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@Riot: When is loot generated for Hextech crafting?

DeloricVI·3/30/2016, 3:09:02 AM·1 votes·779 views

Hello! Just wondering if a Rioter would be willing to let us know when loot is generated during Hextech Crafting?

So, for an example to better understand the question:

I earned a chest a few weeks ago for getting an S rank on Jinx, but I want the Mecha Zero Sion skin when it comes out, hopefully through hextech crafting. So, I was wondering, is loot generated when you earn or purchase a chest, or when you open a chest? Would the chest I earned on Jinx have a chance to drop a Mecha Zero Sion skin if I opened it after Mecha Zero Sion is released?

I figured this was a pretty harmless question, and wouldn't be some kind of close-guarded secret like the equation for your mmr or something.

Hope I hear back from someone soon!

[slayer-jinx-wink]

4 Comments

Mysticman893/30/2016, 3:14:58 AM2 votes

It's generated when you open the chest.

A rioter confirmed this when someone asked basically this exact question at some point, although I don't know any good ways to actually dig it up since theres an awful lot of posts in the red tracker.

SLICE AMERICANS3/30/2016, 3:21:01 AM1 votes

I can't even imagine the loot generating when you earn it from a technical standpoint. The game basically gives you a currency (kinda like IP) to be spent on a random number generator(RNG) and doles out the result of said RNG. If it ran the RNG before you opened it then it would have to store the result somewhere and make sure you got the results in the order you earned/bought them.