- Mission exclusive Crafting Materials and Rewards can be found here.
- For old content, see Removed Crafting and PROJECT Crafting.
Hextech Crafting
Hextech Crafting is a gameplay reward system implemented by Riot Games Inc. for 
League of Legends and 
Teamfight Tactics PC[1], offering opportunities to obtain event content, skins, and champions.
It was released on the PBE on January 13, 2016. The first live testings were done on the Turkish server from patch V6.3 on February 10, 2016. The system launched in NA on patch V6.5 (March 15, 2016), then all the other servers on patch V6.6 (March 24, 2016).
Loot Types[]
The crafting menu separates loot into categories:
All- Materials
- Champions
- Includes Shards and Permanents
- Skins
- Includes Shards and Permanents
- Tacticians (Little Legends)
- Includes Little Legend Eggs
- Eternals
- Emotes
- Ward Skins
- Icons
All
Container[]
Loot is rewarded from containers of various size. Common Crafting containers can be rewarded from various sources.
There are special rules primarily concerning chests, but are implied to be extrapolated to other containers where applicable[2]:
- Equal Odds: Skins are not more likely to drop based on their price tier. An ultimate skin is just as common as a standard skin.
- Big Drops, Free Unlock: Ultimate and Mythic skins are dropped as Permanents, meaning they do not require any OE to redeem.
- Bad Luck Protection: You can't open three chests in a row without dropping at least one skin shard, thus increasing their overall chance, while reducing the others.
- Bonus Mythic Essence: Mythic Essence can drop as bonus loot alongside normal content, unless stated otherwise. This has light "bad luck protection": you can't go more than 50 openings without the bonus drop, resulting in a base 3.6% rate.
- Chests inside Chests: Chests have a 10% chance to drop a bonus chest (with a key). Each of these bonus chests also have a 10% chance to drop another bonus chest (and key). These effectively increase the overall chance of a bonus drop.
- No Cheap Champs: Chests only drop shards for champions worth 4800 or more.
Unless specifically noted, loot pools from skinlines will get updated as said skinlines expand with more items.
Chest Set[]
Chest Set has both a chest and key.
Opening a Hextech chest.
A Set is a two-part container comprised of a Chest and a Key, the chest being the source of loot and the key being a gateway to obtain the loot. 3 Key Fragments can be combined into a 
Key.
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Collect 3 to create a Key. Play games to earn key fragments over time.
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What's in the box?
Requires a Hextech Key to open. Drop rates:
Obtained from:
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The highest-quality crafting items available. Curated and approved by the master craftsman Ornn. Requires a Hextech Key to open. These chests do not give skin shards valued lower than  520. [3]
Est. V8.7. Drop rates:
Obtained from:
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Mystery Token[]
A Mystery Token contains a random piece of content from a given category.
Capsule[]
Champion Capsule[]
Champion Capsule
A Champion Capsule contains a small collection of content, potentially including one or more champion shards, and/or a modest amount of 
Blue Essence. Champion Capsules are rewarded to the player when they level up. The first is rewarded at level 5, and they are then provided at every level up thereafter, with some milestone exceptions.
Glorious Champion Capsule[]
Glorious Champion Capsule
A Glorious Champion Capsule contains a greater amount of content compared to their normal variant, typically containing several champion shards and higher quantities of Blue Essence, as well as Ward skins and exclusive "Legend" emotes. Glorious Champion Capsules are rewarded to the player when they reach level 30, as well as every 10 and 25 levels thereafter.
Orb[]
LCK World Cone Orb
An Orb usually contains a meager amount of content (e.g. 1 skin shard), but often comes with bonus drops.
Little Legend Egg[]
Random Egg
- Main article: Little Legend (Teamfight Tactics)#Eggs
Due to the lack of shards for TFT loot, a Little Legend Egg contains loot valued about the same as a capsule. Series eggs and Rare eggs have the same drop rate:
- Legendary (5% drop rate, 30% chance for double drop).
- Epic (20% drop rate).
- Rare (75% drop rate).
If all Little Legends variants are obtained, a Rare Egg is rewarded instead.
Uncommon Crafting[]
Prestige Point
Hextech Crafting includes uncommon crafting, as well as loot from other systems.
