Why doesn't riot give skins to the champs that need it?

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Hiya yay sprinkles,

There are several reasons we do/don't give skins to a particular champion.

In some cases, let's use Soraka, she was a good fit for both Reaper (Harrowing) and Order of the Banana (April Fool's). Yes, she received two skins fairly close to each other, but they were both strong thematics. A champion wouldn't be DQ'd so to speak from an event skin (Harrowing, Snowdown, etc) if they received a skin fairly recently.

In other instances, we won't give a champion a skin until the thematic fits, and it's the right time of year. Pool Party Zac is a good example of this. We've been working on this guy, but since he's part of the Pool Party thematic, we wanted to release him with the rest of the skins and closer to summer. It wouldn't make much sense to release this guy in December, for example.

Other champions won't receive skins until they receive an update. Taric is a good example of this. It'd be pretty upsetting if we gave him a new skin, and then completely changed it to line up with the new and improved look of Taric, especially if you were a fan of the original design.

We've been working through the backlog of champions who need skins - Akali, Galio and Zac - to name a few. We've still got a ways to go, but we're getting there. :]

ill add to this. Design difficulty is another thing. Zyra, yorick, udyr for example all have multiple things that need to be done to get a new skin.

Zyra has a lot of animations that need to be done with her plants. Shes probably the most complex in the game when it comes to spell animations.

Yorick has all his ghouls and Udyr is technically 4 skins in 1.

So the time it would take to make 1 skin for them, they could make 2-4 skins that are much simpler for other champs :)

In saying that, can we please get a Yorick skin Kateykhaos ;)

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like what champs?

Aatrox, Azir(Reksais getting a skin already like really?), Brand!!!!!!!!, Diana, Elise, Fiora, Kass, Kayle, Kennen just to name a few that don't have many or have not had a new one in forever.

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You shut your face right now. Zac has been needing these skins for ages.

I want Lava Zac. Animate steam coming off him and he and his blobs are bubbling and he leaves burn marks for a few seconds wherever he goes