Why are we only allowed to honor one person?????

bro0rtega·6/29/2017, 10:49:28 PM·130 votes·6,908 views

Just played a game with the new honor system, and I had a very satisfying win. I was ready to go through the honor system and decide who were worth honoring that game. I first looked at the Top laner, and saw he was behind but still pulled through for the team, aka tilt-proof. Then, ... Poof! It's gone. I'm like, "What??" Where'd it go? That's why I'm here.

My question is, why can't I show through this system that more than one person was honorable that game?

Will be glad to discuss below, and see how the community feels about this.

P.S. Also a poll, for everyone including those short on time.

131 Comments

Vhan87656/29/2017, 10:54:50 PM56 votes

Really upset as well the ability to honor opponents is gone too to be honest.

As few as they are, it feels punishing almost trying to pick one person when the whole game actually went well and was fun.

I Love Thresh6/29/2017, 10:53:17 PM39 votes

We should be able to honor everyone who deserves it, not only one person.

Randomonium6/29/2017, 10:55:09 PM27 votes

I think this is done to avoid "honor trading" where everyone honors everyone else. By limiting it to one person it gives a lot more value to the system and it means a lot more when you get that honor from a teammate.

It's kind of like do you give everyone a trophy or do you only give the best team a trophy? If only a few people get the reward then the reward feels a lot more special and means a lot more.

Petri Fidlfynger6/30/2017, 1:49:14 AM10 votes

As a support main, I don't expect to receive many honors.

invisiblecat16/30/2017, 12:51:51 AM8 votes

How about at most being able to choose one person to honor per section

Cyndercat6/30/2017, 1:12:01 AM5 votes

im pretty worried, as a support main, that im not gunna get any honors as support plays mostly go unnoticed because they are setups or a shield that protects which is overlooked in a big teamfight.

kurthl33t6/30/2017, 1:59:40 PM5 votes

Seriously! Sometimes more than one person deserves to be honored. Why don't I have that option anymore?

The button is still there, just reactivate it please!

Vegas Dad6/30/2017, 11:57:56 AM4 votes

Didnt take long for the "honor traders" to demand a system they can abuse.

AbyssionKnight6/30/2017, 3:08:08 AM4 votes

One honour makes sense to prevent just always honouring everyone and devaluing the system.

I think an interesting way to compromise that would be to allow people to give away their own honour if they want to honour extra people.

So if I have 100 honour in all three categories, and at the end of the game, 3 of my teammates deserved honour, I could give one honour for free, then sacrifice a gg honour to give one of the other teammates a gg, and then sacrifice a great shotcalling of mine, to give to the other person etc.

Then if you really want to show appreciation to multiple people you have a way to do it that doesn't encourage farming. It'd also be totally optional, so if you want to just horde your honour for rewards, there'd be nothing stopping you. They'd just have to add something like 'Warning! If you send this honour you'll lose one of your own!' that you have to agree to before sending multiple honours in a match, and then no one would really be able to complain about accidentally using too many honour in a match.

IceMyth6/30/2017, 6:07:39 AM3 votes

I have the same question as well. I have a very fun games that all team members are cool and worth to be honored. Same as on the enemy team when a player does something insane and very nice and friendly that worth to be honored or sometimes the whole other team.

**I think my self will not honor anyone because it is not fair. **

I Love Thresh6/29/2017, 11:19:37 PM3 votes

Honor has always been there, and people didn't really "honor trade" before, if they were to do it now, it'd die down quickly as the novelty of the new honor system wears off.

Ispharel6/30/2017, 8:33:22 AM3 votes

i had this game where, the whole team was like good mindsetted, the whole time was very positive, and we were all fed, haha it was like the dream team

TheFlameofOath6/30/2017, 5:32:42 PM2 votes

I disagree, however, I do understand why you all may think this way. One solution could be RIOT keeps the current honour system the same (1 person) and use the old honour system to honour your teammates and enemies. That way the player who proved himself the most in a game gets easier progress to rank 5 while players who get the old honours can still feel accomplished. Another solution (preferred one), if a player(s) gets an S- or above can be voted along with one other person. So let us say you get two players who achieved an S, you arrive at the honour screen and they have a special border. Anyone with this border would mean that they could be honoured for free (however you are not forced to honour them, they may have done really good in the game but also could've been very disrespectful to your team) and the basic honour can still be spent on someone without one. I assume that most of the people who voted for 2-3 players (94 people) would be most likely to agree with me

x AKARI x6/30/2017, 12:45:06 AM2 votes

I definitely want to see the options to honor opponents and honor your entire team in the future. Sometimes you do get lucky and have a whole team team that is super friendly and the teamwork is so outstanding, you want to do something to, well, honor them. I do hope Riot adds these options, especially honoring opponents, back soon.

Sir Fuzzi6/30/2017, 2:59:17 AM2 votes

It feels like a waste of a system. I don't know what isn't stopping people from just queuing with friends and honoring each other. Furthermore, I don't know why I can only honor one when my whole team was responsible for, and contributing strongly to the victory (and in cases, least of all me-- my teammates all deserved honor more than I did, and I am somehow only allowed to designate one?)...

I don't like it. It fosters the wrong notion of honor, I think.

RizHippoKhan6/30/2017, 1:19:11 PM2 votes

it also makes honors more valuable

Colgate Gator6/30/2017, 3:57:07 PM2 votes

I suppose it's because now it has actual rewards, so they don't want everyone getting it for free.

Do remember though, that everyone passively gain honor.

Seacrux6/30/2017, 2:55:55 AM1 votes

I think worse than only being able to honor one person is the fact you can just skip honoring people completely. People have little patience, are bitter/lazy/whatever plethora of different reasons and I think probably just skip the honor screen just to make things quick or simple. At least it seems like it to me so far. I've played a handful of games where I mostly carried, had a positive attitude, yet only got honored one time out of the like...20+ people I played with? It sounds bad to say, and its not like I expect to get honored just because I carried, but cmon. .you'd think it would happen more than once out of all the people I played with. So far this system has just been discouraging to me, maybe the multiple honor thing would help that, but definitely shouldn't be allowed more than two honor or it kind of ruins the whole point of the system. Honestly I was into it at first and honoring people every game that stood out the most, but why bother if you can just skip it and that ends up being what most people do? Unless someone has really been able to "wow" me I just skip now too. Make it mandatory to honor.