Challenges will launch in League of Legends and were designed to provide meaningful progression to all League players.
You can level up individual challenges from Iron, all the way to Master. Once you’ve hit Master, many challenges also have their own Grandmaster and Challenger tiers. Like Ranked, only a certain number of players per region can be in these tiers.
Riot Games will launch this feature with over 300 challenges, and there’ll be more to come as League continues to grow. Here’s what you need to know about how Challenges work.
The Challenges Tab
Under your profile section, there will be a new Challenges tab. The crystal on the left tracks your overall progression. Every challenge you rank up increases your overall score, and over time, your crystal evolves.
The five bars beneath your crystal represent the five categories of challenges.
- Imagination: Modes and innovative plays make this category the home for those who dare to dream
- Bad Medicine: Kill enemies recently healed by a healing pack in ARAM
- Wave Goodbye: Kill 20 minions within 3 Seconds
- Expertise: Skillfully crushing your opponents is the way to earn big in this category
- Unkillable Demon King: Win games without dying
- Flame Horizon: Win games with 100 or more CS than your opponent
- Teamwork & Strategy: Working together with your team to dominate the Rift is the focus here
- Soul Sweep: Claim Dragon Souls 4 – 0
- Team Diff: Score aces between minion spawn and 15 minutes
- Veterancy: Putting up big lifetime numbers in kills, gold earned, and other stats will help boost this bucket
- PENTAKIIIIIIIIL!!: Get Pentakills
- Multi-Weapon Master: Win with different Mythic Items
- Collection: It’s in the name. Collecting cosmetics and engaging in loot fills the bars here
- Icon of the Rift: Obtain Summoner Icons
- Spice of Life: Obtain Champions
There will also be a special category called Legacy. These time-limited challenges live in this category to commemorate season-based accomplishments and past achievements others can no longer obtain. They don’t contribute to your overall progress, nor can you level up Legacy as a category.
Under the Challenges tab, you will be able to search and find any challenge by its name or the criteria it tracks.
Challenge Cards
Tokens are a unique icon that represents that challenge and their current rank. Below the Token is the challenge’s name (“Gets The Wurm”), and below that is its criteria (Take Barons before 21 minutes).
The upper left-hand corner shows you how many points a challenge contributes to your overall Challenges score. The upper right-hand corner shows you the modes in which a challenge can be earned within.
The bottom of the card shows the next significant reward you’ll receive for leveling up the challenge.
Lobby
Tokens will show up on your profile. They’ve updated lobbies to make space for everything Challenges provides.
Your Summoner Icon is still in the center, but they’ve also added the Challenge Crystal below your Summoner Icon. When hovering over a player’s Summoner Icon, it will display a tooltip showing current and past rank, Summoner Icon info, and detailed Challenges information.
Underneath the Summoner name will be the Titles. Titles are earned by leveling challenges to specific tiers. You can choose between any title you’ve unlocked. Beneath titles are Challenge Tokens. You can equip up to three.
Identity Menu
The Identity menu has been expanded to support your Challenge Token and Title selections.
Loading Screen
On the loading screen, player cards now have three sides.
- Game information: Champion/Skin, Ranked Border, First Strike Border, Summoner Name, Title & Icon, Summoner Spells, Runes, and Honor.
- Champion information: Champion Mastery and Eternals
- (NEW) Player information: Rank, Challenge Crystal, Challenge Tokens
They have also added a Quick Switcher™ that cycles all ten players’ cards to the same tab.
End of Game
End of Game has been split into two screens: One for your progression and one for the game’s scoreboard.
The Progression Page still displays Ranked progress, Champion Mastery, and Summoner Level on the left; Honor received in the lower right. The Progression carousel shows challenges, and the Eternals you’ve leveled up brought close to leveling up or had a standout performance on.
The Scoreboard changes include:
- Added lane position (in modes that have it)
- Added K/DA
- Added a column that toggles between damage dealt to champions, damage taken from champions, healing/shielding done, and CC score
- The gold earned column toggles to minions killed.
- Added a column to show which challenge each player progressed the most
- Honor also shows up here since teammates may honor you after you’ve already moved over from the Progression tab
Social Comparison
When you’ve ranked a challenge up to Master or above, hovering over it will also display a leaderboard showing you where you are on your server’s ladder.
When you hover over another player’s Token or Challenge card, you’ll see how your progress stacks up against theirs.
Challenges are an interesting new addition coming to League of Legends on May 11, 2022. Be sure to check out our League of Legends section for more great content.
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