Dear Riot Please Explain

BananaBagal·Jun 26, 2018·1 votes·2,353 views

I have been thinking about this recently about honor and noticing a lot of players dawning their honor level 4 medals from being most honorable in their last game. Then it came to my attention that I, in fact, haven't leveled up once in honor this entire season, and am still sitting at level 2 with 3 ticks. I don't understand why this is though when I consistently play at least 2 to 3 games a day and get honored in almost every game and honor someone in every game. It's like my accounts honor level is just frozen in time. I know it's a small thing to worry about and overall doesn't affect much was just curious about why my level hasn't moved at all since the start of the season. Please Help

I should also note I have never been banned or even chat restricted which just adds to my confusion.

5 Comments

AneirinJun 26, 20181 votes

Not saying this applies to you, but one way that honour progress can be slowed is if you are getting reported - not enough to be punished, but enough to slow down your honour progress. Only other thing I can think of is that honours to/from premade friends count for much less than from randoms.

DearPearJun 26, 20184 votes

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Not saying this applies to you, but one way that honour progress can be slowed is if you are getting rightfully reported - not enough to be punished, but enough to slow down your honour progress.

FTFY

BananaBagalJun 26, 20181 votes

That's the thing though is I hardly play with friends and the games I play with friends are normally customs and I would doubt I'm being reported often if I am getting honors majority of the time and hardly ever talk in game.

Silent GravityJun 26, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Tantram,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=2dLK3IWP,comment-id=0005,timestamp=2018-04-18T17:51:19.761+0000)

When people receive valid reports, that aren't enough to trigger a penalty, it still affects their progression through the honor system. This is often times what creates the perception for honor 0 players that it takes forever to climb. They think that just because they are getting honored and not penalized, it must mean they are progressing. This is not so.

That's the source of the info they gave you.

So this means that it's a good idea to avoid some common things that the IFS flags as negative that aren't enough to lead directly to a punishment (if used in moderation).

Don't ask for reports. Don't say "open mid". Don't say "gg" during the start/mid of the game. Don't say "ez". Don't say that you're reporting or muting someone.

AneirinJun 26, 20181 votes

Cheers

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