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Garena is a digital services company that engages in gaming, eSports, eCommerce and digital finance, primarily focusing on the South East Asian area. It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. The parent company of Garena is Sea Limited, which also formerly called Garena.^[1]. Garena currently handles League of Legends publishing for Southeast Asia.

Garena Southeast Asia Region

Garena SEA dedicates servers in:

Garena Server Transfers — ID to SG/MY migration

The Philippines
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao
Vietnam
Thailand
Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
- This server also hosts for Indonesia. The Indonesian server was shut down on 16th May 2019 12:01 am WIB (GMT +7) in order to merge it with with the Singapore and Malaysian servers.^[2]

Discontinued Server(s):

Indonesia

Each Server has its own Headquarters and pricing for Champions, Skins, Bundles, etc. Currently, Server transfer is not available to these servers.

Garena Platform

Garena Platform (formerly Garena+) is the application used to login, install, download/update, and open the League of Legends client, which cannot be launched independently. The patch release is a little delayed compared to other Riot servers.

There is no Normal Draft Pick in the SEA region.

Login Screen
Main Screen
Launcher
SEA Client

Garena and Future Riot Games

Garena will not provide future support for new Riot Games in SEA. Garena Accounts cannot be used for other games. ^[3]

More Info: Riot Games Southeast Asia FAQ

Lucky Crates

Lucky Crates is a Garena-exclusive system that functions like a lootbox. you can get different rewards like Orange Essence, Blue Essence, Key Fragments, Hextech Chests, Masterwork Chests, Champion permanents or summoner icons. By default, there are 5 Lucky Creates: Champion Top,Champion Jungle, Champion Mid, Champion Bot and Champion Support, which award a random champion permanent according to their respective lane. The Champion crates cost 250 Riot Points. Other types of Lucky Crates may appear during events.

Store and Riot Points

League of Legends Southeast Asia has different skin tier price per server due to the differences in average income per region. The available methods to get certain cosmestics may also be changed. Token costs for event items are higher than Riot servers. Some cosmestic available in Riot servers are locked behind events and paywall while some exclusive contents can be obtained. For example, prestige skins are removed from Hextech Crafting. Except for the Vietnam and Taiwan servers, all other servers follow the same skin rarity tier guideline of Riot Games with consistent pricing. In Vietnam server, skin price and skin tier are chosen based on the popularity of the champion and the skin line. In Taiwan server, prestige points were recently removed from Hextech crafting and Prestige point skins can only be obtained through lottery events. In addition, Garena servers also have their own loot systems seperated from Hextech Crafting. There are regular discount events instead of weekly skin sales. Garena Shells are the currency used to purchase RP.

More info: Garena Shells to RP Update

Client Store
RP Conversion

RP Conversion per servers (By skin tier)
Tier	Global^[4]	PH/SG^[5]	TW	VN	TH
Basic	520	520	105 145	40 - 150	67 75
Deluxe	750	750	210	60 - 230	135
Superior	975	975	270	60 - 230	225
Epic	1350	1350	375	120 - 396	450
Legendary	1820	1820	510	230 - 599	750
Ultimate	2775 3250	2775 3250	777 910	799 999	1500 3000

Special Events

Rampage 2012-2017: The annual 2-days League of Legends event held in the Philippines. There are special E-sport events like Celebrity Showmatch (5v5 between local celebrities in the Philippines) and champion cosplaying. The ticket have 3 classes: Basic, Premium, and Deluxe. Each tickets have their own exclusive freebies (Skins, Jackets, T-Shirts, etc.) and perks.
Globe Conquerors Manila: Globe Conquerors Manila replaced Rampage event. Globe Conquerors Manila introduced new events like Cosplay Clash, Runeterra Art Event, Teamfight Tactics showdown, and SEA Invitational.

Trivia

In January 2020, Garena Philippines dropped the price of Volcanic Wukong from 975 to 1 until January 31, 2020. This is meant to raise awareness for the concerning activity of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, which began to spew ash and lava fountains earlier this month.^[6]
On July 9, 2018 2:16 PM GMT+8, there was an unauthorized modification of the League of Legends PH client lobby where a certain javascript code was inserted. This code performs blockchain mining on affected computers, which consumes CPU resources from these computers. Local players noticed that their client consumes a very high amount of CPU usage and slowdowns on their computers. League of Legends - Philippines Facebook page issued a statement here^[7]

References

Riot Store

[1] Wikipedia Garena

[2] ttps://lol.garena.com/news/indonesia-and-singaporemalaysia-server-merge

[3] ttps://www.riotgames.com/en/seafaqen

[4] ttps://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752874-Guide-to-Skin-Price-Tiers

[5] ttp://support.lol.garena.com/en_SG/articles/764

[6] ttps://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/volcanic-wukong-skin-price-reduced-to-1-rp-in-the-philippines

[7] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/8xxgjp/official_statement_from_garena_philippines/

