Category: Skins (Page 10 of 11)

Skin sales have been good to me, lately

October 13, 2010 / Jeff Morgan

I’ve been waiting a while for the skin sales to finally have something I don’t already own or have no interest in owning, and it looks like it finally happened. Over the past week I was able to pick up Pharaoh Amumu and Tribal Ryze for a total less than 500 RP. It was a pretty sweet deal, and I hope it keeps coming.

I’d venture a guess that I own at least one skin for nearly all of the champions. There are a few exceptions, of course – Janna and Kassadin off the top of my head – but I like the extra bit of flair the skins add to the game. I’m also happy to throw my money at a game that I’ve enjoyed so immensely over the last 10 months or so. That said, I’ve tried not to buy any full price skins in the last three months or so. I had seen so many skins go on sale that I had already purchased that I just had to start waiting. Glad to see it has finally paid off.

league of legends, Skins

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Unannounced skins for the Sona patch cycle

September 21, 2010 / Jeff Morgan

As with most patches, the Sona patch includes a few unannounced skins that we can expect to see early next week. This time around we get Grim Reaper Karthus, Barbarion Sion, and Pre-Void Kassadin. Riot’s really running with the Darth Vader theme for Kassadin, though I suppose they did give him hair.

The Karthus skin is particularly nice, but I hope it’s not a legendary.

league of legends, Skins

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Corporate Mundo available on Monday

September 11, 2010 / Jeff Morgan

Corporate Mundo is indeed the legendary Mundo skin and it looks like he’ll be available for purchase on Monday, September 13th. Riot’s put together a teaser video, including Mundo’s new voiceovers in a silly montage with several other champions. Mundo’s new animation is that he throws a briefcase of loose papers instead of his infected cleaver.

league of legends, News, Skins

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Unannounced skins in the current patch cycle

September 9, 2010 / Jeff Morgan

Within each recent patch cycle there have been skin releases that didn’t launch with the actual patch but became available at a later date. It looks like that trend will continue with some excellent looking skins for a few of my favorite damage dealers.

Master Yi, Shaco, and Mundo are all set to get some nice skins within our current patch cycle. The Yi is obviously an asian theme, but maybe someone can enlighten me on the specific reference (if there is one). Shaco’s getting a basic recolor. Mundo, though, is getting one of the coolest skins in the game. You may remember a thread a while back about Dr. Mundo and the various ways he ‘goes where he pleases.’ Remember Corporate Mundo? Running multinational corporation as he pleases? Yup, Corporate Mundo is on the way, and it looks like he’ll be throwing a cell phone from 1985.

No word on release date or RP cost for these, but you can bet I’ll be getting that Master Yi skin, probably once it goes on sale. It’s already my desktop background.

We’ve added a gallery function to the blog and are currently working out the kinks. Bear with me. It’s a much better way to display several images for a post, though.

Development, league of legends, Skins

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Trade feature preserves the owner’s skin

September 9, 2010 / Jeff Morgan

I jumped online for a quick game with my buddy this morning . We typically duo queue a couple times during the day, especially after there’s a patch. Bans went Kog’Maw, Amumu, Shen, Vladimir, leaving Morgana open for first pick. I didn’t really feel like playing her, but I definitely didn’t want to play against her. My friend has been on a Morgana kick, so he offered to swap if I chose her, which I did.

Our opponents first picked Ezreal and Miss Fortune, so I figured Malphite would be a good tank. He’s a blast since the buff and the armor was definitely going to help out against those two. Once everyone’s selection had been placed we traded and popped into the load screen. My friend doesn’t own a ton of skins, so I was surprised to see him with Fallen Angel. He said he didn’t own it (I do, though). Then I realized I had Shamrock Malphite, which I definitely don’t own. My friend does, though.

As it turns out, swapped champions will retain whatever skin the owner put on the champion. I don’t know if it’s intended, but it could be a cool way to get players to buy skins. When I was running around as green Malphite, I actually started to like the skin. I think the glow of Brutal Strikes on his regular skin is much cooler, but being big and green is kinda neat. I think it’s totally reasonable to assume that once players see themselves in a given skin, they might be more willing to drop down some cash on it.

Champions, league of legends, Skins

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