Hextech Mystery Champion Shards arrive

Riot·Jun 10, 2016·4 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

neSnaJJun 10, 201640 votes

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

LezbianLizard69Jun 10, 201623 votes

Rito needs get outside once in a while*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

freight train722Jun 11, 201663 votes

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BrawlicSnakeJun 11, 20164 votes

I swear I just laughed hard xD

Thief LourdeJun 12, 201637 votes

Yeah, but everyone's fighting over who the admin is, totally not worth.

WestCoastStreamsAug 10, 20165 votes

logged in jst to up vote this. truth item 3070

Mel0dyJun 13, 201610 votes

[slayer-jinx-catface] I never get any good drops outside, also the sunlight gives 10% reduced movement speed

DuhpopeJun 13, 20166 votes

But very poor replay value.

TheIronRevenantJun 13, 20166 votes

True. Never seen anyone play again.

TsumikiriJun 13, 20164 votes

/r/outside is leaking again...

What An OutFlayJun 15, 20164 votes

The DLC could've been better tbh.

OFCRAug 27, 20163 votes

I went outside just to reply to this Blitzcrank

EvilMerodachJun 11, 20164 votes

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

They were out in NA only as a test grounds for global release. I think this announcement means they flipped the switch to make it work in all servers now. So new news if you're not on NA, old news if you are.

JakobskiJun 12, 20162 votes

IMHO it was a good move, before they "announced them" they basically put them on the server with the patch, watch to ensure there are no Hiccups....then break out the Trumpets and Fanfare. Smart. And...I checked here also, graphics outside are AMAZINGLY life like.

NatsumisokuJun 12, 20165 votes

Though waaaay too much RNG in it, with so many players online at once that the servers are getting ready to pop

DekeptionJun 14, 20162 votes

And some of the characters are really mean, and the controls suck sometimes. and the story line is really odd no plot line and major loop holes

GhxzttJun 10, 201637 votes

Riot Games still be using Internet Explorer.

Blue Moon WolfJun 11, 20164 votes

To be fair, plenty of offices still use windows 95 :p

Sona PingJun 10, 201621 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.

King of MongooseJun 11, 20162 votes

the cheaper the champion is in ip, the more champ essence you get

i get 10 with a draven shard but like 200 with a jax shard

chiarJun 10, 201613 votes

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

MountainDoritozJun 11, 20167 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.

Meanie40Jun 11, 20167 votes

We didn't want essence to be associated with mastery in the first place.

GamingEelektrossJun 10, 20166 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]

TheZecromancerJun 10, 201611 votes

Whenever a champ is released, the price is put to 7200 for the first 1-2 weeks and then decreased to 6300. Riot doesn't want too many 6300 champs, so when they release the newest champ, they decrease the price of the oldest 6300 champ. Other than that, i don't know how they decide champ prices, especially the older ones.

SoryInAdvanceJun 10, 20165 votes

And occasionally some drop. Like recently amumu and singed fell to 450 ect. But that doesn't answer this dudes question.

Champs are super overpriced with up so that people will have to pay real money to get then if they don't want to take 2 years to buy everything with ip. I've been playing this game for 2.5 years and still had to buy several champs on sale with rp and I still don't own one of the champs or nearly as many runes as I'd like to have.

kaltenashesJun 10, 20164 votes

here https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/202083304-Permanent-Champion-Price-Reduction

SoryInAdvanceJun 10, 20168 votes

7800

kaltenashesJun 10, 20163 votes

here https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/202083304-Permanent-Champion-Price-Reduction

Amr64Jun 11, 20166 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.

SchmendrickJun 10, 20165 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).

bowlasoupJun 11, 20164 votes

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Bud042Jun 11, 20162 votes

It benefits players with excess IP while doing no harm to those without, so why does it matter? I've seen plenty of people on Reddit wanting an IP sink, and I know that pros benefit from something like this, so it's a simple way to please a decent enough number of players. Plus, people can spend their IP how they want, so if they wanna buy these to get blue essence over new champs, then let them.

0din234Jun 11, 20163 votes

It benefits players with excess IP while doing no harm to those without, so why does it matter?

this is basically the only way to get mastery 6 and 7 and now we have to blow 10k ip 2 do it, it punish those that dont have excess IP

Bud042Jun 12, 20162 votes

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this is basically the only way to get mastery 6 and 7 and now we have to blow 10k ip 2 do it, it punish those that dont have excess IP

Except you can still get blue essence by opening chests, which you can do without buying anything, and disenchanting what you get. This adds another option to get mastery 6 & 7, and is in no way a punishment for those without excess IP as it's not being forced upon them. I agree that both methods suck, but more options isn't a bad thing.

A Sly TeemoJun 11, 20165 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.

Sniffing CoKaynJun 11, 20168 votes

Do you even actually know how the mastery system is set up or did you just want something to complain about? You make it sound like all you need is blue essence or shards to upgrade your mastery, when the biggest part of getting to level 6 & 7 is performing well on your champion to get S- and above grades. Don't post and complain if you're not even going to bother trying to understand how the system actually works.

MithlothJun 13, 20163 votes

The blue essence/shards are absolutely the hardest thing to get with champions you legit have mastered (for your skill level). On one champion, I got both of my tokens within a few days after the release of the system, but I'm still waiting on getting a single champion shard or scrap of blue essence (for any champion, not just the one I need). This is also despite getting all of my available chests and a fair number of keys to go along with them.

NiyJun 10, 20162 votes

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Bud042Jun 10, 201618 votes

It's an IP sink for players with every champion. I don't think that you understand what "pay to win" means at all.

macdshiftyJun 10, 20164 votes

Cause ranking up your mastery level helps you win right...

TsumikiriJun 13, 20165 votes

only when you use the emote to tilt people

macdshiftyJun 14, 20166 votes

Can confirm this works

ZenfroJun 10, 20161 votes

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

Zeke HighwindJun 10, 20169 votes

If you're using it to try and get champs you want, random is pretty meh. But to get rank 6/7 its still fine to get random since you can disenchant into Blue essence and then use the essence to upgrade the mastery.

And even getting a champ shard you already have gives you blue essence to make potential new shards into champs.

Paulplp15Jun 10, 20161 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.

chiarJun 10, 20166 votes

Riot's now giving free skins with the hextech chests. However they don't want to fucking give us free skins with ip. They'll probably never add this into the game because their profits come from mainly skins and adding this would lower riot's income by a huge amount.