Riot doesn’t release info on this sort of thing and I wanted to know for business reasons, what the most popular or bought skins in the game are based on what the community thinks, and I don’t me what champion I mean specifics, what skins in particular have sold the most, not per dollar, just per skin.
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I swear every Alistar player ever is running the cow costume skin. He's definitely not popular enough to have a skin in the top 10 though.
It's because when you use it you get a second passive, the global taunt of the bell spam
I only play champions that know alistar is their father. I wouldn’t throw hands with the cow 1v5 let alone get taunted by his bell. I’ve learned my lesson by touching that stove
I don't play Alistar, and I find him to be incredibly underwhelming and boring no matter how unkillable he is.
I still bought it the second I had the shard.
Same here, though I got it crafted from hextech. Instantly went onto feeding next game, but the bell was worth it.
I find alistar exstremely good.. a low cd malphite ult and really tanky even though hes building support.. great peel too. Love the cow ! Would never use the cow skin.. never liked for fun skin
Same as Janna for me. Super strong, but so boring to play I can't play them.
Sad moo
On ARAM he feels god tier. Snowball works too good with his kit.
You can’t milk those
I got nipples, can you milk those Greg?
I just recently got it
Same and my first thought was “ahhh I’ve been invited to the bell club”
https://youtu.be/ismBg__u4_w?si=eiyPtwSdpXc8gETG
YOU CANT MILK THOSE
Alistar-sometimes-player here, the cowbell on the dance has single-handedly carried my games on occasion.
Alistar is one of my main but I really don't like playing with this skin, I can't really tell why but it feels different
I mean he's popular enough to have a little legend of the skin in TFT: golden spatula
Can condşem as an Alistar enjoyer. I have the skt costume from a reroll, Hextech costume for flexing, and the cow costume for enjoyment
Black Ali or bust.
That bell... it's enough to make a man sick
I don’t play alistar even after 10 years of league. The ONLY times I’d ever play him is when I have zero rolls on ARAM and when no one rerolls- which is basically never. I can’t remember the last time I played him it’s been over 2 years probably.
That being said I bought the skin instantly
Riot in 2019:
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Corgi corki for the butt
Sex sells
French Maid Nidalee because
I think total purchased is... the obvious one we use..
I would argue that time used is more impactful. Like if everyone owns a leather jacket but never wears it, are leather jackets popular?
Catching strays reading comments, reduced to nobody =(
Even then there's some wiggle room since some skins were free, others were purchased a lot by noobs with the free 400 RP, charity skins or that time Worlds ashe contributed to prize pool which might be purchased a lot but not really used. Also do you account for how recent the champ or skin is?
5 years dated though. There's gotta be some recent bangers right?
Soul fighter skins are probably up there
Mythmaker irelia as well
That's so weird, because i have star guardian jinx sharded right now and i can't wait to unlock it. I don't even have, play or care for Jinx's gameplay. Skin is just hot.
Makes her autos smoother. Harder to play without it now
It’s my least favorite skin in the game. There isn’t a more annoying sound than that auto attack. Makes me turn my sound off when someone is using it
I implore you to reconsider
Jinx has some really good skins but this is also coming from someone who might purchase a skin because it has a dope ass splashart
Star guardian is so cool. Personally I'm a huge fan of Soul Fighter, I got it for Gwen, Viego and Shaco
Corgi corki is my favorite skin besides elementalist lux. It’s so cute. Makes playing him in aram extra fun
Ez question muay thai lee sin
It was on sale a few weeks ago, and I couldn't resist despite me having like 2 games on Lee Sin all time, and I don't even play jungle.
Same with Pizza Delivery Sivir. I just had to have it.
I have played one game of Lee in my life outside of ARAM.
I have that skin.
They should give Sneaky royalties on that one.
Did you know the pizza topping changes every Q
I never edged long enough to notice.
