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After getting 4 chests, key fragments no longer seem to drop for a lot of people.

KidPhantomhive·3/21/2016, 6:08:54 PM·256 votes·648,248 views

RIOT HAS ANSWERED US: "Wingfield (NA) - 2 months ago Hey all,

Just want to help clarify some things about key drop rates:

Key drop rates are NOT linear and only wins have a chance of dropping a key. So you will earn key fragments much faster in your earlier wins than you will in your later wins. Or said another way, each incremental key fragment drop is harder than the last (on average... there is variance). This resets on a monthly basis for each player individually. The goal is to create a nice ebb and flow.

Grade does NOT impact key drop chance.

Premades DO increase drop chance.

Chests earned has no impact on key drop chance.

There is variance and randomness (with limits). It's unlikely that what happened to your friend will happen to you.

Hope that helps clarify :) "

Original Post:

This doesn't seem to be the case for everybody, but it seems that once some people get all 4 chests, they can not get any more key fragments from matches. I got all 4 chests on day 1 and haven't had another fragment since. I've just been stuck at 2. Win after win, nothing.

I've checked this with a couple people and we all seem to have gotten all 4 chests when it started happening.

562 Comments

RiotWingfield3/22/2016, 8:49:01 PM97 votes

Hey all,

Just want to help clarify some things about key drop rates:

Key drop rates are NOT linear and only wins have a chance of dropping a key. So you will earn key fragments much faster in your earlier wins than you will in your later wins. Or said another way, each incremental key fragment drop is harder than the last (on average... there is variance). This resets on a monthly basis for each player individually. The goal is to create a nice ebb and flow.

Grade does NOT impact key drop chance.

Premades DO increase drop chance.

Chests earned has no impact on key drop chance.

There is variance and randomness (with limits). It's unlikely that what happened to your friend will happen to you.

Hope that helps clarify :)

Petrovya3/22/2016, 1:45:44 AM44 votes

I play about 5 to 10 games a day usually, and haven't gotten a key fragment in a week. My useless boxes are just pilling up gathering dust.

Foxfeathers3/23/2016, 8:47:14 PM21 votes

Somewhere it was officially posted that the drop rate is supposed to "Feel Healthy" for key fragments. This does not feel healthy at all. Over the past week I've played a lot more than I would have normally to be able to unlock my chests (I've unlocked 2 out of 4, about to be 5). After oh, probably 20+ wins I have nothing to show for it and that's the short end of how bad some people have it.

This fragment rate does not give me the warm fuzzies. At all.

It's been said that they want casual players to feel that they're getting in on the action too. How can they when people like me who can and have literally played all day every day since the systems' introduction can't get enough keys to open a single box in as many WINS as a lot of people have Games Played in a month? This is silly and I dare say indefensible.

Live2LetDie3/21/2016, 6:10:45 PM7 votes

It's suppose to be an extremely low drop rate. They are trying to be giving but not lose money