The Honors System Needs Work

The new honor system, in which you honor someone right after a game and before seeing stats, could still use a LOT of work. It's been a while, and I was patient in case changes were forthcoming, but I'm beginning to feel like this is a very low priority for Riot.

Here's why it shouldn't be.

Honors after a game are important to League culture. In a match in which you've spent 30 minutes with strangers, often with hardly a word (or a hardly a good word, I should say), the honor system was your opportunity to pat each other on the back and end things on a relatively good note.

Now I understand what Riot was going for with the new honor system. A lot of times people would simply look at the numbers and decide who to honor. But experienced League players know that the numbers can sometimes be deceptive. Sometimes the star was a tank who was always there for his damage dealers. Or maybe a midlaner who nailed her cc every time.

But given only one vote, people are FAR more likely to go for someone they're queueing up with over the person who was really the star of the show. Moreover, botlaners are many times more likely to honor the person they laned with, disregarding all else. And someone who gets everyone fed rarely gets credit for getting her team there (that fed person, instead, is the one who's usually honored). This has been a problem for some time now, and while the new honor system might alleviate some of the old problems, it's time to take another step forward.

And while we're at it, question: why the heck did you guys remove honoring of opponents? It was a cool way to shake hands after the match and honor people who did well even if they lost.

So here's my suggestion: Change the honor system so that after a game people can honor two people. One would recieve full honor credit as normal. The second vote would be worth FAR less, but still something. And after, you can honor your opponents by showing that you took the time to specifically pat them on the back and shake their hand with the return of the honor opponent option after matches.

Thoughts?