A League of Legends fan came to Reddit trying to calculate how many skins each of the game’s 157 champions now had – a quest that revealed the game’s most loved and most ignored champions.
Riot Games provides hundreds of League of Legends skins for purchase each year. LoL has had around 1,300 skins published to the store since the game’s initial release in 2009.
Throughout the game’s lifespan, the community has noted that certain champions, including as Ezreal, Ahri, and Lux, have gotten considerably more skins than others, and have pondered if Riot has a bias towards more popular Summoner’s Rift champions.
One League of Legends fan made it their purpose to track how many skins each champion has in relation to their debut date, to determine if the jokes about Riot’s prejudices hold up to scrutiny.
User ‘raikaria2’ of Reddit shared their findings in a public Google Doc “to see how much the memes about champions like Ahri and Lux are true or not.”
The findings verified certain preconceived concepts while also making some surprising discoveries.
Riot does favor popular champions Lux and Ahri, with Lux having 16 published and forthcoming cosmetics and Ahri having 14. 16 is enough to tie for first place with Ezreal.
Raikaria2 is unconcerned about such champions, believing that Riot’s most popular champion is Sett, who has five cosmetics in just two years after his introduction in January 2020.
They noticed that Sion, Viktor, and Zilean are older champions with a very low number of outfits. “Of the initial 20 characters, Zilian is the overall loser, with the fewest skins.” To put things into perspective, despite the fact that Zilean has been out for a full decade longer than Sett, Sett will have more outfits in the upcoming patch than Zilean.”
Viktor, who debuted 11 years ago, has only five outfits to his name. However, because he was a star of Netflix’s blockbuster program Arcane, he might perhaps get a new skin based on his look in the show.
While both Viktor and Zilean have had VFX enhancements in the previous two years, they still lack in the skin category. Riot may be able to pay some love to Mage’s fans in the future.