If we surrender, why should we be able to honor anybody

PunBrother·4/6/2018, 6:47:08 PM·2 votes·541 views

I hate the fact that i have the option to honor my own team mates if we surrender. There is no honor in surrendering. In every book, surrendering is frowned upon. So my question to y'all is, should we take out the honor feature if said team surrendered? I understand that its to make someone feel "better" about themselves, but it gets old, and honestly i hate the fact that I can't honor the enemy team anymore. I can't acknowledge the fact that someone else kicked my butt in a stylish way or even say, "hey i may have lost, but that guy was pretty cool". If anything it was nice to be acknowledged by someone other than your own team mates or group of friends. It made you feel like you were doing something right. But i can't. I wish it would be brought back.

9 Comments

Imperial Pandaa4/6/2018, 6:59:45 PM10 votes

Because honor isn't a matter of victory or defeat. It is a matter of if you enjoyed playing with anyone on your team, if you didn't then skip the honor part. The game doesn't force you to honor anyone.

I would be okay with honoring opponents but it may be difficult to adjust the honor leveling with it. May also have to deal with only being able to honor one opponent and not a whole slew.

Umbral Regent4/6/2018, 7:19:33 PM8 votes

There is no honor in surrendering.

There is honor in surrendering - it's just as honorable to fight tooth and nail for a win as it is to accept a loss.

In every book, surrendering is frowned upon.

No? Surrendering can minimize the damage a loss would cause, whether it's sparing the lives of an army or preventing players from suffering a match that was dragged out.

So my question to y'all is, should we take out the honor feature if said team surrendered?

I'd say "no". As Imperial Pandaa mentioned, Honoring your teammates has no tie to winning or losing, or whether or not your team surrendered. You can Honor whoever you felt you enjoyed playing with, or you could simply skip it and Honor nobody.

Maybe, even despite the Surrender, there was just that one guy who was intoxicatingly friendly? Uplifting, worked to build up his team, and consoled them for the loss. It's cases like that where it'd suck to not be able to Honor players post-game just for a Surrender. (not to mention, it would probably screw with Honor Progression a bit.)

As for the Honorable Opponent thing - I can't recall exactly where, but, I remember Riot mentioning that they are/will be looking for ways to reintroduce the ability to Honor your foes in the future. That's the most I know of that, anyway.

Kei1434/6/2018, 7:15:27 PM5 votes

honors is for behavior actions, not for game play actions.
team honor bonus can make you good progress for the honor progression
give an honor, make someone smile. it'll make their day. If you happen to play with them again in the same match, at least they won't be tilted.

ModJeonGoyangi4/7/2018, 6:43:31 PM2 votes

Hi there! While you are not forced to honor as said before its simply if you feel the person made something impressionable. I remember the days when we were able to honor the enemies as well if the match was a good match and someone on the enemy team did something note worthy. But good luck in your future games!

~KittySuppSquad [sona-playing] [sg-soraka]

EL HAMSTERO4/6/2018, 7:40:14 PM2 votes

surrendering is a nod of respect to your enemies. it is saying you have outplayed us and we dont believe we can beat you anymore. it also can relieve your teammates who may be suffering.

sometimes surrendering is the most honorable thing you can do.

Phieldworker4/6/2018, 10:25:57 PM2 votes

There is honor in surrender. You might be saving someone's mental state of mind by surrendering instead of dragging on a match for another 15 + minutes.

Let's look outside of league. I'm 100% sure there are battles that were won later because the losing side needed to fall back (aka surrender) to regroup so they could later win. Hence the phrase "you may have one the fight, but you have not won the war". That means someone lost but survived to fight another day.

Back to league. How many times have you seen someone say "give baron" or "give drag" or whatever objective. These are forms of surrendering. But how many times have you given up something in game just to have it pay off later? It happens countless times. Giving up something is still surrendering though.

I can see you as the guy that chases the Singed, Teemo, or Bard just to have yourself killed because you couldn't let it go (surrender).

To sum it all up, surrendering does not mean all is lost. You can learn a lot from a defeat. Use the knowledge and move forward. And build others up by telling them the things they did well by honoring.

Icantcreateasumm4/7/2018, 4:27:28 PM2 votes

i agree, you are correct, wow lots of haters, and followers on this forum, rediculous. gosh ill just get 20 of my friends to upvote all my posts, hrmm pretty easy.....