User blog comment:Dooomninja/improved NPE of runes/@comment-25228021-20150901164941

The first part should be done as soon as possible. Runes are quite a burden for this game, because if you don't have runes, you're going to get blamed for it as soon as you play. I've seen this happen even in normals. Tier 1 and 2 are worthless, and Tier 3 are too expensive so people can't play anything they want unless they spend boatloads of money into this game like I did.

The Rune Page 0 idea, on the other hand, would be more of a burden than anything else. There's nothing that works on every champion, except maybe tank stats but even that's debatable. It would end up being a waste of space.

The Rune system is in need of an overhaul and Riot has acknowledged it more than a year ago iirc. I'm still waiting for them to do something for real, though.