What's the point of skin shards?

I NEED HEALlNG··1 votes·374 views

Why have them when you're better off buying the actual skin? They're near impossible to unlock, give you less than what it should, and re-rolling them has a pretty good chance of getting you a less valued skin. Why even pay for chests at all? What kind of shitty business practice is this?

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Bane of Nerds2 votes

Bought the 3.4k snowdown capsules. 5 capsules + 2 chests and keys. I got like 20 skins shards total mayb or probably even more. Project vayne. Night bringer yasuo. List goes on. I don't see how this isn't legit.. I felt like riot hooked me up not ripped me off.

TheProfezzor1 votes

I will admit I did this too but the issue here is having enough OE to make anything permanent. The nerf to OE DE values makes skin shards even more worthless then they originally were.

To OP. You shouldn’t buy chests. It’s a shit business practice.

I NEED HEALlNG1 votes

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Bought the 3.4k snowdown capsules. 5 capsules + 2 chests and keys. I got like 20 skins shards total mayb or probably even more. Project vayne. Night bringer yasuo. List goes on. I don't see how this isn't legit.. I felt like riot hooked me up not ripped me off.

yeah now try and unlock night bringer yasuo and project vayne. good luck

Hexs Fortune1 votes

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Bought the 3.4k snowdown capsules. 5 capsules + 2 chests and keys. I got like 20 skins shards total mayb or probably even more. Project vayne. Night bringer yasuo. List goes on. I don't see how this isn't legit.. I felt like riot hooked me up not ripped me off.

For every one of these jackpots there are 20 quiet guys in the back who got crappy skin shards

DemainaNyx1 votes

I unlocked Elementalist Lux the week it was released through a skin shard I got from a chest. Yeah, it's unlikely you'll get the exact skin you want, but the point is it's a free skin. There is a .01% chance you'll get the skin you want for the champion you want for free, but that's still a possibility, vs the 0% chance you had to get the skin for free before when skins were only purchasable through RP.

There's a chance, that's all it is.

I NEED HEALlNG1 votes

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I unlocked Elementalist Lux the week it was released through a skin shard I got from a chest. Yeah, it's unlikely you'll get the exact skin you want, but the point is it's a free skin. There is a .01% chance you'll get the skin you want for the champion you want for free, but that's still a possibility, vs the 0% chance you had to get the skin for free before when skins were only purchasable through RP.

There's a chance, that's all it is.

good luck unlocking it

DemainaNyx1 votes

Already did, wasn't that hard.

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