Ideas for a new mastery system.

The last few years, people started losing interest in masteries. Having mastery 7 is now a waste of blue essence for a lot of people and they would rather buy champions.To make mastery points great again, i tought of reworking the mastery points concept and adding a new "Mastery shop".

  • Milestones
    • The first 5 milestones would be kept since it relies on mastery points only
    • Other milestones would be added (let's say 50k/100k/250k/500k/1million)
    • Each milestone reached would unlock buyable items in the mastery shop.
  • Mastery Shop
    • First milestones would allow the player to buy icons or emotes representing the champion.
    • Latests milestones would allow the player to buy chromas or skins
      • For it to be done properly, i think each champions should have base skin chromas, and those chromas would be on the shop (With each milestone having a *prettier* chroma).
      • For the skin, i'm thinking a "Prestige" skin could be available at 1 million. It would be the base champion with slight changes to make it *Prestigious*, the skins would simply be "Prestige Vel'koz", "Prestige Jhin", etc...
  • Currency
    • Items from the Mastery shop could be obtained like champions, with blue essence or with riot points. (Option 1)Items could be obtained with Mastery tokens that could be either gained by obtaining an S rank during a game and could be bought with riot points. (Option 2)
    • Cost would increase for each milestone, a prestige skin could cost the equivalent of an Ultimate skin, or its equivalent in BE (21k BE // 3250RP).

This system has advantages and inconveniences, i tried to think of what they could be to list them.

  • Pros
    • Mastery points would have another purpose than just showing off
    • Blue essence would still be useful after buying all the champions
    • People could still flex on their opponents but with actual in-game content that means something (Since M7 doesn't mean much these days).
    • All items would be obtainable with rp, therefore some people will buy rp to get them.
    • Players interested in some emotes, icons or chromas would invest more time playing more champions
  • Cons
    • Riot would need a lot of ressources to work on the mastery shop
    • It is impossible to say if the skin sells would be reduced or increased
      • I personnaly don't think it would. Pretty skins or chromas would be obtained after hundreds/thousands of hours played on a single champion, and those mad enough to do that, are probably mad enough to have all their favorite champion's skins already
      • Also, people that play all champions probably won't want to play with "Green Mordekaiser" or "Yellow yuumi" and will still buy skins.
      • However, casual player might be satisfied with those chromas and might not be tempted to buy rp for prettier skins
    • Riot would need to add new features to the client.

Any feedback on my ideas is welcome.

TL;DR
Mastery points on each champions would unlock items in a mastery shop that could be bought for BE or RP.