Hi, First of all, I have no restrictions on the acc, no previous restrictions, no bans, chat bans etc, nothing. I have 1 hextech box but doesnt matter how many times I get S in a game (SR or aram) there are no keys for the past week or so, and I had plenty of S games. Any1 else same problem?
Post-match grade has no impact on key drops. Fragments drop randomly after wins.
Personally, drop rate has been noticeably lower in the past month or two, but that could just be variance.
In this case it's even weirder... not even one key fragment in the past 2 weeks (or maybe 1 week? let's say 1 week). i have been playing 24/7 in the last week since i dont have something better in my life atm, and no frags. :/
Key fragments only drop for wins, and after your first one, the next one is harder to get, and they keep getting more rare the more fragments that drop. I think its 1 month after the first key fragment drop that the drop rate resets to the initial start point, and then the process repeats. So it might just be that your near the end of the drop cycle month and so it should reset soon.
Please read the Support post about the crafting system to understand how it works.
https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/207884233-Hextech-Crafting-Guide
Here's the most relevant section:
** FEELS LIKE I'M NOT GETTING MANY KEY FRAGMENTS ANYMORE. WHAT GIVES?**
The drop rate for key fragments is a curve, not a line. With each fragment you earn, the chance to earn your next one goes down slightly. This number resets roughly every thirty days after you earn your first key fragment.
We wanted to give players who didn't play as frequently a good drop rate for keys, without making it feel like farming was mandatory if you wanted keys.
Note: There's currently a bug which prevents you from earning key fragments if you're playing a champion you don't own. This is unintended, and we're working on a solution.
If you want key fragments to drop for you, you are incentivized to not play Coops or Customs, champions from free rotation and, of course, you are stimulated to win your games.. but the matchmaking balance system makes you anyway win cca. 50% of your games regardless of your stimulation (unless you are superman or superlooser, in such cases the system might fail to balance your games :p).
Riot also stated as a bug if free champions don't grant fragments, but anyway, as long as it persists, you are motivated to not try out free rotation if you are after keys.
Lastly the amount of fragments per one key reset period is exactly 12, you cannot get more (Rito told us that chest and key limits were intentionally set to be equal). Thus the only way how to open initial 4 chests (or more generally- any leftover chests that you have got at the moment of key reset) is either to buy keys or to benevolently not unlock some free chests from games. Much easier access to chests and contrast between constant chest supply and variating key supply naturally leads to unbounded cumulation of chests over time for average player, but whatever..
It took me 161 mostly full premade games to get 12 keys last month, including: 18 Coops 0 Customs 1 Remake 71 matchmade losses 15 matchmade wins with (alas) free champs 56 matchmade wins with my champs
You can expect to win 50% of your games and cca. 55 qualified wins will yield 12 fragments-- you get your monthly asset in 110 legit games, hardly any sooner.
So if you are an average player, just play 4 legit games a day and you should be fine. If you are an intensive player, you can play 15 games a day for a week, but then don't expect any fragment drops for the next three weeks. Easier access to chests also effectively means that if you are an irregular player, you can expect your chests to pile up as well.
This actually happend to me about 1 month ago.. I was winning and winning but no key fragments. I won about 15 games and still no kf. After a win i actually got a kf and then i got 3 key fragments straight
Keys are not at all tied to grade. You can only get a key drop when you win a game. Being in a premade increases the chance, but it's still random.