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-'''Garena''' is a digital services company that engages in gaming, eSports, eCommerce and digital finance, primarily focusing on the South East Asian area. It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. The parent company of Garena is Sea Limited, which also formerly called Garena. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garena Wikipedia Garena]</ref>. Garena currently handles [[League of Legends]] publishing for Southeast Asia.
+'''Garena''' is a digital services company that engages in gaming, eSports, eCommerce and digital finance, primarily focusing on the South East Asian area. It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. The parent company of Garena is Sea Limited, which also formerly called Garena.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garena Wikipedia Garena]</ref>. Garena currently handles [[League of Legends]] publishing for Southeast Asia.
+== Garena Southeast Asia Region ==
+Garena SEA dedicates servers in:[[File:SEA Garena server.jpg|thumb|200px]]
+[[File:Garena Server Transfers.png|thumb|right|198px|ID to SG/MY migration]]
-==Garena Southeast Asia Region==
-Garena SEA dedicates servers in:[[File:SEA_map.jpg|thumb|200px]]
-[[File:Lolid.png|thumb|right|198px|ID to SG/MY migration]]
 *The Philippines
 *Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao
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 {{clr}}
+== Garena Platform ==
+Garena Platform (formerly Garena+) is the application used to login, install, download/update, and open the League of Legends client, which cannot be launched independently. The patch release is a little delayed compared to other Riot servers.
+There is no Normal [[Draft Pick]] in the SEA region.
-==Garena Platform==
-Garena Platform (Former Garena+) is the application used to login, install, download/update, and open the League of Legends client, which cannot be launched independently. The patch release is a little delayed compared to other Riot servers.
-There is no Normal [[Draft Pick]] in SEA.
 <gallery type="slideshow" widths="640" position="center" crop="false"hideaddbutton="true">
-Garena_Platform_Login_Screen_2.png|Login Screen
+Garena Platform Login Screen.png|Login Screen
-Garena_Platform_Main_Screen_2.png|Main Screen
+Garena Platform Main Screen.png|Main Screen
-Garena_League_of_Legends.png|Launcher
+Garena Platform Launcher.png|Launcher
-League_of_Legends_client_home_2.png|SEA Client
+Garena Platform Client Home.png|SEA Client
 </gallery>
+== Garena and Future Riot Games ==
-{{clr}}
+Garena will not provide future support for new [[Riot Games|Riot]] Games in SEA. Garena Accounts cannot be used for other games. <span style="font-size:11px;"><ref> https://www.riotgames.com/en/seafaqen</ref></span>
+* More Info: [https://www.riotgames.com/en/seafaqen Riot Games Southeast Asia FAQ]
+== Lucky Crates ==
+[[File:Garena Lucky Crate.jpg|thumb|300px|Lucky Crate]]
-==Garena and Future Riot Games==
-Garena won't provide future support for the SEA region. Riot will take over Garena to provide and support their future games in Southeast Asia. Garena Accounts are cannot be used for other games. <span style="font-size:11px;"><ref> https://www.riotgames.com/en/seafaqen</ref></span>
-Garena users can create a Riot account [https://signup.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/signup/ here]
-=====More Info: [https://www.riotgames.com/en/seafaqen Riot Southeast Asia FAQ]=====
-{{clr}}
-==Lucky Crates==
-{{clr}}
 Lucky Crates is a Garena-exclusive system that functions like a lootbox. you can get different rewards like Orange Essence, Blue Essence, Key Fragments, Hextech Chests, Masterwork Chests, Champion permanents or summoner icons.
 By default, there are 5 Lucky Creates: Champion Top,Champion Jungle, Champion Mid, Champion Bot and Champion Support, which award a random champion permanent according to their respective lane. The Champion crates cost 250 Riot Points.
 Other types of Lucky Crates may appear during events.
-[[File:Lucky_Crate.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Lucky Crate]]
-==Store and Riot Points==
+== Store and Riot Points ==
-League of Legends Southeast Asia has different skin tier price per server due to the differences in average income per region. However, except for the Vietnam server, all other servers follow the same skin rarity tier guideline of [[Riot Games]] with consistent pricing as well as item token pricing during events. In addition, Garena servers also have their own loot systems seperated from [[Hextech Crafting]]. The available methods to get certain skins may also be changed. For example, Prestige skins are removed from [[Hextech Crafting]]. There are regular discount events instead of weekly skin sales. [[Garena Shells]] are the currency used to purchase {{RP|RP}}.
+League of Legends Southeast Asia has different skin tier price per server due to the differences in average income per region. The available methods to get certain cosmestics may also be changed. Token costs for event items are higher than Riot servers. Some cosmestic available in Riot servers are locked behind events and paywall while some exclusive contents can be obtained. For example, prestige skins are removed from [[Hextech Crafting]]. Except for the Vietnam and Taiwan servers, all other servers follow the same skin rarity tier guideline of [[Riot Games]] with consistent pricing. In Vietnam server, skin price and skin tier are chosen based on the popularity of the champion and the skin line. In Taiwan server, prestige points were recently removed from Hextech crafting and Prestige point skins can only be obtained through lottery events. In addition, Garena servers also have their own loot systems seperated from [[Hextech Crafting]]. There are regular discount events instead of weekly skin sales. [[Garena Shell|Garena Shells]] are the currency used to purchase {{RP|RP}}.
