Relaxing Gifting Restrictions

Riot is easing up a bit on some of the gifting restrictions that are currently in place, including upping the amount of gifts that can be sent each date, lowering the level and friendship time requirements for sending and receiving, and more!

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"You asked for looser restrictions on gifting so we’re relaxing them across the board. From now on, these changes will be in effect on all content and RP gifting.


Content Gifting (skins, champions, rune pages, icons, ward skins, Mystery)

• To send a gift, you must be at least level 10 (was level 15)
• To receive a gift, you must be at least level 1 (was level 5)
• You can only send up to 10 gifts (was 5 gifts) each day
• You can receive up to 10 gifts (was 5 gifts) each day
• You can’t receive gifts if you’re banned or suspended
• The player receiving a gift needs to have been on your buddy list for at least 1 day (was 2 weeks)
• The player receiving a Mystery gift must have at least 10 eligible content options (doesn’t apply to icons and ward skins)

RP Gifting

• To receive RP, you must be at least level 1 (was level 10)
• To send RP, you must be at least level 15 (was level 20)
• You can only send up to 5 RP gifts (was 3 RP gifts) every 24 hours
• You can only receive up to 5 RP gifts (was 3 RP gifts) every 24 hours
• You can’t receive RP if you’re banned or suspended
• The player receiving RP needs to have been on your buddy list for at least 1 day (was 2 weeks)"

As for concern that the 1 day waiting period to send gifts to a friend is too low, Hippalus noted:
"Our Player Support team has gotten much better at detecting fraud and reversing purchases when necessary, even with gifting. So we no longer need a 2 week window to deter fraud. Subject to change of course!"