Do not buy the new skins

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Releasing skins for the sake of numbers is also a terrible idea because at the end of the day riot is a business and their wallet is what matters. Evening out mordekaiser skins over giving a skin to a person who is almost gauranteed to sell like ahri makes no sense.

Reasoning like this is why Ivern got dunkmaster... What even kind of skin is that, and Asols second skin is garbage too.

The reasoning is that these champions are much harder to find themes that fit them. Rushing a theme through because it sounds like a decent idea on paper is terrible because it results in an unfortunate skin and a net loss for the company.

Now I'm not saying that ivern should have had to wait as long as he did. But it's part of why these champs get so many skins all the time. They are so much easier to design for. Mf, Ahri, Lux, LeBlanc, etc. These are just women. They can fit into nearly any skinline that exists, with only their personalities to consider. Champions like Yorick, Ivern, Asol, Morde, Udyr etc. People with really iconic visual representation requirements either in their base skins or abilities themselves require a much more surgical approach to skins. You can't just slap Udyr into the star guardian line up, but nearly any skin line can fit on a basic human silhouette.

I can think of 8 themes for Rek'Sai that would be glorious on her.

but instead we havent gotten a skin in almost 3 years. Funny how champions with unique visual appeal don't have problems getting skins when theyre

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Now I'm not saying that ivern should have had to wait as long as he did. But it's part of why these champs get so many skins all the time. They are so much easier to design for. Mf, Ahri, Lux, LeBlanc, etc. These are just women. They can fit into nearly any skinline that exists, with only their personalities to consider. Champions like Yorick, Ivern, Asol, Morde, Udyr etc. People with really iconic visual representation requirements either in their base skins or abilities themselves require a much more surgical approach to skins. You can't just slap Udyr into the star guardian line up, but nearly any skin line can fit on a basic human silhouette.

I fully agree with this point, but it feels like it emphasizes a problem with Riot's design philosophy. On the one hand, they want characters that feel unique to League, while on the skin side hand they only want champions that can swap clothes and style their hair to make something new. Many themes that can fit non-human designs relatively easily (Arcade, Infernal, Program) get filled with humans instead.

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Despite the fact that they stated they were going to try and give some of the more forgotten champions skins, and mentioned some of the "over 1000 days" club members by name.

but they gave one of the rejects a skin! Didn't you see Katarina and Jayce got skins :) Riot really cares, I mean They made a skin fro Twisted Fate bundled with Riven's second high quality skin in 8 months, thats actually superior to her Legendary skin.

They even made TWO skins for Amumu! ... They just iceboxed the other one because it was part of a 520 RP skinline and they couldn't reason tripling the price and refuse to just .. sell skins for 750 RP while putting much shorter development times on them so that Ivern, Skarner, Amumu, can get skins.

Even though Pug'Maw was 975 and sold fantastically well.