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Prestige Updates

Riot·9/23/2019, 3:00:05 PM·8 votes·283,108 views

TLDR: We're sharing the list of champions receiving Prestige Edition skins through the end of the year. We're working on stuff that'll cost fewer than 100 Prestige Points. All Event Prestige skins released in 2020 will be available for Prestige Points at the end of next year.

Hey everyone! It's been a few months since we've shared an update on Prestige. Since then, we've been keeping an eye (ear?) out for more ways to make the system better for you. Here are some of the most common questions we've heard, and what we're doing about them.


I don’t know if my champ is getting a Prestige skin this year, which makes it hard to tell what I should spend my event tokens / Prestige Points on.

We agree that you should be able to use your event tokens and Prestige Points with confidence that you're unlocking the skin you'll enjoy most, so here's more information on all of the Prestige skins that'll be coming out throughout the rest of 2019. No spoilers on as-of-yet-unrevealed thematics, but...

Upcoming 2019 Prestige Point skin champions (in order of appearance)

  • Miss Fortune
  • Thresh

Upcoming 2019 Event Prestige skin champions (in order of appearance)

  • Valiant Sword Riven (debuting soon during 9.19!)
  • Qiyana
  • Lee Sin

We'll be back next year with a list of upcoming 2020 Prestige Editions.


If I end 2019 with fewer than 100 Prestige Points, what can I do with them?

Not all players will end the year with 100 Prestige Points and we want to make sure that everyone can get as much value as possible regardless of their Prestige Point totals. We're working on new Prestige Point content for lower point costs, similar to the stuff you see in event shops. Here's our current plan for what those options will be:

  • PROJECT 2019 Jackpot Bag - 50 PP
    • Contains 3 skin shards of the same tier (750 RP, 975 RP, 1350 RP, or 1820 RP) and 1050 Orange Essence
  • Revel Grab Bag - 50PP
    • Contains a 520 RP skin shard, 750 RP skin shard, 975 RP skin shard, 1350 RP skin shard, and 1820 RP skin shard
  • Arcade 2019 Jackpot Bag - 50PP
    • Contains 3 legacy skin shards (one guaranteed 975 RP or higher) and 1520 Orange Essence
  • Exclusive Animated Emote - 25 PP
  • Exclusive Ward Skin - 15 PP
  • Exclusive Icon - 10 PP
  • Event Icons from past 100 Prestige Point bundles - 5 PP
  • Hextech Key - 3 PP
  • 30 Orange Essence - 1 PP

Reminder that any points you don't spend will go away when Prestige Points reset on January 31, 2020 at 11:59 PM PT.

Why can't I use Prestige Points to purchase Event Prestige skins?

We've seen a lot of confusion around why Prestige Points can’t be used to purchase Event Prestige skins. Some players come back to League and learn they missed out on an Event Prestige skin for their main. Others accumulate lots of Prestige Points but prefer event token skins to Prestige Point options. Here's our plan for addressing this in 2020. Let us know what you think:

  • At the end of next year, all 2020 Event Prestige skins released through Worlds 2020 will be temporarily available for 100 Prestige Points each.
    • We're recognizing players who were there for 2020 events by reserving the Prestige border for Event Prestige unlocks made during events with event tokens. These players will also get an exclusive icon.
    • Crafting an Event Prestige skin with Prestige Points at the end of the year will not award the border or icon.
    • Similarly, getting a 2020 Prestige skin by re-rolling three skin shards or upgrading a lucky skin shard drop from Hextech Crafting will not award the border or icon.
  • Unlocking Prestige Point skins with Prestige Points will still grant a Prestige border. They'll also grant an exclusive icon.
    • Same rules apply here: re-rolling or getting a drop via Hextech Crafting will not award the border or icon.
  • All Prestige skins released before 2020 will still include their border if obtained via re-roll or Hextech Crafting drop.
  • In January 2021 when 2020 Prestige Points expire and the 2020 Prestige skins leave the Prestige Point shop, all 2020 Prestige skins will become permanently unobtainable outside of Hextech Crafting drops or re-rolls.

These changes won't retroactively apply to Event Prestige skins released during 2018 and 2019. Players who unlocked those skins did so with the expectation that event tokens would be the only way to get them, and we wanted to respect those players' investments.

Thanks for all of your feedback thus far about Prestige. We'll be back with more information on 2020 plans early next year!

398 Comments

pickcollins9/23/2019, 3:45:41 PM469 votes

Downvote me at your leisure but it's stupid that this change won't apply retroactively. I worked a full time job during the arcade event and now I have anywher from 6-12+ hours of college a day and 5 hours of work per day. I don't have the time to physically play the game so I couldn't get prestige Caitlyn, but I would have gladly paid for the skin. If she was in the prestige shop I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I understand others worked for the skin, but some of us who wanted the skin would have gladly worked for it, but had an actual life that kept us away from it.

Prince of Light9/23/2019, 4:29:51 PM83 votes

What a mess. Prestige points were a mistake that just hurts the player base.

Team Cat9/23/2019, 4:17:19 PM75 votes

as someone who has 2 event prestige skins I don't really care if someone can buy the skins I grinded for just let me whale for the Lux and Akali I missed lmao

Vhan87659/23/2019, 5:04:38 PM73 votes

So, let me see if I'm understanding this right; you can now waste your Prestige Points on things you could have normally bought from the shop anyways for overpriced considering buying a capsule is like, $5 but getting enough PP for that same capsule is probably closer to $15.

