Mastery Ranking and Ranked game mode.

UncommonDroid·May 20, 2018·1 votes·1,264 views

I've been playing league of legends for the past two or three years and an avid fan, I think I speak for plenty of us when we hate to see someone who doesn't know what they're doing on a champion, or base line game play, in a Ranked game, then proceed to lose said game because of it. I propose that we use the Mastery system as a form of matchmaking in the future and instead of unlocking Ranked mode at level 30, we should have to earn rank five Mastery on at least five separate champions to use ranked mode and ONLY be able to use said rank five champions, thus, you know what you're doing, your team knows you know what you're doing and no one has the argument of "Are you sure you know what you're doing?". Thoughts? Opinions?

3 Comments

ExpStealerMay 20, 20181 votes

Dude, I'm Silver IV with 500K Mastery 7 Ashe. Sure, I'm not as clueless as someone who just hit level 30, but I used to get comments like "Level 7 Ashe can't do shit" just because I had a bad game - and they happen. What's worse, the Mastery System has absolutely nothing to do with skill. Prime example - an Ashe player in Korea (I think) with 6 MILLION+ mastery points - you'd think he's the Faker of Ashe mains with so much experience, but... He plays worse than me. And he is Gold, or at least used to be.

Then we get to smurfs - they know exactly what they're doing, but you're gonna restrict them in the same way? Doesn't work.

In other words - you just try to delay the inevitable. Someone who's in Silver or lower is mediocre at best even on his main. And mastery 0, mastery 5 or mastery 50 doesn't change that. "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" gets asked more often when someone has a bad game and in very impolite ways; having a mastery badge is just going to pour more oil in the fire.

UncommonDroidMay 22, 20181 votes

I'm not talking about someone in Korea with 6+ million mastery points, I'm talking about the group of people that start playing ranked with no knowledge what so ever of the game and end up holding the team down because they have to not only learn how the champion works, but also how to build and properly play the champion. I figured the Mastery system could be used as a form of matchmaking because it at least makes you seem like you're reliable and have played the champion enough to know what you're doing. Smurfs are a constant issue regardless of matchmaking and I doubt that Riot will truly be able to fix that problem anyway. I'm Silver II and currently demoted back to Silver III because of players that don't know their champion and have given the enemy team an edge being that my team member didn't know what he was doing and when we tried to help him, he ignored us.

ExpStealerMay 22, 20181 votes

And if you think just delaying all this by requiring a mastery level is going to solve the problem - you're wrong. Like, reeeeeeeeeeally wrong. There's no way you can force only truly skillful players into ranked, no matter what.