16 champs that have gone over 1000 days w/o a new skin

Forhonor321·4/23/2018, 2:42:01 AM·54 votes·17,501 views

Yes I'm making another one of these posts, but like I said last time I'm still going to keep going with this. Reguardless, I also feel it's necessary to keep track of this sort of thing, because really I don't have much to keep me tied down to League as I did in the past. So, let's view the list and see what's happening:

  • Urgot 2239 days
  • Shen 1794 days
  • Heimerdinger 1378 days
  • Amumu Udyr 1117 days
  • Rammus Skarner Xerath 1091 days
  • Fiddlesticks 1088 days
  • Zilean 1077 days
  • Mordekaiser Shaco 1067 days
  • Irelia 1053 days
  • Chogath 1047 days
  • RekSai 1031 days
  • Aatrox 1004 days

(Evelynn would be on the list as well since I base my list on skins hitting live servers but I'm letting her off since it's bound to come to live reguardless)

100 Day threshhold (champs within 100 days of going 1000 days over) Vladimir 969 days Nunu 930 days Malphite 927 days Kassadin 920 days

Now granted, before someone says it, yes some of these champs need or are in reworks currently. Such examples are Mord, Fiddle in desperate need of reworks and Aatrox as an example of one who is currently being reworked. These are completely fair observations. However, I'm still stating them because this is based off of data. It can be a fair argument that they should wait until their eventual reworks launch live till they get their new skin. I will agree to that to some extent.

On top of this, I'm aware that Riot is working on skins for other champs from their more recent state video, with Shen Amumu Heimerdinger Vladimir AurelionSol remaining. So three of the top 5 are confirmed on getting skins soon, but until I see them they are going to remain on the list.

Now this brings me to my last to point for the post: WHEN IS Urgot GETTING HIS NEXT SKIN??? He is the only champ right now on the list that has been in the top three for quite some time now, but now is at #1 and is over 2000 days without a skin! This is really the only thing that's heavily bothering me with this list. If there's just a skin coming for him soon to kick him off the top then I'd be so grateful as to not see a champ in the 2000 area, at least while that lasts.

Anyways, that's just about it. Small update on the list. Check this back in two months, see where we're at.

87 Comments

Zoli Ben4/23/2018, 6:33:43 AM12 votes

Udyr Rammus Skarner Fiddlesticks Mordekaiser Shaco Chogath are tier one VGU candidates, meaning their turn is getting closer, and Riot might be evading skins for them on purpose at this point. Nunu will get a VGU, then he is skin eligible, before then, he will have gone 1000+ day without skin.

As for Star Guardian Urgot, they said they want to kill ALL meme, except Magma Chamber, so I take that as SG Urgot is happening. <3 Gotta instabuy that skin for my main.

xelaker4/23/2018, 4:05:05 PM7 votes

why do people always include reworked champs? they get massive visual updates for the most part. also there's quite a few champs that are getting reworked atm and new skins would have to change pretty quickly after they came out. making skins/ changing skins for reworks takes time and money.

MagicFlyingLlama4/23/2018, 2:55:05 AM6 votes

A lot of those have gotten visual updates or have them scheduled, though.

CapnMorganFr3man4/23/2018, 1:45:38 PM4 votes

Eh, Urgot got Crabgot update which basically makes it the cheapest epic skin in the game, so I'm not complaining. It would be fun to see Star Guardian Urgot finally, or maybe a Dark Star one.

Snowman Arc4/23/2018, 10:28:24 AM4 votes

Skins are a weird part, because some skins are good and some are bad. For example, a skin in Malphite, no matter how impressive it might look, it can't be that good, because it only changes Malphite's appearance. There are not real ability projectiles that create something impressive, so this probably turns people away from buying skins on Malphite. Same can be said for champions like Udyr, Rammus, Skarner etc.

If you see which champions receive skins a lot are those that have projectiles abilities (Star Guardian skins, Pizza Sivir, Jhin) etc. There has to be something REALLY IMPRESSIVE, like Riven's Dawnbringer for example, to justify the work put into the skin in skin sales.

Battalion4/24/2018, 1:33:28 AM3 votes

Some of those champions have had visual upgrades, so their entire skin roster had been redone.

Though it's about 2 years with Kindred . I'm not biased at all.

I also love Zilean. I thought his Bloodmoon Skin was new? Damn I'm getting old.

LilBadWitch4/23/2018, 6:36:31 AM3 votes

The Irelia and Evelynn rework skins turned out to be some of the highest quality skins that you can get for your RP. That's a massive plus that we can hope for going forward with the rest of the VGU. Art direction-wise, Evelyynn and Irelia were both well executed.

InTheory4/23/2018, 6:38:04 AM3 votes

Prepare for the next Ahri/Lux/Miss Fortune Skin

Jkrexx4/23/2018, 11:29:37 AM3 votes

Not as urgent as the ones listed but my intelligent hentai boy needs some love. 1181 days (over 3 whole years) since Vel'Koz got a decent skin, 752 since his last skin which was "definitely not" worth it. I know Riot wants to make money from milking popular champions but c'mon! :(

Sleepcoma4/23/2018, 7:59:42 PM2 votes

sorry, riot has to make more jhin, lux and ahri skins

SwimyFish4/23/2018, 6:28:29 AM2 votes

My biggest worry for Urgot is that Riot will give into the community hype for the meme skin Star Guardian Urgot, despite the fact that I have NEVER seen an actual Urgot player sign on for that skin. I've played almost nothing but Urgot this season, I only started playing him pretty recently but I already have almost 200 games on him, and if he gets a dissapointing skin like Arclight Yorick, it will honestly be such a shame. I have some personal thoughts on good Urgot skins, but that is perhaps for a different thread.

ThunderSkelett4/23/2018, 3:49:23 PM2 votes

Riot:"AHRI JHIN LUX ANNIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

QMighty4/23/2018, 12:31:20 PM2 votes

You forgot Zac He hasn't gotten one sine the same time as Rek'Sai ... [EDIT] and Kalista who also has not yet gotten a non-event skin since her release in 2014

nelogis4/23/2018, 8:35:18 AM2 votes

For long you had been number 1 my friend Yorick

AyoLiko4204/23/2018, 7:59:40 AM1 votes

When Poison face man stop bein op he can get another skin.. Until then he needs nerf not skin

only zhule4/23/2018, 6:57:30 PM1 votes

Maybe i'm miscounting here. but shouldn't Sona be on this list as well? didn't her last skin drop near the end of Feb 2015?