How to change your name and nickname in League of legends

The name of your League of Legends account is the first thing people will see when they have a look it and this reflects a lot about you with a lot of players. Even those getting banned because of nicknames that are not allowed. 

But we hear you, you want an awesome name such as Faker or Showmaker, so when you stomp your ranked games and get Pentakills, you look even cooler doing it. Well, we are here to tell you exactly how to do that and you can get whatever name you want after reading this article.

How to change your name in League of Legends
 

Currently you can change your name in League of Legends with blue essence in the store. This costs 1300 RP or 13,900 Blue Essence. It's a hefty investment, but for players who've been playing a long time and have blue essence stacked up there's no problem with this method.

You can do this however many times you want with no cooldown in between changes, meaning you can change your name 10 times in a day but it will cost you 139,000 Blue Essence!

This will, however, not be the case for long. This is because Riot Games are changing their system and replacing Summoner Names with Riot IDs. If you play VALORANT or have a VALORANT account you'll be very familiar with Riot IDs and how they work, but we're here to tell you that that is changing too.

How to change your Riot ID in League of Legends
 

So, if you play League of Legends you're used to changing your name in the client with Blue Essence, however, changing your Riot ID requires you to go onto the official Riot Games website accounts page and login there.

You'll then see your game name and your tagline which you can change freely and then press save changes.

Whilst you still can't change your sign in username, you can change your password if you scroll down the page. A lot of people want to change the username that they sign into the client with, however, Riot Games do not have this enabled as a feature, but don't worry no other player will ever see this name!

How often can you change your Riot ID in League of Legends?
 

So if you're a VALORANT player you know that you can change your Riot ID once every 30 days, this obviously changes your username within VALORANT.

Well, when Riot Games replace Summoner Names in League of Legends with Riot IDs, they will be changing across the board and across every single game title that Riot Games has.

Whilst this Riot ID will be universal across every game of Riot’s that you log in with this account on, you will only be able to change your Riot ID once every 365 days for free.

You will still be able to purchase name changes for roughly $10 of the game currency that you are currently playing on.  this means $10 worth of valorant points $10 worth of RP and League of Legends and $10 worth of any other currency in games such as Legends of Runeterra, League of Legends: Wild Rift, or even Teamfight Tactics.

When are Summoner Names being Replaced with Riot IDs?