Gold chests and Refund Bug

ivAhg2JJ0k·8/28/2016, 10:56:02 PM·1 votes·383 views

I recently bought Singed and won a game, achieving an 'S' grade and hence earning a gold chest. I then refunded Singed in my purchase history using my second Refund Ticket. The IP has been returned to my account. However, Singed still appears in my 'owned' champions on my profile and in champion select in games. When I try to pick him in a game though it says that I do not own him. I do not know what would happen if a) I had, or would, purchase or otherwise unlock (via chests) a cosmetic for Singed, b) if he might turn up in a game of ARAM, c) if he might turn up on the enemy 'ban' list, potentially even though I don't own him, and d) can't think of other possible problems but you might be able to!

A bit odd - surely a bug eh?

Thanks for your time!

2 Comments

Fondling Gems8/28/2016, 10:56:57 PM2 votes

Did you try re-logging?

Serevas8/28/2016, 11:02:52 PM1 votes

If you obtain any form of mastery over a champion at all no matter how small they'll show up as owned due to an odd effect of the mastery system. When I didn't own Jhin and had played him a few times during the free week he showed up despite not being owned. You still played and got mastery points for him, it doesn't matter if you own him or not.

I also personally don't recommend refunding anything you spent IP on and especially not champions, you never get any more refunds, and eventually the goal is to own all the champions anyway. I refunded two champions, both bought with IP, and then hit a point where I found I really hated a particular skin, but I had used up all 3 refunds, and eventually rebought the refunded champions anyway.