Not only that but apparently you're just boned if you choose not to spend your PP cause they just go away next year? Who thought it was a good idea to let people spend money on something they can't even stock up on until a champion they do like has a Prestige skin available to them? "Man, I sure am glad I got 100 Prestige points, but man, I have nothing to use them on, so I guess I have to just watch them disappear and spend a ridiculous amount of money to get 100 more on the off chance a champion I enjoy get's a skin I want next year." Yes, that makes sense; GJ Rito, real impressed by this one.

purp0se9/23/2019, 4:55:42 PM56 votes

Players who unlocked those skins did so with the expectation that event tokens would be the only way to get them, and we wanted to respect those players' investments.

Even as someone who's grinded tokens for multiple events, I have no issue with people being able to buy prestige skins for events they missed or simply didn't have the time to invest into. This is especially the case if the person missed an event for their main champion and then either paid or grinded for 100 prestige tokens in the hopes of being able to buy the skin at the end of the year. It's a terrible decision to not apply these changes retroactively.

Ginger Elvis9/23/2019, 3:51:23 PM34 votes

So, lets employ the logic here, say I wanted prestige Irelia, I ground for tokens at an earlier event because I was going to be unable to play during the Irelia event, so now I have 100 tokens that I don't want to spend on getting 6 skin SHARDS for champions I probably don't even play, so because they are also expiring I can either choose that or just to not use my points and they expire, this is greedy and stupid, why should my grinding a different event make it so I can't access the other event skins? I wanted the Akali one, I ground out the prestige points for it, but now I guess the only way to get it is by buying more of the lootboxes and hoping against hope that I roll it with no other way to achieve it, at least the hextech skins have a way to unlock through grinding, this is just terrible to fans of the game who can't pour every second of their time into it

Brizink9/23/2019, 3:37:16 PM23 votes

Love seeing updates to the prestige system, particularly giving players options to reclaim missed events.

However, being among the high spender skin collectors (own all skins) having one of the only advantages being stripped away [fully unlocked prestige skins off of 3x reroll] feels awful.

Toga Tomato9/25/2019, 1:25:51 AM21 votes

I've already commented on this earlier, but I just want to add in that while I grinded for one of the prestige skins, my friend just used all their money to get it. I was not upset over that at all. We both get to enjoy the skin and that's all that matters. Being one who did work hard for it, you feel more satisfied, but that's the point. People can either buy their way through or actually work for it this is how life is all the time. Also being titled "prestige" should not mean limited in my opinion. I think they should be available any time for anyone who wants to work for them. If they were going to be event specific skins they should not have called them that. Using the title "prestige" made not only me but other people think they would not be just gone after that one event, if you even want to call these "events" which in that case I say rereleasing the skins does no harm and it does not lose their specialty/rarity especially since you say it will be changed in the future anyway.

If these were more actual events to participate I can see why people would be upset with them rereleasing, however just doing missions does not seem like an event to me personally. As stated I do not think they should be labelled as prestige either. I do understand they specifically said they would only be obtainable by tokens, but things can change. Prestige is still fairly new.

I also get people are angry knowing they would have spent their tokens on other stuff, but at least for me the skin is the most worth in the whole thing and most of the other stuff in the shop the only other thing I would like personally is the special chroma which is not that much along with an emote. As a suggestion, maybe these could be added to the prestige store at the end of this year to make up for it.

I really hope Riot takes a look at all this feedback and makes everyone (or at least almost) happy. One thing I love about Riot is they do consider feedback from fans of the game and it's why I continue to support them. They posted this in response on our opinion on the current prestige situation, so hopefully they consider our responses to this as a moving point.

Mistakes were made, but that does not mean we can not fix them for the better future for the game, the company, and it's peers.

ShadowDragonAxe9/23/2019, 4:07:21 PM18 votes

so what this is saying as far as im aware qiyana gets her first skin the same year she is released while everyone can fuck off like kled and ornn who ethier only got a legaacy first skin and one who hasnt even gotten another skin wtf

Tsunðere9/23/2019, 9:57:30 PM18 votes

At the end of next year, all 2020 Event Prestige skins released through Worlds 2020 will be temporarily available for 100 Prestige Points each. We're recognizing players who were there for 2020 events [...]

What about recognizing the current playerbase and not the future, expected, playerbase ?

Until then and regarding the skins of 2019 that are not in the shop, these prestige points serves no purpose, it should be possible to use these prestige points to buy the prestige skins from events, during the events. Now the only thing we have are "Event" Skins that are using the prestige label but that you cannot buy through prestige points. Why not call these skins what they are, Limited time Skins, Event skins, Grind Skins, not prestige skins.

I guess I should have never expected these "prestige skins" to be available for a limited time in this "prestige shop". It could be as simple as having the skin put in the prestige shop during the event, then removing it after said event ,giving access to the skins to those who have 100 prestige point accumulated a priori. These prestige point won't last for longer than a year. Nobody can hoard them since they expire and you can only get them from grinding event tokens, from doing the specific missions in 4 different events or by wasting a bunch on chests. These prestige points hold pretty much no value.

AIQ9/23/2019, 3:29:33 PM16 votes

So pardon me if I'm blind, but is there anything in there about 2019s event skins being released for PP?

I see 2020s, but not 2019s I just wanted to know the date if there is one.

John W4ng9/23/2019, 4:11:43 PM12 votes

Nice.

I've unlocked every possible skin in league, spend thousands of dollars, spend thousands of RP to get every border in game with chroma bundles and now I can't get border with skin by rerolling. Thanks rito.

PS: just put prestige borders for current event skin in a hextech for a small amount(300 like others) of event tokens during events and another skins borders for a small amount of PP, and it will be fine.