Hextech Crafting

Mission exclusive Crafting Materials and Rewards can be found here.

Hextech Crafting is a gameplay reward system implemented by Riot Games Inc. for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics PC.^[1] The reward system is directly tied with Champion Mastery.

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.

Hextech Crafting was launched on:

NA on patch V6.5 (March 15, 2016)
All the other servers on patch V6.6 (March 24, 2016)

Items

Common Crafting

For old content, see Removed Crafting and PROJECT Crafting.

Hextech Chests

Players earn a Mastery Chest whenever they or a member of their premade party earn an S-, S or S+, while they are playing a champion eligible to earn a chest and have an available chest slot.

Players can only earn chests while playing a champion they own.
Players can only earn one chest per champion per competitive season.
- Champions eligible to earn chests are shown on the Champion Collection tab.
- Note that a champion becomes ineligible after earning a chest, not after obtaining an S grade.
Players can earn 1 chest every 7 days, storing up to four available chests in reserve. The number of available chests is shown in the Summoner Profile.
Even though the Profile refers them as "Mastery Chests", Chests rewarded by Mastery Grades are identical to Hextech Chests purchased in the store.
- Hextech Chests can be purchased in the store for 125.
- Purchased Hextech Chests do not count toward the earned limit.
- Up to 25 Hextech Chests can be purchased every day.

Hextech Keys

Hextech Crafting Key fragment — Key fragment

Hextech Keys are used to open Hextech Chests.

3 Key Fragments can be combined into a Key.
- Key Fragments are periodically distributed to Honorable players (Honor 2 or above).
- Can earn up to 12 Key Fragments in a 4 week period. Every four weeks, the counter resets.
- Key Fragments can often be purchased with Mission Tokens.
Hextech Keys can also be purchased in the store for 125.

Loot

Hextech Chest Opening — Opening a Hextech chest

Unlocking a Hextech Chest with a Hextech Key awards Loot. You are guaranteed to receive one of the following:^[2]

1820 or less Champion Skin Shard or Ultimate Permanent – Common (57.14% Frequency)
4800+ Champion Shard – Uncommon (21.43% Frequency)
Emote Permanent – Uncommon (8.57% Frequency)
Ward Skin Shard + 150 – Uncommon (9.86% Frequency)
Summoner Icon Permanent + 150 – Rare (3% Frequency)

There is also a chance to get an additional drop of one of the following:

Hextech Chest and Hextech Key – Uncommon (11.1% Frequency)
Gemstone – Rare (4% Frequency)
Mythic Skin Permanent – Rare (0.04% Frequency)

Notes

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 Hextech Crafting to redeem.
Bad Luck Protection: The chance of getting a Champion Skin Shard is 50%, but you can't open three chests in a row without dropping at least one skin shard. This raises the effective drop rate of skin shards to roughly 57%.
Bonus Gemstones: Gemstones have a chance of dropping as a bonus alongside normal chest content. Gemstones have light "bad luck protection," so you can't go more than 50 boxes without getting a gemstone. This raises the effective drop rate of Gemstones to 3.6%. Gemstones can also drop from bonus chests, bringing the overall drop rate up to 4%.
Chests inside Chests: Bonus chests (with a key) have a 10% chance to drop whenever you open a Hextech chest. Each of these bonus chests also have a 10% chance to drop with another bonus chest (and key).
You cannot get skins valued lower than 520.

Masterwork Chest

With patch V8.7, Masterwork Chests became purchasable from the store for 165 ( 225 for a chest and key), or 2250 for a bundle of 11 chests and keys. Masterwork Chests also require a Hextech Key to open.

Champion Skin Shard – Common (71.94% Frequency)
525 – Uncommon (9.35% Frequency)
Emote Permanent – Uncommon (9.35% Frequency)
Ward Skin Shard + 150 – Uncommon (9.35% Frequency)

There is also a chance to get an additional drop of one of the following:

Hextech Masterwork Chest and Hextech Key – Uncommon (11.1% Frequency)
Gemstone – Rare (4% Frequency)
Mythic Skin Permanent – Rare (0.04% Frequency)

Notes

All the same "special rules" that govern normal Hextech Chests also apply to Masterwork Chests. The chance of getting a Champion Skin Shard is 70% but because of bad luck protection the effective drop increases to roughly 71%.

Champion Capsules

Basic Champion Capsule — Champion Capsule

Champion capsules are awarded when leveling up. They contain between one and four champions shards, and potentially some raw Blue Essence, for a total value (after disenchanting) between 810 BE and 1,260 BE.