This is a good one. Literal only skin in comp besides the legendary ones, on top of it probs being the best lee skin
that was maybe true like 6+ years ago
but I wouldnt imagine it holding up today
Elementalist lux is a billion dollar skin according to riot
Got it for free. Was very nice surprise
I’ve been lucky enough to get SG Udyr, Elementalist Lux, Pulsefire Ezreal, and DJ Sona from chests
I’ve bought the little passes recently, and every single one I’ve pulled an ultimate. Gun goddess MF, whatever the seraphine one is, and then one other im forgetting.
Technically not “free” since I buy the pass but I get so many skins for the price of 1.5 that it’s def worth
I got SG udyr, pulsefire, elementalist lux, soul fighter samira and the MF ultimate skin ☺️
Around the same, the only one im missing is SG udyr.. well of course not counting the seraphine and samira ones but who counts them except riot itself? Also man that mf skin is cursed, i got that one 7 times and did 2 rerolls only using them. There is seriously something wrong with that ones drop rate
same haha
I am a new player and got it from one of the Twitch Prime drops. Immediately knew this was a popular skin w/o having almost no knowledge of the game. :D
Really? Can I see the post where they said this?
I could have sworn I read somewhere that Dark Cosmic Jhin was the best selling skin at least at the time, although I could be misremembering.
Dark Cosmic Jhin is my favorite skin to play Jhin. It’s also very popular in pro play. I would say star guardian, pajama guardian and pool party are also my most seen in games as well as in pro play.
There is no way their shareholders wouldn't be forcing them to make more skins of that quality if it made a billion by itself, even if there are problems with the engine handling multiple of them at once.
Thats a monetary level any corporate shark would gladly sacrifice gameplay/performance for.
Riot don’t have a shareholders in the same sense of a public company. They are a fully owned subsidiary by Tencent, this means there are probably a team from Tencent that work as the bridge between them.
So long Riot can convince these folks that it is not worth sacrificing performance for extra sales then they will not be pressured into making more skins like Elementalist Lux. They don’t face nearly as much investor pressure like Activision, since these are largely outsourced to Tencent.
Now Tencent does at least have a decent track record at managing oversea subsidiaries gaming developers by leaving them alone for the most part.
I think it's hilarious that people elsewhere on Reddit have a hate boner for Tencent but the community in most Tencent acquired franchises are like... "They're cool, they didn't actually do anything bad to our game".
Compare this to Ubi, EA, Activision, etc.
The hate boner is simply because they're a CCP company. From a gameplay perspective they generally seem to be almost entirely hands off.
Mainly because Tencent is either really hands off, or really Hands on, generally no inbetween
but if they buy a studio that is doing alright, they generally will just let them be, and maybe do stuff with their IP
LIke tencent is doing with Golden spatula
Oooh that is very interesting, i assumed they worked like the average company, that makes sense then.
I love Dark Cosmic and would always pick it over Elementalist. Different strokes for different folks though
My stroking of choice is Sorceress Lux
I'm a big fan of Prestige Battle Academia
I’m a space groove lux enjoyer :0
one of my favorite skins in the same
I hate this skin with a passion
I own literally every lux skin, dark cosmic is infinitely better than the rest thanks to the voice lines alone.
source?
Almost died when I got her on a chest. And its doesn't ends orange essence!
One of the only skins I just bought directly. Its an absolute masterpiece.
Man, I got both Elementalist and Pulsefire Ez from chests and orbs I got from the Coven Akali pass.
Best RIOT purchase of my life, as I got a nice skin for Akali and Lux. I don't like the Ez skin because it doesn't look like even a legendary, let alone Ultimate.
Pool Party Ahri... when it eventually comes
That's Riot's "break in case of imminent bankruptcy" button.
Elementalist lux, pulsefire ezreal, kda ahri are some that I can think of.
Do people still buy pulsefire ezreal? It's a lot less impressive than other skins nowadays, like hell I like Arcade ez more
I like battle academia because he goes super saiyan at 5 stacks of passive
"CRIMSON COBALT!"
You can also spam his emote and have him constantly yell
"Watch this! HuuuAHHHHHH"
"Are you ready? HuuuAHHHHHH"
https://youtu.be/p0ggHmOKF1w?t=19
It's great
Battle Academia Ez showed up in my ARAM game a few days ago and the whole time he was screaming