If you want more high-end skins for less popular champions, then there needs to be more demand.

Joxcab··27 votes·1,113 views

Developing skins costs money.

If it's not going to give back a meaningful profit, there's no need to bother investing in a 1350/1820 skin for a champion.

YES, I FULLY SUPPORT THOSE WHO PLAY SAID LESS POPULAR CHAMPIONS WANTING SKINS, BUT THIS IS JUST PLAIN ECONOMIC SENSE.

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HaIlMonitor10 votes

Do you think its an endless cycle though? A champ that has more skins will see more play in general then ones that have less? And whats the excuse for some champs like lee and yi having 8+ skins (or sivir with 9 which sees almost no play for the last while) but champs like Rengar has seen lots of play sense realease but has 3.

Myozthirirn2 votes

Regarding Sivir: making skins for humanoid charcters is way easier and cheaper. Most the unpopular champ are also monster-like.

THE RlVER KlNG2 votes

^ This guy just deconstructed your entire post. Beat me to the point.

ShadowParker7 votes

I hate this argument. All of the champions you listed are really old champions. Older champions are going to have more skins. There's also no reason as to why those champions shouldn't get skins becuase most of their old ones have any particles and are instead just model changes or even recolors.

nice table1 votes

"older champions are going to have more skins" do you even realize how untrue this is for majority of the champions?

ShadowParker2 votes

Please, list some that go against the rule, because the majority follow this

Master Yi, Annie, Nunu, Kayle, Rammus, Ryze, Veigar, etc.

^Some of these champions haven't even gotten newer skins yet they have a whole host of them.

HaIlMonitor1 votes

Yes, old champs should have more skin. But why does Yi get a skin or 2 a year, when other champs dont get any after 2 years? That is the point.

ShadowParker2 votes

If you look at Yi's skin cadence, It's pretty healthy. That's my point.

Hexs Fortune3 votes

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SnakDatSmilesBak1 votes

At least he already looks like the sexy version of taric.

Big Lincoln3 votes

riot should make them worth playing then

xWaters1 votes

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riot should make them worth playing then

DING DING DING

Clementine2 votes

Swain is definitely worth playing. He's unpopular.

CannonLordFreed1 votes

insert Galio crying in the corner

nami tf1 votes

{quoted} YES, I FULLY SUPPORT THOSE WHO PLAY SAID LESS POPULAR CHAMPIONS WANTING SKINS, BUT THIS IS JUST PLAIN ECONOMIC ALCHEMY.

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Catastrop1 votes

You ever think there's no demand because pretty much all the skins they already have are not only few in numbers but just lackluster in general? I could see how that would skew Riot's view on what champions would be profitable and which ones wouldn't be.

Irelia Bot1 votes

So... why not make Yasuo and Riven extremely unenjoyable to play and make skins for other champs?

Oelyk1 votes

TBH, Riot could do some sneaky magicks and buff under skined champs, in whatever order they pleases.

DynamiteGazelle1 votes

Spot the Yasuo main..

..found him

Joxcab2 votes

I don't main him. I main a champion who literally only has their release skin and one others for months and don't mind that.

Sir Fuzzi1 votes

Illaoi doesn't get a skin because she's not uguu kawaii waifu, nyaa. Just because she's a woman whose frame isn't based off of Lux's, she got kind of a meh opening skin and hasn't even gotten touched since.

There are tons of ideas they could work with. Diversity encourages interest; of course nobody's going to latch to a champion who doesn't have any interesting skins, when they keep handing them out to big tiddy waifuz.

Slack King1 votes

How much does it cost to make a skin? Ive spent enough to cover at least 1 legendary skinMordekaiser

Joxcab1 votes

The difference is all the other skins you bought were made because it was more likely people would have bought them. On the other hand, a Legendary skin for Mordekaiser would be pretty much only bought by his mains. Even if every single person that played him bought it, the popularity of Mordekaiser is so low as compared to others it would be inefficient. That's the main issue.

Slack King1 votes

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The difference is all the other skins you bought were made because it was more likely people would have bought them. On the other hand, a Legendary skin for Mordekaiser would be pretty much only bought by his mains. Even if every single person that played him bought it, the popularity of Mordekaiser is so low as compared to others it would be inefficient. That's the main issue.

Yea well his popularity would be higher if riot got off their asses and unfucked him. Which was their doing.

Pacattack251 votes

On the side note: It's hard to buy skins for champions that don't have skins...

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