Now we all now Hextech is a fusion of technology and downright wizardry, but what does it mean for you, the player? Tl;dr: it means you get some really neat stuff. But we understand that this high leveled magic can be pretty complex. Below you'll find a glossary to explain the different elements of Hextech Crafting. Want to learn more? Check out the Hextech Crafting FAQ.
Hextech Crafting Glossary
Hextech Chests can be purchased in the store with RP and are sometimes available as part of special promotions.
Hextech Keys, perhaps unsurprisingly, open Hextech Chests. Like chests, Hextech Keys can be purchased in the store for RP and are sometimes available during special promotions.
Use essence to forge shards into permanent content. There are two types of essence, each unique to the corresponding shard type. Disenchanting a champion shard provides Blue Essence, which can only be used for unlocking champions. Disenchanting a skin shard provides cosmetic essence, which can only be used for unlocking skins. The essence cost of unlocking a piece of content scales with its RP cost.
A completed piece of content in your Hextech inventory. As with shards, you can disenchant a permanent, or combine three permanents to receive a random new permanent. Of course, you can redeem it to add it to your account...permanently. Once activated, permanents disappear from your Hextech inventory and are available for use immediately.
When you choose the "re-roll" option you select 3 permanent shards to use - the 3 permanent shards are burned and the result is automatically added to your champion or skin pool. Think about this carefully before you shout YOLO and slam dunk the re-roll button!
Our Mythic Shop and Mythic Essence FAQ has all the deets on this shiny purple currency.
Used to unlock champions. You can do the following with a champion shard:
- Upgrade a shard to add the champion to your collection. You’ll need a certain amount of the right kind of essence (explained below) to upgrade a shard.
- Activate a shard to “rent” a champion for 7 days. This does consume the shard, so you won't be able to use it again until you find another.
- Disenchant a shard to turn it into Blue Essence. Shards are worth an increasing amount of essence based on their RP cost.
Similar to champion shards, skin shards unlock skins. You can discover cosmetic shards for champions you don’t own, but to redeem them permanently you must first purchase the champion. Cosmetic shards can be any non-limited skin. This means you might find DJ Sona, but you won’t find Victorious Jarvan IV. You can find a list of excluded content here. You can reroll three skin shards to get a random skin permanent. The rarity of the rerolled skins doesn't have any bearing on the skin permanent that comes out!
Be aware that using a shard to rent a skin ('activating' it) will consume the shard. Rent with caution!
You can upgrade, reroll, and disenchant these shards, same as with skin shards. Rerolled ward shards will not award limited ward skins, such as Championship ward skins.