2016 And People Still Playing Champs In Ranked For The First Time
I get it, you get a new champ, you want to try it out, but you don't want to waste the time you have playing today to play a normal. You want that LP, but...the champ you are about to pull out you've never actually played before.
I know people don't like the suggestion, but there really needs to be a barrier of entry attached to the mastery system for people playing champs in ranked. I know that is unpopular (Cause people like you, you know who you are, that pick up that champ and don't care if it is your first time playing the champ or not), but you should really have to get at least Mastery 2 with a champ to play it in ranked. that is what, 3 games? 4 if you lose half of them.
I've played with a jungler this week that would just toss her ult in random directions cause she somehow didn't know how it worked. I just played with a Kalista that didn't know how Kalista actually worked, so would attack move completely out of fights and auto attack range every single fight. A master Yi that didn't level his heal because the "ability sounds dumb". Sure, I'm ranting a bit, I admit that, but realistically, it is 2016, and there NEEDS to be something in place to keep people from playing a champion in more than just bots before hopping into ranked completely clueless as to what they are doing. I mean we have the mastery system already in place, and from playing SMITE, I can tell you, it works wonders there.
tl;dr It is obvious players can be trusted to just not go into a match with a champ for the first time in ranked, so Riot really should help, because it gets real old. Most players aren't LCS level to pick up a champ and be decent with it, and really with people doing this for years with new champs, it should have been handled years ago. Normals, fine. Ranked, not so fine.
