Gemstones to buy unavailable skins

Goatfish·10/4/2017, 4:42:04 AM·2 votes·480 views

Can we make some old unavailable skins purchasable with gemstones? I finally have almost 10 gemstones but I don't really like any of the hextech crafted skins.

It would be nice to get an exclusive skin since it's pretty hard / expensive to get 10 gemstones. Skins like S1 kayle skin, king rammus, etc.

You could tweak them like the 2016 champ Riven skin; give the original owners a border or something to set them apart. Otherwise the reasoning for keeping them exclusive is just kind of selfish...like, "No. no one else can get this skin bc I want to feel special and keep it all to myself..."

Haven't even seen any of the really old S1 / beta / alpha skins in forever anyway

1 Comments

Mysticman8910/4/2017, 4:53:02 AM1 votes

It's unlikely they'll re-release any limited skins directly, but it does seem like they're slowly re-releasing re-done versions of the non-achievement related ones, as seen with urfwick, neo pax sivir, and championship riven. So owners of the original skin keep both the original skin, and get a border for it, but the new 2017 (or 201X) versions would be distinct, albeit visually similar, skins. The originals would still be special and exclusive and it's very unlikely that will change.

For the most part I doubt the re-release versions would be via gemstones though, and they'd rather wait for special opportunities to do their re-releases. With how hard gemstones are to come by for the majority, it'd be almost wasteful, and leave a sour taste on everyone who wasn't almost at 10 gemstones but wanted those skins.

So new versions of ufo corki and king rammus and so on are certainly possibilities you can reasonably hope for, but the originals pretty certainly aren't coming back.