As every year, Riot Games has launched a special Lunar New Year-themed event, bringing with it new skins and content in commemoration of the Year of the Ox.
So today we bring you everything you need to know about this event, to make the most of everything it has to offer and what you can obtain through the special event currency, known as Lunar Tokens.
Lunar Beasts: Dates and Quests
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The Lunar Beasts event is available from 4th February to 8th March, with special missions every week. These missions will be sequential, so you must complete a task to move on to the next.
Each of these will grant you Lunar Tokens, which you can use in the event store to exchange them for exclusive rewards.
Note: In the missions about earning points, these are obtained by playing with a pre-designed group (5 points), winning a game (2 points) or losing it (1 point).
Week 1
- Earn 20 points.
- Play a game in a party with 1 or more friends.
- Earn 40 Takedowns
- As a team, take the first enemy Turret twice.
Week 2
- Earn 20 points.
- Earn 100 Vision Score across games
- Earn 12,000 Gold
- Deal 20,000 Magic Damage to champions in a single game.
Week 3
- Earn 20 points.
- As a team, earn Dragon Soul.
- Win a game of ARURF.
- Deal 20,000 Physical Damage to champions in a single game.
Week 4
- Earn 20 points.
- As a team, earn First Blood.
- As a team, destroy the first Tower.
- Win a game.
Each mission from Week 1 to 3 will give 15 Lunar Tokens, while those of Week 4 will only give nine, except for the first one that will give 18.
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In addition to these, by purchasing the Event Pass for 1650 RP, you can unlock a series of milestones, which will give you rewards. Each goal requires 15 points to advance to the next until a total of 20 available milestones are added.
Through the goals of the Pass it is possible to get:
- 1 Lunar Beast Event icon.
- 25 Prestige Points.
- 1 10-Win XP Boost
- 4 emotes.
- 3,000 blue essences.
- 1,250 orange essences.
- 2 Gemstones.
- 1 Hextech key.
- 1 Masterwork chest.
- 1 Lunar Beast Orb.
Lunar Beasts: Get rewarded with your Lunar Tokens
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As mentioned before, during the event it will be possible to get Lunar Tokens, which can be exchanged for rewards. There are different ways to get these but requires buying the Event Pass, which brings with it 200 Lunar Tokens and 4 Lunar Beast orbs.
Weekly Victory Missions
- Week 1: Score 35 Points - 230 Lunar Tokens
- Week 2: Score 35 Points - 230 Lunar Tokens
- Week 3: Score 35 Points - 230 Lunar Tokens
- Week 4: Score 50 Points - 310 Lunar Tokens
You can also get Lunar Tokens by playing games in any of the four available game modes:
- Win a matchmade PvP match on Summoner's Rift - 10 Lunar Tokens
- Lose a matchmade PvP match on Summoner's Rift - 5 Lunar Tokens
- Win a matchmade PvP ARAM match - 6 Lunar Tokens
- Lose a matchmade PvP ARAM match - 3 Lunar Tokens
- Achieve a rank of 1-2 in TFT - 8 Lunar Tokens
- Achieve a rank of 3-4 in TFT- 6 Lunar Tokens
- Achieve a rank of 5-6 in TFT - 4 Lunar Tokens
- Achieve a rank of 7-8 in TFT - 2 Lunar Tokens
- Win a matchmade ARURF match - 6 Lunar Tokens
- Lose a matchmade ARURF match - 3 Lunar Tokens
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Finally, these are all the rewards available in the event store, highlighting among these those related to Prestige content:
Skins, Chromas, and Borders with Icon
- Lunar Beast Prestige Points Icon + 100 Prestige Points 2020 - 2200 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Fiora Prestige Edition + Icon - 2000 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Fiora (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Viego (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Darius (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Alistar (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Jarvan IV (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Aphelios (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Annie (Vitality) Chroma + Icon - 300 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Fiora (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Viego (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Darius (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Alistar (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Jarvan IV(Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Aphelios (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast Annie (Border + Icon) - 250 Lunar Tokens
- Lunar Beast 2021 Orb - 200 Lunar Tokens
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Little Legends Eggs
- LL Series 1-6 Egg - 600 Lunar Tokens each one
- Random LL Egg (Series 1-7) - 300 Lunar Tokens.
Miscellaneous
- Mystery Emote - 60 Lunar Tokens
- Random Champion Shard - 50 Lunar Tokens
- 3 Keys - 180 Lunar Tokens
- 1 Key - 60 Lunar Tokens
- 1 Key Fragment - 20 Lunar Tokens
- 100 Blue Essence - 10 Lunar Tokens
- 10 Blue Essence - 1 Lunar Token