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

Runes and masteries make a massive difference, if you have a friend who's level 30 with a full rune page and mastery page, and who will let you hop on his account to play a game, you'll notice an incredibly massive difference.

I recall seeing something about them removing tier 1 and tier 2 runes, but I'm actually not sure if that change has gone through or not. If it has NOT, and those runes are still in the game, do not buy them. Just save up your IP, or buy champions, until level 20+, THEN you should focus on getting at least 2 runepages, one for AD and one for AP.

Lane bully champs require runes the least to be effective, as runes aren't that important in the early game, and lane bully champs base kits are strong in the early game. Renekton, Darius, Rumble, Orianna (if played well), etc.