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HARDSTUCK Honor

very fragile·10/30/2017, 8:22:38 AM·1 votes·734 views

Hi! My names Bigpugs, and I'm a long time avid player of league of legends.

I have played league for around 4 years daily, and have always been a competitive player. I played with my friends at university a majority of the time, and we developed a culture of queueing up as five, and making fun of eachother and joking around "flaming" throughout a majority of our games.

One day I queued up for a normal with a friend after a string of lost ranked games (I was bronze 2 at the time) . We were in the mood to troll a little bit so I went tank Annie bot lane, and he went full attack damage mordekaiser before he was reworked to be a bot lane champion. As you might've expected we didn't do so great, but our top laner, a randomly queued jax, was having a worse time. And I'm not proud to say we flamed him mercilessly. So much so, that at the end of the game I received a 2 week ban.

What should've set me straight ticked me off, and set of a culture of trolling for me for a long time. Since that day I have received multiple chat restrictions, countless leaver queues (partially because of my poor connection), and 8 perma banned smurf accounts for reasons such as verbal abuse, intentionally feeding, and even scripting.

Nearing the end of Season 6 I found myself stuck around Platinum 4, and very angry about being there. I queued for a game as Shaco jungle, and decided to just make a push for diamond. That game I was met by an 0-5 tryndamere that was not a fan of my jungling style at the time, and let me hear it. I made a few choice remarks at him, and ended up with a second ever major punishment on my main account, a two week ban.

Waiting out the ban this time was a little different. I had mentioned to my friends how it was annoying, and I want to stop getting punished.

At the end of the ban I queued up with my friends for one night of care free fun in normals, in a five person queue. I had recently purchased a Jarvan skin I was excited to use, and kept mentioning it. When we got into the lobby, one of my friends had hover banned jarvan to which I responded in call "If you ban jarvan I'm building 6 mobility boots and running it down mid". He banned J4, so I did just that. The game was hilarious, and my friends and I were making jokes and laughing about my intentional feeding. At one point everyone on our team came to the mid lane and tried to make the game an Aram, and the other team joined in. We ended up WINNING that game and my score was something like 1-36-4.

We left the post game lobby, and the message popped up on my screen "player banned". I was so upset. It turned out that someone on the other team reported my inting, and the complaint went through. Another 2 weeks. From that day forward I promised myself to reform. I even made a post in my local league of legends discord and Facebook that this was a problem I want to fix.

From that day I have never received another punishment, and have sworn to be nontoxic in both my normal queues, and ranked. I have tried to be helpful to my teammates, and communicate well with them. I even climbed to my goal since bringing league and reached Diamond 5. I have taken up giving free coaching lessons to players in bronze, and silver, and do my best to be a pillar of the community.

The issue I'm experiencing now is the honor system. Since its release I've been dedicated to reaching honor 5, get honored in a majority of my games, but still find it IMPOSSIBLE to get past honor 3. My only two possible explanations for this is I often queue with 4-5 friends which I understand lowers your honor gains from their honors, and also have a poor connection, so sometimes am punished for leaving games when I have no control over it. And sure I'm not perfect, I still get in verbal disagreements from time to time, but I never use foul language, insult the player, or do anything you would deem unreasonable.

My question is, does my far history of toxicity have anything to play into this? Or are my queue parties or connection holding me back? Or am I simply not honorable enough? I just really want to reach honor 5, but can't seem to get there. Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank you!!

13 Comments

Rebel 98610/30/2017, 11:01:16 AM1 votes

Be happy with 3. Im stuck at 2!

very fragile10/30/2017, 11:25:10 AM1 votes

I'm very happy at three! I just wish 5 was more attainable

Kei14310/30/2017, 1:31:47 PM1 votes

Let me get some stuff out of the way first; Do reply to people, instead of replying to yourself. at least that would notify us when you replied and we can keep a discussion going. It's also hell to read in discussion view.

Things that make you progress faster through honors:

  • Getting honors from strangers
  • Not getting validly reported
  • The whole team honoring someone
  • Play alot of games

Make sure you keep the environment friendly and sportmanlike, people will have a better time in game, tilt less and player better. At the end of the day they will remember who made their day.

Make sure you honor someone as well, it can also make their day.

tekker223410/30/2017, 1:42:31 PM1 votes

The thing about honor is that players typically honor those who "carry" rather than those who are actually friendly. For example I had a zed who was toxic af, but carried hard, while my support was being friendly and chill, and at the end of the game they only got one honor from me while the zed got all the other honors.

DogPaintedWild10/30/2017, 4:23:31 PM1 votes

I'm still relatively new to league(just coming around to my first year of playing), and don't frequent normals without a friend or a group of friends. When I play alone I play a lot of ARAM or featured game modes I enjoy (Urf, SG Invasion, Doom Bots). I climbed to honor 5 relatively fast. I feel it is definitely possible for you to climb in honor quickly even with friends(though faster without as it gives more benefit), but I certainly recommend assuring your consistency. I am under the impression that honor operates on this as it is mentioned in their FAQ. Due to this I theorize having a consistent bump every so often could be what is holding you back. As the season is quickly coming to an end, I would try avoiding all verbal disagreements; try to be supportive and kind or mute all if necessary, and of course play to what your schedule allows. I would also suggest considering playing without friends until the season ends if you are moving towards to goal of climbing in honor, as well as frequenting ARAMS as they are generally faster games and I feel people tend to be less tilted to the point of not honoring anyone there versus norms/ranked. I am unsure if this was of any help to you, regardless I wish you the absolute best of luck! No matter how your honor in this season ends, you have come a far way and should be proud! [sg-kiko]