Key takeaways
- DJ Sona Ultimate Remix is a Mythic Variant of DJ Sona, the 2015 Ultimate skin, with a HEARTSTEEL, a True Damage and a K/DA form.
- It arrives in the Sanctum with patch 26.23 on November 18, 2026. Riot has not said when the banner closes.
- Each pull costs one Ancient Spark (400 RP), and Riot guarantees a Mythic Variant by the 40th pull, so the skin costs at most 16,000 RP, about $121 in North America.
- With a 0.5% drop rate, about 82% of players who pull until they get the skin will need all 40 pulls.
- The producer underscores made the music, and Riot music designer Brandon Zongora did the music design. Patch 26.23 also repairs the layered music of the original DJ Sona.
DJ Sona Ultimate Remix is a Mythic Variant skin for Sona in League of Legends. It remakes the 2015 Ultimate skin DJ Sona with three new forms, one each for HEARTSTEEL, True Damage and K/DA. The skin comes to the Sanctum with patch 26.23 on November 18, 2026, and the Sanctum is the only place to get it. Each pull costs one Ancient Spark (400 RP), and Riot guarantees a Mythic Variant by the 40th pull, so the skin costs at most 16,000 RP. The music is by the producer underscores.
Our DJ Ultimate Remix Sona skin page has the splash art and full skin details. We will update this guide when the skin goes live.
DJ Sona Ultimate Remix at a glance
| Detail | DJ Sona Ultimate Remix |
|---|---|
| Other name | DJ Ultimate Remix Sona, the name the League of Legends Wiki and the game files use |
| Champion | Sona |
| Tier | Mythic Variant |
| Based on | DJ Sona, Ultimate skin, 3,250 RP, released February 2015 |
| Forms | HEARTSTEEL (default), True Damage, K/DA |
| On the PBE | November 3, 2026 |
| Release | Patch 26.23, November 18, 2026 |
| Where to get it | The Sanctum, in the Loot tab |
| Cost per pull | 1 Ancient Spark, 400 RP |
| Guaranteed by | The 40th pull |
| Maximum cost | 16,000 RP, or $120.96 with the cheapest North American bundles |
| Music | underscores, with music design by Brandon Zongora of Riot |
| Bundle items | A profile icon, a loading screen border and an emote Riot has not shown yet |
What DJ Sona Ultimate Remix is
Riot revealed the skin on X on November 3, 2026:
When she drops the beat, the whole world takes notice. The Mythic Variant DJ Sona Ultimate Remix is available on Patch 26.23.
Its in-game description reads:
An otherworldly talent that moves between genres with ease, Sona mesmerizes anyone lucky enough to catch one of her shows. This "silent virtuoso" is a master of mixing across genres and making the impossible happen, always getting the crowd moving. Sona's never needed words to make herself heard. Her music says it all.
Mythic Variants are alternate versions of existing skins that you can only get in the Sanctum. Every earlier one has the features of a Legendary skin, and DJ Sona Ultimate Remix is the first with the features of an Ultimate skin. It is Sona's second new skin of 2026, after Prestige Requiem Sona in March.
The three forms
| Form | Look |
|---|---|
| HEARTSTEEL (default splash) | A black top and a yellow hoodie. Red and yellow train tracks rise from her headset. |
| True Damage | Short hair and a silver jacket with neon blue lining. A blue and black synthesizer rises from her headset. |
| K/DA | A red and black FIRESTARTER-style outfit with silver accents. Red and purple waves rise from her headset. |
Each form has its own recall and ability effects. There is no Pentakill form, even though Sona plays in Pentakill.
What is new and what is reused
Riot's PBE thread lists custom models and textures, custom VFX, custom SFX and a custom recall. It lists no new voice lines or animations, and PBE players report that the skin reuses the voice lines, taunt and dance of the 2015 skin.
Riot has not shown how you switch forms on the new skin. On the original DJ Sona, you switch by typing /toggle or pressing Ctrl+5.
How to get DJ Sona Ultimate Remix
You can only get DJ Sona Ultimate Remix from the Sanctum. It has no RP price, it is not in the Mythic Shop, and it does not drop from Hextech chests.
- Buy Ancient Sparks with RP. They cost 400 RP each, and unused Sparks stay in your inventory.
