Mastery Rank Should Include a Skin

MajesticAxel·7/29/2015, 5:10:52 PM·48 votes·2,739 views

It shouldn't be too dramatic. I think having some way to show the other team you have a character mastered (besides the emotes) is a good idea because I remember in another game they had it, where you could have the default skin but it had like a gold and silver theme instead of the normal. I thought it would be cool to have a special skin to work towards that doesn't require RP.

EDIT: The game I'm talking about (I think) is Tome: Immortal Arena, I believe it was called. For future reference I'm not talking about Smite.

32 Comments

OceanicEyes7/29/2015, 6:26:20 PM15 votes

I got a survey Recently from Riot where they wanted feedback on adding particle changes as a reward for champion mastery, it seemed pretty cool. It's not a skin, but still it's a neat idea.

Phil Fly7/29/2015, 7:42:58 PM11 votes

I think instead of a skin, your character should have something added. Something that amplifies the feel. Like if you get rank 5 Graves he gets his cigar back.

Radnar the bold7/29/2015, 5:20:33 PM4 votes

just like Heros of the storm

Randomonium7/30/2015, 2:50:39 PM3 votes

What chromas should have been. First chroma unlocks at rank 5. Thereafter you unlock a better chroma every 100k mastery points. Would take a long time accomplish which would make it extremely rewarding.

Diananmen Square7/29/2015, 6:34:47 PM2 votes

Silver Rengar would be a bit too weird, he's already white

There should be some exceptions , for example, animals/yorldes with white/yellow fur, etc.

Vekkna7/30/2015, 2:22:09 PM2 votes

I like the idea that champs with level 5 mastery have all their vaulted skins available for direct purchase, along with a summoner icon of champ portrait.

If you get to level 5 mastery, you're clearly spending a lot of time on that champ and will probably buy skins for them. I realize that some people don't see the reward of "congrats, now give me your money!" but I think it would be nice to have access to some of the rarer limited skins as a reward for the achievement.

Indorfin7/30/2015, 4:49:18 PM2 votes

I think you should be able to use that champ as your summoner icon at level 5. Riot could even use their portrait icons if they didn't feel like making new ones.

Hay5eed7/30/2015, 3:04:08 AM1 votes

I think the game you are thinking about is SMITE

BakedLotion7/30/2015, 3:07:31 AM1 votes

HotS has 3 free chromas, free gold, free mount chromas, two icons, and a special master skin available for purchase when you reach level 10. They actually give u something for mastering a hero/champion.

Now I'm not saying HotS is a better game...(imo, it's not.) But they actually reward you for your hard work.

Purebred Zed7/30/2015, 8:23:20 AM1 votes

I think it'd be a little to easy to do....but I think SOMETHING else should be done. Even if it's something like when you reach level 5 with a champion you unlock a skin or added effects that you can purchase for a champion. That would be fun and may happen because Rito would make some moolah off it and people would enjoy their level 5 skins.

Enchanté7/30/2015, 9:54:38 AM1 votes

If riot adds like a particle or tweak a bit of the model or something, (which im pretty sure these are for classic skins) what will happen to people who actually own skins for them? nothing?

In my mind: what if riot gives a mystery skin (only for that champ) when you reach mastery 5 with it? (but hey thats an easy skin for everyone then.... and what will happen to people who own all skins LOL ~~ok bad idea~~)

SSmotzer7/30/2015, 2:45:49 PM1 votes

I think the unique taunt is a pretty good reward.

Spizzle90007/30/2015, 10:13:52 PM1 votes

I think it should maybe be a chroma or maybe a low value skin?

Hiemdol7/29/2015, 5:38:32 PM1 votes

The game I think that you are talking about is Smite. Whether it is or not I made a post about this in a similar thread a while ago which illustrates why this would not be likely to happen. I'll just throw it below.

First off I want to say of course I would like additional skins for champions I play, but I am not sure it would work. While this system works in Smite it does have some trouble being ported to League.

If I recall correctly there are about sixty seven gods in Smite and this system have been in since launch. I did not play then but I think there were about seventeen gods at launch. This means at maximum Smite had to develop about seventeen 'mastery' skins and design them during a time there was no player base waiting for content.

Again if I recall correctly there are 126 champions in League. Assuming that Riot starts right now they will need to design 126 skins, essentially concurrently, to catch up with all their champions. Assuming they immediately diverted all the art assets needed to only ship mastery skins with Riots current skin release level we can assume about 3.5 skins per two week.

This mean it would take about seventy two weeks or about eighteen months with no other skins. Because skins are Riots only reliable form of income this of course would never happen. But with projected releases already at about eighteen months, lets say they only use about 1/4 of their art team. At that kind of pace this would take just over six years to complete.

All this totally bypasses the question of if Riot would even give skins for free, but with a timetable like this I highly doubt that this is something we would ever see.

fisox7/29/2015, 6:14:04 PM1 votes

Better get a free icon...

RottedApples7/29/2015, 7:02:16 PM1 votes

perhaps this is why they are shoving chromas down our throats every patch, maybe they want to allow people to get 1 free chroma for a champ when they have enough to cover every champ.

Although then that begs the question, why are they making chromas for skins. I think this would be a nice idea though.

Smart Kitty7/29/2015, 8:34:17 PM1 votes

Imo this should've been how they did chroma packs.

LazerFruit7/29/2015, 11:54:06 PM1 votes

just give them a mystery skin for that champ

S2C2Xd9KOy7/30/2015, 12:09:12 AM1 votes

Should really just give you an icon of the champions portrait. Its not like they already don't have those and its way less work then making like 126 skins or whatever.