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Can someone explain this to me? (Honor related)

LittleOak·8/21/2017, 7:16:35 PM·2 votes·422 views

I have been away from League of Legends for the past 8 days due to a trip but the last time I logged on to play a game was August 13th, and I stopped playing because my mouse finally decided to bite the dust and I fed my ass off in an URF game. I went 0/8/13, did not get honored at all and went into some practice tool games afterwards to try to see if there was any way my mouse would work.

Regardless, I have not played a game in over a week, and this morning while at work, I open up the client to see if they posted the new patch notes yet and I got greeted with Honor 4. Don't get me wrong, I am glad I have it and believe I deserve it, but I don't understand why it would just give this to me now sitting at work and haven't played since a game no one honored me, if everyone honored each other the bonus honor could have kicked after that last game, and I haven't been on the client in a week.

My wording in this is terrible but I was just wondering if there was any reason for this. Like I haven't played this past week to earn this, even though I play honorably enough often enough to earn it, my duo queue partner has played every other day since then and he is a support main who is like the friendliest player I've met playing this game and he still doesn't have it. It just didn't make sense to me.

7 Comments

ModPrandine8/21/2017, 9:28:39 PM3 votes

The way the system works right now from what I remember is that you passively progress to the next honor level as long as you're not receiving punishments. For example, I'm at honor 3 right now but if I were to receive a punishment I would drop down to dishonorable and would have to work my way back up again. Not only that but I would be barred from receiving any sort of rewards until I hit honor level 1, and even then I would receive less than I would at honor 2. You can climb honor levels slightly faster by gaining honors from teammates*, but ultimately as long as you're not being punished for poor behavior then you'll eventually reach the higher honor levels.

It's weird I know but that's just the way it works right now.

*Note that honors from your premade means less than they do from randoms, so don't expect to climb super fast by receiving honors from your teammates every game.

Drugoth8/21/2017, 7:24:35 PM1 votes

Unfortunately no one can explain the mystery that is the current honor system. We have no clue what kind of algorithm it operates on.