I got 14 day banned a while ago for being toxic (I totally deserved it), and now I'm back. I got a popup one day saying I could get honor again or something, but when i go to my profile it says I'm at 0 out of 3 checkpoints. I'm not sure if i accidentally clicked something without reading it, but I'm not sure what checkpoints they're talking about. Can someone else who has been banned before or a rioter explain this to me? Thanks.
As others have said, getting out of dishonorable will require a few things:
Time - you won’t just magically get out of dishonorable in a week or two.
Games played - you won’t just get out of dishonorable by waiting a few months if you’re never playing.
Improved behavior - if your behavior is still poor, even if you aren’t getting punished, your honor may be slowed or frozen in time. Try to make sure you’re always using chat appropriately - use it for strategy and teamwork, not for blaming and shaming.
When were you banned? 12/15/17? I'm not sure how long it takes to increase in honor level, but as long as you're playing neutral or positive games, you'll increase in honor. Even if you say nothing, you'll progress in honor.
Just be sportsmanlike and never get validly reported, even one game where you've been validly reported will stop your honor progress, up to virtually no progress being made. It is possible !
Play a TON of games. A TON. While saying nothing or while kissing your teammates' asses no matter how terrible they are to you. Riot rewards you if you reward instigators. They love their bullies.
P.S. Play a TON of games. If you play a TON every day, you might get some progress in about 1.5 or 2 months. Play a TON of games though because it isn't determined by TIME, it is determined by HOW MANY GAMES you play. Play a TON of games. ;-)
Two things:
Games are rated 0 to 10
0 = your behavior was not toxic 1, 2, 3 = your game was mildly toxic but not toxic enough for another punishment 4, 5, 6 = your game was toxic to get a chat restriction 7, 8 = your game was toxic that it deserves a temp ban 9 or 10 = your game was so bad it had to be reviewed manually and possibly end in a permaban.
If you get reported and you are rated 0 in toxicity, you're totally fine and you will progress in honor and get out of dishonorable.
If you get reported and you are rated 1-3 in toxicity, you will be slowing down your progress because you have demonstrated you are still toxic and it will take longer to get out of dishonorable.
Reds have said that the way to get out of dishonorable isn't to get honors, but to not be flagged as dishonorable. It doesn't matter if you're getting honors from teammates because some people will honor just for the sake of getting full team voting honor bonus. The checkpoints are to let you know you have been progressing out of dishonorable. If you aren't getting any of the checkpoints and you aren't getting punished again, it means you're getting reported in games and your games are being reviewed and found to be slightly toxic but not toxic enough for another punishment. This is what gets a lot of people because it's not explicitly explained in the reform cards or in the user interface and is only found from searching the forums.
