Breaken wrote on Jun 26
th, 2012 at 7:09pm:
For ranked games you must be lvl 30 but you must have a certain amount of heroes to play in the Draft games since each team gets to ban 3 heroes a piece... So i will give you all a little tip dont bother learning how to play shen, rammus,morgana, karthus, kazzad, shaco,fiddlesticks. Those champions are almost always ban due to their different abilities... Taunt, stealth, fear, spell sheilds.
In ranked its really more shen, morg, soraka, kassadin mainly. Rammus has been nerfed hard and rarely gets banned. You need to OWN 16 chars now in order to play ranked. The free week chars are no longer allowed in ranked. This is a good thing as people no longer "test" chars they dont own in ranked.
Another bit of information, do NOT buy and runes until lvl 20, you will never use the tier 1 and tier 2 runes after lvl 20, it really doesn't take that long to get to lvl 20 either. That's the best bit of advice i received when I started.