How To Get Riot Points in League of Legends

Look, if you play League of Legends long enough, you’re gonna want Riot Points. Maybe it’s a skin that’s been sitting in Your Shop for weeks. Maybe you’re tired of grinding Blue Essence for a champion you could just buy right now. RP is how Riot makes money off a free game. You buy it with real cash through the client, or you pick up a gift card, or you go the slow route and try to get Riot Points for free. All three work. I’ll go through each one below with actual numbers and no BS.

How To Buy Riot Points in the LoL Client

Fastest way? Just buy it in the client. Open the store, pick a pack, pay, done. Two minutes tops. Your card goes straight to Riot, nobody else touches it.

Step by step:

1. Open League, log in.
2. Click Store at the top.
3. Hit the RP icon.
4. Pick a pack. $5 for 650 RP all the way up to $100 for 15,000 RP.
5. Pay with whatever you’ve got. Card, PayPal, Paysafecard, depends on your region.
6. Done. RP shows up instantly.

Sometimes the balance takes a second to update. Restart the client if it doesn’t show. Works every time.

If something goes wrong with a payment, Riot has a support page for gift cards and RP that covers most issues.

Riot Points Prices in 2026 (North America)

Riot buries this, but bigger packs give you way more RP per dollar. Here’s the NA breakdown:

Price (USD)	RP You Get	Cost Per RP	Good For
$5	650 RP	~$0.0077	A chroma or summoner icon
$10	1,380 RP	~$0.0072	One epic skin (1,350 RP)
$20	2,800 RP	~$0.0071	A legendary skin with RP to spare
$35	5,000 RP	~$0.0070	Event pass plus a skin bundle
$50	7,200 RP	~$0.0069	Couple of legendary skins
$100	15,000 RP	~$0.0067	Best rate you can get

That’s NA only. Other regions have different numbers.

Quick example: you want an epic skin. That’s 1,350 RP. The $10 pack gives 1,380. Done, 30 RP left. Want a legendary? Those cost 1,820 RP. Gotta go with the $20 pack. You’ll have like 980 RP left over, almost enough for another epic. And if you’re wondering how deep the damage goes overall, we built a purchase tracker that shows your total spending. Mine was… bad.

How To Get Riot Points With Gift Cards

Not everyone wants to punch their credit card into the League client. Maybe you’re under 18 and don’t have one. Maybe you just don’t trust putting your card on a gaming platform. RP gift cards fix both problems. And they’re great for gifting, too. Way easier than dealing with the in-game gifting system.

You can grab them at Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, GameStop. Digital codes work too if you want one emailed to you. $10, $25, $50 are the usual amounts.

Redeeming a card is dead simple:

1. Go to the Store in the League client.
2. Click the RP icon, then Prepaid Cards & Codes.
3. Punch in the code from the card.
4. RP lands in your account right away.

Watch out: cards are region-locked. NA card on EUW? Won’t work. Make sure the card matches your server, especially if you’ve got a smurf account on another region.

How To Get Free Riot Points (Real Methods Only)

Alright, the part everyone actually wants to read. Free RP does exist. But I’m going to be straight with you: nobody is handing out thousands of RP for nothing. These methods take weeks, sometimes months. They work, they won’t get your account banned, but don’t expect to unlock a prestige skin by next Tuesday.

Earn Free RP With Microsoft Rewards

Sounds dumb, works though. Microsoft gives you points for using Bing. Daily quizzes, searches, random little tasks on their dashboard. Do it every day and the points stack up. Once you hit enough, trade them for a League gift card.

Numbers: 6,500 points = one 575 RP card. Takes about a month of daily tasks. Yeah, 575 RP isn’t a lot. But it’s free and it takes like 5 minutes a day. Keep at it for a few months and that’s a free skin.

One problem though: Microsoft Rewards isn’t available everywhere. NA and some European countries are covered. If you’re somewhere else, you might be locked out.

Riot Giveaways on Social Media

Riot hands out RP now and then on X (Twitter), Instagram, and through partnered streamers. Usually this happens around Worlds, MSI, or when a big patch drops. Sometimes it’s “follow and retweet,” sometimes it’s fan art contests. The entry bar is low but so are the odds because thousands of people pile in.

Still worth doing. Takes 30 seconds and the worst outcome is nothing changes.

Community Tournaments

Platforms like Battlefy and Challengermode host amateur League tournaments pretty regularly. Some of them award RP gift cards or cash as prizes. Entry is either free or a couple bucks. Formats range from 1v1 duels to full 5v5 team brackets to ARAM cups.

If you have decent mechanics and can pull together a squad, this is probably the most fun way to pick up some free RP. Just stick to known platforms. Random Discord servers promising fat RP prizes for “free” are sketchy more often than not.

