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Dishonorable to Honor 2 (Edit 3: 1/22/19)

ModPeriscope·9/26/2018, 4:02:12 AM·11 votes·11,727 views

Hey folks,

This is just for your info in case you've been punished and are sitting with locked honor. I asked the folks at Riot support to lock my honor (well my smurf's , ) and take all the way to 0 so I could let ya'll know how long it might take.

I did try doing about 1 bot game a day while being dishonored, and managed to unlock honor with about 44 games over the course of 39 days. Again, this should be on the upper end of how long it should take. Keep in mind, I did do mostly bots, and I didn't really chat all that much in the games.

At any rate, if you happen to have been punished, hang in there! You just have to play non-negative games.

https://imgur.com/WtOH3d5

https://imgur.com/T4xXVKr

#Update: 11/13- Honor 1- has been achieved!

Honor 0.1: 44-47games over 18 days, playing mostly Odyssey and bots.

https://i.imgur.com/T5hdYD2.png?1

Honor 0.2: 43-44games, over 11 days (normals, draft, Odyssey)

https://i.imgur.com/mPp17qE.png?1

Honor 0.3: 16 games over 12 days (normals, bots, and arams)

<I don't have a picture of that :( >

Honor 1: 14-17 games over 11 days. (Arams, bots, normals) (11/02/18)

https://imgur.com/THDSrNY

#Update 2: total games: 158 total days: 91

#Update 3: 1/22/19 Made it to honor 2. I played a mix of bots, Summoner's Rift, and some Nexus Blitz.

https://i.imgur.com/LT4vR7q.png?2

Took 31 games over 15 days

https://i.imgur.com/h8erS9h.png

Took 25 games over 22 days

https://i.imgur.com/llsEIfP.jpg?1 Took 20 games over 17 days

https://i.imgur.com/5yGZQPm.png

Took 18 games over 27 days *A note about the final 2 honor 2 bubs (or checkpoints), this occurred during the holidays and some other IRL stuff, so the number of days may be skewed to the higher side.

From honor 1 to honor 2- 94 games over 81 days

Total from dishonorable to honor 2: 252 games over 172days.

45 Comments

Kei1439/26/2018, 1:51:26 PM3 votes

Dang, you beat me to it.

I'm on 24 silent bot games right now after using 100 slurs within a 5 man premade for my toxic experiment.

Maybe I'll see if my number matches with yours.

Actually, do you have more data? Like how many honors you got, team honor bonus count, types of honors?

Do you say anything within the games at all?

Bijeesny9/26/2018, 10:11:03 AM2 votes

But the question is- does having your honor level lowered because of toxicity makes your climb in levels harder? because they lowered your honor level manually, so you might unlock you honor level faster because you didn't have any toxicity records on that account.

As stupid as this might sound, for more accurate observations you could try to get yourself banned on that account, and then see how long does it take you to unlok your honor.

WoΘxer9/26/2018, 11:57:24 AM2 votes

Yes now try to get level 2 honor, u will have to spend 8 months to get it back.

Wacky99/26/2018, 4:18:05 AM2 votes

First I genuinely thank you for some actual data on this.

Second, that seems like an awfully long time, especially for players who don't play all that frequently. 44 games would take me a couple of months during which I would receive virtually no keys. People honor less on bots though, so it probably all evens out in the end.

cPXt3JHpf49/27/2018, 12:27:28 AM2 votes

this honor lvl thing can go straight to hell. Its pretty much "pick a mvp of the game" I've had times where i said " you guys are shit i will carry your asses" and get honored at the end of the game.

Makoodzaka9/26/2018, 3:40:59 PM1 votes

It took me 2 months of consistent playing around 2 games per day on ranked with an average 1 honour per 2 games to get out of locked mode. I didn't use chat at all and insta-muted all team at start during that period. I wager it takes around half a year to get back to the normal honour level 2.

DuskDaUmbreon9/26/2018, 3:48:23 PM1 votes

Note: It may take slightly longer if actually punished, because I believe you have to clear the punishment before you start making progress towards it being unlocked, if I'm not mistaken.

You'd have to add on another 10/25/14 days (at the rate of 1 game per day, excepting the 14 day ban period) for it to clear for anyone else.

Arammus9/26/2018, 5:30:19 PM1 votes

i didnt know riot lowers your honor if you ask.

ModPeriscope1/22/2019, 7:09:34 PM1 votes

Updated: 1/22/19

Veralion9/27/2018, 10:25:22 PM1 votes

Now do it to honor 2. I did 50 games over 2 weeks and didn't even get a fucking checkpoint. This BS system can go straight to hell. Demotivating AF.

Whisperwind239/29/2018, 12:23:44 AM1 votes

Dishonorable to Honor is fairly quick, the real grind is honor 0 to honor 2 or even honor 1

Danksley9/29/2018, 7:39:51 AM1 votes

8 months estimate for getting back to just honor 2 is meant to be encouraging?

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I mean, as a halfway decent player, I can consistently win a co-op vs AI game in under 20 minutes. With zero queue time and no ban phase, I could play ten games in three hours, saying nothing but "GL HF" every game. I assume Riot wouldn't want honor to be "farmable" in this sense. Sportsmanship includes the opposing team, and demonstrating reform should include treating both sides of the river with basic respect.

If you're a high gold, plat, or higher player you can just server transfer and near-instantly (placements and 1-2 rounds of promos to gold V) get your honor 2 with ranked rewards. When the season ends your home server honor even helpfully gets reset to 2 for you.

Modi11/12/2018, 5:24:01 PM1 votes

@Periscope, I know this is an old (aka dead) thread, but I am hoping to get some update if you have it. This is a good reference for locked -> honor 0, but do you have any more data to share for anything past honor 0? Since players need honor 2 to get rewards, any data on honor 0 -> honor 1, and/or honor 1 -> honor 2 would be helpful.

ModPeriscope11/14/2018, 3:26:14 AM1 votes

Updated this post: Unfortunately, I didn't stick to bot games 100%....they can get kinda boring.

Faneseeker11/14/2018, 4:57:36 AM1 votes

Good experiment. I have a feeling that you may either be the anally nice type or the silent one when you play. If either case is true you probably didn't get reported much, or at all during this experiment.

Considering those two things the 8-month journey will seem almost like an eternity for the most repeat offenders. Also, I can support this 8-month hypothesis, it is about how much it took me as well. I played honourably this year, but I probably still got a few reports here and there since I play a lot more in that same span of time.

It also make sense because 8 month is about the full chunk of a season.

Pibbers11/17/2018, 10:57:27 PM1 votes

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Jo0o9/26/2018, 11:28:27 AM1 votes

I'd assume that bots earn you less honor. Riot wouldn't want players to simply grind bots games to recover their honor level, right?

So, my takeaway from this is that neutral behavior in bots games takes 44 games to unlock honor, so somebody being positive in a PvP game would earn it back much more quickly. Right?