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So you can only honor one person on your team now with the new honor system

Solar Arcanine··58 votes·4,403 views

The new honor system definitely looks good, and it's a step in the right direction for giving players who play and act well the credit they deserve. However, from my past experience, I liked to give more than one person on my team an honor. I was under the impression that with the new system, you would select one person in the honor screen, and then you would have the choice to honor more in the post game if you so wanted to. But you don't, the option is just grayed out. I feel that this system will cause more people to beg for honors (even if they don't get honored, it's not gonna stop them really).

You also can't honor your opponents anymore, from what I noticed. If anything, being an honorable opponent is just as good if not better than being an honorable teammate. The flairs, honor rewards, etc are all nice and promising, but a lot was removed in the process. One step forward, two steps backwards if you will.

26 Comments

Noctkazaku12 votes

I asked why we weren't able to honor more than one teammate on a thread awhile ago, and one Rioter said that they are looking into a way to make it so you can honor all your teammates again.

Solar Arcanine1 votes

I really hope they do. It just feels good to be able to honor everyone who deserves it, not just the best [slayer-jinx-catface]

Cavesloth3 votes

They need to get on that, if they really are serious about making this work.

Penns6 votes

How can you "look into a way" to do that?.. You literally just make it so that it doesnt go away once you honor 1 person lel.

Tho I guess we could just honor everyone all the time for ez rewards but.. eh.

Barcid5 votes

Because picture this:

You play with a pre-made team of 5, you all honor each other to farm honor score. Now the rewards either get nerfed or the system gets nerfed, a bunch of people ruin it for everyone else, things suck again.

GH0ST GG1 votes

So there's only one right thing to do. Disable honor for premade companions!

Sometimes, more than one person helps on your team and make the match worth. Sometimes, more than one stayed cool in an adverse situation. They all diserve honors.

Also, Put report button in the same post-game screen of honors and make reported players loose one honor rank every time he's be reported (in the new system is really easy to progress for everyone and don't disencourage toxic players). Allow us to honor and report enemys as well. And finally, make honor icon in load screen permanent.

Barcid3 votes

Well, there's three issues with what you just said.

First part is that would actively discourage friends working together. Limiting the amount a pre-made can hand out might be a better idea, so they can maybe only give one honor to their friend while having access to giving more to solo players not in their pre-made.

But that's the thing with part number two, is that that would make it considerably less special to get an honor. If everyone can give everyone else an honor, there's not much accomplishment in getting one. You didn't have to really shine that bright and you didn't really have to try to be the best you could. It would be nice to be able to give maybe two honors instead of just one, but allowing unlimited honors is just devaluing the system.

Then number three, knocking people down a level per report is asinine. That means I could report you and you're down a level, that's it, end of story. It would be practically impossible for anyone to level up their honor this way because if I just didn't like you or if I wanted to be an asshole, I could just report everyone I see and take their honor out. It actually works fine as it is right now: if you're toxic, you don't level up, plain and simple. After a while, you'll probably get knocked down. That's a solid mechanic that takes into account the possibility of some of these exploits happening.

DarkRitual8 votes

They plan to add in opponent honoring soon, but shipped it to live with teammate-only to get it to us ASAP.

As for only honoring one: that's to make the rewards feel more... well, rewarding. Let's not just make honor rewards into participation trophies.

Solar Arcanine1 votes

I understand that it makes it more rewarding. It's a concept I can get behind. But it also feels bad that if there are multiple people that performed well, you can only give one person. Perhaps if it was possible to make the extra honors not count as much towards honor level? So it would be more of a feel good for those who wish to use it, while preventing abuse of it via premades.

ShadowGlaive2131 votes

The FAQ already says they have systems in place to prevent abuse by premades, and the fact that honor is awarded before hitting the post game lobby stops the beggars and "gg honor all". This combined with the fact that the new system of choosing only one teammate is creating some negative player experience, which is the opposite of what the system is supposed to promote, I don't really see "it's not as rewarding" as a strong enough reason to keep us from honoring multiple people.

DarkRitual2 votes

Perhaps they could make it so players can see if a teammate has been honored already. So if you have 2 people you want honored and see another teammate honored one, you can honor to other. While you don't get to honor everyone you wanted, you can at least help more people you feel deserve an honor to receieve one at least.

Hyrum Graff4 votes

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I agree it's nice to honor everyone who deserves it. On the other, only being able to honor one means that getting it means something. Maybe adding just one more would be a happy middle ground.

Ok sure but why2 votes

I'm just glad I'm allowed to skip that option

Triniboy52 votes

Was surprised by this today... the game finished and I Morgana definitely had in mind 2 teammates, that helped make the game fun + we won... honored adc Draven and wanted to get jng Khazix as well, but it went away This needs to get fixed to allow multiple team-mates or even 1/2 enemy team honors. IMO when you do well in a game it's usually because of at least 3+ ppl being 'honorable' on your team.

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Fairyfleur2 votes

They made it that way because then you put actual thought into who you're honoring. Before it was just a number, but now when you see someone with a high rank you know that they did well for the honor and put good effort into their games. Also, I forget where, but they said they will eventually make it so you can honor your opponents.

DeathBurst2 votes

It's also a bit disheartening that you have to honor someone before the post-game chat. Post-game chat is often when we have the opportunity to talk to opponents, to exchange tips, to give advice to beginners. You can't do all that while playing the game when the match is still ongoing. And I want to honor and thank people with whom I have meaningful discussions...

Arcade Andrew1 votes

you should check out my thread about it

crzymdscntst1 votes

I think people have been skipping the honor page a lot.

That is my concern when I don't see the leaf on the person I honor or any honor myself. (2 people not getting honor, can't honor yourself, means that the people I'm specifically seeing get some of that honor are not necessarily what I'd call deserving in a couple of these games.)

EDIT: Didn't know premades couldn't honor eachother, but something still seems like it's not working as intended here.

Fairyfleur1 votes

Eh, so far I've seen that in most of my games so far nobody skips it. The leaf only shows up when three people honor the same person, though.

rtbf2216514121 votes

Honor system is already being abused by trolls.

Just like every single honor system they had before.

They should just do it like mobile legends, where afks. harassers, feeders, and etc get punished harshly and dont get rewards. (Goes through the system) Not everyone that isn't honored and may not even be a troll gets punished. They kinda have that, but it's not as strictly enforced and it's kinda a joke right now.

Fairyfleur1 votes

How? And, no, those who don't get honored still receive rewards as long as they don't make any offenses and keep playing games.

rtbf2216514121 votes

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How? And, no, those who don't get honored still receive rewards as long as they don't make any offenses and keep playing games.

I was told you start off with nothing then have to earn your way up to receive rewards?

Çhåryzård1 votes

Theyve mentioned they are gonna add ways to honor multiple people and honor enemies. This is just kinda the starting point I guess to see how it goes with the full playerbase. I personally like it, althought if I have a team full of amazing people I like to honor all of them so hopefully that gets added soon.

I kinda feel bad only getting to honor one person.

SanKakU1 votes

One interesting thing is that I've found it's hard for me to get honor from teammates in ARAM because they don't appreciate a tanking ally. They just look at the kills and deaths and not at all the helpful items I've bought like the Iceborn Gauntlet and Frozen Mallet and Rylai's and just be like...yeah I'm going to honor the guy with the highest number of kills...I had 51 assists that game. 11 more than the next highest on our team. I was definitely honor worthy and maybe if there were extra honors I'd have got an honor, but as it is I don't expect to harvest much honor from playing ARAM because I have a tendency to go tank more often than not because few else wants to and doing it greatly increases my chance of winning.

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