Hextech Exclusive[]
- Elusive skins crafted with rare currency obtained from chance drops and events.
Other[]
- Leveling rewards loot.
- Mastering a champion rewards flair.
- Honorable behavior rewards loot.
Event Crafting[]
The event currency for Worlds 2019 Event
During events, Riot usually introduce limited special crafting items. Most of them are available to be bought from Riot Store using RP, and sometimes from missions. Event Hextech Crafting content are usually also exchangeable using event currencies and bundled with the event passes. Event currency is primary obtained as a mission reward.
For the list of recorded Event Currency, please visit: event currency.
Event containers often includes increased drop rates for Mythic content.
Event-exclusive Containers[]
Bundle Token[]
A Bundle Token usually offers as much loot as a Capsule, but distinguishes itself as loot from unique events.
Bag/Jackpot[]
A Bag is a rare bounty that can vary per event (e.g. 5 skin shards). An event may introduce a Jackpot instead, which offers more loot in lower denominations.
Crafting Material[]
| Item | Description |
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 ( BE) |
Used to craft a Champion Shard into a Champion Permanent, allowing the player to unlock the champion. |
 (  OE) |
Used to craft cosmetic Shards into cosmetic Permanents: champion skins, eternals, ward skins, summoner icons, and emotes. |
 (  ME) |
A rare currency that is used to craft elusive |
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Used to open chests, effectively acting as currency. Can be purchased for 125.
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Shard & Permanent[]
A shard is an item that holds access to specific content, usually requiring some material to upgrade it into a Permanent. A Permanent is an item that entitles the player to specific content if there is no restriction otherwise.
The icons depicted are an older design, used here for readability.
Champions[]
| Champion Shard | Options |
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Disenchant into Essence
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Upgrade to Champion Permanent
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| Champion Permanent | Options |
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Disenchant into Essence
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Unlock Champion Permanent
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Skins[]
Skin shards cover skins for champions, wards, and summoner icons.
| Skin Shard | Options |
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Reroll into random Skin Permanent
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Disenchant into Essence
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Upgrade to Skin Permanent
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Purchase Champion
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Reroll into random Skin Permanent
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Disenchant into Essence
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Unlock Skin Permanent
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Purchase Champion
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- All available, Legacy Vault and loot exclusive champion skins, ward skins, emotes and summoner icons can be obtained as a skin shard.
- When receiving a 520 permanent champion skin shard, you also gain an additional 100.
Crafting Costs[]
- Champion Shards
| Store Cost | Upgrade | Disenchant ( )
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Disenchant ( )
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| 450 / 260
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() OR ( + 270)
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90
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225
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| 1350 / 585
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() OR ( + 810)
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270
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675
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| 3150 / 790
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() OR ( + 1890)
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630
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1575
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| 4800 / 880
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() OR ( + 2880)
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960
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2400
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| 6300 / 975
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() OR ( + 3780)
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1260
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3150
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| 7800 / 975
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() OR ( + 4680)
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1560
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3900
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- Champion Skin Shards
- While not being directly available in the store, Mythic skins (e.g. Hextech Annie) and prestige skins ( Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa) cost are considered to be 2450. Honor Capsule skins ( Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch) are considered to be 2400.
| Store Cost | Upgrade | Disenchant ()
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Disenchant ()
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| 520
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() OR ( + 220)
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104
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260
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| 750
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() OR ( + 450)
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150
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375
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| 975
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() OR ( + 675)
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195
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488
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| 1350
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() OR ( + 1050)
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270
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675
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| 1820
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() OR ( + 1520)
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364
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910
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| 2400
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N/A | 1200
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| 2450
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N/A | 1225
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| 2775
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N/A | 1388
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| 3250
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N/A | 1625
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- Ward Skin Shards
| Store Cost | Upgrade | Disenchant ()
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Disenchant ()
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| 640
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() OR ( + 340)
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128
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320
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- Emotes
| Store Cost | Upgrade | Disenchant ()
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| 350
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175
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- Summoner Icons
| Store Cost | Upgrade | Disenchant ()
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| 250
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125
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Patch History[]
- Shard Activate Rental feature removed.
- Chest Gemstone drop replaced with Mythic Essence.
