The Next Ultimate Skin

kat tail··1 votes·576 views

I know we just got one over the last few months and I know it does take awhile to make a regular skin, and there're epic skin and Legendary, which take more time and work to make them extra special. But my friends and I can't help but wonder what the next ultimate skin will be.

We can already make some educated guesses by the way Riot go about doing things.

  1. It's most likely going to be a Top Laner. Just because all the other roles have been fulfilled. Ezreal Sona Udyr and Lux Riot like to keep things "balance", so it would make sense to give a Top Laner an ultimate skin. So you can have a full team.

  2. It's going to be an older champ. Now I'm just guessing, I have no idea. My only reasoning is what Riot they said about the Hextech Skins, that they gave skin to champs who already have a lot of skins so when you get it's worth something to you ( beside the cash you drop for it lol).

  3. It come down to concept. At the end of the cycle, it's going to come down if the idea is grand enough to make into an ultimate skin. All the ultimate skins are very different and work in there own way that set them apart from any other skins even other ultimate skins. Yea there one common mechanics of transformation with each one but that about it (as far i can tell).

So, I was making this post to see if anybody had some ideas, theories or concepts about the next ultimate skin. Feel to tell I'm wrong and share your thoughts on who might get one and what there theme would be.

7 Comments

JarodDempsey3 votes

riot mainly releases skins by popularity, jax is by far the most popular top and he just got a new skin. Tbh the idea on the boards about him being able to choose different weapon visual build paths as an ult skin would have went perfect with him being most popular as well as them not having a top ult skin yet. Other strong contenders would be nasus who just got a new skin and also riven who got dawnbringer not too long ago but i wouldnt put it past riot to release something for her, additionally gangplank is a solid contender due to popularity as well as fiora due to her appeal to eastern audiences.. All of this is assuming your guess about it being a top is correct. I would not be surprised one bit if riot just went with popularity instead, Id guess that adc, then mid, then top, then jungle, then support is the most likely role.

Also, ele lux is in a completely higher class than the other ulti skins. Sona has a manual mechanic but its just music and some model color, i'd put her in second place. Ezereal is not significantly better than pf cait and yet she costs way less, he does what? grow a little as he levels...yawn. And then theres udyr whose ulti skin is is actually an epic skin (riot rlly needs to reclass it since it was made before ult skins were clearly differentiated from other skin classes)

kat tail1 votes

I agree with the quality of the older ultimate skin Ele Lux is byfar the best ( IMO) for $35, Sona a second ( I don’t own her only seen her in-game) and the other are like whatever and I’m an adc main. There I clear distinction between old Riot skins and new Riot skins and I’m not just talking about ultimate skins, just how they make skins nowadays. I rarely see a skin under 1300 RP, which in good because it mean that the “cheap skin” are still good quality ( even if people disagree). But I feel where Riot skin dept. fall off is updating older skins. It’s not just ultimate skins, take Star Guardian Lux. The first skin to start a whole line ( and practical franchise) is so outdated. That Slash art doesn’t line up with others ~~( maybe lulu but her is weird to me too) ~~and she doesn’t have any interactions with any of the other guardians— seem weird to me. I’m not asking Riot to fix and update every skin in the game, but it don’t seem mind for the little things that makes buying skins worth it. Don’t even get me start one PF Ezreal— that skin is just a mess I’m not going to tell them how to do there jobs, because quite frankly there not doing Bed. Are there some problems, yea. But we can tell them how we feel and hope they hear us.

JarodDempsey1 votes

i agree they should update the older skins but it's clear why they dont. It wont make them as much money as making a new skin and riot is all about money vs quality these days.

Arcade Lulu2 votes

Pffff a toplaner Naa

It's going to be another ultimate Lux skin

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

JarodDempsey1 votes

lmao i wouldn't even doubt it. her or ahri or ezreal, maybe mf too basically get seemingly a new skin every 3 months.

Carach Angren1 votes

How about Tryndamere ?

After all, he is our king, the one and only father of several million children

All hail Mark Merill

JarodDempsey1 votes

yeah hes also a solid choice based on age and relative permanence in the meta. while not being super popular hes far from dumpster level so he's definitely a viable contender if the next skin is a top.

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