Survey and Reward Apps

Idle-Empire and similar sites let you fill out surveys, watch videos, or test apps in exchange for points. Cash those points out for gift cards, including RP cards. The pay rate isn’t great. Maybe a few bucks worth per week if you’re consistent. But if you’re sitting in queue anyway, might as well be stacking toward your next skin.

What You Can Buy With Riot Points

RP doesn’t make your champion stronger. It’s all cosmetics. Here’s the list:

• Champion skins from 520 RP (budget tier) to 3,250 RP (ultimate skins)
• Chromas for recoloring skins you already own, usually 290 RP each
• Event passes that unlock seasonal missions, tokens, and exclusive loot
• Champions if you want to skip the Blue Essence grind
• Emotes, icons, and ward skins for showing off in-game
• Hextech crafting stuff like chests and keys
• Name changes and region transfers

Skins eat most people’s RP. And honestly, epic skins at 1,350 RP are where the value is. You get a completely new model, different particles, changed sound effects, a unique recall animation. All of that for $10. Compare that to the 520 RP budget skins that basically just swap the color palette and… yeah, epics are worth the extra money. If you want to see what the best LoL skins look like before spending RP on them, we put together a ranked list.

Riot Points Scams You Need to Dodge

Scam sites that “generate free Riot Points” have been around since Season 1. Same trick every time. You enter your name, a fake bar loads, then it says “verify you’re human.” That verification is the scam. Downloads malware or steals your info. Don’t fall for it.

Stuff to stay away from:

• Any site that asks for your Riot password
• Anything calling itself an “RP generator” or “RP hack”
• Chrome extensions claiming to inject free RP
• YouTube videos linking to “free RP” sites in the description
• Random friend requests from people offering free skins or codes

Riot has never supported third-party RP generation. Never will. If someone gets into your account through one of these sites, Riot might not be able to help you recover it. Guard your login like you’d guard your bank password.

How To Spend Riot Points Without Regretting It

Got your RP? Cool. Before you blow it all on impulse buys, here are some things I wish someone told me earlier:

Your Shop is where the deals are. Riot opens it 4 to 6 times a year and gives you personalized discounts up to 70% off on skins for champs you play a lot. A 1,350 RP skin at 60% off drops to 540 RP. Less than half price for something you’ll actually use. Wait for it.

Bigger RP packages save you money. The $100 bundle is about 13% cheaper per RP than five separate $20 purchases. If you know you’ll spend $50+ over the next few months, buy it in one go.

Check bundles before you buy skins one by one. Whenever Riot drops a new skin line, they put out a bundle too. The bundle has all the skins, sometimes chromas and icons as well. It always costs less than buying each piece separately. I learned this the hard way after buying three skins from the same line individually.

Don’t waste RP on champions. You can get every champion in the game with Blue Essence, which is free. You earn it by playing and you get champion shards from level-up capsules that make it even cheaper. Spend RP on rare skins and event-exclusive stuff that you literally cannot get any other way.

Oh, and if you’ve got any redeem codes saved from events or promos, use those first. No point spending RP when you’ve got free stuff sitting in your back pocket.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you get Riot Points for free?

Sort of. Microsoft Rewards hands out RP gift cards for daily tasks on Bing. Riot does giveaways sometimes on X and Instagram. Community tournaments too. But there’s nothing inside the actual game that gives you free RP. Every method is outside of League.

How much do Riot Points cost?

$5 for 650 RP on the low end. $100 for 15,000 RP if you go all in. That’s NA. Other servers have their own pricing based on local currency.

What can you buy with RP?

Skins (mostly), chromas, event passes, emotes, icons, ward skins, Hextech chests and keys, champion unlocks, name changes, server transfers. None of it helps you win games. Purely visual stuff.

Are RP generators real?

No. Every single one is a phishing page or malware. Riot has nothing to do with them. See one, close it.

Do RP and Valorant Points share a balance?

Nope. RP is League only. VP is Valorant only. Can’t move them between games. Some Riot prepaid cards work for both, depends on the card type and your region.

How long does it take to get Riot Points through Microsoft Rewards?

If you do every daily task? About a month for one 575 RP card. You need 6,500 points total. Slow grind. Free though. Make sure the program even runs in your country before you start.

Is buying RP from third-party sites safe?

Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop? Yeah, those are fine. Random dudes on sketchy marketplaces? Bad idea. A lot of those codes come from stolen cards. Chargeback happens, Riot bans the account. Buy from the client or a store you know.

Does Riot ever run bonus RP promotions?

Once in a while, yeah. Holidays, big patches, anniversary stuff. No schedule for it. Follow League’s X and Instagram if you want to catch one.