What is Orange Essence in LoL? Orange Essence is a type of crafting essence that League of Legends players can use for crafting any skin, from skin shards to ward skins, or aesthetic items. Think of OE as a freemium currency for ward skins and skins in general.
Basically, Orange Essence is used for turning skin shards into permanent skins. If you’re not interested in a particular skin, you can disenchant the shard and turn it into OE. If you want to get your hands on a particular skin, you can then use your Orange Essence reserve to turn it into a permanent skin.
In this quick guide, we’ll explorer the most efficient methods to get more Orange Essence.
This is How You Can Get Orange Essence in LoL
Method 1 – Score S Grade
When you score S grade, you’ll be rewarded with a chest. The chest content varies, but most of the time, it contains ward or champion skin shards. If you’re lucky, you may even get up to 270 Orange Essence when you open it.
You can also disenchant the skin shards to get some Orange Essence. You can then use your stash of OE to unlock a new skin or ward.
How to disenchant skin shards to get Orange Essence
Follow these steps to turn your skin shards into Orange Essence:
- Launch your game client
- Click on the Loot icon
- Scroll down to the Skins or Ward Skins heading to see the list of unused skins
- Select the skin shard you want to turn into Orange Essence
- Click the Disenchant into Essence option
Method 2 – Get Orange Essence From the LoL Store
You can also get your hands on more Orange Essence by purchasing chests from the LoL Store.
- Open the game client
- Click on the Store icon
- Select Loot
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see the chests
- Buy the Masterwork Chest or the 5 Hextech Chests & Keys + Bonus Essence combo.
If you get the combo, you’ll get 50 Orange Essence. The Masterwork Chest will bring you new champion or ward skin shards, emotes and, possibly, Orange Essence. Keep in mind that Hextech Chests can bring emotes and icons which don’t necessarily provide OE.
Method 3 – Buy the Snowdown Capsule
The Snowdown capsule brings you a guaranteed epic shard that gives you 270 OE. Moreover, if you get a 520 skin, you can easily get another one that will give you 200 OE. And a 975 skin will give you another 200. A single Snowdown capsule can bring you roughly 900 Orange Essence.
Gamers Want More Ways to Get Orange Essence
The current Orange Essence limitations and the fact that Riot has yet to implement additional ways for players to get more OE have made many gamers angry. They said the company let them down after the amount of the obtained essence from skins was reduced. But this was only a business-based decision as League of Legends’ Communication Lead said on Reddit:
Skins and cosmetics are how we run the business. So we’re always gonna be careful about giving those away unless there’s a really good reason. May not be what everyone wants to hear, but it’s the truth.
Conclusion
Obtaining Orange Essence is a really slow process but the end results are worth it. OE grants players the right to use special skins and really stand out in the crowd.