Hextech Chests, Rewards & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

Originally posted by Riot_Riru

TL;DR:

• 10 Hextech Chests and Keys per Act—8 on the free Pass, 2 additional with Honor
• Hextech Chests will be replacing the free Battle Pass skin
• Consolidating all Key Fragments into Keys, rounding up leftover fragments
• The Blue Essence cost of all champions will be reduced by 50%
• Delaying Sahn Uzal Mordekaiser Exalted skin while we make improvements
• Increasing the quality of Battle Pass skins going forward
• Adding 25 Mythic Essence to the paid Battle Pass to replace one paid pass skin
• Clash is going back to a monthly cadence
• Your Shop is coming back in Patch 25.06
• The Blue Essence Emporium will return in Patch 25.07

Originally posted by Whackedjob

Someone has to do the math on this because I'm not convinced it's going to be easier than the old system.

Originally posted by Jangetjeboy

they gonna give us those chest but then forget to give us keys back

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

/u/RiotMeddler would you have any more details on champ bio updates you mentioned in the last thread or would that be in the following update, since one seems more focused on recent community sentiment regarding the progression changes.

Originally posted by Kultinator

Are the Rewards the chests give nerfed? If its same odds I see this as a win. This is basically what I hoped the pass would be at launch

Originally posted by Moonboy65

got a question regarding Rell and Alistar, will there be another way for players to grab their skin since they're gone from the free and paid passes?

Originally posted by Kultinator

Feels much more like the intended design goal of simplifying and unifying the system. Thank you

Originally posted by Alxter

Will lowering BE costs by 50% also lower the yield from disenchanting Champion shards?

Originally posted by sorakaislove

Hope you and Pabro are doing well, it can't have been easy being the community spokesperson these days. Appreciate all that you do :)

Originally posted by Accomplished-Sell518

It’s great that you’re active in this community and responding here. But why does the community have to calculate whether your system is better now? Isn’t that your job?

And to be a bit cynical: it feels like someone at Riot has a great (internal opinion) monetization idea, you implement it, and then you wait for the community’s feedback. Reminds me a lot of the show Mythic Quest

Originally posted by Wise-Government2914

Hey u/RiotMeddler can we expect you guys to give the Exalted Skins more than one form, same as Fractured Jinx skin? I miss having the option to choose the skin I want to play whenever and wherever I want during the game. (Not as MF's ultimate skin, for example). I feel like this should be the main thing when it comes to the Exalted Skins. It didn't happen to Setts' skin, once you select one, you can't go back and pick another one etc.

Originally posted by DarthVeigar_

What happened, Riot? I thought chests were unsustainable? You didn't know regular progression and rewards would be important to people despite literally every live service title having something of the sort?

Quelle surprise Riot were lying once more.

Originally posted by Frosty_Promotion_873

When will we have Leblanc on the PBE?? and will she get any?

Originally posted by Film_Humble

Probably 1350 RP each in the shop like any other skin I guess?

But that means that the awful chroma Alistar is 1350rp xdd imagine you waited 4 years for this and you have to pay it like any other skin

Originally posted by kamacho2000

how is it 60 chests ? arent we having 4 acts this ear so shouldnt it be 40 chests overall ?

Originally posted by Geist7331

It's nice that the BE costs are reduced but I just finished buying all the remaining champs for blue essence. Hah 😅

Originally posted by Snoo_51967

Hello Meddler, just wanted to ask if we will see an any updates to the Act 2 skins for Darius, Talon and Sion? And if so when can we expect it?

Originally posted by CEO-of-Zaun

good. now fix the game and i might reinstall

Originally posted by Oleandervine

Regarding champ shards in chests, is there going to be some kind of compensation now that shards will be worth a lot less value? It was already bad enough as a long time player getting a champ shard that you had no use for, and now champ shards will feel especially bad to get in a chest if we're getting such a meager amount of BE back.

Originally posted by SonicZephyr

I've stopped playing since chests were about getting S score in a match. How do you get chests with this change?

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Originally posted by iDobleC

One last note on Exalted skins. We’ll be making the promotional placement of Exalted skins less intrusive within the client based on your feedback.

u/RiotMeddler can you confirm if this is also planned to ship with the next patch? It's not mentioned in the video but it's included on the blog and I think this is quite huge news as well

Also, if you don't mind, could you clarify what's the current naming format for patches? Because the one that I have seen in some official posts is quite different to the initial one that was presented of Season.Act.Patch

Edit: Grammar and formatting

Originally posted by DraXStar69

All fine but i have 1 very improtant question if pass tokens and honor capsule/orbs are removed and riot said that we can get hextech chest from honor so how exacly we are suposed to get keys specialy when this dev update said there will no longer be any key fragments just keys?

Originally posted by WhiskeyPhilosopher

Thanks for all your responses to this video, really helped clear up doubts regarding the new systems

Originally posted by dfjhgsaydgsauygdjh

Now watch them nerf chest drops into oblivion.

Originally posted by OneAbbreviations7855

I hope you keep the price of Jhin at 4444...

Originally posted by Frostsorrow

So they were "good enough" for a battle pass but now that there out of the battle pass they suddenly aren't good enough to charge for? That seems very fishy.....

Originally posted by SportPuzzleheaded620

Hopefully we get keys with them. They never answered that

Originally posted by iLovUporsche911

can you still get legendary shards from the chests?

Originally posted by Kymori

Please give a update on this

the thing i was most excited about ignoring all the recent negative stuff is TrueSkill 2, does ARAM every month mean that the team that was working on TrueSkill 2 is not not doing that anymore?

TS2 would fix so many things about league, not just feeling better about losing less LP/MMR when doing well but also its a incentive for the 0/3 toplaner to actually keep trying to win the game isntead of not giving a f**k anymore and going 1/16 cause he would lose a lot of LP/MMR, genuinely TS2 is the thing league needs most (other than imo voice chat but thats for another day)