[2024] /dev: Updating Champion Mastery

Originally posted by F0RGERY

Champion Mastery is one of the systems I use a ton. I have 120 champs at lvl 7, and am working my way through the rest.

The Good:

• Having more to pursue beyond rank 7 is interesting

• Having the first milestone be more chests is always nice

• I like the reward of "Your champs Title" be tied to performance as an unlock.

The Bad:

• The time gating of both rewards and achievements seems awful. Mastery has always been permanent. Having them be tied to Split for the reward of a title is really annoying, and feels like a FOMO approach.

• Mastery Sets, from description, reads like it'll be another monetization metric ala Eternals (which goes against how the mastery changes were worded in the announcement late last year). I like Mastery stuff because its free and accomplishment based. Having once a split reward tracks that get pushed seems dubious.

• Marks of mastery seem very easy to earn compared to S ranks. If I want to hit 7 on a champ already at lvl 4, then I would simply need 1 S grade. Hitting lvl 10 would require 2. If you could get lvl 6 before, you now qualify for lvl 10 mastery.

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The system seems like an earnest attempt to improve mastery, but also a lot of it feels intentionally grindy.

• The reward of title is a great idea, but gating it behind splits and requiring you grind out every 3 months is bad.

• The idea of recommending champs based on mastery is interesting, but feels like a push for grinding.

• The way marks are being shifted from "get 5 S ranks" to "Play 5 games, get 2 S grades ever" feels like a very low barrier of entry.

Originally posted by manneks

I don't see the value of tying it to splits ... but sure hope i riot knows what they are doing and this doesn't screw my dream of max mastery on all champs.

Originally posted by Versek_5

Split component rewards the same things each split, which mostly are marks which upgrade your permanent mastery. The title is meant for folks who display strong dedication to a single champion.

We hope it doesn't inspire fomo because even if you miss on a split you will reliably be able to get those rewards next split.

"Its not FOMO, its just needlessly grindy for no reason" isnt exactly the greatest clarification imo.

Originally posted by burnedsmores

Oooh opening a can of worms with this one

Originally posted by Versek_5

When it feels like it’s making me play more than I want to. If I only want to play 1 or 2 games over the course of a few days and the thought “well if I just play x more even though I don’t want to then I can get y” happens, that’s too much.

Because sometimes I don’t want to play 5+ games a day in a limited time for something. Sometimes I want to take a break and play other stuff for a couple months and not come back and go “wow look at all this stuff I can’t get/ look how much extra I have to do for having the audacity to play other games.”

I’ve been playing league for 14 years. I already barely want to play, saying “you have to play x amount of games in this short period of time to achieve the thing that previously had no time limit” doesn’t make me want to play more, it makes my decision not to easier.

Edit: I very exclusively dont play games with battle passes and have hated the idea of ranked resets for that very reason. If you dont respect my time, why should I give you my money/attention?