'League Of Legends' MSI Rewards: Conqueror Karma, Region Icons And Hextech Capsules

The League Of Legends Mid-Season Invitational starts in just a few weeks, and Riot Games is giving out rewards to celebrate. Like every big event, there’s skins to buy, icons to earn and Hextech Crafting to get confused by. Here’s a rundown of everything coming to the Rift for MSI.

Here is the schedule for MSI:

Play-In Stage, April 28, 2017
Group Stage, May 3, 2017
Knockout Stage, May 10, 2017
The Finals May 19, 2017

Conqueror Karma Bundle

Karma has become the go-to support for pro League of Legends that need peel, shields and damage all in one Ionian super-package. She’s getting a new skin to honor her success in competitive play called Conqueror Karma. If you buy this skin anywhere from April 24 to May 24, 25 percent of the proceeds will go to the MSI prize pool. There’s also a limited-edition bundle that will give you a special icon, ward skin and loading screen border that won’t be available ever again for 1616 RP (or 2208 RP if you need the champion).

If you buy the skin and the ward separately, you will still get the loading screen and border when the event ends.

MSI Icons

Right now, you can buy an MSI icon for your region for 1 IP. You can also buy special Tier-2 icons for any region you like for 250 RP, which give you a special in-game emote usable during the event. The region that has the most icons equipped while playing games or wins the tournament gets a three-day IP boost weekend sometime after MSI ends. If you’re an NA local but want to guarantee some time to earn more IP, buy a yourself an LCK icon and pray to the gods that Faker and SK Telecom show up this year.

You have until the last day of the tournament, May 20, to compete. You can check the leaderboards here.

MSI 2017 Capsules

It wouldn’t be a League of Legends event without some complicated Hextech Crafting system. During the event, you can buy an MSI capsule for 600 RP which has an esports skin shard (one of the SKT, SSW, Fnatic, TPA or Challenger skins) and two skin shards. That promises you any of these legacy skins for less then what a usual skin costs. There’s also 50 percent more gemstones and a chance to get three of the rare purple gems in one capsule.

The MSI 2017 Capsules will only be available the weekends when games are being played from 1 p.m. EST on Friday to midnight on Sunday.

There will also be increased Legendary and esports skins in mystery gifts when a Baron steal or Pentakill happens in-game, which can stack up to four times. Just check under the scoreboard when you’re watching the games to see if it’s active.