Earlier this week Riot released Cottontail Teemo, a hilarious Easter Week skin that, frankly, I’m probably going to buy. It’s unfortunate, though, especially considering Teemo’s other epic skin, Astronaut Teemo. A couple weeks back also saw the release of Urfrider Corki, a totally amazing skin that is inexplicably 975 RP. At first I hoped they wouldn’t release the skins as legendary because I thought it somehow devalued the legendary skins. Now, though, I see that the current system is even worse – that the legendary skins aren’t really legendary at all.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the new skins. Both the Teemo and Corki skins are worth a purchase in my opinion, but they’re also a slap in the face to the people who bought legendary skins in the past. The whole point of legendary skins were that they were unique and somehow better than other skins. They had new voice work and different character models than the lesser skins. In the case of legendary Heimerdinger and Teemo, the models for their abilities were even different.
Now that 975 RP skins are getting the same treatment (minus the voiceover work), I’d imagine there are quite a few unhappy customers. It sucks that the uniqueness of those legendary skins is being devalued. Wasn’t that the point of releasing them in the first place?