- Masterwork Chest Mythic Essence drop increased to 4.2% from 3.6%.
- Every 1 Gemstone is converted into 10 Mythic Essence.
- Dawnbringer Karma returns as Hextech Crafting loot.
- V10.21 - October 14, 2020
- Hextech Kassadin added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V9.24 - December 11, 2019
- Hextech Swain added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V9.22 - November 6, 2019
- Little Legend Series Five Egg.
Little Legend Series Five Egg.- V9.19 - September 25, 2019
- Hextech Amumu added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V9.18 - September 11, 2019
- Little Legend Series Four Egg.
Little Legend Series Four Egg.- V9.16 - August 14, 2019
- Honor 5 token, reward for Honor level 5, added.
- Hextech Rammus added to the Hextech Crafting.
- Little Legend Series Three Egg added.
Honor 5 token, reward for Honor level 5, added.
Little Legend Series Three Egg added.- V9.14 - July 19, 2019
- Dark Star Cho'Gath returns as a Hextech Crafting loot pool.
- V9.13 - June 26, 2019
- Little Legend Series One Egg added.
- Little Legend Series Two Egg added.
- A new section for Little Legends
- Little Legend Eggs can be opened here.
- Little Legend Series Eggs can be opened here.
Little Legend Series One Egg added.
Little Legend Series Two Egg added.
Little Legend Eggs can be opened here.- V9.1 - January 9, 2019
- Prestige Point added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V8.24 - December 20, 2018
- Hextech Renekton added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V8.20 - October 10, 2018
- Hextech Malzahar added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V8.14 - July 18, 2018
- Hextech Poppy added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Can now gift Hextech Crafting materials.
- Can now consume 1 Gemstone to craft a Masterwork Chest instead of a regular Hextech Chest. This still grants a Hextech Key.
Masterwork Chest instead of a regular 
Hextech Chest. This still grants a 
Hextech Key.- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that was causing gemstones to drop 5% more often than intended.
- New Masterwork Chest (cosmetics only chests).
- When in possession of multiple key fragments (more than 6), can now craft multiple Hextech Keys at once.
- V8.6 - March 28, 2018
- Key fragment image updated.
- Hextech Alistar added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Ultimate and Mythic skins now drop as auto-redeeming permanents.
- Champion fragments found in Hextech cannot be worth less than 4800 shop-price.
- Getting a ward skin fragment from a chest now comes with a bonus of 150.
- Champion Mastery 6 upgrade cost reduced to 2450 from 3250.
- Champion Mastery 7 upgrade cost reduced to 2950 from 3900.
- 2018 Lunar Revel crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Removed: Skins above 1350 have less chance to drop in rerolls.
- V7.24 - December 7, 2017
- Hextech Kog'Maw added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- 2016 Worlds crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V7.16 - August 17, 2017
- 2017 Arcade crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Lancer Zero Hecarim added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Honor rework, key fragments are now obtained with Honor instead of after winning games.
- Order and Chaos crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- 2017 MSI crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V7.7 - April 13, 2017
- Dreadnova Darius added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- 2017 Lunar Revel crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- 2016 Snowdown Showdown crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Players can now sort and filter their Hextech Crafting inventories.
- Can now also open 10 Hextech Chests at once.
- 2016 Worlds crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Bug Fix: Removed custom PROJECT chest animations from Hextech Crafting to mitigate a client memory issue that could lead to crashes. Unopened PROJECT chests will still be in your inventory and will still award the same loot, but will use the Premium (purple) Hextech chest animations.
- PROJECT crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- V6.13 - June 29, 2016
- Soulstealer Vayne added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Hextech Ward skin added to the Hextech Crafting.
Hextech Ward skin added to the Hextech Crafting.- Mystery champion shard added to the shop.
- V6.10 - May 19, 2016
- Champion mastery level 6 and 7 added.
- Key fragments now have a chance of dropping after winning ARAM or Twisted Treeline games.
- Tuned the drop rates to be the same across game modes based on a number of factors such that it's not easier to earn fragments in any specific mode even though game lengths are shorter.
- Colors for skin tier have been added: Ultimate (Orange), Mythic (Purple), Legendary (Red), and Epic (Teal).