Honor

Main article: Honor

Honor Capsules

Upon leveling up to Honor level 3, 4 and 5 players receive a Honor Capsule. Honor Capsules do not require a key to open and contain key fragments, ward skins, emotes, champion shards, and Honor-exclusive skins.

Honor Orbs

Upon reaching checkpoints at Honor level 3, 4 and 5 players receive a Honor Orb. Honor Orbs do not require a key to open, and contain key fragments and champion shards.

Honor 5 token

Honor 5 tokens are obtained with Honor 5 Capsules. One Honor 5 token can be redeemed for either:

Medieval Twitch skin.
Grey Warwick skin.
File:Honor 5 Medieval Twitch chroma.png Medieval Twitch Sapphire chroma + icon.
File:Honor 5 Grey Warwick chroma.png Grey Warwick Sapphire chroma + icon.

Little Legend Eggs

Main article: Little Legends (Teamfight Tactics)#Eggs

File:Teamfight Tactics Featherknight Egg.png Little Legend Eggs and File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg1.png Little Legend Series Eggs are purchasable from the store.

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.

Loot Exclusive Content

Main article: Gemstone
Gemstones can reward the player with loot exclusive content.

Main article: Prestige Point
Prestige points can reward the player with loot exclusive content.

Crafting Material

Gemstones ( Gemstone)

Main article: Gemstone

Hextech Crafting Blue Essence — Blue Essences

Blue Essence ( BE)

Main article: Blue Essence

Hextech Crafting Orange Essence — Orange Essences

Orange Essence ( OE - Cosmetic)

Used for unlocking cosmetic shards: champion skins, ward skins, summoner icons, and emotes.
Obtained through disenchanting cosmetic shards.

Shards

Champion Shards
- Can be combined with Blue Essence to permanently unlock the champion.
- One shard can be consumed to temporarily unlock the champion for 7 days.
- Can be combined with the champion's Mastery Token to improve the champion's mastery rank to 6 and 7.
- Can be disenchanted into Blue Essence, which can be used to upgrade other Champion Shards or buy champions for full price from the Store.
Cosmetic Shards
- All available, Legacy Vault and loot exclusive champion skins, ward skins, emotes and summoner icons can be obtained as a cosmetic shard.
- Can be combined with Orange Essences to permanently unlock the cosmetic. The Orange Essence cost scales with the content's RP cost.
- One shard can be consumed to temporarily unlock the skin for 7 days, excluding summoner icons and emotes.
- If you do not own the champion, the option to permanently or temporarily unlock the skin is disabled and the additional option to purchase the champion is added, redirecting you to the store.
- Can be disenchanted into Orange Essence, which can be used to upgrade other Cosmetic Shards.
- Mystery Emote Tokens are periodically available in the store for 195. They award a random unowned emote.
Permanent Cosmetic Shards
- Reroll: You can combine 3 cosmetic shards of the same type (champion skins, wards skins, and summoner icons) to obtain a permanent shard of the same type you do not own. The 3 selected shards are deleted in the process.
  - You cannot get skins valued lower than 520.
  - When receiving a 520 permanent champion skin shard, you also gain an additional 100 Orange Essences.
  - Permanent shards are automatically activated, other than when you gain a shard for a champion you don't own.
  - You also have a 10% chance of getting an additional Hextech Chest and Hextech Key.
  - Hextech exclusive skins have a 0.04% chance to drop.
- A permanent shard cannot be redeemed temporarily.
- A permanent shard has no cost associated with unlocking it permanently.
- Permanents can still be rerolled and disenchanted, and are worth more Essence when disenchanted.

Crafting Costs

Champion Shards

Store Cost	Upgrade	Disenchant ()	Disenchant ()
450 / 260	() OR ( + 270)	90	225
1350 / 585	() OR ( + 810)	270	675
3150 / 790	() OR ( + 1890)	630	1575
4800 / 880	() OR ( + 2880)	960	2400
6300 / 975	() OR ( + 3780)	1260	3150
7800 / 975	() OR ( + 4680)	1560	3900

Champion Skin Shards: While not being directly available in the store, gemstone 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 ()	Disenchant ()
520	() OR ( + 220)	104	260
750	() OR ( + 450)	150	375
975	() OR ( + 675)	195	488
1350	() OR ( + 1050)	270	675
1820	() OR ( + 1520)	364	910
2400		N/A	1200
2450		N/A	1225
2775		N/A	1388
3250		N/A	1625

Ward Skin Shards

Store Cost	Upgrade	Disenchant ()	Disenchant ()
640	() OR ( + 340)	128	320

Emotes

Store Cost	Upgrade	Disenchant ()
450		225

Summoner Icons

Store Cost	Upgrade	Disenchant ()
250		125

Patch History

Upcoming

Dawnbringer Karma returns as a Hextech Crafting loot.

