Gemstone

Patch V6.3 introduced s that are used to forge exclusive loot.

Obtaining Gemstones

 * Opening a Hextech Chest with a Hextech Key has a 4% chance of giving you a gemstone.
 * Leveling up to certain summoner levels (150, 200, 250, 300, 350, ...) gives you a guaranteed gemstone.
 * On certain events, such as Snowdown Showdown on patch V7.24, unique gemstones can be bought by purchasing the following summoner icons: Gemstone Stocking profileicon.png Gemstone Stocking, Gemstone Pengu profileicon.png Gemstone Pengu, Gemstone Poro profileicon.png Gemstone Poro.
 * During the Essence Emporium, unique gemstones can be bought for, , and . These are respectively given with an exclusive icon: Gemstone Knight profileicon.png Gemstone Knight, Gemstone Prince profileicon.png Gemstone Prince, and Gemstone King profileicon.png Gemstone King.
 * Epic Capsules were limited time capsules. They rewarded you with 3 skins, at least one being Epic and increased Chance of getting Gemstone.

Loot Exclusive Content
can also be obtained with a Redeemable Code from Riot events.

Other Loot

 * One can be consumed to give one Hextech Chest and one Hextech Key.

Legacy Loot
On the 2018 Lunar Revel event exclusive golden chromas and summoner icons were available. Each bundle costed gemstones (or one  Golden Revel Token).