pretty unfair to people who have played before mastery came out since they wouldn't have credit for most of their play time. But really my biggest issue is that mastery is meaningless. Its just a participation badge.

AyRe CoNteMpT7/7/2015, 4:23:01 PM1 votes

well i had the same idea, but it has some problems in that you need 16 champions to play ranked because of picks/bans. this means, you would basically have champion mastery on 16 champions.

i mean, sure i buy that shit but i never intend to play 16 different champions. i play 3 champions frequently and it would molest me so hard if i was forced to stop playing ranked right now (as EVERYONE IN THE WORLD would be) and have to level up the champion mastery on my other 13 champions first before i can go and play ranked. thats like 5 games for every champion if i win so about 70 normals until i can play ranked again or so. god, that would hurt so much!

so yes, the idea is good but the realization bears too many problems.