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[Serious] Unlock One Missed Victorious Skin per Season @ Honor 5

Danksley·11/12/2018, 2:58:32 PM·1 votes·2,740 views

I make a lot of tongue-in-cheek suggestions on this board. This one isn't.

I propose adding missed victorious skins (for punishments only) to honor 5 orbs.Specifically, in place of Grey Warwick / Medieval Twitch. This means you cannot earn either of those honor skins in a given season if you were previously denied rewards. Honor 5 is not something somebody who is routinely toxic will be able to attain as it requires one penalty per season or less depending on the timing (a punishment in April or May makes honor 5 impossible by season end example), thus it shows a marked reform for impacted players. This would also create a lot of feel-good boards posts to counteract the constant negativity.

For example: someone finishes season 8 Honor 1 Checkpoint 2/3. They miss their skin per expectations. Next season they reach Honor 5. They unlock Victorious Orianna as a result. While they did receive a reward that was previously withheld, they are blocked from unlocking Grey Warwick or Medieval Twitch until season 10 adding to the scarcity of those skins. If they end season 9 below honor 2, they will similarly not be able to receive an honor 5 skin until season 11. These are not short timelines, sometimes exceeding a year, which matches up well with the apparent goals Riot has (60-90 days honor loss for 10 game CR).

In regards to Season 8 and Victorious Orianna specifically, I do not think this cheapens the skin at all considering you could almost literally just buy it from the store for 5200RP (cost of two server transfers) if you were below Honor 2.

EDIT: As there's some confusion, this is ONLY for skins that were lost due to punishments. Your account must have ended the impacted season in Gold or higher.

30 Comments

MegaLobunny11/12/2018, 3:21:10 PM13 votes

This removes the incentive to not be toxic in a given season because players believe they can just get their rewards anyway. The entire point of tying rank rewards to honor is to discourage toxicity in a season and this removes that incentive. Sure, it’s a slog to get to h5, but players already receive plenty of honor orb rewards.

Oleandervine11/12/2018, 3:19:32 PM10 votes

No, I don't agree with this. Honor and Rank are two different systems. I would be happy if you could pick between any Victorious skin if you end the season in gold, but I do not believe that giving people with honor access to ranked skins is a good idea in the slightest.

Kei14311/12/2018, 3:45:08 PM4 votes

Man, if that was the deal, I'll instantly get myself punished and easily climb back to h5 and get Victorious Orianna.

EASY !!!

Especially since it'll be easier to hit gold next season.

Voldymort11/12/2018, 3:02:55 PM3 votes

the problem is there are plenty of posts on these boards coming from honor 5 players

honor 5 =/= not toxic

For example: someone finishes season 8 Honor 1 Checkpoint 2/3. They miss their skin per expectations. Next season they reach Honor 5. They unlock Victorious Orianna as a result. While they did receive a reward that was previously withheld, they are blocked from unlocking Grey Warwick or Medieval Twitch until season 10 adding to the scarcity of those skins. If they end season 9 below honor 2, they will similarly not be able to receive an honor 5 skin until season 11.

but what if they already have grey warwick and medieval twitch?

Dr Dog11/12/2018, 7:10:35 PM2 votes

if you miss the skin because you got punished sucks for you, you dont get the skin and never will theres no way toxic people will get some special second chance

wolvius11/12/2018, 5:04:09 PM1 votes

I would prefer champion ship skins to medieval twitch. I was sad when the diseased rodent was forced into my champ pool. So this doesn't sound like a punishment.