What honor actually means.
Stayed Cool: I think you were the reason we won. Great Shotcalling: I think you were the reason we won. GG: I think you were the reason we won.
No honor: I think I was the reason we won.
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pretty fuckin much lmao. Majority of honors are just plain GG honors, no matter how much of a role you played in the game towards the other types of honor. Or you just straight up don't get honored, period. Good thing the honor system is determined by how much you avoid being reported, not so much how many honors you get
Nah. I honor who I liked the most.
In my experience, I've seen the Honors used for a fair (if small) variety of things.
GG - a pretty broad-spectrum, generalist Honor, and it's used as such. I imagine most people tend to use this when they just feel like someone positively contributed to the game - whether with positive chat, skilled play, or whatever else.
Great Shotcalling - I've seen this one used largely for two reasons; 1. actual shotcalling, such as rallying the group for Baron, setting up split-pushers, or getting everyone to group for that final push on middle lane, and 2. Spearheading teamfights. I've gotten my fair share of Shotcaller honors simply for initiating a lot of solid teamfights and skirmishes as Leona.
Stayed Cool - I've seen this used for players who kept a level head and played out a bad matchup/bad lane, had to deal with people flaming them, or otherwise stuck out a long match that nobody liked, but everyone wanted to play out. I've also seen it used to substitute for a GG honor here and there.
And, if you don't get Honored, there could be a blue-billion reasons why. Maybe they felt someone else was more worth Honoring? Maybe they just felt soured from the match in question, and decided not to Honor anyone due to their mood? Perhaps you just didn't do anything they found particularly worth Honoring? Who knows?
If no one stood out to me as doing anything particularly honorable, I honor the person who performed the best, sure. Most of the time though, I end up honoring someone who did poorly but didn't give up or lash out in chat. This is especially important to me because as a jungler, I tend to favor ganking the lanes where I can secure an advantage and that's rarely the lane that gets off to a bad start.