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Mulling About Ranked Reward (Champion) Skins

A Lost Rabbit·10/27/2017, 4:39:29 PM·3 votes·528 views

I've been on the fence about Riot rewarding Victorious skins for each season. On one hand, free skins are, for the most part, never a bad thing. On the other hand though, it's a bit frustrating when you main a certain champion that has a Victorious skin, and yet you'll never be able to get it if you weren't playing at that time.

While I understand how the skins are meant to be symbolic of each Season (to an extent), I sometimes really wish that I could trade in the ones of champs I rarely play for the ones I truly love playing. Though I figure that that would never be able to happen.

[sg-soraka]

Otherwise, while I'm sure people will agree and disagree with me on this, I'm also wondering about alternative ideas for Riot handing out ranked rewards, if any.

Only idea I have so far is that like (10) Gemstones, you would have some sorta item rewarded after each season for unlocking a single exclusive Victorious skins. HOWEVER, to make up for past players actually earning those skins from the past seasons, Riot could implement a similar treatment as they did with the Pax Sivir and Championship Riven skin. That way, past players would have both the original and new ones, and new players could have access to unlocking specific skins of champions they main or tend to play a lot.

5 Comments

Quepha10/27/2017, 4:55:39 PM3 votes

I think they should just let people pick a skin out of the victorious line for their reward.

Their skin pipeline is now too slow to actually ensure it's on a champion that was relevant that season, so why should the skins only be restricted to that certain season?

Muzét10/27/2017, 5:25:18 PM2 votes

A few years ago. I saw a topic about a "Victorious Coin" that would let you pick the victorious skin you want. Pretty good idea imo.

The Bearded Bard10/27/2017, 5:22:56 PM1 votes

I think the biggest problem is the skin they end up picking typically is a champion that dominated at one point in the season but has been nerfed since so isn't as powerful at the point of release. I didn't play graves when he was broken, why would I play him now that he's not?