- Open the Loot tab and go to the Sanctum once patch 26.23 is live on November 18, 2026.
- Pick the Mythic Variant banner with DJ Sona Ultimate Remix and spend one Spark per pull.
- Keep pulling until the skin drops. The 40th pull without a Mythic Variant always gives one.
Riot lists these drop rates for Mythic Variant banners:
| Tier | Contents | Drop rate |
|---|---|---|
| S | Mythic Variants and 100 Mythic Essence | 0.5%, guaranteed by the 40th pull |
| A | Selective skins, exclusive accessories and more | 10%, guaranteed by the 10th pull |
| B | Mythic Essence, random icons, random emotes | 89.5% |
If you already own everything in a tier, you get Mythic Essence instead of a duplicate. Our Mythic Essence guide lists what it buys.
Your guarantee counter carries over
Progress toward a Mythic Variant carries over to the next Mythic Variant banner, and drawing any Mythic Variant resets it to zero. Exalted pulls never count.
So if you pulled on K/DA Hitmaker Evelynn or K/DA FIRESTARTER Ignition Akali in patch 26.22 without drawing either, those pulls count toward DJ Sona Ultimate Remix. If you drew one of them, you start from zero. Enter your pulls in our Sanctum pity calculator to see what DJ Sona costs from your counter.
Do you need the original DJ Sona?
Riot has not said. It did not require the base skin for the first Mythic Variant, Dark Cosmic Erasure Jhin, and the wiki lists DJ Sona Ultimate Remix as a separate skin. DJ Sona itself stays on sale for 3,250 RP.
How much DJ Sona Ultimate Remix costs
The skin costs between 400 RP and 16,000 RP. This table shows your chance of having it after each number of pulls, from a counter at zero.
| Pulls | RP spent | Chance you have the skin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 400 | 0.5% |
| 10 | 4,000 | 4.9% |
| 20 | 8,000 | 9.5% |
| 30 | 12,000 | 14.0% |
| 39 | 15,600 | 17.8% |
| 40 | 16,000 | 100% |
About 82% of players who pull until they get the skin reach the 40th pull, so budget the full 16,000 RP. The average is 36.3 pulls, or about 14,534 RP. Our Sanctum pity calculator works it out from your own counter.
In dollars, euros and other currencies
RP only comes in fixed bundles. In every region with the standard bundles, the cheapest way to 16,000 RP is one 13,500 RP bundle, one 1,380 RP bundle and two 575 RP bundles, which gives you 16,030 RP. Our RP calculator does this for 19 price lists and subtracts RP you already have.
| Region | 16,000 RP costs |
|---|---|
| North America, Southeast Asia and Taiwan | $120.96 |
| EU West, EU Nordic & East and Middle East | €120.96 |
| United Kingdom | £108.24 |
| Latin America, countries that pay in US dollars | $102.74 |
| Brazil | R$459.60 |
| Mexico | MX$2,250 |
| Turkey | ₺3,750 |
| Australia | A$181.46 |
| Japan | ¥16,220, as one 15,000 RP and two 525 RP bundles |
That is about 4.9 times the 3,250 RP of the original DJ Sona. Exalted skins guarantee at 80 pulls and cost up to 32,000 RP, as our Arcane Fractured Jinx guide explains. Unused Ancient Sparks can be refunded within 14 days with a Refund Token, but anything you draw cannot.
Who made the music: underscores
The producer underscores made the music for DJ Sona Ultimate Remix. Brandon Zongora, a music designer at Riot, credited her on X on November 3, 2026:
Was the pleasure of a lifetime to do the music design for MV DJ Sona - hope you all love it as much as I do Shout out to @underscoresplus for their amazing work on the music 🔥 PS - longtime original DJ Sona fans, look out for some much needed updates to her original kit 😌👊🏼
underscores is the project of April Harper Grey, a producer and songwriter from San Francisco, known for the albums fishmonger (2021), Wallsocket (2023) and U (2026). Riot has not published a tracklist, and the new music is not on Spotify or YouTube yet.
Personal note: I saw underscores live in Berlin the day after Riot announced her for this. Great show, great pick.
