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As with every patch, the LeBlanc patch brings some unannounced skins. I’m especially excited to see Malphite getting a respectable skin, though I can tell you right now it’s probably not worth 975. As with most mid-cycle skins, I’ll be waiting for a sale.

I’m not sure why the Janna skin is called Hextech Janna. Some Weird Science reference? The Kennen skin looks pretty great as well. Look for these some time over the weekend.

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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.

There are a lot of “pending” skins ready for a variety of champions that have not yet made an appearance in the LoL store. Skins like Woad Ashe, Frosted Ezreal, and the much anticipated Riot Singed have been teasing me since the launch of Season One and then, just the other day, I saw one in game.

No, they aren’t yet available, and it wasn’t a special release. Apparently for some players there is a client bug that allows early access to the skin. As far as I can tell, you pick a champion for whom you already own a skin, select that skin, and don’t lock in. You then choose a champion with an unreleased skin, like Singed for instance, and allow the timer to count all the way down. For whatever reason you’ll be given a random, non-standard skin from the champion you choose.

Personally, I’ve not been able to replicate this feat, but it seems a good number of other players have. Have you been playing the unreleased skins? I would love to get pics up but the LoL forums have been running insanely slow today.

The most recent Test Realm patch has some interesting content in the champions screen on the client. Several of the champions have skins listed with no graphic content, just some names. Here’s the rundown:

Red Riding Annie
Big Bad Warwick
Warrior Princess Sivir
Scuba Gragas

That’s what I can remember for now. I like the Red Riding Hood theme and I’ve honestly been waiting on it for a while. I could care less about the Sivir skin if only because she’s the most boring, auto-win toon in the game. Scuba Gragas, though, sounds awesome.

On a side note, googling “Red Riding Hood” for images turns up some…interesting…results.