How to get Mythic Essence in League of Legends

Confused about Mythic Essence? Here's a detailed guide on how to get Mythic Essence in League of Legends.

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Last UpdatedFebruary 23, 2024 at 02:08PM

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Over the decade and few more years that League of Legends has existed in, it proved to be an ever-evolving game, constantly introducing new features and elements to keep its community engaged. One of these elements is Mythic Essence. What is it? How to get it? Buckle up, as these questions and more like them will be our focus in this League of Legends guide. Let’s start by understanding what exactly Mythic Essence is.

What is Mythic Essence in League of Legends?

Since League of Legends is, as we've mentioned, an ever-evolving game, Mythic Essence was introduced in Season 12 as a replacement to Gemstones and Prestige Points. It is a rare and potent in-game currency in League of Legends, primarily used to craft a variety of items, including but not limited to: Unvaulted Mythic Skins, Prestige Skins, Emotes, Random Skin Shards, Blue Essence, etc. These items are mostly cosmetic, except maybe the Blue Essence (which can be used to buy Champions or craft Permanent Champions from Champion Shards).

Acquiring Mythic Essence is not a straightforward process, but with the right ways, you can accumulate this resource and unlock the full potential of your champions.

How to Earn Mythic Essence in League of Legends?

There’s a multitude of ways you can earn Mythic Essence. Although, as I mentioned before, it’s not a straightforward process, it’s still a possible one. Unlike Blue Essence or Orange Essence, obtaining Mythic Essence is a slow process that will take time and a ton of effort. Also, unlike Riot Points (RP), you can’t buy Mythic Essence directly.

However, while you can’t directly buy Mythic Essence like you can with RP, you can buy Event passes that will, in turn, give you 25 Mythic Essence (or potentially 125 Mythic Essence, if you’re willing to spend 2200 Event Tokens on just the Mythic Essence) as you play through these events and complete their challenges and missions. Buying Event passes is currently the fastest way to accumulate Mythic Essence, but it’s not the only way. Other ways include:

Leveling Up: The most fundamental way to earn Mythic Essence is to level up. Every 50 levels that you accumulate after level 150 will earn you a Glorious Champion Capsule that contains Mythic Essence. It’s a really slow method but a consistent one, unlike the next ones.
Hextech Chests: Opening up Hextech Chests has a chance of giving you 10 Mythic Essence; a 3.6% chance to be exact. It’s most likely the source that will give you the most Mythic Essence since Hextech Chests are frequently earned throughout each season.
Masterwork Chests: Yeah, these too. Opening up a Masterwork Chest has the same 3.6% chance of dropping Mythic Essence. However, instead of 10, it’s 5 for Masterwork Chests. Why? Because they’re a bit more OP in their drops in every other aspect, unlike Hextech Chests. Also, because of the Loot Milestone system that’s related to Masterwork Chests. Which transitions us to the next point.
Reaching Loot Milestones: Open up enough Masterwork Chests and you’ll get more Mythic Essence, even if it doesn’t drop in your chest. That’s the idea of Loot Milestones. Earlier stages of Loot Milestones will give you 5 Mythic Essence, while later stages will give you 10. Fortunately, it’s a repeating goal, so you won’t have to worry about finishing it and not being able to collect Mythic Essence via Loot Milestones for the rest of the season.

In the very end, collecting Mythic Essence is a lengthy and tedious task, but it's not useless. In fact, it’s highly rewarding if you’re interested in some in-game cosmetic items like Skins and Special Borders or maybe some cool Icons. Accumulating it is surely one way to enhance your skin collection in League of Legends since it enables you to unlock some exclusive items and extremely rare skins.

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