What if Retired Skins Came Back as Hextech Gem Skins?

Çhåryzård·May 27, 2017·14 votes·989 views

Obviously there would be special borders and such identifying the originals (in fact Grey Warwick seems to already have a border loading in?).

What if retired skins were available as very rare hextech drops from chests that require gemstones to turn into permanents? It'd still make them rare and hard to get but give people a small chance at obtaining them. I think I've only seen Darius' gem skin once, Hextech Annie once, and I have yet to see Vayne's. They are still incredibly rare.

I for one think Grey Warwick is a gorgeous skin and would love to be able to use it, but I also think that if it is ever brought back there should be identifying marks and borders show who got it through recruit a friend originally and who got it through hextech.

8 Comments

Jerry SeinfeIdMay 28, 20175 votes

like i don't care how they do it. The people crying for championship riven got what they wanted. So why can't i have riot squad singed?

if this is the best way then pls just do it.

i've only once seen vayne's and annie's twice, but i still remember the way the guy with riot squad singed played because it's so much cooler to me.

ÇhåryzårdMay 29, 20171 votes

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like i don't care how they do it. The people crying for championship riven got what they wanted. So why can't i have riot squad singed?

if this is the best way then pls just do it.

i've only once seen vayne's and annie's twice, but i still remember the way the guy with riot squad singed played because it's so much cooler to me.

And I mean when you have the original skin people notice too.

I'm so used to seeing "Championship Riven 2017" that the one time recently when I saw the regular original Championship Riven I was like "holy shit that's the original". The guy was really good too.

SukishooMay 27, 20171 votes

Riot had mentioned that it was a possibility

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/q/urfwick-wants-loot-box-and-voice-chat-and-better-support though not much has been said about it since then.

ReisenTheDosMay 27, 20171 votes

I only saw the Daruis gem skin once and was EXTREMELY LUCKY to see Grey Warwick in game in my team as well. It's a shame that it's a retire skin. Same for Medieval Twitch as I saw that one in ARAM.

Fondling GemsMay 28, 20171 votes

I actually know a guy outside of League who played the game during Beta and has the king rammus skin which is pretty crazy.

ReisenTheDosMay 28, 20171 votes

Same here, but he isn't on anymore. [zombie-nunu-tears]

But I do know another friend who has the Urf the Manatee skin!

ÇhåryzårdMay 29, 20171 votes

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I only saw the Daruis gem skin once and was EXTREMELY LUCKY to see Grey Warwick in game in my team as well. It's a shame that it's a retire skin. Same for Medieval Twitch as I saw that one in ARAM.

My friend apparently has it and I never knew so one game he went jg Warwick and had the skin and I got so extremely salty

58697132DEL1May 28, 20171 votes

I would also like PAX skins to be re-ealeased this way. They could legit just do the Riven thing, custom border and some special design on the skin that shows "I had this before it was cool hastag hipster" and then other folks still need to spend a valuable resource for it so it's still "Rare" to obtain!

But if they do this, i'd also like a slight bump in gem drop rates, as that would mean there would be like 10+ skins and thats over 100 gems. I've opened around 200 boxes so far and still only have 5 gems :/ (i blame my bad luck like i'm sure some folks bought like 25 chests and pulled 8 or something, but with so many skins Gem rate needs to keep up)

I'm babbling but in short yes this, plz Rito.