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Honor farming Aram

Thorn3000·9/15/2018, 1:21:34 PM·2 votes·6,200 views

Why do I get the feeling that ARAM is not just the place to farm level, but also to farm honor level?

In my experience honors from aram count as much as those from the rift, but games take far less time so you can accumulate more honors in shorter time leading to quicker checkpoint advancement. Plus unlike 3 vs 3 there are 4 players that can honor you. Plus as arams are shorter and thus you do not waste that much time in them, they tend to have lower overall toxicity, so a higher chance of players honoring each other, whereas in rift you get toxic player often, he might not honor everyone and so you dont get the - "everyone on your team honored somebody so you go extra honor".

I am asking as you see, you get keys from honor right? Well I play only rift, and get honors regularly, and I do have plenty of keys to go around. But Im stuck 4 months on H3L0. I have a friend who gets far less keys, but he went to H5 already. He plays a lot of arams. Makes me think that the key distribution for honours has a different logic to actual honour leveling and is more dependent on the amount of honors you got instead of "numbers of honors / time spend in game" which overall honor leveling seems to be based on

4 Comments

Kei1439/15/2018, 2:45:30 PM2 votes

Key distribution itself is capped at 12/month, and you can only get 12 if you play a lot of games.

It's like a level system in many rpgs, where the first few levels (keys) are very easy to get, but the later ones require you to grind a lot more of games before you can unlock them.

Bonus key fragments are given upon moving up the honor ladder as you pass through check points.

Keep in mind that being higher in honor does not affect your chances of getting a key frag, unless you are in H1, in which you would have a reduced drop rate in regular key frags.

Saezio9/16/2018, 8:01:17 PM1 votes

Honors in ARAM count less than they do in SR I believe, look at the honor initiative when the system was introduced, you will find the answer there. I remember because I am an ARAM only player and I was pissed when I read it. But it does make sense to count for less since it's shorter games. I play about 80 ARAMs a week and I have gotten all the key fragments for each chest. I have gotten 3 or 4 honor orbs (3 fragments each i believe) after i finished honor by this point :D