People learning champs in ranked.
There should be a requirement for people to have mastery 5, or so many mastery points; in order to play a champion in ranked. This stops people who are smurfing who didnt get m5 on all their champions before level 30, but I think we can all deal with that.
But seriously. We need punishments for things that actually affect our games, not someone who is racist. Punish them, but we need a better system for trolls.
There are numerous issues with this. Here's a small sampling.
Mastery points don't necessarily correlate with skill
Yea, I agree with everyones comments thus far, im not rejecting that. However, what other solutions do we have for trolls who pick riven in their 3 riven game ever in ranked and crazy feeds because they watched a streamer do it? They just hide behind the, "Had a bad game" protection and cant be penalized for intentionally losing a ranked game.
That means you'd need at least 20 champions at mastery 5 to even que for Ranked. What if you don't play that many champions? You expect people to spend hours upon hours grinding mastery on champions they have no intention of ever playing just to be able to play Ranked? No thanks.
I agree with all of the "Mastery points don't always correlate with skill" comments, but would it be so bad to even institute a conservative strategy to stopping people trying out new champs in ranked? For instance, I don't see a problem with not allowing someone to play a champ in ranked that they have less than 10 norm/bot/aram games with. That's not an insane prerequisite.
Dude i made a new account, and I'm gold 2 and JUST got my FIRST mastery 5. Do you see the problem here? And you have to own what.. 12 champions at least? Which means 12 mastery 5s, so any OTP have to spend time playing other champions they don't want to play just to play ranked? Terrible idea.
This again. You lost a game or two, we get it.
Remember that Riot is running a business - they aren't going to put strict limitations on what content people can use in certain game modes. That's a very good way to piss off customers.
Also, think of it this way - what would something like that do for picks and counterpicks? Oh shit, someone picked Veigar, and your mid laner has no M5 or other "good enough" (by your standards) champions to counter him. Too bad his Morgana was only M3. So now he has to pick his only M5 champion mid - Teemo. Good luck!
Technically speaking, you are always leaning about your champ.
New patch hits and now you are learning the detailed matchup over again. Even a 10 million mastery OTP can learn new things when circumstances appear.
We should penalize people for being lower than level 30 too. Oh and whenever they play a new champion because they want to learn we should punish them for it. That should be against the rules. Don't even get me started on the people who play this game. Penalize them as well!
You know, I remember when all this mastery bullshit didn't exist. Does anyone who played before Season 5 even take mastery seriously?