V9.24 - December 11, 2019

Hextech Swain added to the Hextech Crafting.

V9.22 - November 6, 2019

File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg5.png Little Legend Series Five Egg.

V9.19 - September 25, 2019

Hextech Amumu added to the Hextech Crafting.

V9.18 - September 11, 2019

File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg4.png 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.
File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg3.png Little Legend Series Three Egg added.

V9.14 - July 19, 2019

Dark Star Cho'Gath returns as a Hextech Crafting loot.

V9.13 - June 26, 2019

File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg1.png Little Legend Series One Egg added.
File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg2.png Little Legend Series Two Egg added.
A new section for Little Legends
- File:Teamfight Tactics Featherknight Egg.png Little Legend Eggs can be opened here.
- File:Teamfight Tactics 2019 Egg1.png Little Legend Series Eggs can be opened here.

V9.1 - January 9, 2019

Prestige Point added to the Hextech Crafting.

V8.24 - December 20, 2018

Hextech Renekton added to the Hextech Crafting.

V8.20 - October 10, 2018

Hextech Malzahar added to the Hextech Crafting.

V8.14 - July 18, 2018

Hextech Poppy added to the Hextech Crafting.

V8.11

Can now gift Hextech Crafting materials.

V8.10

Can now consume 1 Gemstone to craft a Masterwork Chest instead of a regular Hextech Chest. This still grants a Hextech Key.

V8.8

Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that was causing gemstones to drop 5% more often than intended.

V8.7

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.

V8.5 ^[3]

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.

V8.3 - February 8th, 2018 ^[4]

2018 Lunar Revel crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.24b - December 23, 2017 ^[5]

Removed: Skins above 1350 have less chance to drop in rerolls.

V7.24 - December 7, 2017

Hextech Kog'Maw added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.18 - September 23, 2017 ^[6]

2016 Worlds crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.16 - August 17, 2017

2017 Arcade crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.
Lancer Zero Hecarim added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.13

Honor rework, key fragments are now obtained with Honor instead of after winning games.

V7.12

Order and Chaos crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.8

2017 MSI crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.7 - April 13, 2017

Dreadnova Darius added to the Hextech Crafting.

V7.1

2017 Lunar Revel crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V6.24

2016 Snowdown Showdown crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V6.23

Players can now sort and filter their Hextech Crafting inventories.
Can now also open 10 Hextech Chests at once.

V6.19 - September 28, 2016 ^[7]

2016 Worlds crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V6.17

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.

V6.15

PROJECT crafting material added to the Hextech Crafting.

V6.13 - June 29, 2016

Soulstealer Vayne added to the Hextech Crafting.
Hextech Ward skin added to the Hextech Crafting.

V6.11 ^[8]

Mystery champion shard added to the shop.

V6.10 - May 19, 2016

Champion mastery level 6 and 7 added.

V6.7

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.

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.

V6.3

Live testing on the Turkish servers.

Trivia

Hextech Crafting is visually inspired by Piltover Hextech.
Due to China's gambling regulations, the chest design is replaced with a portal design (See Media Gallery) for this region. Capsules remain the same.

Hextech Annie

By Mirross ^[9]

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^[10]

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 fundementals of the Hextech Capsule design.

Media

Hextech_Crafting_&_Loot_preview — Hextech Crafting & Loot preview

Hextech Portal Key Fragment (Chinese Server)
Hextech Portal Key (Chinese Server)
Hextech Portal (Chinese Server)
Premium Portal (Chinese Server)
Masterwork Portal (Chinese Server)
Premium Chest
Masterwork Chest Opening
Masterwork Chest
Old Hextech Crafting Chest Opening
Champion Shard Opening
KDA Orb Opening
KDA Orb
Spooky Bottom Orb Opening
Spooky Bottom Orb
Spooky Jungle Orb Opening
Spooky Jungle Orb
Spooky Mid Orb Opening
Spooky Mid Orb
Spooky Support Orb Opening
Spooky Support Orb
Spooky Top Orb Opening
Spooky Top Orb
Worlds 2018 Orb Opening
Worlds 2018 Orb

References

Riot Store

[1] Champion Mastery Reveal

[2] Hextech Crafting Guide

[3] Hextech Crafting update on the LoL boards

[4] Lunar Revel 2018 Event

[5] Skin Reroll changes on Reddit

[6] Worlds 2017 Loot

[7] Worlds 2016 Hits the Rift

[8] Riot Socrates Tweet

[9] Hextech Annie

[10] MSI Capsule

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