Summoner icon

A summoner icon is an avatar picture that represents you to your friends and other players. The icon is displayed on a summoner's profile page and appears next to the names of their friends in their friend list (but only if they are online). It will also appear when you are in chat rooms, custom games or in arranged teams.

There is a growing variety of summoner icons in League of Legends and every summoner account is given 29 standard icons. Some icons are only offered for a short time during events, holidays or awarded to ranked players at the end of a season. Others can be unlocked by purchasing directly from the in-client store with RP (and IP in rare cases) or by purchasing an ultimate-tier Champion Skin. There are also icons that allow you to support your favorite League of Legends team in eSports. With the collection of icons expanding, every summoner can find a special avatar to show off.

Standard icons
These are the 29 standard summoner icons that every account is given:

Unlockable icons
Ultimate Skin Icons = Currently there are eight summoner icons that can be unlocked by purchasing an Ultimate tier skin for either, and :

When you purchase the skin you will receive the following summoner icon:
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These summoner icons were made available during events as permanent additions to the store:
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The Pentakill icon was released with the Karthus visual update in patch V4.9, which came with a Pentakill event involving the release of an album. Texture updates were given to Sona and Mordekaiser's respective Pentakill skins and all of the Pentakill skin splashes were updated too. For more info on the event and the album see Pentakill_(band). An alternative way to unlock the Pentakill icon is to play a game with any of the Pentakill skins.

The Hat Trick summoner icon was made available during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It was released along with five world cup champions skins and a special Ward skin in patch V4.10. A summoner could either buy this icon alone or purchase The Beautiful Set bundle that included all champions skins, the ward skin and this icon.

The Mecha summoner icon was released together with the and  Mecha skins and a mecha ward, featured in the so called "Project Mecha".

The Debonair summoner icon was released together with 's and 's Debonair skins.

These six icons were made available with improvements to the Team Builder queue on July 30, 2014. They each represent a unique champion role. To unlock an icon of a certain role, a summoner must play five games with that role using the Team Builder queue.
 * -| Team Builder Icons =

Announcement made by LYTE:

''To make sure you’re getting into game fast enough to feel these changes, we also overhauled the rules for adding solo players to teams. We’ve seen improved queue times across the board, and if you want to read more, check out my deep dive into all of the changes in this update.''

''With new reasons to start using Team Builder, we’ve designed a series of new summoner icon rewards for playing the queue. Because Team Builder’s champion select accounts for role, the new rewards are earned by playing your way. After you play five games as one role, tracked in-client, you’ll unlock the icon of that role instantly. And yes, if you’re more of a generalist (or a completionist), you can unlock all six icons.''

So join us in the revamped Team Builder, and show off your favorite role with your new icons!

For the full announcement, click here.

Beta Icons
League of Legends: Closed Beta = The Grand Master Beta Tester icon and the Master Beta Tester icon were awarded to the top 500/100, respectively, Beta Testers at the end of the Beta edition.

This icon was available from June 3rd until the end of the Latin America Server Open Beta on June 13th as a reward for the Summoners who transferred or created an account.
 * -| Latin America Server: Open Beta =

Seasonal Icons
|-| 2014= Season 3 reward icons were distributed at the end of Season 3. These Icon is the maximum rating that the Summoner has achieve on the Season 3 on any category (Solo/Duo, Team 5 vs 5 or 3 vs 3). Season 2 reward icons were distributed along with season 1 reward icons at the end of season 2. They were based on the highest rating a summoner earned during 2 month window near the end of season 2. This window ranged from September 12, 2012 until November 6, 2012.
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The icons were determined based on both the rating (tier) achieved and the queue in which the rating was achieved. Having a higher tier rating would automatically unlock the lower tier icons as well. The required ratings can be found here.

There are 5 different tiers that could be achieved: bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond. Each tier is represented by the colour of the chalice on the icon.

