PSA: If it's taking you a long time to get out of dishonorable, your own behavior is the cause
#tl;dr: Minor tox that wouldn't get you punished on an honorable account will greatly slow your progress from getting out of honor 0/1
Remember that IFS flowchart you might have seen a while ago?
https://tkwa.re/leaguereporttiers
I want to call your attention to two specific things. The large arrow on the bottom, the text within, and the bit on the lower left that says "save report for future consideration".
When you just have a bad game on an otherwise honorable account, that report is saved in the background with no punishment on your account, other than a hit to your honor progress. It's basically to ensure that if you have a really rough time and give in to the dark side urge to flame a troll, that you don't get the hammer dropped on you immediately. (But if you keep doing it, that same game will be used as reason to apply a restriction)
Here's the key thing: When you're trying to get out of honor 0 or 1, it those same reports will slow you way down. Even single bad games will slow your progress way down. Any valid report, any violation of the summoner's code? That's going to make your climb out take that much longer.
Things that won't get you out of dishonorable faster:
- Getting honored each game
- Spamming a ton of games without changing your behavior
- Not playing on that account for any length of time (even years)
Things that will get you out of dishonorable faster:
- Stopping all negative chat, passive aggression, and so on while actively playing games.
In short, if it's taking you a very long time to get out of dishonorable status, and you're playing a ton of games (reports have been seen that it can take as little as 30), it's because you're being reported for breaking the rules, and those reports have been deemed accurate.
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