How To Unlock All Champions Fast in League of Legends

With a growing pool of characters, Riot Games has made sure to put out a champion to match the likes of almost every player out there.

Updated on Jul 22, 2023
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How To Unlock All Champions Fast in League of Legends

The number of champions available in the game can be overwhelming for new players of League of Legends, which grows every year. The last champion that Riot Games introduced us was Renata Glasc. Her release was on February 17th, 2023. Thanks to this chemist, leader of Glasc Industries, so far, we can count 159 champions in League of Legends.

It’s understandable that, for new players and some veterans, each game they play may feel like a new one since there are champions who have fallen into oblivion.

Knowing what champion you’re fighting against is crucial to winning a match, but if you want to see by yourself what each character does, then keep reading to find out How To Unlock Champions Fast in League of Legends.

Farm Blue Essence To Buy Champions Fast

To set a solid foundation on how to unlock champions in LoL or even in League of Legends: Wild Rift, you need the game's main currency, which is Blue Essence. You can use it to buy a wide variety of things, and there are several options through which you can obtain it. If you don’t have it clear, to help you understand a bit more how it works, you should check our guide on What Can Blue Essence Buy in League of Legends?


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But without any further ado, here we’ll go over some of the ways you can get as much Blue Essence as possible to unlock champions.

  • Leveling up your account.
  • Hextech Chests.
  • Purchase of Riot Points.

Gathering Blue Essence shouldn’t be that hard for you if you follow these pieces of advice to unlock champions quickly.

Level up your account to get blue essence

The level system in League of Legends is insane, and new players may feel easily intimidated if they happen to play with a more experienced friend who’s level 400 and their newcomer partner hardly reaches level 10. Still, it’s precisely through leveling up an account that summoners may unlock new champions faster.


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Just in case you’re that experienced summoner who wants to avoid playing with that friend of yours who’s learning the basics of the game, and it’s not so good at it, you can check our guide on How to Appear Offline in League of Legends.

When you create a new LoL account, the game gives you a series of champions to play and try, Master Yi being one of them. That way, you can find one that you like the most and start to decide what position you want to play in.

Disenchant Champion Shards To Get Blue Essence Faster

After a few matches, once you’ve reached level 5, every new level, the game will grant you a Champion Capsule. When you open them, you’ll gain Champion Shards. In addition, there is another type of capsule called “Glorious Champion Capsule”, which you can get when you’re passed level 30.

  1. First, you can disenchant the Champion Shards to get some Blue Essence out of them.
  2. You can activate the Champion Shard using Blue Essence. This way, you can play with that champion for seven days and decide whether you like it or not.
  3. You can upgrade the status of the Champion Shard to “Permanent”.

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League of Legends is a game with champions that can be hard to play for those new players. That’s why we recommend you check our guide with The Easiest Champions to Play. That way, you’ll get the hang of the game while learning how to play with characters whose mechanics aren’t that complicated.

Open Hextech Chests To Get Champions fast

These chests are also a way of unlocking new champions. Although they also include many other rewards, they are obtained randomly.


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How to Get Hextech Chests?

You can earn these by obtaining an S-Rank with a champion after a game in Summoner’s Rift or ARAM game modes. However, you earn a chest from a character just once for every season, which means, if you got an S-Rank with Twisted Fate during this season, you would get one of these magical boxes and get a new one from obtaining an S-Rank again with him, you have to wait until the next season.

The more champions you have and get an S-Rank with, the more Hextech Chests you may be able to gather.

All of these have a different drop chance, and what you can obtain from them range from Champion Shards to even another chest.

Hextech Drop Rates

  • 50% chance of a Skin Shard. These you can disenchant for Blue Essence.
  • 25% chance of a Champion Shard, the ones we’re looking forward to getting if we want to unlock champions.
  • 11.5% chance of a Ward Skin Shard + 150 Orange Essence Bonus. If you’re not familiar with Orange Essence and what you can get in the game with it, you may discover it here.
  • 10% chance of a Bonus Hextech Chest + a Hextech Key.
  • 3.5% chance of a Summoner Icon Shard +150 Bonus Orange Essence.
  • 3.6% chance of a Bonus Gemstone

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As we mentioned above, you may get another Hextech Chest and a Hextech Key from one of these bad boys, and that takes us to an important part, and it is the Keys.

How To Earn Hextech Keys?

To get them, you need to gather three Hextech Key Shards. You may get these through the Honour system when you play exceptionally well, and your teammates decide to give you some Honour at the end of a match.


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Sometimes they’re also available to be obtained from events, so don’t miss out on those.

Unlocking champions through this method is not available currently in LoL: Wild Rift, and to be honest, it’s pretty easier to get characters in the mobile version of the version.

Purchase of Riot Points to buy Champions fast

Like every other game out there, League of Legends is no exception and has a currency that can be purchased with real-life money. Of course, we’re talking about RP.

These can get you almost anything from the game. You can even change the server you’re playing in, e.g., the North America server. You may change your League of Legends account to the European one.

But as we mentioned, it all comes with a real-life price. The thing about virtually swiping your credit card it’s that not only can it be expensive, but paying for a champion you may not enjoy that much, doesn’t sound like a good idea.


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If you still want to reach your goal and unlock every champion, you may use your RP more wisely to avoid going to bankruptcy.

In-store, there are always champions for sale to be bought with RP, which can be purchased for half the price it would cost in Blue Shards. Therefore, you should always look at what characters are available if you plan to do this.

Also, when it comes to League of Legends Wild Rift, you have the Blue Essence. Other currencies in the mobile version of LoL also include Poro Coins and Wild Cores.


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In Wild Rift, you can buy champions for a standard price of Wild Cores, which is 725, but in this version of LoL, you can get enough Blue Essence to unlock all characters without spending money.


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As we can see, there are several options to unlock all champions as fast as possible in LoL. After going through all of this guide, we can undoubtedly say that it will take some time to achieve this goal if you’re not willing to spend money in the game.

However, especially when you won’t like every champion available, we recommend you give a thought or two: how much RP will you get yourself if you decide to top-up your account? And save some of it for champions that you like the most.

Characters are essential, but most important is having fun when playing the game. That’s why, to add a cherry on top of your journey of getting those S-Ranks to get a Hextech Chest, do it using the best skins in the game for each champion, which you can find here.

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