Summoners could get icons for 3vs3 team queue, solo 5vs5 queue and 5vs5 team queue. Each queue is represented by a gem on a certain part of the chalices. Gems around the top of the chalice represent 3vs3 queue. A gem in the middle represents solo queue and gems around the base represent 5vs5 queue. When a summoner has the requirements for all the queues in a certain tier, he or she would receive a bonus icon, that would combine all three gem ornaments into one icon. These icons were handed out at the end of season 2, together with the season 2 reward icons. They are based on a summoner's ranked rating at the end of season 1.
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LCS Icons
2015 LCS= These icons commemorate the NA and EU LCS teams of 2015. They were added to the store so summoners could show their support for their favourite team in the LCS. They are individually priced at 250 each to permanently unlock them. Two bundles were also made available with one containing all of the EU LCS icons priced at 2000 and all of the NA LCS icons priced at  2000. These icons commemorate the NA and EU LCS teams of 2014. They were added to the store so summoners could show their support for their favourite team in the LCS. The were individually priced at 250 each to permanently unlock them. Two bundles were made available that contained either all the EU LCS icons or all NA LCS icons at the price of 1600. A third bundle was also made for enthusiastic icon collectors that offered all sixteen icons for 3000.
 * -|2014 LCS=

When a summoner purchases a team icon, 20% of its price goes directly to that team and the other 80% supports esports (prizes, streaming, events, etc.).

These icons were made so that summoner's could show their support for their favorite NA or EU eSports team during the LCS summer games. All of the icons are unlockable for 250 with a percentage of the money going directly to the team. These icons are permanent and are said to remain in the store for purchase until the end of the 2013 Summer Split. Behind each team logo you can see three lines representing season 3. For more information check out Magus's announcement.
 * -|2013 LCS=

Championship Icons
Season 4= Like for Season 2, summoners could use the following icons during the Season 3 World Championship to show support for their favorite Teams. All icons were temporary and were removed on Patch 3.13 (October 29th)
 * -|Season 3=

During the Season 2 World Championship Final, Riot showed a Code (521337) on the Stream to Unlock a Summoner Icon inspired by the Championship Riven Skin. Summoners had 24 hours to redeem this code.
 * -|Season 2=

The Icon consist of a Black-Blue Sword (Riven's Sword) on a Blue Background. In front of it you could see the Roman Number II, representing Season 2.

All Attendees to the Season 2 World Championship obtained this Icon automatically.

During the Season 2 World Championship all Summoners could use these temporary icons to show their support for their favorite Team. All icons were later removed after the event.

2013 Gamescom
These icons were made so that summoner's could show their support for their favorite Team during the International Wildcard Tournament on the Gamescom, like the LCS Icons these where unlockable for 250 with a percentage of the money going directly to the team.

2014 OGN-Korean Pro
These icons were made so that summoner's could show their support for their favorite Korean Team, like the LCS Icons these where unlockable for 250 with a percentage of the money going directly to the team.

2014 GPL Summoner Icons
These summoner icons represent the logos for South East Asia’s greatest League teams of 2014. They are permanent summoner icons at the price of 250 each, and 20% of each purchase goes straight to the team, while the other 80% goes to directly to supporting esports.

2014 CBLOL Summoner Icons
These summoner icons were put on sale to celebrate Brazil's top League teams during the Circuito Brasileiro in July 2014. With the price of 250 for a single icon, or  1600 for all eight, 20% of all purchases went straight to the team. They were available for purchase for a limited time and were removed from the store later in the season.

All-Stars
The release of this summoner icon coincided around the 2014 All-Star event, where Pro teams from around the world gathered in Paris to spectate the matches between the five international giants of the season; matches that will decide the seeds for a single-elimination bracket stage.

Event Icons
Freljord Tribes= These three summoner icons were made available to unlock during the Freljord patch, v3.6, until 'May 17, 2013.. Each icon symbolizes a tribe of the three Freljord Princesses:, , and. Even though there are three, a summoner was only able to unlock one of them to declare their allegiance to a tribe. To unlock one of the three icons, a summoner needed to first set their profile icon to the temporary version of the icon they wanted, which was available for selection immediately. These temporary icons look just like the actual ones, except there is a timer symbol at the bottom left corner of the icon image. The summoner would then have had to win ten games against real players without changing the icon. Victories in bot and custom games did not count towards unlocking these tribal icons. For more information please check out Riot's official Battle for the Freljord announcement.

