The champion with the absolute worst skin selection.

Wild Geese·9/1/2019, 11:20:14 PM·39 votes·18,582 views

No it's not one of the newer champs who have 2 or 3 skins, as those skins could all be considered high quality, rather it's a Champion with 6 skins with one 1 that looks good.

It's Kassadin. Kassadin. 3 recolors of his ANCIENT vectex looking base model, of which 2 are legacy (and nobody misses except as a Christmas meme), 1 which costs 975 even though it's just a recolour. The other one, Pre-void, being barely more than a recolor and is at least "something", not to say it's interesting. All of the splash arts are ancient as hell, before 2011, and haven't been updated unlike his Base Skin. Not that they'd be helped with new splashes, the skins are boring in game.

His only good skin, being nearly 4 years old, is Cosmic Reaver Kassadin. Of course Cosmic Reaver Kassadin is good; but that's all Kassadin has, it's the only quality skin he has.

Taliyah, Kled, and Ivern may only have 3 skins, Ornn may only have 2. But even at their worst, their quality is somewhere above awful.

But Kassadin who is 10 years old and has maintained a decent playrate, has only been thrown one skin in the last 8 years.

63 Comments

Divin1ty9/1/2019, 11:25:26 PM26 votes

Kled, and Ivern may only have 3 skins, Ornn may only have 2. But even at their worst, their quality is somewhere above awful.

Kled has two. Ivern has two. Ornn has one. Base Skins don't count.

Chembaron Yamada9/1/2019, 11:27:33 PM7 votes

Personally, I feel Dr. Mundo has the worst skin collection. Literally all his skins are jokes.... Not one among them that can give me a serious power fantasy. Might change if he finally gets his VGU, tho.

Lapis9/2/2019, 2:58:58 AM6 votes

I think Xerath skins are the worst, personally. They're basically just chromas. Like, to be fair, i'm not sure what would actually work for Xerath, but still.

I Like Teemo9/1/2019, 11:39:47 PM5 votes

worst skin line is Malphite his skins are not at all good, and the odyssey one is about as good as we might get for some time he just looks like a guy with a big nose in almost all of them

EdgeLady9/2/2019, 3:22:17 AM4 votes

And Kassadin can have so many cool skins too. Can you imagine Blood Moon Kassadin? Or a Lunar Revel-themed Kassadin, either with normal Lunar skins or Immortal Journey? Even Infernal Kassadin would be pretty cool. Though to be fair, Kassadin needs an update, a mini-rework or larger. Even if just so that Riot can stop trying to make it "secret" that he and Kai'Sa are father and daughter.

To that note: those two should have a skin together somewhere. I know the meme about Kai'Sa getting lots of skins, but if only to give her daddy one too.

Sucction9/2/2019, 3:56:00 AM4 votes

Honorable mention to Xerath.

EdgeLady10/21/2019, 5:53:48 PM2 votes

The great thing about this thread is coming back to it now knowing that Kassadin is about to get a beast of a new skin.

TheRunicBlade9/2/2019, 11:37:54 PM2 votes

Uhhhhhhhh Kalista? 2 of her skins are unavailable for most of the year and her bloodmoon skin is her release skin. [sg-soraka]

Wild Geese9/2/2019, 9:01:12 PM2 votes

Some of the champions mentioned and why Kassadin has a worse selection (or not) than them.

Shaco DrMundo Trundle Karma Zilean Malphite I think they have decent skins, their problem really comes from having horrible animations that are so repetitive no skin can help it, they have no flexibility; they move around like Warcraft 3 models. Karma and Zilean are the worst offenders, being normal humans they move around more robotically than Orianna... Zac Mordekaiser Kennen I think these ones are fine.. Zac is kinda limited by design but they try (could try harder). Mordekaiser I'm not sure why they skimped on VFX changes but he looks good in all of them. Kennen needs some kinda mini-vgu but he has pretty good skins. Xerath Cassiopeia Those two are as bad as Kassadin, Xerath only has Guardan of the Sands for something different, though his base model stands up decently. and Cassiopeia only has Eternium. Cassiopea might even be even worse than Kassadin, because her base skin and just design are so awful. I usually love Gorgans (Like Medusa in dota, dota2, and smite are all nice) but her design is so weak where she looks like a human with a silly hat waist up, with a very plain snake tail waist down. only Eternium fixes her by making her look like a Monster all the way.

Beetle Blast9/2/2019, 10:48:08 AM1 votes

Kennen has got some pretty poor choices imo.

Same with Zilean.

And trundle...

God the list keeps going...

Tin Obliterates9/2/2019, 8:04:10 AM1 votes

Trundle. The guy has no quality skins that change his ability effects (not counting his E pillar) apart from his Traditional skin, and those effects are just what he used to have before his rework, nothing really new.

Amewe9/1/2019, 11:25:16 PM1 votes

Think I would cry if they released a new kassadin skin

Dorans Pants9/2/2019, 7:41:11 PM1 votes

I would rate Zilean pretty high on such a list. His base model is incredibly ugly and similar to kassadin he has only one skin with changed particles made a bit earlier in the same year.

MasterDClone9/3/2019, 3:19:57 AM1 votes

actually ornn only has 1 skin not 2

Ebonmaw Dragon9/3/2019, 4:14:32 PM1 votes

Technically Harbinger Kassadin is not a recolour, even if does look like it. Just saying.

Sinister Anubis9/3/2019, 6:23:45 PM1 votes

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No it's not one of the newer champs who have 2 or 3 skins, as those skins could all be considered high quality, rather it's a Champion with 6 skins with one 1 that looks good.

It's Kassadin. Kassadin. 3 recolors of his ANCIENT vectex looking base model, of which 2 are legacy (and nobody misses except as a Christmas meme), 1 which costs 975 even though it's just a recolour. The other one, Pre-void, being barely more than a recolor and is at least "something", not to say it's interesting. All of the splash arts are ancient as hell, before 2011, and haven't been updated unlike his Base Skin. Not that they'd be helped with new splashes, the skins are boring in game.

His only good skin, being nearly 4 years old, is Cosmic Reaver Kassadin. Of course Cosmic Reaver Kassadin is good; but that's all Kassadin has, it's the only quality skin he has.

Taliyah, Kled, and Ivern may only have 3 skins, Ornn may only have 2. But even at their worst, their quality is somewhere above awful.

But Kassadin who is 10 years old and has maintained a decent playrate, has only been thrown one skin in the last 8 years.

There are plenty of other champions who have not had skin releases in years.