Skin shard re-rolls are (probably) not random

Kattzy·11/15/2018, 11:51:57 PM·3 votes·2,949 views

So here's what happened: As of Tuesday night, I owned every skin in the game you can get with money at this point (so no old Victorious skins, PAX skins, not every Hextech skin, or anything like that, but I did own all legacy skins that have gone on sale in the store). I wanted to get Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa but didn't have enough Worlds tokens, so I bought a bundle of K/DA orbs that came with tokens. I opened all the K/DA orbs and had a ton of skin shards for skins I already own, and I was like, what would happen if I re-roll them but there's nothing left to roll into? What happened is that I got every single Hextech skin (minus Annie which I already owned) and also Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa. Once those skins were unlocked, my next re-roll resulted in a skin permanent for a skin I already own, so I believe I hit the end of possible re-rolls (so no Victorious skins or other limited skins like that).

While I am psyched to have all the Hextech skins now (I open so many chests and have only gotten a total of 18 gemstones so it was such a slog), I am kind of annoyed because it seems like too much of a coincidence that my "random" skin shard re-rolls resulted in 10 Hextech skins in a row at the very end of my collection (random note: Prestige K/DA Kai'Sa showed up as a Hextech skin). I'd like to hear from others to see if anyone has received Hextech skins when they re-roll shards. I think it's a bit disingenuous of Riot to claim skin shard re-rolls will result in a random unowned champion shard if, as I hypothesize, all the most rare skins only get re-rolled when there is nothing else available.

Related: Riot, please release a Whale Nami skin to reward those of us who are obsessed with buying skins. XD

7 Comments

Ice Weasel X11/15/2018, 11:55:53 PM3 votes

This has been known for a long time. Players with all existing skins have always been able to guarantee the next available skins by rerolling shards, because rerolling skins attempts to give you unowned content.

Noor Sakata11/15/2018, 11:54:31 PM1 votes

I didn't but I believe you can get them from chests

Zuzim9/16/2019, 6:13:15 AM1 votes

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Have you re-rolled 3 skin shards and received a Hextech skin shard?

For rolled random skins that end up being Ultimate or Hextech, the button will say "Unlock Permanently" There's no hextech skin shards out there for Ultimate or Hextech, just complete ones.

Congratz on collecting everything!