What the new music sounds like
From PBE recordings, each form plays the same base song with its own tempo and band sounds, a bit like Teamfight Tactics changing its music with your board. The tracks change again once Sona is above level 16. None of the bands' own songs, such as FIRESTARTER, GIRLS, GIANTS or Know My Name, are in the preview, even though DJ Sona features on "GIRLS" from K/DA's FIRESTARTER EP (October 21, 2026). Some PBE players find the loops too short, and HEARTSTEEL gets the most love.
Who made the music of the original DJ Sona
The 2015 skin has one track per form, released as the DJ Sona EP and still on Spotify.
| Form | Track | Artists |
|---|---|---|
| Kinetic | Kinetic | The Crystal Method and Dada Life |
| Concussive | Concussive | Bassnectar and Renholdër |
| Ethereal | Ethereal | Nosaj Thing and Pretty Lights |
The original DJ Sona gets fixed in patch 26.23
The layered music of the original DJ Sona has been broken for years. Zongora confirmed on Reddit that patch 26.23 fixes it, and explained how it works:
Your QWE will unlock unique layers of music, death will remove them (you can get them back by using abilities again), using R will transition you to a new set of higher intensity music. This can happen 3 times in game, once for each level of your ultimate. Oh and the HUD mute button works again (hopefully for good this time)
If you own DJ Sona, you get the fix for free. Zongora only described this for the original skin, so we don't know yet whether the Ultimate Remix uses the same system.
How players reacted on the PBE
Riot's PBE feedback thread sat at a 47% upvote ratio on November 5, 2026. The top comments ask for new voice lines, new animations and interactions with the bands, and say the Q, W and E effects are one design in different colors. Others are tired of three K/DA-linked Mythic Variants in two patches. Some players defend it, arguing that gacha skins sell or Riot would stop making them. Particles and sound effects may still change before November 18.
How long DJ Sona Ultimate Remix stays in the Sanctum
Riot has not announced an end date. Mythic Variants are only available for a limited time and may return later, as Divine God-King Darius did in August 2026, but Riot does not guarantee it. Check the countdown on the banner in your client.
What Riot has not announced yet
- When the banner closes, and its A-tier and B-tier items
- Whether you need to own the original DJ Sona
- How you switch forms, and whether teammates can mute the music
- Which tracks underscores made, and whether they will be released
- The splash artist and the emote
Sources
- League of Legends on X, DJ Sona Ultimate Remix reveal, November 3, 2026.
- Brandon Zongora on X, music credit for underscores, November 3, 2026, and his replies in the r/leagueoflegends reveal thread.
- Riot Games Player Support, "The Sanctum" and "Patch Schedule".
- r/LeaguePBE, PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: DJ Sona Ultimate Remix, November 4, 2026.
- League of Legends Wiki, Sanctum, checked November 5, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers drawn from this post.
At most 16,000 RP: 40 Sanctum pulls at 400 RP each. With the cheapest bundles, that is $120.96 in North America, €120.96 in Europe and £108.24 in the United Kingdom. The RP calculator has every region.
Each Mythic Variant pull that did not give you a Mythic Variant takes 400 RP off the 16,000 RP maximum. After 10 pulls on K/DA Hitmaker Evelynn or K/DA FIRESTARTER Ignition Akali, you need at most 12,000 RP. If you drew one of them, your counter is back at zero. The Sanctum pity calculator does the math for your counter.
With patch 26.23 on November 18, 2026. It has been on the PBE since November 3, 2026.
Pull for it in the Sanctum, in the Loot tab. Each pull costs one Ancient Spark, with a 0.5% drop rate until the 40th pull guarantees it.
No. It has no RP price, and you cannot buy it with Mythic Essence or craft it. The Sanctum is the only source.
The producer underscores. Riot music designer Brandon Zongora did the music design and credited her on November 3, 2026.
HEARTSTEEL, True Damage and K/DA. HEARTSTEEL is the default and is on the main splash art.
It depends on how much you play Sona and how you feel about gacha. Most players who go for it will pay the full 16,000 RP, and PBE players criticize its reused animations and voice lines. The original DJ Sona is still 3,250 RP and gets its music fix in the same patch.
Riot has not said. It did not require the base skin for the first Mythic Variant, Dark Cosmic Erasure Jhin.
Yes, within the same banner type. Mythic Variant progress carries to the next Mythic Variant banner and resets when you draw one. Exalted pulls never count.
Yes, for 3,250 RP.
