You can finally start connecting your League of Legends’ Garena account to Riot ones to prepare for the migration happening next year as Garena transfers its publishing rights back to Riot.
For more details about this transfer, please refer to this link http://www.riot.com/3zWpF4k.
If you have any questions related to this account transfer, please contact the Riot Support team on this page.
Before linking your accounts, however, there are some things that you have to check before starting the transfer. These are:
- Your Garena League of Legends account must have some form of Data Progression:
- Garena accounts you wish to connect to a Riot account MUST HAVE some form of progression. This includes champion masteries, match histories, and the like. This also comes in the form of RP purchases, skin unlocks, and more.
If your League Account does not have any of this, there is nothing to transfer. As such, you might as well just make a new account.
- Garena accounts you wish to connect to a Riot account MUST HAVE some form of progression. This includes champion masteries, match histories, and the like. This also comes in the form of RP purchases, skin unlocks, and more.
- A Riot Account with the same Shard as your Garena League Account:
- Region lock exists to some extent in Riot accounts. For example, I have a Riot account that has a NA and a JP League of Legends account attached to it. As my Garena League account has a Philippines Shard, I cannot link it to that Riot account. I instead have to make a new Riot account to connect to.
If you try to connect to a new Account, or to an account with no connected League of Legends account, its shard will automatically convert to match your Garena account’s shard. - Players can check their Riot and Garena account shards/regions to see if they match:
- Your Riot Account shard/region is located in the Personal Information tab in Account Management;
- Your Garena Account shard/region is loaded in the General settings. The region is based on your IP, while the Shard is based on the region you selected in the settings.
- Region lock exists to some extent in Riot accounts. For example, I have a Riot account that has a NA and a JP League of Legends account attached to it. As my Garena League account has a Philippines Shard, I cannot link it to that Riot account. I instead have to make a new Riot account to connect to.
Once you have checked the above, you can begin transferring or linking your Garena account to your Riot account by following the steps below:
- Head over to this link;
- Press the “Start Linking” button. This will redirect you to a Garena log-in page;
- Log in to your Garena account. Logging in will redirect you to a Riot account login page;
- Log in to the Riot Account you want to link your Garena account to. You can also create a new Riot account to connect to;
- Follow the on-screen prompts;
- Press "Link Accounts" after checking the account details. Your account is officially linked after this step.
Once finish linking your Garena to your Riot account, you should receive an email that confirms that the accounts are officially linked. Now, all you have to do is wait until the migration fully begins in early January 2023.
Once migration begins, the following will transfer over from your Garena account to your Riot one:
- Emotes
- Skins
- Champions
- Tacticians
- Booms
- TFT Boards
- Icons
- Blue and Orange Essence
- RP
- Star Shards
- Loot Inventory