@Riot - victorious skins via hextech crafting?

Dafthar·2/6/2016, 4:35:48 PM·17 votes·62,807 views

I know you will not sell the victorious skins and I do appreciate that. It would be unfair to those who've earned them with their skills. However, there are many ppl who would do a lot to get them (eg, me). What if we could get victorious skins via hextech crafting under certain circumstances? Let's say I gotta be Mastery level 7 (when you realease lvls 6 & 7) with Elise and at least platinum player to have a chance to have Victorious Elise as a reward. I suppose that's a contentious issue. Just wanted to bring the idea to the table. Could it be discussed?

45 Comments

Nagoh Shan2/6/2016, 5:31:08 PM18 votes

I still think getting gold should unlock the season's reward like it currently does, but also unlock previous season's rewards in the shop.

Still limited to reaching gold, people still get the season they participate in for free, and it expands the end of season rewards for reaching gold and maintaining good behavior.

Riotmoonstones2/8/2016, 6:10:31 PM11 votes

Hey Dafthar -

This is always a hot issue, as there are certainly two sides to this discussion. It's something we discuss, especially when new things like Hextech Crafting come about. I can definitely see where both sides are coming from.

Players who own the skins don't want others to be able to obtain them because it's something that they earned as a reward for a specific ranked season.

Players who don't own them can't obtain them, and they don't feel great about that, especially if they joined the game in season 3, and never had a chance to grab Victorious Jarvan or Victorious Janna (I'm still salty I didn't play ranked back then. :P)

That said, we don't have plans to include limited skins in Hextech Crafting, which means that Victorious skins will not be included.

If you have more questions about the system, you can check out the boards post!

WabberJocky2/6/2016, 4:45:53 PM5 votes

No. That is equally as unfair as letting people buy them. You didn't earn them so you don't get them.

MavenSong2/6/2016, 5:01:56 PM3 votes

I wish, I want Vic Morg Q_Q (or janna, she has a vic skin too right? Dont remember what it looks like...)

Keevalroy2/8/2016, 7:41:30 PM3 votes

Absolutely not. Victorious skins should remain as a veteran badge for people who own these skins which can't be obtained anymore. It's like the Spirit of Competition pet in WoW that you got for PvPing during the Beijing Olympics - no one but the people who played in 2008 should be able to have one. It's veteran status and bragging rights.

PhantomDrock2/6/2016, 5:19:41 PM2 votes

They have stated before that limited skins such as Victorious Skins will NOT be available via Hextech Crafting. :)

jacktjong4/18/2016, 1:17:48 PM1 votes

I have an idea on how this can be done, altough it might be a lot harder to accept for someone with like Victorious Jarvan or Janna than someone with Victorious Sivir.

How about that you can pick the skin you want after a season where you became gold in. For instance, if I were to become gold in Season 6, that when it ends I can choose between: Victorious Jarvan, Victorious Janna, Victorious Elise, Victorious Morgana and Victorious Sivir (and the skin that will be made for season 6. Victorious Ziggs? :P). In that way, you still obtain the skins as a reward, but you'll only have one skin for the champion you like. it still is hard to get, but at least you get the skin you REALLY want ;).

I think that if this system would be added, I'd actually start playing Ranked. I really want that sweet Victorious Elise...

NorthernTitan5/10/2016, 2:54:09 PM1 votes

Well, I agree that there's a strong issue with the fact those skins are REWARDS, and Riot is a free game, and think of it, some people don't purchase any RP, so when the HAVE TO play really good, to achieve a good rank, and EARN them, that says something. I can cry all day about not being able to own the Janna skin, cause id definitely pay a hefty sum for it. although that's another point, a lot of players will purchase them , hands down. anyways i appreciate the sense of keeping them locked up, but i mean.. whoa, let us have em' we want them.

Danksley9/22/2016, 7:09:16 AM1 votes

I think having gold+ should let you get victorious skins via hextech.

I could climb to challenger today and never see victorious elise from taking S3 off.

Ouroboros8Fate2/22/2018, 11:02:27 PM1 votes

I know this is an old post but I was curious about this topic since I main Janna and Morgana and feel bad that I never got the chance to obtain their Victorious skins. Plus I feel like the reward system is kind of slow... I rarely get chests and rarely get skin shards... and if i do it's normally some tacky cheap unpopular skin that's not worth anything in the store. I got a chest the other day from the once every 7 days and all i got was a Vayne skin shard... you don't know how much that tilted me... Especially when I get champion capsules from leveling up. And getting skins takes forever if you don't get orange essence or skins to disenchant to purchase them. I managed to get Elementalist Lux on my lowbie account i made for lunar revel and from the first of the two lunar orbs i got the skin shard from it. Too bad it costs like 3600 orange essence and i rarely get skins frequently.

My main account is over level 100 and all i ever really get is champion shards and occasional blue essence. I've had 1 purple gemstone for a long time and that's about it. I end up having tons of mastery tokens but don't have the champion shards i actually need to upgrade them without spending all my blue essence on the mastery token. 3900 blue essence is a lot for a mastery symbol. xD

I feel like the loot/reward system should be similar to maybe Heroes of the Storm... where you have chances of purchasing certain skins if you save up enough in game reward currency over time... and in HotS and even Smite they have Mastery Skins that vary. That would basically be equivalent to your Chroma skins mostly. They have Gold skins, Diamond Skins and in HotS they have themed skins for masteries.

And you get daily/weekly rewards more often through missions and such... the only daily you get from League of Legends is a measly FWOTD which grants a petty 50 blue essence or whatever. Like come on now... I have to wait 24 hours to get 50 blue essence... that's insulting. Especially when Invest maybe 6-8 hours or more playing your game almost daily.

I also noticed that the rewards you get while leveling up a new account pre level 30 are basically throwing free shit at you. Which i'm not arguing against that since it's nice to get you started on a new account. But it's annoying that I get more things on my lowbie account in a shorter time frame compared to my Main account that's over level 100...

But perhaps to solve the Victorious skin solution why not add special portrait inner borders like some of the star guardian or project skins. At least this way the people who got the victorious skins from the achievement can still have something to show that. Where as the people who got it from loot chests would simply have just the skin and not the fancy portrait.

And the fact that you have to buy rune pages still bugs me lol. Especially with how much they cost.

Anyways those are just my ideas and i'm sure people will agree or disagree.

ShadowPhoenix915/10/2019, 12:24:00 PM1 votes

What if… for season 10 to celebrate 10 years they could do all the previous skins and you can choose which one you want if you get gold... Like you can get the new tenth one or you can choose from previous ones… They could make it like Riven championship I and II to show if you got it originally or in the tenth season… As a morgana lover I really want that victorious morgana! :D

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