With the new Icons tiers, the old Honor System Icons should be higher rarity

Møt·Jun 27, 2018·1 votes·4,079 views

This is very small, and I obviously have a personal interest, but when the old honor system was retired those who received a ribbon for honor or were in the top 10% of people honored in a category received an icon. With the new Icons tab, rarity was introduced much like skins.

Most make sense, but these very rare and limited icons are only Mythic, or the equivalent of 1350 RP rarity. I believe they should be Mythic rarity at least, if not Ultimate.

Clash icons for winning a 16-person bracket are Ultimate, and I feel this is an on-par accomplishment. At the very least, they should be in the same tier as the Perfect Ascension Game icon and the icon given for completing the Arcade event mission.

Many people felt under-compensated for participating fully in the old Honor system without many rewards, and this is the least that can be done to make the only thing we received feel slightly more special.

12 Comments

J6vV2un2c8Jun 27, 20181 votes

I suppose it wouldn't hurt, though I don't see a whole lot of gain either. Still, as someone who had an honorable teammate and honorable opponent honor ribbon, any little bit would be nice. Though personally, I don't feel like I lost anything as the new honor system is quite good imo

Hellmaximus1Jun 27, 20181 votes

As someone who was an absolute ass hole during season 1-7, I have all 4 ribbon icons while having 3 punishment which stripped the honor rewards (and ribbons) from me, and as anyone knows you only got the ribbons if you had honor based on total amount of games played total, which caused problem with player who had thousands of games on there accounts before the honor system was implemented. (Which means riot gave a huge leeway room for getting honor icons)

I don't think they should make the old honor system icons rare, I don't even think they should've made any type of rewards of that system other than giving out free rp or hextech skinshards.

That (beta) system was terrible, it failed to achieved desired results and failed to be meaningful or impactful in anyway to the point that no one even bothered to honor anymore.

Riot learned from their mistakes and made the much better honor system we have today (albeit with some minor/major problems).

Kei143Jun 27, 20181 votes

They once said that the perfect ascension icon was only own by 33% of the community and was the rarest icon owned.

I would want to be appreciated by that.

I couldn't care less about honors, as rhose were just a bunch of fictitious things. In KR server, they used to honor the enemy opponent when the enemy fed the and lost the game, so that having that icon would just be a badge of shame.

ModUlanopoJun 28, 20181 votes

They once said that the perfect ascension icon was only own by 33% of the community and was the rarest icon owned.

I find that hard to believe, unless they're counting the Freljord icons as one. I have the Lissandra icon, which I never see on other people. I also have the Vilemaw icon, which feels pretty rare too.

Kei143Jun 28, 20181 votes

Welcome to the world of 2014

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/making-featured-game-modes

ModUlanopoJun 28, 20181 votes

I'm not disputing the 33%. I'm questioning whether or not it's the rarest.

Kei143Jun 28, 20181 votes

Probably was at the time of 2014 when they wrote the article.

I doubt it's still true right now. There are a lot of rare icons now, like the great leader honors icons that were released in 2017 or the star guardian event S grade rewards.

I'm just very proud of the perfection ascension icon that I have which was achieved through skillful gameplay, and not something that was obtainable by money or just by putting on a lot of games (such as the honorable opponent, though many games played is a feat of its own).

ModUlanopoJun 28, 20181 votes

I have no idea what you're talking about. Ascension is not at all my favorite RGM. :)

https://imgur.com/khchth2

I had a couple friends who hadn't gotten the Perfect Ascension that last weekend of the event, so we did a 5-man and achieved it six or seven times in a row.

Kei143Jun 28, 20181 votes

Premade organized play > solo play

This is the time those solo queue players would come here and complain about dynamic queue's ranked integrity.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

MøtJun 28, 20181 votes

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They once said that the perfect ascension icon was only own by 33% of the community and was the rarest icon owned.

I would want to be appreciated by that.

I couldn't care less about honors, as rhose were just a bunch of fictitious things. In KR server, they used to honor the enemy opponent when the enemy fed the and lost the game, so that having that icon would just be a badge of shame.

The honor ones are, by definition, only owned by 10% of the community. They are much more rare.