Battle Boss Blitzcrank sends skins into hiding!

Riot·8/19/2015, 10:02:31 PM·5 votes·142,943 views

Final Boss Veigar returns and he’s brought a baddie to do his brutal bidding. He’s mean. He’s green (and purple). He’s Battle Boss Blitzcrank (CRASH. BOOM. LIGHTNING SOUNDS). Now that these two violent video game villains joined forces, it seems that their sights are set on our retro skins. While we figure out a way to send these two tyrants back to the broken code they spawned from, we’re kicking out a Legacy Vault sale to help keep retro skins out of their dastardly hands… and claws.

Here’s the info: Over the next week, 21 Legacy skins will go on daily sales at 50%, three at a time. And 21 current skins will be designated as New Legacy skins and also go on 50% off sales, three at a time. On August 30th 23:59 PDT, the Legacy Vault will open, and we’ll send all 42 retro skins in and away from those game goons.


Skin Sales

These skins are available from now through August 30th at 23:59 PDT. At that time, they’ll all leave the store and head into the Legacy Vault. Every day for the next week, six of these skins will be on sale for 50% off.


Friday, August 21st
  • New Legacy skins
    • Big Bad Warwick
    • Rune Wars Renekton
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Masquerade Evelynn
    • Longhorn Alistar
    • Frozen Shen
Saturday, August 22nd
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Explorer Ezreal
    • Prom Queen Annie
    • Queen Ashe
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Spectacular Sivir
    • Almost-Prom King Amumu
    • The Magnificent Twisted Fate

Sunday, August 23rd
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Vindicator Vayne
    • Guerilla Tristana
    • Sun Goddess Karma
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Professor Ryze
    • Workshop Shaco
    • Unmasked Kayle
Monday, August 24th
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Secret Agent Miss Fortune
    • Jailbreak Graves
    • Sinful Succulence Morgana
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Tempest Janna
    • Sabretusk Sejuani
    • Nightmare Cho'Gath

Tuesday, August 25th
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Fiddle Me Timbers
    • Defender Leona
    • Major Ziggs
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Hot Rod Corki
    • Prototype Viktor
    • Desert Trooper Garen
Wednesday, August 26th
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Sheriff Caitlyn
    • Imperial Lux
    • Obsidian Malphite
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Highland Tryndamere
    • Muse Sona
    • Leopard Nidalee

Thursday, August 27th
  • New Legacy Skins
    • Primal Udyr
    • Ruthless Pantheon
    • Winged Hussar Xin Zhao
  • Returning Legacy skins
    • Stinger Akali
    • Badger Teemo
    • Infiltrator Irelia

525 Comments

Scorpion Wrath8/20/2015, 9:44:42 PM221 votes

please don't take out the jaximus skin it has a sad backstory and reminds us of joe and what riot did for him

lostbob1178/20/2015, 7:21:26 PM211 votes

NOT ME, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NixtonValentine8/20/2015, 10:26:14 PM128 votes

I disagree with making Jaximus a legacy skin, given its history. Jax

Skedadle8/20/2015, 9:09:48 PM76 votes

Skins can go into legacy vault but Graves cant have a CIGAR. JUST HAD TO DO IT. I DON'T LET MY THOUGHTS BE THOUGHTS.

Adam01938/21/2015, 1:16:21 AM68 votes

For those complaining about how this is just a "cash grab" and how riot is being money-hungry, here's 2 things to think about.

  1. Riot, last I checked, is a company. They have the LCS and equipment to afford, lighting/electricity (with so many servers, work computers, etc; can you imagine their electric bill?), salaries for their employees, and other expenses that they have to pay. League is a /free game/ and so letting people spend money on microtransactions (What's keeping them in business) isn't unreasonable.

  2. SKINS ARE OPTIONAL!!! Nobody is forcing you to buy these skins. Riot isn't making league a pay-to-play game. Riot isn't making you, for example, have to buy any champions you're missing only with real life money. If they did, I guarantee Riot wouldn't have as big of a playerbase.

They're a company that needs to stay in business. I understand that all of these skins should make the people that already own them feel like they should get some sort of additional reward, but the fact you have a skin that now, nobody else can get for a really long time (I'm talkin' months, here.) should be a reward in and of itself.

Tl;Dr - Stop QQing. Riot's a business. Either buy the skins or don't. It isn't that hard not to complain about their business decisions.

Foreman Grills8/20/2015, 9:43:11 PM50 votes

I'm okay with Riot taking out skins like Toxic Mundo which are really horrible by today's standards, but many people still like Jaximus, Queen Ashe, and Obsidian Malphite. Now Malphite has 2 skins that are accessible; Mecha and Glacial Malphite. These are both fairly expensive skins, and it really is absurd considering he has a total of 6 skins, all of which bring something unique. The only one which deserves to be legacy is Shamrock, but putting skins on sale that look good and unique is absolutely a cash grab.

Dr Oshawott8/20/2015, 7:58:02 PM31 votes

Riot, you're gonna make me hate Blitzcrank for putting skins in retirement

Impªled Ur ªshe8/20/2015, 10:17:17 PM25 votes

I will pay 5000rp if you bring back urfwick!

The Mighty Flea8/20/2015, 7:45:49 PM17 votes

Another legacy release comes around and still no Phantom Karthus. How disappointing.

ModJikker8/20/2015, 10:34:58 PM15 votes

It seems like Riot is retiring skins for the sake of retiring skins.

Manwalrus8/20/2015, 8:06:39 PM11 votes

Why are legacy skins a thing again?

Wingthree8/20/2015, 7:26:58 PM11 votes

Desesrt Trooper Garen. I don't even have a joke for that.

Tinybrew8/20/2015, 7:23:04 PM7 votes

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DefNotBlitzcrank8/20/2015, 7:53:28 PM7 votes

Why not me?

SithLord0178/20/2015, 10:27:44 PM6 votes

No Silent Night Sona item 3070 Rito pls

The Ascended8/20/2015, 9:54:33 PM3 votes

No Zombie Brand ?