Dear Riot: Honor is broken

Faster Plz·Apr 24, 2019·1 votes·2,249 views

I think the honor system is ok, but there is 1 major flaw in the honor system which is how you gain honor. Did I say anything that would make me deserve to lose honor, sure, the fact in the matter isn't that I think the losing honor part of the system is broken, but gaining it back. I lost honor 2 12 days ago this time and haven't even gotten 1 checkpoint back.

I have stayed nice to others for 34 games 16.7 hours and NOT 1 CHECKPOINT. You have any idea how fustrating it is that 1 honor in the past 34 games feels to me? 16.7 hours 1 honor.

I do feel like that it is because I am playing flex because I want that double gold rank. Riot needs to disable an option to honor your premade in flex because 90% of the honors are for premade teammates.

I also am not facing people of my skill level, but that is a topic for another day.

8 Comments

SnupRawrApr 24, 20192 votes

I think gaining honor is not by the number of games, but how long you remain a positive person. If it was game based, people would probably grind the crap out of it and reach 5 in no time, but they could still be toxic here and there. Making it over the course of a few months supposedly earns you honor because your keeping your cool consistently for such a long time. Just a theory ;3

Inkling CommandoApr 24, 20191 votes

honor is shit anyway. all you get are key shards when dont mean jack unless you got chests. and if you have no free chests available you have to either buy them or you are sol. honor needs to be more incentive. otherwise there is really no point in gaining honor.

Umbral RegentApr 24, 20193 votes

honor needs to be more incentive. otherwise there is really no point in gaining honor.

Well, what more can they really give as incentive? They already give us ambient key fragments, free periodic skin shards, ward skins, etc., Honor Flairs at Level 3+, end-of-season Ranked Reward eligibility, Clash Eligibility, guaranteed Honor-Exclusive skins for hitting Honor Level 5 (or Chromas, if you have both skins, or free Epic-tier skin shards if you have everything exclusive), and end-of-season bonus Honor Rewards for players Honor Level 3+.

That is a lot of incentive to gain Honor, and a lot of it would otherwise need to be purchased, so Riot is, to some degree, holding the short end of the stick here.

So, I ask again; what more can they really give? If the incentives that they have right now are insufficient, then what would you propose they offer to give people more reason to climb in Honor?

Inkling CommandoApr 24, 20191 votes

all i've ever gotten is key shards. no skin shards, no flairs, nothing.

Umbral RegentApr 24, 20191 votes

Checking back on the 2018 Honor Website (which potentially has outdated information anyway, but, still), it seems I've had my info wrong.

The Honor rewards are as follows; Honor Level 1 - Hextech Key on Level-up, reduced ambient Key Fragment generation Honor Level 2 - Hextech Key on Level-up, normal ambient Key Fragment generation, End-of-Season Ranked Reward eligibility, Clash eligibility Honor Level 2 Checkpoints - 2 Key Fragments per Checkpoint Honor Level 3 - 3 Key Fragments, Guaranteed Random Ward Skin, BE/Champion Shard of at least 300 BE in value, eligibility to receive Loading Screen Honor Flairs Honor Level 3 Checkpoints - 2 Key Fragments & BE/Champion Shard of at least 150 BE in value per Checkpoint Honor Level 4 - 4 Key Fragments, Guaranteed Random Emote, & Champion Shard equal to 630 BE in value Honor Level 4 Checkpoints - 2 Key Fragments & BE/Champion Shard of at least 200 BE in value per Checkpoint Honor Level 5 - 5 Key Fragments, Medieval Twitch/Grey Warwick (or random Emote/Ward Skin if both skins are owned - in 2019, it's said there'll be Chromas as rewards for these skins) & Champion Shard of at least 960 BE in value Honor Level 5+ - 3 Key Fragments & BE/Champion Shard of at least 250 BE in value per "Checkpoint"

Loading Screen Honor Flairs are obtained for being Honored by at least one non-premade teammate or two premade teammates in a game, and persist until the end of your next match.

Even still, with or without skin shards dropping throughout the system, that's still quite a lot of free crap for Riot to give away.

And you still don't seem to have any suggestions of your own to add to the list.

Kei143Apr 24, 20191 votes

yea ... 34 games is no where close to enough to gain a check point.

try 3 times that amount.

Honor also progresses more depending on your in-game chat, and whether you get team honor bonus. Not by getting honored alone.

MoonscourgeApr 24, 20191 votes

Lmao 12 days? You'll need months to gain it back, deservedly.

Faster PlzApr 24, 20191 votes

I do not get why so many people have disliked my post. The issue I mentioned is that I have been getting high letter scores after most of my games the past games, no honors, no checkpoint. I have tried my best to be kind during games and I see no progress with honor checkpoints.

Also disabling honors for the people you queue up with is a good idea because they get nothing from it anyways so just disable it and let the player decide to honor 1 of the randoms instead.