I got tired of guessing or manually checking which skin shards to unlock for Blue essence chromas, so I built a tool that just tells you
Quick context: the Blue Essence Emporium is live (ends June 10). A chroma only buys if you own the base skin — so if a skin is just sitting in your loot as a shard, the real question is: "is this shard worth unlocking, because then I could grab its chroma with BE right now?"
I was manually cross-checking my shards against the shop one by one… and gave up and wrote a tool instead.
What it does:
- Reads your running client (via the local LCU API) — your skin shards, your Orange/Blue Essence, and the live
- Emporium chroma offers.
- Tells you exactly which shards have a chroma on BE sale, how many, and the price.
- Works out how many shards your Orange Essence can actually unlock right now (cheapest first) and how much more you'd need.
- Spits out a clean little webpage with all the chroma art + a gallery of skins you own.
Link for the open source code and tool: https://github.com/ahmedgomaaa/ChromaScout
Quick start (non-technical — just want the answer)
- Download
EmporiumChromaFinder.batfrom the Releases page. - Open the League of Legends client and log in (reach the home screen).
- Double-click
EmporiumChromaFinder.bat.
That's it. If Python isn't installed it will offer to install it for you. When it finishes, a browser tab opens with your report, and all files are saved next to the .bat.
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