- New animations have been added throughout Hextech Crafting.
Ultimate
Mythic
Legendary
Epic- V6.6 - March 24, 2016
- Hextech Crafting added to all other servers.
- V6.5 - March 15, 2016
- Hextech Crafting added to the NA servers.
- Hextech Annie added to the Hextech Crafting pool.
- Live testing on the Turkish servers.
Trivia[]
Hextech Annie[]
By Mirross[10]
Hi all!
Everyone's favorite combo of sugar, spice, nice, and plenty of burning is getting a new skin as part of hextech crafting and loot. In order to secure appropriate testing for Hextech Annie, we're putting her and her hextechnically-augmented Tibbers on PBE early, but don't expect her to debut with the launch of hextech crafting and loot.
Featuring an all-new model, textures, animations and particle effects as well as new sounds, Hextech Annie is intended to be available exclusively through hextech crafting and the loot system by acquiring 10 gemstones either in normal chests and promotional chests through rare drops or by picking up special promo chest bundles (which'll guarantee a gemstone drop). Gemstones are rare loot drops that can be crafted into a chest and key bundle or saved to combine to craft Hextech Annie.
Promo chests will only be available at limited times and may have different content inside compared to normal chests. For testing on the PBE, we've unlocked Hextech Promo Chest bundles in the store so players can pick up Hextech Annie as soon as possible. During this test, buying one of the 10-chest bundles guarantees a gemstone in addition to the gemstones you can find in the chests themselves.
As we mentioned at the beginning, Hextech Annie won't be available at the launch of hextech crafting and loot. We'll test her on PBE before testing her release to live servers in Turkey (where we've been testing hextech crafting and loot for a little while now). When hextech crafting and loot debut on all live servers, Hextech Annie will follow shortly after.
Lastly, we're pretty sure everyone's used to this by now, but please keep in mind the promo chests have been heavily discounted for testing on PBE, and the drop rates of items in the chests may also change before we go live.
Leave your feedback on the skin or even the idea of a free, exclusive skin in hextech crafting below, and we'll see you on the PBE battlefields!
Hextech Capsule: Case Study[]
By Joy An[11]
- OPPORTUNITY SPACE
Hextech Chest was created when we launched the Hextech Crafting feature in 2016. It was well received, but not without a problem. We could not use the chest in Tencent region due to China's gambling regulation. We could not display any form of container that requires a key in China, so we had to create another form of loot mechanic for Tencent region, the portal.
- MSI CAPSULE
During the MSI event of 2017, we saw an opportunity to introduce a new container that can be used in all regions without any constraints. After exploring many different concepts we have arrived at creating the Hextech Capsule.
We started off doing some sketches for different forms of container to make sure we are not missing an opportunity here. We agreed on the form of a capsule since it offered more flexibility and scalability for the future development of this container. After many iterations on the Capsule design, we've finalized the Hextech Capsule that was highly influenced by Hextech shape language that is unique to League of Legends.
Hextech Capsule is a magical device. It's made of solid materials containing magic, which will drop loot items when opened. In order to avoid breaking the gambling regulation in China, we kept the sides of the Capsule opened, as well as the top to make it look like it's not a container. There is an energy channeling on the bottom of the capsule that shoots lase like magic to make the capsule look contained so we can convince our players that it's a container.
- SCALABILITY OF HEXTECH CAPSULE
Creative even themed Hextech capsules following the MSI capsule was not difficult since we have a very clear set of rules for creating these capsules. Infusing event themes into these capsules were rather exciting exercises that I went through to create its unique look with the fundamentals of the Hextech Capsule design.
Media[]
References
- ↑ Champion Mastery Reveal
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hextech Crafting FAQ. (25 Sept 2019). support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com. Retrieved 26 Aug 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Riot Support low cost skins drop info in chests and rerolls
- ↑ Hextech Crafting update on the LoL boards
- ↑ Lunar Revel 2018 Event
- ↑ Skin Reroll changes on Reddit
- ↑ Worlds 2017 Loot
- ↑ Worlds 2016 Hits the Rift
- ↑ Riot Socrates Tweet
- ↑ Hextech Annie
- ↑ MSI Capsule
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