League of Legends' new mythic essence will replace gemstones and prestige points as the rare currency in season 2022

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Gemstones and prestige points are two of the rarest items within League of Legends. Players can use these items to buy unique skins that cannot be purchased directly from the shop.

However, during season 2022, League of Legends will retire both those items and introduce a new rare currency called mythic essence. The mythic essence can be obtained in the exact same method through which gemstones and prestige points are earned.

The prestige points that players currently possess will expire as soon as the new mythic essence drops. However, all of their gemstones will be converted to mythic essence. Mythic essence will, however, never expire.

As mentioned earlier, mythic essence will be a brand new currency coming to League of Legends. This new currency can be used to buy both prestige skins as well as hextech skins within the game from season 2022 onwards.

However, League of Legends is also revamping the mechanics of the rare item shop. The first big change that is coming to the game is regarding the Hextech skins.

Hextech skins are supposedly rare acquisitions as they are hard to obtain. However, the quality of those skins are never up to the mark. In fact, there are various epic skins that look way better than their Hextech counterparts.

Therefore, from season 2022 onwards, League of Legends will introduce seasonal mythics. Every season, there will be a theme based on which the skins will be developed.

For the 2022 season, they will introduce the "Ashen Knight" skins. These will represent warriors who once had a glorious kingdom, but eventually saw them crumble to ruin.

Secondly, the game will also bring back prestige skins from 2018 and 2019. Usually, prestige skins are very rare and exclusive to events. Once the event passes,