If you're in a pre-made...

Randomonium·8/2/2017, 1:30:32 AM·3 votes·1,007 views

...consider honoring someone NOT in your pre-made if they are kind, do well or are fun to play with. I swear 90% of the games I play in people just mindlessly honor someone in their pre-made even if someone else is probably more deserving. Riot has already said that your honor reward is much less if it come from someone you queue with so why not honor someone you don't know who deserves it? If you had a choice between giving a friend $1 or giving a a kind stranger $100 (at no cost to you) which would you do?

8 Comments

Escheton8/2/2017, 1:33:19 AM1 votes

Actually. People will give their friend $1. Just like they much rather have $500 and you have $100, than you both have $1000. It's one of the things about learning psychology that makes you dislike people and statistics.

Chermorg8/2/2017, 1:59:57 AM1 votes

See, this is like a prisoners' dilemma kinda.

Two premades are at end of game screen. If they both honor each other, they each get great satisfaction. If one of them only honors their premade, one team goes with bupkis. If they both honor their own premade, then at least each premade gets honor.

The analytical person should notice that this can be broken down to (in terms of net honor gain)

Both honor other premade: +1 each.

One honors other premade, other honors own premade: +2 one, 0 the other

Both honor own premade: +1 each.

Considering there is no way to predict nor guarantee who other players will honor, or if they will honor at all, statistically speaking in a 4 man group where 2 teams of 2 premades exist, the best way to guarantee everyone walks out with something is to honor your own premade (either end up with +1 if other team does the same, or +2 if the other team honors you as well).

Statistically speaking, honoring your own premade would be worth it.. Iff (if and only if) the honor for premades counted the same. Riot has stated that honoring premades frequently would not count as much as honor from random people. Thus, to be honest, statistically it's up in the air what's more effective.

The right thing to do, however, is to honor whoever you think deserves it most, regardless of premade or not.

zPOOPz8/2/2017, 2:02:00 AM1 votes

Because you don't have to deal with the stranger afterward. Not giving your friend $1 and he knows it however.....

Telephone Booth8/2/2017, 4:21:37 AM1 votes

The only time I honor my premade, is if I didn't feel anyone else deserved it, but I want to get the honor boost still. Many times I have honored the stranger/one of the strangers in our games.

What I find strange is the obsession with honor that so many people seem to have here. Like, what did you do before the honor rework? Why do you care so much about getting honored? Playing the game with the goal of getting honor, is dishonorable in itself. Being humble and having humility is a big part of being honorable. Yet everyone seems to do everything JUST for the honor. That's not honor.

ëbb8/8/2017, 7:05:26 AM1 votes

I see what you mean but what if you only like playing with a pre-made team? Lately, I've drifted apart from League because of all the changes but when I would play it here and there I would play with a 4 man premade team just because I think it's more fun. Although, I don't always honor the same person. I honor the one that really made an impact in the game and doesn't show any toxicity at all. What if that person is one of my premades and knowing that the honor will not mean anything? I'm not going to give it to a random person who did nothing all game. (Obviously, I'll honor them if they were that person who made an impact and showed great sportsmanship and such) but do the honors you give to a premade really mean nothing? Just wondering :D