I have debated with friends for a long time about this topic. While both sides have good arguments I do believe that more rune pages will actually give players in ranked a bigger advantage.

Lets start with riot's argument.

They say that there are a lot of high elo players that actually got to the rank 1 spot only using 2 rune pages. While this does help their case it dosent mean that rune pages don't give a player more power. This just means that even with a non optimal rune page they can still outplay others in almost any situation.

Now lets look at the argument about rune pages do give power.

What if we were to give each player 2 mastery pages that were no customizable in champion select. Do you think that this would hinder a lot of options that people have? Of cource it would. Lets take it into a scenario where you have one rune page set up as 9-21-0 because you plan on playing a tanky top lane like gp or irelia. You end up being 4th pick in queue and have to play ad carry. You wont perform at your best with a 9-21-0 mastery set up. The other mastery page was optimized for an ap carry in case you were stuck with that role.

Another sitation could be if you set up your rune pages with armor pen mark/quints armor seals and mr glyphs. You end up wanting to play warwick at top lane because he counters the enemy jax pick. You again are at a disadvantage because you can not optimize correctly against the enemy team. Again, the other rune page is optimized for an ap carry.

What do you guys thing GD?

bump, front page moves fast

can you guys not obliviously downvote without reading?

we down vote because we all have pages.

Read it... Downvoted.
Rune pages are not skins, that you can only get with money. If you want a rune page, drop 6300 IP on it, no big deal. Manage your IP better, prioritize.

It does not give a player more power. The runes do. The pages just give them more flexibility to accustom their runes to whatever champion/type of champion they like to play best.

Other people simply stick with their two current rune pages, buy a lot of runes, and reallocate them based upon which champion they want to play in the next match, keeping the other page of runes as a secondary set, or backup.

On another note, GP is a tanky char? (Minus the Trinity Force/Frozen mallet items, that leaves Tankplank, who is decent although seldomly seen.)

it is just like having more champions give you more options for counterpick
it does give you a slight advantage

extra rune pages are free.. no reason why you should be stuck at 2, or 3 if you got the free one a while back. again they are free!

Just saying... You start talking, and continue talking about rune pages, and then in your example use Masteries....