These icons are inspired by Masquerade events held in Latin America and Brazil and are made available to purchase on every server.
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The following icons were able to be earned during the Sugar Rush event held from August 26th to September 1st 2014. These Icons were unlocked by playing the Ascension mode from 10th to the 21st of September 2014. Some were included in the store while some were only obtainable finish specific game mode tasks.
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 * -| Shurima Ascension=

This icon was earned by gifting a Battlecast skin between November 25th and December 7th 2014.
 * -| Battlecast=

These Icons celebrated the visual upgrade of the Summoner's Rift. They were obtainable by winning a game on each side of the map in either ranked, normal or Team Builder match modes. The promotion ended on December 16, 2014.
 * -| SR Icons =

Game Mode Icons
URF Mode= For April fools 2014, Riot unveiled Ultra Rapid Fire (U.R.F.) - a new, fast-paced game mode that was available to play until April 13th. Click here for more details. While this game mode was accessible, summoners could earn themselves the following Urf 2014 icon by playing this mode, either in PvP or Co-op vs AI.

This icon was made available to obtain during the limited release of an updated version of the game mode One for All, where everyone, friend and foe, are the same champion in a mirror match on the Howling Abyss. This icon was made available to obtain during the limited release of a game mode, where everyone fights bots with enhanced abilities. There are three levels of bot difficulty.
 * -| OFA: Mirror Mode=
 * -| Doom Mode=

Harrowing
2014= These three icons were available during the Harrowing event of 2014. By fulfilling their assorted requirements, summoners were able to earn them until November 4th. These five icons were available during the Harrowing event of 2013. By fulfilling their assorted requirements, summoners were able to earn them until November 12th. These five Sinister Summoner Icons were offered with the purchase of RP during the 2012 Harrowing event. The five Summoner Icons were placed into tiers of bought RP and determined which icons you received. If you bought RP from a high tier you also received the icons form the tiers below it (e.i. if you bought RP enough for the tier 3 icon, you would also receive the icons for tiers 1 and 2).
 * -|2013=
 * -|2012=

Snowdown Showdown
2014=

These icons were available from December 19th until the end of the Snowdown Showdown on January 2nd. A summoner received different icons for doing various holiday gestures. These icons display a summoner's holiday spirit and participation during the seasonal event.
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These icons were available from December 14th until the end of the Snowdown Showdown on January 6th. A summoner received different icons for doing various holiday gestures, allowing summoners to use the Gifting Center (which was a new feature to the game at the time). These icons display a summoner's holiday spirit and participation during the seasonal event.
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Lunar Revel
2015= These four icons were available during the Lunar Revel event of 2014. The first icon celebrates the year, the year of the Horse, while the other three icons represent the three new Lunar Revel skins of 2014:, and. By meeting their requirements, summoners were able to earn these icons until February 11th. Choose Your Path
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During the 2014 Lunar Revel Event, Summoners of each region were able to vote for one of three different warrior paths. Each path was represented by a unique summoner icon. The icon of the warrior path that accumulated the most votes in each region was given out to its summoners while the other two were put on sale for a limited time. The icon that was a region's choice has a horse maker on it, showing that its path was the winner. These icons were available from February 8th until the end of the event on February 25th. Similar to 2012 Snowdown Showdown, a summoner obtained these icons by performing certain actions in celebration of the Asian Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake.
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Special Icons
Vintage Icon

This icon is given to any Summoner that have a Limited Edition Skin when they were first released, any Skin from the Harrowing 2010-2011, Snowdown Showdown 2009-2010, Winter Games 2010 or World Cup 2010 counts for this icon. Only those who already have them will obtain this Icon.

Unused Icons
These icons are present in the game files but are not currently in use by the official client. However for servers hosted by Garena (South East Asia, Philippines, Taiwan) possesses these icons to be used for the Garena's avatar.

Also they can be used on the Chinese Client along with the World Elite Icon.

No further information regarding these customized icons' availability as of now within the League client.

Trivia

 * As of June 18, 2014, there are 166 different icons in total, and a Summoner can obtain a maximum of 136 icons. Refer to the chart below for details:


 * The Pentakill icon ID is 666
 * icon ID is 777

Summoner icons on the Forums
As of March 7th 2014, Riot Games made it possible for your summoner icon to display below your name on the game's web forums, replacing grey boxes that contained a question mark. It will also update to reflect your current summoner icon if you change it.

Announcement made by Krylhos:

Greetings summoners,

''As you've likely noticed, Summoner icons have arrived on the forums! Begone question marks!''

''As you may know, at Riot we participate in a periodic hackathon known as Thunderdome. During the latest Thunderdome, a couple of us did some tinkering to make your in-client summoner icon accessible on the web. This service opened up the possibility of displaying your summoner icons within the vBulletin forums.''

Click here for the full announcement.