Another year’s gone by, and League is still going strong.
With so many skins in existence how can you be sure what’s rare?
We’ve got you covered.
If you’re keeping track, we’ve done a couple of previous videos on rare skins, and
this year we’re updating you on changes to our 2015 list.
Starting off our list at #16 we have -
Riot Singed: Unlike its fellow Riot skins who occasionally make their way back into
the store during special promotions, Riot Singed, other than being obtained from a Riot
Employee at Gamescom 2010, was only released in the store once for RP, and that was back
in 2011.
Since then, he’s been locked away in the vault.
Number 15 would be -
Legacy Championship Riven - Released at the Season 2 World Championship, this skin has
made the rarity charts for some time now.
However, this skin was re released recently in 2016.
With that said, anyone that had the Championship Riven unlocked previously would get a special
crown in game, and a loading screen border signifying that you had the original.
Here at #14 -
Triumphant Ryze - As one of the few still obtainable skins on this list, it makes the
rarity chart because you need to win a Riot sponsored League of Legends event.
Which, you would think only pros would have.
But as it turns out, anyone can reach out and potentially start one with Riot’s permission.
At #13 we’ve got a tie between -
Hextech Annie / Soulstealer Vayne - Featuring all new model, textures, animations, and particle
effects, these two skins are new additions to our list this year.
Typically requiring 10 rare gemstones to acquire, or a very lucky skin shard from the Hextech
crafting system, these skins can easily run you a few hundred dollars if you were to buy
the boxes outright, or years of in game play to obtain.
# 12 is - Silver Kayle - This skin was only obtainable
by purchasing the retail copy of the collector’s edition.
It’s much lower on the list because it did not require a preorder, and had been sold
for some time afterwards.
However, all expired skin codes were disabled in 2014, making this one unobtainable.
Coming in at number 11 -
Urf Warwick - Released on April 1st of 2010, as a part of a forum event where Urf was announced
as the newest champion, and then “killed” off on the day of his release, his skin price
was originally placed at 5000 RP, though it was discounted by 99% the first week, and
by 90% the second week, before going back to the full 5000 RP cost on the last day,
then disappearing into the void once again.
The outpouring of love for the skin was astounding.
More than 15k skins were sold on April 1st alone.
According to one IGN report, Riot received more than 74 videos, 398 poems, 130 pieces
of artwork, and some 150+ other forms of content including cartoons, short stories, and flash
based computer games dedicated to the fallen hero.
In the end, Riot donated the revenue of the release day sales to Save the Manatee Club,
which totalled around 5k.
Number 10:
Judgement Kayle - This skin was obtained by playing 10 ranked games in Season 1.
Still, due to the low player base at the time, is also quite rare.
According to a Riot press release at the beginning of Season One, they had at least three million
registered accounts, and at the end of Season One, there were 15 million registered accounts,
and 1.4 million players per day.
This suggests there may be as many as perhaps a million in circulation, though that figure
is somewhat unlikely as it is still very uncommon to find one in casual play.
Riot’s celebratory skin makes number 9 on our list -
UFO Corki - This skin was given out to all summoners who had registered their accounts
prior to Jan 14th 2010.
Riot made a forum post asking for their players to vote up League of Legends in the GameSpy
and IGN polls, which they then won.
Specifically the IGN PC Best Strategy Game 2009, and Gamespy Gamer’s Choice Awards
2009.
It too has the limited tag, meaning it cannot be obtained via mystery gifts or hextech crafting.
If you made it through beta, you grabbed number 8
King Rammus - This skin was obtained by participating in the closed beta.
And, it’s pretty similar to a particular princess snatching villain from another game
you’re probably familiar with.
It’s thought that up to 250k of these skins exist in North America.
The skin was re released briefly for Brazilian players for their own beta server testing.
The next two are pretty close -
Pax Jax - Pax Jax was released during the Pax East/Prime 2010 and Pax East 2011 events.
The Pax Prime 2010 attendance was reported at about 67k, Pax East 2010 reported 52k attended,
and Pax East 2011 held a similar amount to the previous year - around 53k.
So up to around 175k skins are floating about.
Pax Sivir - Yet another Pax skin, this one was released during Pax Prime 2011.
Due to only being released at one event, it is made quite a bit more rare than Jax.
Attendance was reported to be over 70k.
At number 5, we have another pair of skins -
Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch - Originally these skins were some of the rarest of the
rare, coming only from recruiting massive amounts of people to League of Legends.
Warwick required 50 referrals who hit lv 10, and Twitch required a massive 350.
Riot then revamped the Refer a Friend in version two, to only require 25 and 50 recruits, and
then cut again in RaF 3.0 in Feb 2015 to require 3 and 5 accounts at level 10 respectively.
Unfortunately, RaF has been done away with as of September 2015, leaving these skins
unobtainable.
Though, Riot has said they may be re released as rewards for social initiatives in the future.
Our number four is :
Victorious Jarvan - was the season one reward for being gold or higher in ranked play.
According to a press release from Riot, they had 1.4m players every day on average at the
end of the season.
If you had the top 3.2% of players being gold and higher - perhaps 45 - 50k examples of
this skin exist.
Nearing the top of our list at number 3:
Rusty Blitzcrank - An incredibly uncommon skin, it was originally released in November
2009, however it was deemed to be so poor in quality and so similar to his base skin
that it was removed after three months.
This one is no longer obtainable, even via mystery gifts or hextech crafting, similar
to Urf the Manatee, and UFO Corki.
Though, if you’re really determined to see a darker Blitzcrank, you can just turn your
monitor brightness down a bit.
Runner up is :
Pax Twisted Fate - This skin was given out at PAX 2009, the first year the game had made
an appearance at any event.
The total attendance at the event was 60,750.
So you’re still looking at quite a rare skin, even if everyone obtained one.
Before Riot banned the use of expired skin codes in 2014, you could find them on Ebay
for upwards of a thousand dollars.
And our number one rarest skin in League of Legends is...Well, a pair.
Human Ryze / Black Alistar - These were obtained by pre ordering the collector’s edition
of League of Legends.
Most likely the two rarest skins in the game, because who preorders a F2P game?
In addition, Riot disabled expired skin codes in 2014, so if you see these two walking the
rift, you’re in for a treat, as they are no longer available.
We know some of you guys will disagree with our rankings, but hey we’ve got a few more
that just weren't quite there to make our list, making them our honorable mentions.
And these are Riot Nasus, Riot Kayle, Riot Graves, Victorious Elise, Victorious Janna,
Victorious Morgana, Victorious Sivir, and soon to be Victorious Maokai at the end of
season 6.
For one reason or another, they just fell a little shy, either being re released more
than once, or perhaps just having many more people earn them.
At any rate, thanks for watching.
If you’re disappointed that you didn’t see your skin listed here, or think we’re
straight up wrong, be sure to let us know in the comments below.
This is Andrew from Curse, signing off.
Thanks for watching and enjoy the game