The Battle Boss event and crafting, explained

Starting Thursday at 11 a.m. PT, a new event will become active to pair with the release of the Battle Boss skins.

It’s similar to the Yasuo and Riven versus event we had a little while ago, where you complete missions for rewards and you can buy passes for extra missions and loot.

To start the event, you have to complete the quest “Villians Rule!” to unlock the New Level icon and more quest lines. From there, well...there are a lot more missions to do.

Crafting

Completing missions gives you tickets and sometimes Orbs. Now here’s where it gets a little bit tricky.

Here’s the loot you can exchange tickets for:

• 10 blue essence (10 tickets)
• Key Fragment (40 tickets)
• Battle Boss Baron Icon (80 tickets)
• Good Orb (80 tickets)
• Great Orb (120 tickets)
• Mega Orb (150 tickets)

Orbs are the crates of this event and can be opened for loot.

Good Orbs give a champion shard, ward skin shard or a summoner icon, along with a chance to have an extra Good Orb, gemstone or a Hextech Annie skin shard.

Great Orbs have a skin shard inside, as well as a chance to get a bonus Great Orb, gemstone or Dreadnova Darius skin shard.

Mega Orbs have a legacy skin shard with a chance to get a bonus Mega Orb, two gemstones or the new Lancer Zero Hecarim skin shard.

You can buy the Good, Great and Mega Orbs for tickets or for 150, 250 and 295 RP respectively.

Missions

All players have access to the Game Star: Blitzcrank and Veigar missions, but to unlock Brand’s, Zigg’s and Malzahar’s you have to buy a Dungeon Pass (see below this section.) All missions except for Malzahar’s give passes. Malz’s missions give Orbs for completion.

In order to complete the missions, you have to be using one of the arcade icons.

Blitzcrank

Mission 1 (10 tickets)

• Win three matchmade games with eight assists each

Mission 2 (20 tickets)

• Get 50 assists
• Win two matchmade games

Mission 3 (30 tickets)

• Win five matchmade games
• Get 75 assists

Mission 4 (40 tickets)

• Win one matchmade game with Blitzcrank on either team.

Veigar

Mission 1 (10 tickets)

• Kill 500 minions
• Win three matchmade games

Mission 2 (20 tickets)

• Kill 600 minions
• Win four Summoner’s Rift games and kill 100 minions

Mission 3 (30 tickets)

Win five Summoner’s Rift games where your team killed 350 minions

Mission 4 (40 tickets)

Win one matchmade game with Veigar on either team

Brand

Mission 1 (20 tickets)

• Win three Summoner’s Rift games in under 40 minutes (ARURF doesn’t count)

Mission 2 (20 tickets)

• Win three Summoner’s Rift games with five kills or 15 assists

Mission 3 (30 tickets)

• Win three PvP Summoner’s Rift games in under 35 minutes each (ARURF doesn’t count)

Mission 4 (40 tickets)

• Win one matchmade game with Brand on either team

Ziggs

Mission 1 (20 tickets)

• Kill 200 minions
• Get 20 kills and/or assists
• Win two matchmade games

Mission 2 (20 tickets)

• Win two matchmade games with at least 50 minion kills and eightkills and/or assists

Mission 3 (40 tickets)

• Get 50 PvP kills and/or assists
• Win four PvP matchmade games

Mission 4 (40 tickets)

• Win one matchmade game with Ziggs on either team

Malzahar

Mission 1 (Good Orb)

• Win three Summoner’s Rift games and earn 10,000 gold

Mission 2 (Good Orb)

• Earn 75,000 gold
• Win three PvP matchmade games

Mission 3 (Great Orb)

• Win two Summoner’s Rift games and earn 50,000 gold as a team

Mission 4 (Mega Orb)

• Win one matchmade game with Malzahar on either team

Daily Missions

Mission 1 (10 tickets)

• Win one matchmade game

Passes

If you love missions and you want to get more, you can buy a Dungeon Pass or the Mini Dungeon pass.

Dungeon Pass

This pass costs 1495 RP and has a lot of goodies inside, including:

• Arcade Poro Ward
• Arcade Poro Icon
• Gemstone
• 4 Great Orbs
• Game Start: Brand Mission Line
• Game Start: Ziggs Mission Line
• Game Start: Malzahar Mission Line
• Daily Missions

Mini Dungeon Pass

This pass costs 650 RP and comes with the Arcade Poro Ward and Daily Missions.

This is probably your best bet at scoring any of the rare Hextech exclusive skins, though Soulstealer Vayne isn’t up for grabs this time around. But hey, if you make out like a bandit on gemstones, you can just craft her yourself.

You’ll have until August 24 at midnight PT to do finish up all your missions.