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- Riot recently announced Hall of Legends skins for League of Legends’s most iconic figures, with a controversial $500 Faker Ahri skin being the first.
- While the Faker Ahri skin offers unique effects, custom animations, and special references, the price has sparked a significant backlash from the community.
- Players are advising others to boycott the skin by banning the champion, submitting complaints, and talking about it on social media.
Riot recently announced a series of Hall of Legends skins that are made for League of Legends’s most legendary figures, adding in references to the person and being made for their mains. We don’t know anything about the future for these legacy skins yet – the only thing clear right now that the $500 Faker skin for Ahri is way too expensive.
What Is The Hall Of Legends?
Legacy skins in League are skins only available for specific events. Riot recently announced that they’ll be modelling and putting up skins modeled after League’s most iconic eSports stars; these skins will be in a series called Hall of Legends. The first one, to no one’s surprise, was of Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, the single best (and most popular) League professional. The skins will come in bundles along with a Hall of Legends even and a Battle Pass. The event will take place once every year, with a new legend each time.
Is The Skin Good?
The skins have three different versions available through the event pass, along with various other items themed after Faker. The base version is $50, while the upgraded version is $30, and the full experience is $500. Regardless of whether that price would EVER fit a mere cosmetic, a couple of things are going for it.
- Skin effects galore: It’s hard to deny the fact that the skin looks really, really good. The skin effects are unlike any other skin. Apart from the skills, even the recall and idle animations seem unlike anything seen before.
- Adorable references: For fans of the Unkillable Demon King, the skin provides a number of references to memorable moments. One thing I found extremely funny was Ahri holding the “Unkillable Demon Cactus.“
- Custom effects: The higher versions of the skin come with unique champion takedown effects, a unique commentator voiceover, custom chromas, unique turret takedown animations, special level-up animations, and a new demon form in the Ultimate.
- Faker’s signature: In the ultimate form of Risen Ahri, taking down a turret also puts Faker’s signature around the destroyed structure.
- Being the 1%: The biggest thing the skin provides is the ability to flex owning a skin that less than 1% of players would likely own due to its hefty price tag and because of how small a period of time it can be purchased for.
How Fans Are Responding
Justifiably, fans are extremely upset. When the skin was first announced, amidst the yells of hype there were always concern of the price tag. League fans repeatedly said that it can’t be that bad; even if it was expensive, it’s only a cosmetic. What no one expected was it to be an entire five hundred US dollars.
The situation’s so bad that any online league forum’s filled with complaints daily about the skin. Even League content creators are calling the skin out. Remus calls it the scammiest skin, while Tyler1 says “Riot just doesn’t care anymore.”
Even putting aside actually buying the skin, just pricing an Ahri skin so expensively is almost offensive to Faker, as he’s known to only use the default skins for his matches. League players are opting to boycott the skin, the champion, or the entire game because of this single skin.
Why To Boycott The Skin
As things stand, there’s nothing stopping Riot from pricing future skins in a similar manner. Riot can even pull a fake “compensation” by pricing a future skin at $300, and fans would buy it thinking they’re saving $200. There are a number of ways to show your dissatisfaction:
- Don’t buy the skin: Even if the skin will only be available during this event, buying the skin means letting Riot know that we’re fine with these prices.
- Boycott Ahri: Don’t play Ahri, and ban her in all games. A reduction in Ahri pickrates will lead to lesser people wanting to buy a skin. Furthermore, a significant shift inside the game is likely to catch Riot’s attention.
- Talk about it on social media: On release, Smolder had a very unattractive design that sparked outrage among the community. After the complaint got trending, the Riot team fixed it in a week.
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Heya, I’m Asad (Irre) Kashif! I’ve been writing about anything and everything since as far back as I can remember. Professionally, I started writing five years ago, working both as a ghostwriter and writing under my own name. As a published author and a council member in Orpheus, my journey in the world of writing has been fulfilling and dynamic.
I still cherish the essays I wrote about my favorite PS2 games, and I’m thrilled to have transformed my passion for game journalism into a career. I’m a theory crafter for Genshin Impact (and now Wuthering Waves) and have a deep love for roguelites and roguelikes. While I prefer indie games for their distinct aesthetic and vibes, I do enjoy triple-A games occasionally. I’ve also been playing League since season 6, and I main Akali! I have a keen interest in discovering and playing more obscure games, as well as researching forgotten titles. Additionally, I am a front-end programmer who dabbles a bit in gamedev occasionally.
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