Capsule (Legends of Runeterra)

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Capsule is a type of reward in Legends of Runeterra. They can be obtained by completing Prologue and Regional milestones as well as Expeditions. High-tier Chests also contain Capsules while low-tier Chests have less content than a single Capsule.

Capsules earned through completing Regional milestones may contain cards only from the respective Region (Wildcards from these Capsules can still be traded for a card from any Region).

Types

Tier	Content
Common	Four common cards and a rare card
Vault	Two common cards and three rare cards
Epic	Two common cards, two rare cards and an epic card
Champion	Three rare cards, an epic card and a champion card
Wild	Four common wildcards and a rare wildcard.

Upgrades

Upon opening a capsule, certain components have a small chance to upgrade, usually increasing the tier of the capsule, card, or chest by one (unless otherwise specified). The probability of receiving an upgrade for each component is as follows:

Component	Chance
Capsule > Wild Capsule	5%
Capsule > Epic Capsule*	10%
Epic Capsule > Champion Capsule	10%
Card > Wildcard	10%
Champion card > Wildcard	5%
Card > Next tier card	10%
Wildcard > Next tier wildcard	10%

Note that the above upgrades have a chance to chain, ie. a card can tier up twice at a probability of (10% * 10% = 1%).

^{*Rare Capsules do not exist, so standard Capsules upgrade directly to Epic ones.}

Duplicates

The maximum number of cards one can own for any specific card is 3 (since this is the maximum count in any deck). When a Capsule drops a card you own the maximum of, you instead receive shards based on the rarity of that card. This is similar to dusting in other card-collecting games such as Hearthstone, while preventing the player from losing content in order to try other cards. Shards are given for duplicate cards as follows:

Rarity	Extra Copy Value
Common	15 Shards
Rare	60 Shards
Epic*	250 Shards
Champion*	750 Shards

Epic and Champion cards, as denoted by the asterisk, have special rules for duplicate cards instead of converting to shards:

• Regional Capsules/Chests will only reroll cards of these rarities into a card that you do not yet have the maximum of.
  • If you own all cards of that rarity in that region, you will instead receive a card from another region of the same rarity.
  • If you own all cards of that rarity in all regions (ie. all cards of that rarity), you will instead receive shards.
• Non-regional Capsules/Chests (ie. those from Expeditions/Weekly Vaults) will reroll that card into a card you do not yet have the maximum of.
  • If you own all cards of that rarity, you will instead receive shards.

References

Legends of Runeterra