The new arcade skins are cool but Xerath hasn't had a skin since 2015

Apostle of Light·6/11/2019, 7:20:01 PM·94 votes·20,971 views

A few others have waited forever as well (can't remember off the top of my head).

Dark Star and Arcade are perfectly good skin lines for Xerath to fit into. But alas, the neglect continues. [cass-cry]

103 Comments

Apostle of Light6/11/2019, 7:38:33 PM49 votes

I just realized Kai'sa will now have more skins than Xerath. That's 5 skins in ~15 months for Kai vs 0 skins in over 4 years for Xer.

Bullet Angel, K/DA, Prestige K/DA, IG, Arcade (5 or 4.5 if you don't count Prestige as a full skin) vs Battlecast, Runeborn, Scorched Earth, GotS (4)

TrikzterzArma6/11/2019, 7:21:16 PM41 votes

Better give Kai'Sa her fifth skin in a year

łnśane6/11/2019, 7:25:12 PM29 votes

2 legendaries back to back (ez and jhin) and 2 MORE adcs are getting skins (kaisa/caitlyn) plus tristana. Like hot damn xD what happened to other champs? Other classes?

I was hoping Xerath gets another skin, lol was planning on picking him up jeez. I bet more adcs will get skins next cycle.

KestrelGirl6/11/2019, 7:30:38 PM26 votes

I was genuinely expecting Battle Boss Xerath. I have no idea what to expect anymore.

Arcade Lulu6/11/2019, 7:21:32 PM25 votes

Udyr, Skarner, Xerath, Zilean

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

OtterlyLost6/11/2019, 7:29:31 PM19 votes

At least with Dark Star, they gave them to champs that don't get a huge amount of skins; Karma doesn't have a lot of really good skins and Shaco, as much I as I hate the champion and think he's toxic, hasn't had a skin in years. Even Jhin doesn't have a ton though he's definitely more popular.

I'm not sure how I feel about their choices for the Arcade this year though. Especially since I think Kai'sa's isn't very good. :/ Something about her anatomy is off in the splash art and I feel like the way she's positioned isn't very good.

King Braum6/11/2019, 8:09:10 PM12 votes

Meanwhile Kai'sa, "In case y’all forgot: Kai’Sa was released in March 2018 and now, just shy of a year, will have 4 epic skins and 1 mythic skin. That’s five skins. In a year."

  • Some random guy in the Arcade Kai'Sa comments
Brotha6/11/2019, 8:44:45 PM11 votes

I've been expecting Arcade Ekko since his release. His particles look like they could be made for that skin. But hey better give Kaisa another skin and dump the other arcade skin on a champion with barely any particles to even show off.

Stars Shaper6/11/2019, 7:24:47 PM10 votes

It’s Riot Skin Team, not justice nor common sense that decides who gets a skin and which.

Camille Ferrøs6/11/2019, 11:10:39 PM9 votes

BUT Kai'sa didn't get a skin in 2 minutes. Please get in line.

GreenLore6/11/2019, 7:35:22 PM9 votes

Honestly I'm kinda disappointed about the battleboss skins.

I mean what kind of boss do Qiyana and yasuo represent? Sure there are some Samurai bosses, but Samurais can be just as often player characters and Qiyana looks like she just got the boss skin because she gets released in the same patch and happens to be a more antagonistic character.

9NINE6/11/2019, 8:59:56 PM7 votes

well, he's not a female humanoid so nope. no skin for him.

Sancre6/11/2019, 8:55:36 PM6 votes

Honestly, Boss Xerath and Glitched/Bugged Boss Mordekaiser seemed like a given, one due to demand and the other due to the recently baked rework and the inmense amount of memes about Morde's bugs, but neither got made...

Sheogowrath6/11/2019, 9:15:24 PM6 votes

The reaction to this decision by Riot is so laughably predictable that there's only 2 options here:

  1. Riot is incompetent
  2. Riot simply doesn't care and is more interested in quick cash grabs

Take your pick

Fighter Ignite16/12/2019, 4:15:20 AM5 votes

The Yasuo skin does not even fit well. It kinda just looks like they slapped some arcade particles on him and said, "ok this works."

14daysuspensionk6/11/2019, 11:32:13 PM4 votes

People, we need to stop focusing on complaining about gameplay and start complaining about the skins they're making.

mack91126/11/2019, 11:07:14 PM3 votes

Kinda let down tbh

4 Step Cadence6/11/2019, 11:22:03 PM3 votes

I stated this in another thread, but I'll say it here too.

They are probably alternating between forgotten champions and popular champions so that they don't lose too much money. For example, Shaco was in the "1000 days" club, and he just got a new skin. So, now, its time for a full cast of "popular champions". Next release, they'll probably give another "forgotten" champion a skin.

Don't give up hope yet. There's still time.

Beginning6/11/2019, 8:17:34 PM3 votes

Kalista only has Championship and a team skin. Taliyah also only has a team skin. Seems like once they get team skins, Riot won't bother.

KICK OUT AT 26/12/2019, 1:48:48 AM2 votes

There's too many champions to give them all a skin, they gotta choose high profit champs.

Novae Idyllica6/11/2019, 11:53:26 PM1 votes

I'm hoping both Zilean and Xerath get project skins this year. While thematically they may not be the best candidates, visually I think they would be amazing .