So many easy quality of life fixes that riot doesn't help us with...
First off, post your own ideas in the comments because there are A LOT of easy changes riot could make to make this game better. First off, rearrange rune pages. Anyone who wants to seperate ad and ap rune pages like me know the struggle. (also, 6300 ip for something that gives you an an advantage over other players is stupidly pricey) There is no reason this shouldn't be a thing. Secondly, MOAR REFUND TOKENS. These should refresh every season or at least tell new players they won't get any more. I know when I was new I wasted all of mine thinking I would get them back gradually, but no such thing happened. Third, some kind of pause feature into the game. If someone disconnects in the first like 5 minutes of the game your team should be able to vote to nullify the game and both teams can jump back into queue to get a fair game. You could also do this later in normal games, but I don't have a great idea of how to give out ip. I'm pretty sure dota has had this for a long time already also. Fourth, being able to pause the game for a couple minutes would be super helpful if someone disconnected later in the game so you could give them some time to disconnect. Fifth, being able to surrender earlier or letting you kick someone off your team. Earlier surrender if obvious. Some games are unwinnable but trolls know they can waste time out of peoples lives and their team can't do anything to stop it. I don't know how to let players kick someone off their team without it being exploitable, but there could be multiple parameters that could allow you to kick someone. For example having no items or standing at spawn for a long period of time. Sixth, put more custom into custom games. Right now they are basically just normal games and you only get to choose how many players are on each side. Sure, there are some game modes that people have come up with, but there aren't enough tools to work with to come close to making anything too exciting. Simple rule changes like turning off minions or turning off damage to structures would do wonders for the custom game community. Last, the rune system is seriously in need for a rework. This game is already too determined by matchups alone IMO and just addings runes along with that to screw up new players games is rediculous, Someone with a full rune page gives about 1500 gold worth of stats just for having played the game longer. Basically, they MORE experienced players have even more of an advantage than they already should have. Completely removing tier runes and making them all have a standard price would be the best way. Why do some runes even cost more in the first place? It doesn't even have any correlation to how good the runes are generally, it's just stupid.