User blog comment:Aphostropils/A short statement on new masteries/@comment-25970203-20160113161910

going down your list of complaints.

APCs are APCs they are just very underpowered right now due to itemization changes. Tanks are tanks, they are still very hard to kill and ADC's are adc's and since it's a marksman meta they can easily be considered to be OP with their itemization needing a retuning and some form of a nerf.

The previous season's mastery system was to an extent better because you got more for less. That said, all the tanks stats in the defensive tree of this season scale fairly well into the late game. The only problem with the new system is that they scale TOO well and with games being shorter, it is harder to appreciate this difference. In the previous season you were not that much more tanky than in this season at lvl 1. Not saying you weren't tankier, just that the difference you are stating seems well overexaggerated. Besides, it's level 1 the stat differences are not as big as the choice of first skills you have. Also, yes it is perfectly fine for tanky champs to not be too tanky at lvl because if they were tanky at lvl 1, they would just bully ranged champs out of lane thanks to their overkill stats.

Finally, yeah the masteries are insufficient in number and will be increased over the season. Riot has actually mentioned this and has started doing this with the addition of the assassin mastery into the cunning tree.