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A PSA from someone who has reformed: The honor grind is not impossible

TheZacStreetBoys·5/31/2018, 11:19:04 PM·8 votes·3,181 views

I see people complaining about getting honor set to 1 or 0 after being chat restricted once or twice. I'd know. I complained when I got set back to honor 0 after two instances of excessive self-flame. I'm not talking "lol, I suck" after one death. I was literally saying "OMFG WHY AREN'T YOU FLAMING ME" in /all.

I genuinely don't want to talk about that, those were dark days for my League career, when even some of my good friends IRL got pissed at me after every game.

What I would like to talk about is NOW. I'm honor 1. Yes, I actually made the grind from 0 to 1. For someone who has never been down there, that might not seem impressive, but it's a nightmare. First off, at honor 0 you have no rewards. That means NO KEYS. So, watching my chests pile up while my friends are getting free skins every once and a while just for being honor 1+ is hard. The reason I tilted and got to 0 was mainly because I was pissed about honor 1. Trying not to tilt while honor 0 is frustrating. Plus, the fact that you don't get reset at the end of season is, while totally reasonable, still tilting.

But I powered through. I never complained about honor 0, and I was soon able to joke about it with my friends, who quickly began to enjoy playing with me more and more. Being honor 0 actually taught me something really important in League: when other people enjoy playing with you, you'll enjoy the game more. And no, I didn't get in a premade and have my friends honor spam me. I actually was proactive in being a good person and making the game more fun for people around me.

Instead of saying "your champ is broken" or "I suck/my champ sucks" after a death, I said WP, even if I thought it was BS. I actually started racking up honors pretty fast just for being, well, honorable. It sounds dumb, but little things like not complaining about not getting ganks or poor vision control really makes a difference. When my teammate dies when my laner roams after I pinged MIA, I don't yell at them for having poor map awareness. I apologize for not making it clearer.

I see people complain about honor 1 or 0 all the time, and tilting because of it. But, no matter how cheesy it sounds, going out of your way to make League a less toxic community makes a big difference, and will directly impact your honor gain.

Have FUN reforming, guys. I know I did. [sg-kiko]

14 Comments

Kei1435/31/2018, 11:41:06 PM3 votes

Good job. Keep up the good work.

NeX Daark6/1/2018, 1:22:42 AM3 votes

If anything, my chat restriction has made me more "toxic."

I will continue to tell bad players they are bad, because they need to know. And preferably stop queueing ranked <3

Karunamon6/1/2018, 12:05:28 AM2 votes

Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to go from 0>1 and 1>2 after you committed to changing your chat?

Aneirin5/31/2018, 11:37:20 PM1 votes

Congrats buddy, keep it up [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Fiori Owain Hero6/1/2018, 2:27:24 AM1 votes

There really is no point because premades will only honor each othr making solo q a fucking nightmare

LogicalThinkTank6/1/2018, 6:55:08 AM1 votes

its not that its impossible, its that it takes AGES to first unlock your honor (no set time either bc rito "doesnt want you to have a goal other than being positive") THEN AGES in between checkpoints

It took me over 1-2 months to unlock then 3-4 weeks for C-1 and another 3-4 weeks for C-2

Still at honor 0

But its not even the fact that im missing out on free stuff, its that fact that honor is so stupid now.

You can no longer honor your entire team, which means for you to be honored you either have to A: be a god and carry your team and get a pentakill with 25 bajillion CS and win the game. or B: beg for it.

plus you cant even honor enemies anymore