PSA: If you're spending Prestige Points on skins, wait until the end of the year

Ice Weasel X·1/11/2019, 1:45:09 AM·22 votes·20,691 views

Unless you fully intend to repeatedly spend $100+ for multiple 2019 Prestige skins, don't spend your Prestige Points as soon as you can afford that skin you're eyeing. You have until next January to buy this year's non-event Prestige skins, and they haven't announced all of the skins getting the treatment.

Let's say a skin comes out in July that you think is amazing and you've managed to save up 100PP.

DON'T GET IT YET.

Your two favorite champions could end up getting yearly Prestige skins in October and December. Impulse purchases earlier in the year might fuck your chances and/or wallet later in the year. 2019 PP are no longer available after December, and 2019 Prestige skins are uncraftable via PP after January 2020. In addition, any chests you open this year have a tiny chance to contain Prestige edition skins, so you might even get them without spending your PP.

Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with my opinion of the Prestige Points system or costs. This is entirely just to warn impatient buyers to look ahead before burning off their resources.

##Adding link to official announcement since some are confused:

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/prestige-points-and-new-prestige-edition-skins

So we’re keeping event-specific prestige skins, but adding yearly prestige edition skins, which are craftable for 100 Prestige Points each. These 2019 yearly prestige skins will release throughout the year until they all expire on January 31, 2020, at 11:59 PM PT. ... The 2019 Prestige Points will expire from Masterwork Chest bundles on December 31, 2019, at 11:59 PM PT.

Non-event Prestige skins which are released later in the year will use the same Prestige Points as skins available now.

8 Comments

MrHaZeYo1/11/2019, 1:58:34 AM11 votes

I didn't realize that they were gonna be gemstones on a timer lol.

Sewer Side1/11/2019, 1:08:18 PM11 votes

Don’t get it at all

Larriet1/12/2019, 12:32:36 AM2 votes

I want to point out that Prestige Edition skins ARE NOT Limited; they aren't labelled as such, but they are functionally Legacy skins. The ones released this year will be available in chests even after 2019! Like all Mythic skins, it's a lower drop rate than normal, though.

cznii10/7/2019, 10:02:29 AM2 votes

It's complete bullshit the points expire. You get 25 points from each set of paid missions, which means if you want to buy the 100 POINT PRESTIGE SKINS you need to buy 4 paid missions packs a year. How many mission packs are there each year? Probably 4 right? So if you miss one you are FUCKED. Fuck this company. They are garbage human beings.