Hextech Mystery Champion Shards arrive

Riot·6/10/2016, 12:21:59 AM·4 votes·207,392 views

Hextech Mystery Champion Shards are here! This new item guarantees a random champion shard, which you can disenchant for a batch of blue essence. Provided you’ve got the skills to rack up Mastery tokens, Mystery Champion Shards should make unlocking level 6 & 7 mastery more faster-y. Catch the details downstairs:

Hextech Mystery Champion Shards drop one random champ shard
If the champion in the shard costs less than 975 RP, a varying amount of bonus blue essence is granted as well
Hextech Mystery Champion Shards can provide duplicate champion shards to those already in your inventory

Pick up Hextech Mystery Champion Shards for 1700 IP or 195 RP. Questions? Let us know below!

161 Comments

neSnaJ6/10/2016, 7:08:25 PM40 votes

But they've been out ever since the patch came out last week, or is Rito late on delivering news?

Ghxztt6/10/2016, 9:57:08 PM37 votes

Riot Games still be using Internet Explorer.

Sona Ping6/10/2016, 7:47:47 PM21 votes

If the champion in the shard costs less than 975 RP, a varying amount of bonus blue essence is granted as well

You need to say how it varies.

It's a summoner 13 issue.

chiar6/10/2016, 10:51:53 PM13 votes

I got 10 extra blue essence for 4800 champ! WOW![slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

MountainDoritoz6/11/2016, 1:10:47 PM7 votes

I do not understand why there are so many negative comments about this. We wanted blue essence to finish up our mastery level 6 and 7 champions, and now RIOT has given us what we wanted. I am very happy for this, and it will definetly improve the lack of blue essence.

GamingEelektross6/10/2016, 8:17:09 PM6 votes

Can someone explain to me again why champ prices vary so much, it makes no sense (450, 1350, 3150, 6300, and the occasional 7200 for when a new champ comes out) [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Amr646/11/2016, 12:02:18 AM6 votes

Thank you so much for implementing this buying method into the game. As someone who's played casually for years and is left needing only 6300 IP champs, it's great being able to buy 3 shards for 5100 IP to speed up the process. Plus it saves the trouble of deciding which champ to unlock after finally getting enough IP, so there's that bonus as well.

Schmendrick6/10/2016, 10:04:01 PM5 votes

The reasoning behind giving duplicate champion shards I assume is to stop people from getting all of the champion shards except for the most recent champ and buying it for 1700 instead of release price? Sure I guess... account for that(even though I think it's kind of ridiculous the IP overhead rito thinks their players have), but champ shards that get put in the new flavor rune combiner should be guaranteed to be a different shard. This gives players a guaranteed, albeit slow method of getting all of the shards for the purposes of upgrading tokens(an almost 50% cheaper upgrade method compared to only blue essence).

A Sly Teemo6/11/2016, 11:47:41 AM5 votes

So basically the Mastery system has nothing to do with Mastery but basically how lucky or rich your are. That's a really bad system imo.

Niy6/10/2016, 8:08:58 PM2 votes

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Paulplp156/10/2016, 8:32:07 PM1 votes

Can we get something set up for skins also? It is nice that they are doing this for champions. Now if you add skins like this would be great.

Zenfro6/10/2016, 7:13:58 PM1 votes

Yess! (But it's still random, rip)