LoL Season 3 Act I Pass: What the Free Track Gives You

League's Season 3 Act I pass stops counting progress on October 5 at 11:59pm PT (October 6, 06:59 UTC). Its free track pays out permanent champions, Blue Essence, Hextech Chests and icons with no Riot Points spent, and the screen stays open one more day so you can collect what you earned.

What the free track pays

Riot's support page splits the pass into 48 milestones plus 8 repeatable ones, and each milestone costs 500 Battle Pass XP (BXP). Marked rewards need a paid pass; the rest are free once you earn the XP. Reading the table, the free side comes to a short list.

Blue Essence is the largest payout: 3,000 each at milestones 3, 14 and 21, which is 9,000 for the main track. Six of the repeatable milestones add 750 each, so one pass through them is another 4,500. Riot calls them repeatable, so the total depends on how much XP you keep earning and is not a cap.

Three permanent champions are free: Darius at milestone 6, a champion of Riot's choosing at 22 and Veigar at 46. Eight Hextech Chests with keys are free (milestones 7, 16, 18, 27, 30, 36, 38 and 43), along with three champion capsules, a Glorious capsule at 39, the Phenomenally Evil title at 40 and several icons and emotes. Honor objectives add two more chests, but they need honor level 3 or above.

What stays behind the paywall

Magma Chamber Veigar with a border and border icon at milestone 48 is the headline prize and needs a paid pass. So do both Enchanting Mystery Skins (milestones 8 and 24), 25 Mythic Essence at 32, the 2026 Season 3 ward at 44 and the Summoner's Orbs spread along the track.

The base pass costs 1,650 RP. The Pass Bundle at 2,650 RP adds the Veigar champion, a Vivid chroma for Magma Chamber Veigar and a Ghostly Poro emote. The Premium Pass Bundle at 3,650 RP adds 10 pass levels, a Classic Vision Ward icon and 25 Mythic Essence. Ten levels bought one at a time cost 950 RP, so the 1,000 RP step from the Pass Bundle to the Premium bundle is mostly the price of those levels. Riot sells paid passes while objectives run and for 24 hours after they close.

The clock

Two cutoffs apply. Objectives stop paying on October 5 at 11:59pm PT, which is 02:59 US Eastern and 07:59 UK time on October 6. The pass itself deactivates 24 hours later, on October 6 at 11:59pm PT (October 7, 06:59 UTC), and unclaimed rewards are lost at that point.

Dailies reset at 11:00am PT, and a daily win or two games gives 100 BXP. Counting October 3, 4 and 5 that is at most 300 BXP, less than one milestone. Weekly objectives refresh on Wednesdays at the same time, and each set stays available for three weeks, so unfinished weeklies are the better source of late XP: Riot's sample week lists 700, 300, 300 and 500 BXP. Everything but the Weekly Venture must be cleared in standard League matches. League Classic and TFT games count toward the Venture only.

Is it worth catching up

Buying levels costs 95 RP each, and one level is 500 BXP of play, so the real question is whether the next free milestone you have not reached holds something you want. Darius at 6 is behind most players already; the late prizes are Veigar at 46 and the last chests at 38 and 43. Count how many levels separate you from those, multiply by 95 and compare the total with what the champion or chests are worth to you. If the gap is more than a few levels, claim what is ready and keep your RP.

What comes next

Riot's September dev update says Season 3 Act 2 puts a spotlight on music and gives no start date for the next pass. The same update announced team voice chat, a wider version of party voice chat tied to Honor level, for North America and Oceania in Patch 26.20. Riot's Patch 26.19 notes later postponed that rollout and say there is no target patch yet. For other free reward tracks, our PUBG Mobile reward guide and Fortnitemares quests guide cover similar free tracks.

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