Blue Essence

Blue Essence ( BE) is one of the primary currencies used to unlock League of Legends content, the other being Riot Points. Blue Essence can be obtained by disenchanting champion shards contained in champion capsules that are awarded when leveling up.

Blue Essence was first released at the beginning of Season 2016 as a way to not spend Influence Points to unlock champions. It then replaced the older currency in V7.22.

Blue Essence Use

Blue Essence is used to:
- Purchase champions (through the Store, or with champions shards).
- Purchase Hextech Crafting mystery champion shards.
- Purchase additional rune pages.
- Upgrade a champion mastery to level 6 or 7.
- Purchase chromas whenever they're on sale.
- Purchase exclusive contents in the Essence Emporium.
- Change your summoner name.

Acquiring Blue Essence

Leveling up

Main article: Experience (summoner)

Starting from summoner level 5, champion capsules are awarded at level ups and contain champion shards that can be disenchanted to obtain BE, activated to have a 7 days rental, or upgraded to permanently unlock the champion.
The total BE awarded from a capsule has set probabilities, with a minimum of 810 and a maximum of 1260.^[1]^[2]^[3]
Each shard can be disenchanted for 20% of the champion's purchase cost as BE. Upgrading a shard costs 60% of the champion's purchase cost as BE.

Shop value ( Blue Essence)	Disenchant value ( Blue Essence)	Upgrade cost ( Blue Essence)
450	90	270
1350	270	810
3150	630	1890
4800	960	2880
6300	1260	3780
7800	1560	4680

First Win of the day

Blue essences can also be obtained with the First Win of the Day mission which grants 50 and 400.

Missions and Events

Some missions, during events, rewards the player with blue essences.

Some events award unique currency (tokens) for completing missions and playing. These currencies can then be used to craft additional rewards in Hextech Crafting. Blue Essence has been one of the exchangeable rewards, often for the leftover currency do to their low price.

References

Riot Store

[1] Blue Essence Earn Rates

[2] BE minimum gain

[3] Leveling and Rewards - Improvements to Milestone Emotes, Capsules, & FWotD

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Currencies	RP (Gshell) BE OE Gemstone Prestige Point Coin Shard Expedition Token Star Shard
Direct Items	Champions Boosts Champion skins (Chromas) Emotes Summoner icons Ward skins Little Legends Eternals Bundles
Hextech Crafting Items	Gemstone Prestige Point Little Legends Event Loot (Removed Crafting, PROJECT Crafting, Mission Currency)
Game Systems	Hextech Crafting (Removed Crafting, PROJECT Crafting, Mission Currency) Event Pass (Missions, Events) Gifting Center Essence Emporium Servers (Garena) Your Shop
Teamfight Tactics Store	Arena skins Booms Emotes Event Pass Little Legends Star Shard
Legends of Runeterra Store	Board skins Card Backs Emotes Event Pass (Quests, Events) Guardians Summoner icons Wildcards
Merch Store	Arcane Garen: First Shield League of Legends Origins Mechs vs. Minions Realms of Runeterra Tellstones: King's Gambit Lux Comic Warmother Comic Zed Comic

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