Inside Hextech Crafting

:( Wish this came in a TL;DR text format so I can just skim through the information I find important. Speed listening just doesn't work XD

if your responsible for champ select, you could add the ability to organize personal champ selects. with the hundreds of champs and several different champs can perform different roles, and different roles being able to do several different things, it can be really difficult to pick a champ that you can play in your limited time. being able to sort your own champions by what YOU specifically play in each role would make it so much easier to make the best decision for the team that you have, against whatever they have picked. like say wukong top would have been PERFECT for your teams initiation, but you forgot he existed so you picked jax and just hoped you could carry.

also, as a side note PLEASE LET ME LOOK AT MY CHAMPIONS WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS PICKING IN THE NEW CHAMP SELECT!

This Hextech idea is amazing. I love that we can finally earn stuff. And it cant be rushed either. It will still be lengthy to get rewards but we can atleast get stuff without paying an arm and a leg :D

I wonder if Graves' cigar is one of the chests?

on the subject of the champion mastery system: why are your points gained based so heavily on whether you win or lose? It seems to me that the system is one of the few that is based on individual skill, yet I still get far more points when my team carries me to a win than when I earn an S grade but still lose because of a bad team.

inb4 kids salty about ks

since you need a good rating to get keys

I think you guys should make all runes and mastery points available from summoner level 1, even if runes still cost IP, just so players don't have to wait until level 30 to seriously play champions who rely on runes and masteries

Pretty excited for it to come out, sad I'm gonna have to wait probably 2 months from now for that to happen. I enjoyed hearing you guys talk about the load testing that happens for features and the team of people who do that sort of thing.

i like soup

I'm just waiting til we have the option to get level 6 and 7 champion mastery. How else am i going to trkDisrespect these folks.

Wow I cant hear a thing smh

Episode 9? Looks like 8 to me lol

I like listening to these, they're very calming and relaxing while playing a first game of league or an aram.

Though you should play some very light background music at times! Just a suggestion!

not to comment on something of topic but can you fix the bug that allows people to pick free role champs in champ select

I actually play bot matches to learn new champions, i want an easy first win of the day, or i want a casual game. A casual competitive if you will. I'd like to see the point where if this is how you prefer to play, you don't get penalized for it. Also, it was said that if you help your team to an S rank, it helps you. But does that include that fact i join a game as a solo player in a Normal (draft pick) game, does the people it puts me with count as my "team"?

I know there are rewards for reaching a level 5 mastery on the champ but will we get rewards for the champs we already reached lvl 5 with prior to the hextech debut?

okay so, i did 7 days rental and do i get that skin back and upgrade the skin after i get it back?

i got a S in my game with my friends, only my friends got the BOX for Hextech, but i didn't, why is that so?

just release it in 6.3, no point in testing this

 Hey, so here is what I understood from the podcast plus a bit  a research on the web. (some from Rito Q&A).So lets get started. 

-You can get 1 chest per champ per season when you get a S grade (S-,S,S+). Another limit is you can only receive 4 chest per month (about 1 per week). now that is 52 chances in 1 year.

-I personally, although a mediocre champ base, have a champ base of 56 owned champions. about 15 I could play to get a S grade by myself,15 chest would quite a small amount of chests to get in a year. (Given other info). there seems to be a way to scam the system if you have really good friends. If you cant get a S with all those 52 different champs, you can have a friend who is good at a champ get a S in a premade with you. This will allow you to get the chest for that champ. So say Im bad at Hec. I can have my buddy get a Easy S with his Yasuo,Fizz,Garen,Darius,Jax,victo... Sorry Im digressing, in a premade with me while Im playing hec Jung,or something, to get the chest for Hec.

-Skin shards chart for disenchanting and crafting. RP value Disenchant craft 975 skin = 322 essence = 675 essence 1820 skin = 610 essence = ? 3250 Skin = 1073 essence = ? these are the main skin types people will care about, it seems to be about 2 (975) disenchants + specific (975) skin shard= That (975) Skin At about 52 chests a year this seems ok. If you only were getting Skins shards, but you get icons, ward skins, and champions in there too! Someone opened 1000 in PBE got 316 champion shard, 591 skin shards, 54 ward skins, 39 Icons. along with 39 double gifts and 40ish gems(re-rolls for the chest). From what I have seen the ratios are good with legacy, legendary and ultimate skins. IF a Riot DEV reads this part of the comment only or if you could send this to someone who can make this happen. I feel this Part is THE MOST IMPORTANT ! -Not offering these for IP is a BIG mistake. Even if its 3-4K IP for the set, This is something you NEED to get out, people have WAY too much free IP sitting around. You need to add this Especially if you plan to also add champion shards in the mix. Personally, I dont know about everyone, I will never buy a champ for RP ,it {IMO} is a complete waste of money when you can just put time in and get it. So there needs to be a way of opting out of getting champions shards, or purchasing it with IP. I say because I try and fail,I like skins way too much, to keep my self from spending too much money on this game. Also if Im limited on the number of chests I can earn each year and 10 of my 52 end up being champ shard at the end of a YEAR, I would be greatly disappointed in my loot from a years worth of chests.

AS always thanks for reading my comment. If you made it down this far xD. Ill see you on the Rift! Also if you are in PBE and can fill in a comment of a better graph for the essence that would be GREAT!

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Kinda Pumped to listen to the podcast! im new to the podcast scene btw :p

Hey Riot, could you guys change, I don't know. The fact that we can get skins in re-roll of champions we don't own???? Because it's very disappointing when you re-roll three skin shards only to get a skin you can't use because you don't own the champion. I don't know like maybe Hextech crafting could put in mind the skin you do have when re-rolling??? same with champions hopefully, to a certain extent.

Is there a place to report a problem with hextech crafting? Like, if I made a skin shard into a permanent, but then it's still locked?

Hello what are the chances on hextech crafting to get skins that i alredy have and why do i keep geting champ shards i mean its good to have them but i alredy have all the champs cant riot do somthing about theyre old players how are waiting to buy the new champ?