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Honor progress

Have A Crit··2 votes·3,373 views

Hello,

I recently got a chat restriction for spamming in chat and apparently being toxic to my teammates. I sit through the 10 games on that same day, but my honor got reset back to lvl0 from the 3rd checkpoint and is locked since then.

Since I don't want to play Clash on a smurf, I'm trying to get my main back to lvl 2 as fast as possible.

I read about how the honor system works - that honor actually jumps lower even without getting a restriction, but without showing - and how reports are used for investigation of the game only.

Since I really want to get to honor lvl2 fast, I'm trying what I can to reach it. I was thinking of playing 2 games of normal games per day - with support role, roaming and helping other lanes, and begging for honors during champ select and game. (This is because I was assuming that both number of games as well time matters, but I'm not sure.)

Yet after 1 week my honor is still locked.

I would like to know what the most efficient way to get honors is - I'm not enjoying playing the support role and I don't like playing LoL during the week.

If I play 2 games a day and don't get any validated reports, how long do I have to play to a) get my honor unlocked and b) get to the next honor checkpoint (assuming each checkpoint has a fixed distance)

Does playing every day help or is it the same if I play 10 games during the weekend instead?

Also, I would like to know if any of my recent games have been considered as "toxic". I've read that it's better to mute and disable chat, but I'm trying to make people more likely to honor me through using phrases like "gj", "wp", "nice", ... (This is actually something I was doing even before getting restricted, but I'm very desperate to play clash with my friends so I'm exaggerating a lot.). AFAIK games get a numerical toxicity score if someone reported me in that game, and I would really like to know what I shouldn't type anymore.

The account I'm talking about is "Have A Crit" on EUW.

Thank you guys and have a great day.

11 Comments

mlm olo mlm1 votes

Probably going to take months to reach honor level 2.

Always honor at the end of the game. Try to get that honor boost from everyone honoring.

I wouldn't recommend "honor begging". General "niceness" should be ok.

If you don't chat at all, you can't get in trouble for chat. Then, as long as you don't game play troll, there isn't really anything you could get in trouble for.

May not be true, but I think there may be "honor streaks". The more "nice" games you can string together, the faster your honor will progress.

We do know that even minor offenses that don't result in punishment, will slow your honor gain.

Have A Crit1 votes

Thanks for your comment.

Since learning about the honor boost if everyone honors someone, I'm always honouring someone, regardless if I believe my teammates deserve it or not. Not sure if the action of honoring someone itself gives honor in return, though.

Unfortunately, I can't control whether and whom others honor at the end of the game. As such, I'm trying to encourage my teammates towards the end to "at least honor anyone", but I've had a couple of games where people don't honor without a reason.

Regarding "honor begging", I'm actually making my intentions clear that I'm only playing this game because I need to get honors so I can play clash with my friends. Fortunately, people seem to emphasise with this and if the game goes well I'm getting a couple of honors from my teammates. I'm still as nice as possible, and I'm a very talkative person, I enjoy the chat a lot, especially when there is some funny shit going on. Disabling chat makes everyone feel like bots and it's a very boring experience to me.

I didn't know about honor streaks. But I really appreciate this feature. Since being consistently honorable is what I'm aiming for, even after getting honor level 2 (but without begging people for honors).

I'm also really concerned about the last point. I don't know what offences I'm doing as long as I don't get punished and as such it's very difficult for me to know what I'm allowed to do and what not.

I appreciate your help a lot, have a great day!

mlm olo mlm1 votes

No, offense. Slow down and read carefully. You misunderstood a few things I said.

I'm also really concerned about the last point. I don't know what offences I'm doing as long as I don't get punished and as such it's very difficult for me to know what I'm allowed to do and what not.

Regarding this point though. I have heard if you submit a ticket with Riot support, they will let you know how you are doing. I've never personally done it though.

Good lucks.

Sukishoo1 votes

You can't really reach levels FAST in honor. They take months of good clean behavior to move forward.

Have A Crit1 votes

Thank you for your response.

I'm aware of that, but there still is some way that is most effective. And I've read about a lot of people complaining that they can't get back from honor, which I struggled with, too, until I found that not getting punished doesn't mean that honor is rising. (was checkpoint 3 of honor 0 after 2-3 months or so, but also playing more and grinding ranked games).

Kei1431 votes

from the p[eople that got out of h0, 250 games to go from h0 to h2. So by your 2 games / day formula, it will take around 4 months.

Have A Crit1 votes

Thanks for replying.

This number 250 is actually super helpful. I was thinking that both number of games and time matter, but knowing roughly how many games are needed makes it much easier to calculate how many games are needed per day / week. It's just something that really helps compared to the "depends on a lot of factors" response. Thanks man!

Kei1431 votes

It does depend on other factors. If you get validly reported, it puts a screeching halt to your honour progress.

Also, try to get that team honors bonus.

Aneirin1 votes

I've heard people claim they levelled honour up faster playing ARAMs - not sure if this is true but could be worth a go as you can fit in more games and people tend to be less tilted?

Have A Crit2 votes

Thanks for answering.

Personally, I'm not a fan of ARAM since getting certain champions makes it very easy for me to get tilted. However, regarding the "fit in more games", does anyone know if co-op games count as much as pvp games? Since bot games are 100% won nobody is tilting and it should be possible to get many honors consistently.

Chef Urf1 votes

A support told me that they should be same valued. (honor from bot games)

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