League of Legends has been around since 2009 and shows absolutely no signs of stopping. Their massive player base isn’t going anywhere any time soon. But much like literally anything online, League of Legends suffers from its own gaggle of trolls and would-be abusers. It’s the Internet, anonymity is great, I can say whatever I want! Well, that’s not entirely true. Especially with the changes Riot Games has made to the Honor System within League of Legends .
The Honor System allows you to reward your fellow players for many different things. This updated version has three categories: Stayed Cool, Great Shotcalling, and GG <3. These different categories include everything from staying calm under pressure, keeping the team together, and healing your tank just before they kick the bucket. You’ll be able to give these honors on a new screen between the Nexus cracking and end-of-game screens. You can only honor one teammate per match. While this might seem a bit lame, it’s in an attempt to prevent overuse of the system. Riot hopes that this Honor System will feel important to both the receiver and the giver.
Riot Games is starting every single person at honor level two. But if you should find yourself dropped down to level one, you’ll only be able to receive key fragments (and a much smaller amount of them than anyone else). At level two you’ll also only get key fragment rewards, but there will be more of them than level one. At level three through five of honor you’ll get end of season honor rewards, key fragments, honor capsules, and loading screen flairs. The honor capsule and loading screen flairs will be different depending on your honor level.
Essentially Riot Games hopes to support a positive experience for everyone playing League of Legends . If you’re rude or “dishonorable” you’ll receive a relevant honor score thanks to those that you play with. The nicer you are, or more “honorable,” the higher your level will be and the better rewards you’ll receive.
How do you feel about this system? Think it will work? See any cracks in the armor? Let us know!
Source: League of Legends