Hextech Crafting (2024)

Mission exclusive Crafting Materials and Rewards can be found here.

For old content, see Removed Crafting and PROJECT 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

• Includes chests, keys, capsules, currency, etc

Champions

• Includes Shards and Permanents

Skins

• Includes Shards and Permanents

Tacticians (Little Legends)

• Includes Little Legend Eggs

Eternals

Emotes

Ward Skins

Icons

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[]

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.

Common Chest Items

Item	Description
Key Fragment	Collect 3 to create a Key. Play games to earn key fragments over time. Obtained from: Crafting Drop from Honor Orb Event Crafting Honor Honor participation drop
Hextech Chest	What's in the box? Requires a Hextech Key to open. Drop rates: Base chance Total chance Hextech Chest Drops[2] Chance Item 50% Skin shard 25% Champion shard 11.5% Ward Skin Shard + 150 10% Emote Permanent 3.5% Summoner Icon Shard + 150 Bonus Drops Chance Item 3.6% 10 0.04% Mythic Skin Permanent 10% Hextech Set Hextech Chest Drops Chance Item 57.14% 1820 or less Champion Skin Shard or Ultimate Skin Permanent 21.43% 4800 or more Champion Shard 8.57% Emote Permanent 9.86% Ward Skin Shard + 150 3% Summoner Icon Shard + 150 Bonus Drops Chance Item 4% 10 0.04% Mythic Skin Permanent 11.1% Hextech Set Bad luck protection raises the effective drop rate of skin shards to roughly 57%. Obtained from: Chests from different sources are not stacked together. Champion Mastery Mastery Chest (Limit 1 per champion per season) Riot store 125 purchase 「 195 bundle」「1 Hextech Chest and Key Bundle」 「 975 bundle」「5 Hextech Chests & Keys + 50 Bonus Essence!」 「 1950 bundle」「10 Hextech Chests & Keys + Bonus Set!」
Masterwork Chest	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: Base chance Total chance Masterwork Milestones Masterwork Chest Drops[2] Chance Item 70% Skin shard 10% 525 10% Emote Permanent 10% Ward Skin Shard + 150 Bonus Drops Chance Item 4.2% 5 0.04% Mythic Skin Permanent 10% Masterwork Set Masterwork Chest Drops Chance Item 71.94% Skin shard 9.35% 525 9.35% Emote Permanent 9.35% Ward Skin Shard + 150 Bonus Drops Chance Item 4.67% 5 0.04% Mythic Skin Permanent 11.1% Masterwork Set Bad luck protection increases the effective drop for skin shards to roughly 71%. Masterwork Milestones Chests Opened Item 5 5 + 1 random skin shard 10 5 15 5 + 975+ skin shard 20 5 25 10 + 1350+ skin shard Masterwork Milestones reset upon completing a track. Obtained from: Riot store 165 purchase 「 225 bundle」「1 Masterwork Chest and Key Bundle」 「 1125 bundle」「5 Masterwork Chests & Keys」 「 2250 bundle」「10 Masterwork Chests & Keys + Bonus Set!」

Mystery Token[]

A Mystery Token contains a random piece of content from a given category.

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[]

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[]

An Orb usually contains a meager amount of content (e.g. 1 skin shard), but often comes with bonus drops.

Little Legend Egg[]

Main article: Little Legend (Teamfight Tactics)#Eggs

See Also

Masterwork Chest vs. Hextech Chest - Which One’s Better? - LeagueFeed5 Of The Rarest Gemstones On Earth | KGK GroupTreasure ChestsLeague of Legends Skin Shard Guide - Reroll or Disenchant?

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[]

Hextech Crafting includes uncommon crafting, as well as loot from other systems.

Hextech Exclusive[]

Mythic Crafting

• Elusive skins crafted with rare currency obtained from chance drops and events.

Other[]

Summoner level

• Leveling rewards loot.

Champion Mastery

• Mastering a champion rewards flair.

Honor

• Honorable behavior rewards loot.

Event Crafting[]

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[]

Common Crafting Materials

Item	Description
Blue Essence ( BE)	Main article: Blue Essence Used to craft a Champion Shard into a Champion Permanent, allowing the player to unlock the champion.
Orange Essence ( OE)	Used to craft cosmetic Shards into cosmetic Permanents: champion skins, eternals, ward skins, summoner icons, and emotes.
Mythic Essence ( ME)	Main article: Mythic Essence A rare currency that is used to craft elusive Mythic-level content.
Hextech Key	Used to open chests, effectively acting as currency. Can be purchased for 125.

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[]

Skins[]

Skin shards cover skins for champions, wards, and summoner icons.

• 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 ()	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, 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 ()	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 ()
350		175

Summoner Icons

Store Cost	Upgrade	Disenchant ()
250		125

Patch History[]

Trivia[]

• General

• Development

• 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^[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.

Hextech Chest in Global region

Hextech Portal in Tencent region

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.

See Also

Who Invented Hextech In League Of Legends Arcane? What Does It Do?

Media[]

• Videos

• Gallery

Snowdown Chest

Snow Chest

Poro Chest

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

Hextech Crafting Loot Concept 1 (by Riot Contracted Artists Wild Blue Studios)

Hextech Crafting Loot Concept 2 (by Riot Contracted Artists Wild Blue Studios)

References