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Honoring Enemy Players

Wosdor·2/6/2019, 10:18:47 PM·7 votes·5,527 views

Dear Rito,

Sometimes I have games in which I always honor a teammate, but due to certain circumstances, which happens like fooling around in ARAM, I feel disappointed that I can no longer (optionally) honor enemy players. When I lose a ranked game by an awesome play of an enemy summoner I want to have to ability to honor them, because I think that they deserved the win. We can report enemy players anyway, why can't we honor them by giving them positive feedback? Back in the day you could honor all players and although I don't think that that is really necessary, I would like to give my opponent a thumbs up when I am in lane and someone really outplayed me. When in a positive mindset I can absorb what happened and see what I did wrong and even learn from it. Sometimes I can learn more from the enemy player by seeing how they play out the game in macro- and micro-gameplay, than by my own team, and I would like the possibility to send my gratitudes in the form of honor. In my (maybe naive and) humble world this would also lead to an enemy player getting less tilted when he plays a really good game with shotcalling and everybody honors the support. (Last one was just for fun). Even of it was through a fun talk over /all chat; it sometimes can give the game a more connected and fun vibe.

Sincerely,

A hardstuck Gold Player.

6 Comments

ROBB1E2/7/2019, 12:17:07 AM2 votes

Actually, Riot commented on this a while back, mentioning that they are wanting to implement the enemy honoring system again but are just trying to figure out a good way of going about it. Its a shame it wasn't implemented in the beginning but I can understand their reasoning why they might not just want to give an all-around honor since this could be abused by enemy teams for thanking them to troll games.

It's a double-edged sword but it'll be sorted out hopefully this year.

mlm olo mlm2/7/2019, 1:16:45 AM2 votes

Won't happen. Riot is worried that someone who breaks the chat rules would get honored. Even though it would have absolutely no abuse potential.

Not HeIping You2/8/2019, 5:56:49 AM1 votes

they said something about bringing back the ability to honor opponents in the future and that it needed more client updates and features to be implemented or something, so eventually it would probably be added.