I’m not suggesting anything higher than 3. But just as a guard to stop firstimers, botted accounts, smurfs, and give new champs a chance to be balanced before hitting soloqueue. I saw this argument a while back and while it had some merit, it made picking for each-other impossible, but since riot has added a pick order swapping function it might be more viable. I know 20 champs to mastery 3 is seen like a lot but realistically, if you’re fresh level 30 hitting ranked you’re probably not gonna do great anyway.

I know its a huge change and probably is loaded with flaws. But I just think instead of fixing issues like pinging your teammates maybe focus the effort on the things that actually ruin games?