User blog comment:KaiserLos24/Champions for Pre-30 Summoners/@comment-13944607-20140311142223/@comment-7765731-20140315085643

No, it's better to have a page full of Tier 1 runes than none. Tier 2's are far too expensive for the relatively short time period you have access to them, and are not worth it as a transition due to the relatively small amount of extra stats they give compared to T1s. This is purely out of an IP efficiency standpoint - Unless you're not going to use IP for buying champs at all, you're going to be more than starved for IP. T1s are dirt cheap and still are worth about 50% of the stats of T3 runes, which you can slowly replace with T3s once you hit 20.