 <font size= "1">More info: [http://support.lol.garena.com/en_PH/articles/776 Garena Shells to RP Update]</font>
-<gallery type="slideshow" widths="640" position="center" crop="false"hideaddbutton="true">
+<gallery type="slideshow" widths="300" position="center" crop="false"hideaddbutton="true">
-League_of_Legends_client_store.png|Store
+Garena LoL Client Store.png|Client Store
-League_of_Legends_RP_conversion_2.png|RP Conversion
+Garena LoL RP Conversion.png|RP Conversion
 </gallery>
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 {{clr}}
-==Special Events==
-*Rampage 2012-2017 - The annual 2-days League of Legends event held in the Philippines. There are special E-sport events like Celebrity Showmatch (5v5 between local celebrities in the Philippines) and champion cosplaying. The ticket have 3 classes: Basic, Premium, and Deluxe. Each tickets have their own exclusive freebies (Skins, Jackets, T-Shirts, etc.) and perks.
+== Special Events ==
-*Globe Conquerors Manila 2018- - Globe Conquerors Manila replaced Rampage event. Globe Conquerors Manila introduced new events like Cosplay Clash, [[Runeterra]] Art Event, [[Teamfight Tactics]] showdown, and SEA Invitational.
+*Rampage 2012-2017: The annual 2-days League of Legends event held in the Philippines. There are special E-sport events like Celebrity Showmatch (5v5 between local celebrities in the Philippines) and champion cosplaying. The ticket have 3 classes: Basic, Premium, and Deluxe. Each tickets have their own exclusive freebies (Skins, Jackets, T-Shirts, etc.) and perks.
+*Globe Conquerors Manila: Globe Conquerors Manila replaced Rampage event. Globe Conquerors Manila introduced new events like Cosplay Clash, [[Runeterra]] Art Event, [[Teamfight Tactics]] showdown, and SEA Invitational.
+== Trivia ==
+[[File:Garena Wukong Volcanic Promo 01.jpg|thumb|300px]]
+*In January 2020, Garena Philippines dropped the price of Volcanic [[Wukong]] from {{RP|975}} to {{RP|1}} until January 31, 2020. This is meant to raise awareness for the concerning activity of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, which began to spew ash and lava fountains earlier this month.<ref>https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/volcanic-wukong-skin-price-reduced-to-1-rp-in-the-philippines</ref>
+*On July 9, 2018 2:16 PM GMT+8, there was an unauthorized modification of the League of Legends PH client lobby where a certain javascript code was inserted. This code performs blockchain mining on affected computers, which consumes CPU resources from these computers. Local players noticed that their client consumes a very high amount of CPU usage and slowdowns on their computers. League of Legends - Philippines Facebook page issued a statement [https://www.facebook.com/lolph/posts/2022900687729548%7C here]<ref> https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/8xxgjp/official_statement_from_garena_philippines/</ref>
+== See Also ==
+*[[Garena Shell]]
-==Trivia==
-*In January 2020, Garena Philippines dropped the price of Volcanic [[Wukong]] from {{RP|975}} to {{RP|1}} until January 31, 2020. This is meant to raise awareness for the concerning activity of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, which began to spew ash and lava fountains earlier this month. <ref>https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/volcanic-wukong-skin-price-reduced-to-1-rp-in-the-philippines</ref>
-[[File:Volcanic_Wukong.jpg|thumb|222px|center]]
-*On July 9, 2018 2:16 PM GMT+8, there was an unauthorized modification of the League of Legends PH client lobby where a certain javascript code was inserted. This code performs blockchain mining on affected computers, which consumes CPU resources from these computers. Local players noticed that their client consumes a very high amount of CPU usage and slowdowns their computers and. League of Legends - Philippines Facebook page issued a statement [https://www.facebook.com/lolph/posts/2022900687729548| here] <ref> https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/8xxgjp/official_statement_from_garena_philippines/</ref>
-==See Also==
-*[[Garena Shells]]
 *[[Servers]]
 *[[Launcher]]
-==References==
+{{References}}
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+{{Riot Store}}
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Currencies	RP (Gshell) BE OE Mythic Essence Prestige Point Coin Shard Expedition Token Star Shard Wild Core Poro Coin Poro Energy
Direct Items	Champions Boosts Champion skins (Chromas) Emotes Summoner icons Ward skins Little Legends Eternals Bundles
Hextech Crafting Items	Mythic Essence 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 Guardians Summoner icons Wildcards Event Pass (Quests, Events) Fragment (Champion Fragment, Wild Fragment)
Wild Rift Store	Champions Champion skins Emotes Summoner icons Event Pass (Quests, Events) Poro Store
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