Hello everyone, this is SingerOfTheFall here with you.
Today I'm going to make a guide about the new masteries. I know a lot of people were wondering about how or what do they need to level to fit a specific champion.

Here I will try to give you the basic understanding of the new masteries, and provide you with some tips.

Anyway, let's begin.

_____First of all, I'm going to give you a list of all masteries in each of the Mastery Trees. Each mastery will have a note. However, some of the notes will only contain the stat that you will get from this particular mastery, and some will have my thoughts about which types of champions this mastery is good for.
_____Please note, that those are just my thoughts, so please don't downvote just because you didn't find a particular set-up, or because you prefer to put a point into Scout instead of Runic Affinity .
_____Also please note, that the information in this guide is rather basic, and general. I will not cover specific set-ups for specific champions, neither will I cover mixed masteries. Those are more advanced things, and most of them really depend a lot on a pleyer's preferences and playstyle.
_____What I will provide in this guide is the basic understanding of the new trees, and some basic set-ups (including 9-point and 21-point set-ups) for each of the trees.
_____I hope at least some of you will find this information helpful.

The offensive tree has changed greatly since Season 1. Previously, it was mainly a tree for AD characters, while AP ones could only benefir from investing 9 points and getting Archaic Knowledge . Now, in Season 2, there are much more offensive masteries that benefit AP casters in some way. Also, there are more options for AD champs, providing different ways of spending points.

This mastery boosts all offensive Summoner Spells, including Ghost, Ignite, Exhaust and Surge. Viable for all champions that can use those

AD champions max this to get to the second row. This gives 3 attack damage when maxed.

This is the only first row ability that has 4 ranks. AP champions max it, and get direct access to the second row.

This is a good choice for a jungler. It deals 1 extra damage comparing with Brute Force , but this only applies to minions and monsters.

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AD 9 points

Total stats: +3 attack damage improved Ghost/ Ignite/ Exhaust/ Surge +6% attack speed +10% armor penetration

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AD 21 points for Burst/Skill Damage champions

Total stats: +3 attack damage improved Ghost/ Ignite/ Exhaust/ Surge +6% attack speed +10% armor penetration +4 damage to minions and monsters 1.5% damage increase +3% life steal +6 Armor penetration +6% damage versus targets below 40% health

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AD 21 for Autoattack/Critical Strike champions

Total stats: +3 attack damage improved Ghost/ Ignite/ Exhaust/ Surge +6% attack speed +10% armor penetration +4% critical strike chance +10% critical strike damage +3% life steal +6 Armor penetration +6% damage versus targets below 40% health

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AP 21 points

Total stats: +4 Ability Power +4% Cooldown Reduction +10% Magic penetration +1.5% damage increase +18 ability power at level 18 (1 per level) 5% Ability power increase +6% damage versus targets below 40% health

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AP 9 points

Total stats: +4 Ability Power +4% Cooldown Reduction +10% Magic penetration

Defensive tree is now somewhat viable for support characters. We don't have any dodge-related masteris now, so dodge has kinda been nerfed. The defensive tree basically provides damage reduction (in different ways), and HP bonuses (both to HP amount and HP regeneration). However, in the lower rows there are a couple of utility masteries that can be beneficial to supports. The last mastery is also better then in season one.

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9 Points

Total stats +6 Armor +6 Magic Resistance +3 Health Regen

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21 Points - health and damage reduction

Total stats +6 Armor +6 Magic Resistance +3 Health Regen +108 health at lvl 18 (6 per level) +30 Health +3% movement speed when health is above 70% 1.5% damage reduction +3% maximum health and 10% reduction of incoming disables.

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21 Points - more utility

Total stats +6 Armor +6 Magic Resistance +3 Health Regen +108 health at lvl 18 (6 per level) +30 Health +8.1 Cooldown Reduction at lvl 18 (0.45 per level) 24 bonus gold at kills and assists +3% maximum health and 10% reduction of incoming disables.

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21 points for jungling

Total stats +6 Armor +6 Magic Resistance 2 damage reduction on minion and monster attacks 6 damage returned against minoin and monster attacks 2 Damage Reduction +108 health at lvl 18 (6 per level) +30 Health +3% movement speed when health is above 70% +3% maximum health and 10% reduction of incoming disables.

This is the last improvement mastery which improves Teleport, Promote, Flash, Clarity, Clairvoyance. Don't forget that Flash has recently been nerfed.

a great mastery. On higher levels it will reduce your time spent dead by like 6-7 seconds which can be game-changing.

This mastery has been changed to the better. Now it gives bonus mana per level (cheers, Ryze), or energy per second to energy-based champions.

The name pretty much explains it all. Take this if you are missing one point to get to second row, and don't need Summoner's Insight .

This gives 1% less speed then Initiator , but is unconditional. I personally think it's better.

Expanded Mind is required to get this, but Meditation only gives mana regen and, therefore, is useless to energy-based champions.

If you glance at the description, the increased ward range seems awesome. However, the 5% difference is so small that you will hardly see the difference.

The new Greed gives 2 times more gold then the old one. It costs 4 points instead of one though. However, AD champions can invest into this mastery to proceed into the tree, because the other masteries of this row are bad for them.

Good for every champion that deals magic damage with abilities.

Great for everyone who spends a lot of time wearing monster butts. This includes your jungler, your AD carry (red buff), and your AP carry (or maybe your support) (blue buff).

Pretty useless spell if you ask me. 40 gold is just about 2 minion kills. Investing two mastery points in this is not worth it.

Increased exp gain can sometimes get you easy kills on lvl6, if you can get your ultimate faster than your lane opponent.

I really don't know if it's worth spending a point.

An amazing mastery for those who rely on health regen, and for those who are mana-hungry.

The cooldown reduction from this is flat, which is better for early game than scaling one (like in Enlightenment ).

Exactly as in Season One, this reduces your Summoner Spell cooldowns by 15%.

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9 Points

Total stats 10% reduced time spent dead +2% movement speed Improved Recall 20% increased duration of monster buffs

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9 points for a caster

Total stats Improved Teleport, Promote, Flash, Clarity, Clairvoyance Improved Recall +216 mana at level 18 (12 per level) OR +10 energy +3 mana regeneration per 5 seconds +5% increased ward range

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21 points for a non-caster

Total stats 10% reduced time spent dead +2% movement speed Improved Recall 20% increased duration of monster buffs +2 gold per 10 seconds +5% experience gain +9% increased health and mana regen 15% reduced cooldowns on summoner spells

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21 points for a caster

Total stats Improved Teleport, Promote, Flash, Clarity, Clairvoyance +216 mana at level 18 (12 per level) OR +10 energy +3 mana regeneration per 5 seconds 5% increased ward range 20% increased duration of monster buffs +3% spell vamp +5% experience gain +6% cooldown reduction +15% cooldown reduction on your Summoner Spells

Here are my thoughts about how to use the new masteries. I will keep updating this, maybe adding new examples and some descriptions for them, so hopefully this will have even more information later.
I really hope this guide was helpful.

Please, leave your comments regarding the guide and the examples, I will be willing to include any useful information that you will post.