Stop giving me all these key fragments I can't use

Talon Gerrard·1/15/2019, 1:51:29 AM·14 votes·10,062 views

I'm currently sitting on 22 keys just because I don't have any hextech chests to use them on. And the only rewards the game gives for being a good honorable player are the key fragments. Would it hurt to have add another way to get hextech chests through honor like how the key fragments work? Otherwise there's no point in giving players constant key fragments that they can't use unless they get lucky and get an S on a champ they haven't gotten one on before or have to buy the chests.

17 Comments

Quil Evrything1/15/2019, 4:26:29 AM4 votes

Funnily enough, I have an honor 5 friend, who gets nothing but chests. he's sick of them, because they wont give him keys any more! RITO PLS!!!!

Lestat S461/16/2019, 1:49:20 AM3 votes

Yes very annoying for me with a small champion pool. 3 or 4 in all roles but I only play Top, mid, or support. So I got all my chest for my small pool FOREVER ago and you cant get anymore once youve got one so Im in the same boat with like 27 keys and havent gotten a chest in months. People who try to argue "Just play more champions" I dont WANT to play more champions. I like those roles and I like this handful of heroes. Im not a one-trick but I just want to specialize in my handful. I shouldnt be so harshly punished for that. If I get LESS cubes for having a small pool that sucks but at least I get SOMETHING! Months without a single chest sucks.

Cronofuge1/15/2019, 5:03:30 PM2 votes

As somebody who has been playing consistently since hextech crafting was launched, as long as you play a wide variety of champions you own to a decent degree you'll generally end up with more chests than keys. The real limiter is owning the champions. Even if you don't perform well you can get chests by having a premade get an S- or higher. At that point having friends who play the game is the limiter.

Non-enchanter support mains are starved for honor since "Fire and forget 'you carried'" honor gets funneled onto the carry they get fed. This leaves them starved for keys. Meanwhile one-tricks and players with small champions owned pool get honors and are starved for chests.

We all have our limiters in hextech crafting. Diluting the honor capsule pool with chests would just frustrate a different part of the playerbase. The trade suggestion by another poster is a better suggestion imo. Also don't forget to spam games during events. Even without the passes you can eek out some chests with the tokens. I got a masterwork chest with my snowdown tokens and it did NOT come with a key.

mrchipopo1/15/2019, 5:07:05 PM2 votes

I'll trade you, I have 45 boxes and no keys.

Vesarixx1/15/2019, 1:56:15 AM2 votes

I'll take them

Bisaknosp1/15/2019, 12:27:47 PM2 votes

stop giving me skin shards for skins i already own

Ashenvall1/15/2019, 8:43:19 PM2 votes

Stop giving me legendary and mythic skin for champions I don't play.

Jingaa5/2/2019, 6:28:43 PM1 votes

OTP Velkoz here and i got 63 keys ) Plz Riot give me any option to exchange it or sell. Velkoz

Auroramancer1/16/2019, 12:29:58 AM1 votes

You don't even have to do anything else besides play the game in order to get keys.

At least you have to plan out how you get chests and be good enough to get chests.

14daysuspensionk1/15/2019, 8:17:40 AM1 votes

I still have 3 chests available rip.

sneakydoug1/15/2019, 5:20:22 PM1 votes

Play a wide diversity of champs and you’ll get your chests.

Your game rating is based on the champion you play AND your position. So play off-brand champs, play them decently, and you can farm an S pretty easily. I’ve gotten quite a number of chests by playing things like gragas/malphite/maokai support, fizz tank in ARAM (fizz dies super quickly in ARAM so even staying alive can get you an S), etc..