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Why i think the current honor system fails

afmghost·2/20/2018, 4:44:01 PM·20 votes·1,138 views

There are merely two issues that'd I would like to address.

First up, you cannot honor opponents. I think we all agree this is a problem so I'm not going to bother going into it.

Secondly, you can only honor one player. This may not look like an issue on paper, but hear me out:

Whenever I play, it seems like the player with the best KDA gets the honors. This means the player who was most polite or enabled the ADC to get the best KDA will both be thrown aside in favor of the one who got the most kills.

I don't know, when I think of honoring someone, I think it should be based on who was the most helpful and polite person on my team. If you go 30/2/8, good for you, but I'm going to honor the one who gave me advice or communicated well.

Sadly, it seems that most players do not select honor with that mindset. They want to make their one honor count, so it goes to the one with the prettiest KDA.

That's my take anyway.

17 Comments

YerroFever2/20/2018, 4:54:50 PM6 votes

I do agree that not being able to honor opponents anymore is shitty. Riot has stated they're working on bringing it back. I have faced sportsmanlike opponents that I want to honor but can't.

Not being able to honor more than one teammate may not be ideal to express your appreciation for your teammates, but it also means that the honor you give is more meaningful. If you look at systems that are in other games, like HOTS, you can only honor one person period, whether it's your team or the enemy team and they have to have gotten one of the medals.

Jo0o2/20/2018, 4:50:20 PM4 votes

Agreed on the honorable opponent bit. I think I read somewhere that they were looking into bringing it back? Not sure.

I think the rationale behind one honor per game is to prevent just randomly honoring everybody every game, which happened a lot under the old system. Having only one honor to give makes that choice matter, in theory. You're right that, in practice, the carry often gets the honors. That's not always the case, though.

There may be some overlap between this phenomenon and the current snowball meta. With games getting shorter and often circling around one person who can generate a large advantage early and run away with it, focus is inevitably going to be on the carry. It's hard to say, and this is just a random idea I had while typing all this out, but I suspect that if games lasted a bit longer, the current honor system would skew back towards its original intended functionality.

Nyloaf2/20/2018, 4:49:57 PM3 votes

I always honor whoever was the best team player, didn't try to ks, left my cs alone, was kind to me and the team, etc etc.

Typically it's the support or someone who roamed when I needed help or some such :)

Who is Taliyah2/21/2018, 4:16:15 AM2 votes

Since there are 3 options to honor someone, I think it would be best to have the option to honor 3 players, one in each category.

SetInMotion2/20/2018, 5:09:01 PM2 votes

I completely agree 100% I was gonna actually make the same type of post. It kind of really sucks. I also miss honouring others on my team, I don't think only one person should get honoured. I. Miss the old system on that.

Totally Not Jinx2/21/2018, 2:11:10 AM2 votes

As a support main who's been responsible for getting the hard carries their impressive KDAs, I feel you.

But at the same time, I know that without them, my efforts are for nothing anyway, because I can't carry a game on my own. I'd love to have an option to honour two players, because sometimes there are legitimately two people who help the game go forward.

I'd probably draw the line there though.

Modl Ryden l2/22/2018, 2:09:00 AM1 votes

There have been times I've wanted to honor my whole team and even honor everyone in the match just because no one made an ass of themselves by telling someone to 'kys' or spam emotes/laughs. It was a match that was played with style and grace. No underhanded tactics or mind games. Just pure game play and even the occasional, "Dang dude that was a good move." to the opponent.

But with this system I feel it oughta do a good job at funneling honor to the players who deserve it the most. Players who demonstrate and receive honor every match, I would assume, are good players to have around in general and are not just players who hard carry because of their score.

Codasylph2/20/2018, 8:49:09 PM1 votes

This is more of an issue with the player base than the honor system itself. The old honor system didn't have a lot to do with actual sportsmanship either. It seemed like people just honored everyone, or everyone but that dick who called them out for having low CS, or lost and only honored the one person who made it out of the loss without a completely terrible score. The fact is Riot can't make its player base act like adults, (and that's not their fault) so no system is going to survive first contact with well.. us.

But the good news is, you made this post, which means somewhere out there, there are actually players who use the honor system the way it appears to have been intended. Good on you. :)

Arammus2/21/2018, 4:13:16 AM1 votes

let me honor 2 enemys and 2 teammates. and im perfectly fine.