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Why do we still have Hextech Chests

Bottom Bear··1 votes·1,845 views

As the title reads, the topic I want to bring is the current state of Hextech Chests. With the honor system now reset, a lot of us are getting an overload of hextech key fragments. And personally, as someone who doesn't play normals that often and usually plays ARAM, I'm not bound to get a lot of chests from obtaining an 'S' that often. With this in mind I decide "Hey self, lets go spend some money and buy some chests! You really just need 300 more orange essence to upgrade this legendary-skin shard!", and so I bought some Riot points and three chests.

Upon opening the chests I felt so bamboozled. Like never-ever--before bamboozled. Usually I get some good pulls from Hextech chests, y'know? Like maybe I'll get some random garbo skin, but at least I got some orange essence, right? This time? Nah. From three chests, literally all I got was champions, like I thought I bought Hextech chests not ** Champion Capsules**. I just wanted to get some orange essence, and I literally got zero.

TLDR; Hextech Chests = Champion Capsules, am feeling bamboozled af, GG RITO

./endRant

8 Comments

Furious Delisha3 votes

Who are you people that keep getting tons of keys and no chests

I always end up with 8-10 chests per season and no keys

BubblyRainbows2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Furious Delisha,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=L0JAKs84,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-01-28T11:26:11.138+0000)

Who are you people that keep getting tons of keys and no chests

I always end up with 8-10 chests per season and no keys

This. I am ALWAYS short of keys. I reliably earn one chest every week. Usually within a day or two of when it becomes available. But I NEVER get the four keys per month that Riot claims the system gives. Which leads to a steady buildup of 1-2 chests per month that I will never get to open (because I refuse to spend real money on keys that open RNG prizes).

I think a better question is: Why do we have keys at all?

The content of hextech chests is gated two other ways. You only can earn 1 free chest per week. They come back at a rate of 1/week, so once you've won them all, you're permanently stuck at a max of 1/week.

Second, any content you get out of them is gated behind accumulating and spending essence. I have a few skins in my inventory that I would LOVE to unlock. It will take me months of earning chests and disenchanting their contents to actually unlock them both.

But why the keys? This is a legitimate question. Riot claims that you should be earning enough key fragments each month to unlock all four chests it's possible to win. So if this is the case... if they're going to give us enough key fragments for free each month to open all the chests we can win, why are keys even a thing? Why can't we just open the chests when we get them? They could easily just change the honor system so that at honor 0 you can't win chests. Which seems like a better punishment for toxic players anyway. I think keys are pointless. The chests should just be openable when you win them. It's not like you could open more than one every week anyway.

Plus, as I said, I think the key fragment drops are broken. I've received 5 fragments this month (and I'm not on any form of punishment and never have been). Won 4 chests in 4 weeks. I managed to open only one of them this month. So unless I'm going to receive 7 fragments in the next three days, I didn't get the fragments I was supposed to.

TaunkaTruck1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Furious Delisha,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=L0JAKs84,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-01-28T11:26:11.138+0000)

Who are you people that keep getting tons of keys and no chests

I always end up with 8-10 chests per season and no keys

I'm a guy with 264k BE, and 56 keys. I play a lot of ARAM, and I usually initiate fights or play aggressively on the front line. You don't get S a lot when you die for the sake of winning the overall fight. During the special game mode at Christmas I got my first chest in 6 months. If the chests don't contain anything but champion shards, I guess I'm not missing anything anyways.

Xion The XIV2 votes

I never understood this? Everyone constantly says, "I have a ton of keys but no chests". And yet Out of everyone I have seen from bronze to Diamonds it's always reversed. In which they have too many chests and 0 keys. How is that possible? Even now my Smurf has 6 chests no keys. and My main has 8 chests no keys. I need your secret for the keys. I would rather have a reverse since getting chests is not that hard compared to keys.

Minarde1 votes

It's less that you're missing out on keys, but rather that some people are missing out on chests. If you've got a limited champ pool or play mostly ARAM*, you're not going to get many chests. As such, you'll end up with more keys than chests, even if you only get the same number of keys as someone with an abundance of chests.

*ARAM being worth special mention, since S-ranks are possible, yet unlikely, there. It often requires an unusual and selfish playstyle that doesn't match with "regular" play.

SoundChaosDebug1 votes

You knew the risk before you decided to put your money down, the hextech chests are more for the people who don't spend any money than people looking to gamble with RNG.

The real question isn't why they exist, it's why people feel like they can game the system by avoiding full price on skins.

Clearly not worth the real money spent, but easily earned from playing the game. You would of been playing the game regardless if the chests didn't exist, so they're a cherry ontop not really the meat and potatoes.

TaunkaTruck1 votes

After reading back through all the comments, I think I've figured it out. RANKED players who are careful, watch their CS, and are retentive about their KDA often get S far more than anyone else. A casual like me who spams ARAM for fun and doesn't worry about dying but is generally a nice guy? I get a lot of key fragments for lots of honor, and quick games. My performance earns me a lot of keys, but no chests. You play summoner's rift for 45 minutes and get an S but no honor? Lack of keys. I can play 2 ARAMs for every summoner's rift you do. If we both behave the same, I still get more keys because I have 8 other people voting for me potentially, and you only have 4.

BubblyRainbows1 votes

To a point, this can be true. But I play mostly ARAM. And I find that I get an average of about 1-2 S games on ARAM every week. But it's NOT about skill or anything. It's quite literally just luck of the draw. 15 games of getting a tank and frontlining and dying 20 times a game, and 5 games of getting a squishy vs. a team full of tanks protecting 1 ADC and dying 20 times a game, and then I luck my way into Katarina vs. a team full of squishy, immobile champs while I have a great line of initiators and I got 28/3.

I have played exactly 11 games on Summoner's Rift in the last 3 months. 10 placements (because they were giving a million XP in a quest for doing them) and 1 more game randomly since. And I truly find that S on ARAM is less about proficiency and more about luck of the draw. Sooner or later you're bound to get that perfect team comp that will let you pounce on kills endlessly while remaining mostly safe.

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