I've received 14 male skin shards and 0 female skin shards in 2019

dolphinling·May 13, 2019·1 votes·1,419 views

I've been tracking my loot from hextech chests and so far in 2019 I haven't received a single skin shard for a female champion. I've received 14 skin shards for male champions. What's going on?

A little math: I count 570 male skins and 320 female, going by the rules listed on the wiki (Between 520 RP and 1820 RP). I'm probably off by a few, but close enough. (570 / (570+320))^14 = 0.00195. In other words, that should happen less than 0.2% of the time.

So am I just having bizarre, 1-in-500 luck, or is there some other reason this is happening?

Full list of skins I've gotten this year

14 Comments

RagnaveilMay 13, 201913 votes

Its almost like, its random. Mindblowing isn't it to think of such a concept instead of trying to make such a thing seem like a sexist issue.

Flashy KicksMay 13, 20194 votes

Your theme song

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

ZephyrDrakeMay 13, 20193 votes

Ok... what does it matter if you get Male or female shards only? Are they from any champion you enjoy playing in the slightest? If yes the who cares! If no? Then tough luck and better luck next draw.

dolphinlingMay 13, 20191 votes

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Ok... what does it matter if you get Male or female shards only?

It matters if it shows it's not just RNG. If something I did makes it so I get all dude skins, maybe there's a way to do something different and get only skins you want to play.

4 Step CadenceMay 13, 20191 votes

Its just RNG. If it were influenced by what you play/do, I'd be getting all male marksman skins because I'm a Jhin onetrick. But I don't. I get mostly skins for mages and melee champions, and sometimes skins for champions I don't even own. Stop trying to make it a (sexism) issue, because its not. There's no issue at all. You just have extremely bad luck.

KalienorMay 13, 20191 votes

Random includes the possibility of showing a pattern you can interpret.

Actually, "shuffle mode" on music playlists isn't random anymore due to that. At first, it was perfectly random, but users kept complaining it wasn't because they could find a logical link between tracks. But it's giving a human way of thinking to a machine; the program doesn't care about how you sort it out, it doesn't even understand the logical links you apply.

From a coding point of view, you've been given fragments (numbers are arbitrary, it's just to explain it's a label) #0036, #0172 and #0896. Utterly sexist if you ask me.

SyrileMay 13, 20193 votes

This is far too much. I have gotten literally two dozen of the same skin shards on multiple champions that I already had the skin for. It is either a random system or weighted towards things you already have (which, considering how lucky I am with Gemstones I would not think it is). Not sure why everything has to become some sexism complaint.

ShmeeveMay 13, 20192 votes

I am surprised that concerns you

ShirleyfGMay 13, 20191 votes

Op is prob female.

DavakenMay 13, 20191 votes

League is estimated to have a playerbase of over 120 million people. This means that statistically, 240.000 people, has had their first 14 skin shards be of male champions. This is clearly just you being unlucky (or lucky depending on what you want)