Text: Star Groan
At the beginning of 2022, League of Legends has launched a dazzling series of new skins: Riot's two sons and daughters, Izerril and Lacus, each received a new outfit - the Chinese style theme skin blue and white porcelain stepped on the East Wind of the New Year is particularly pleasing; the addition of three new members, Casadin, Chiana and Shen, has revitalized the skin series of the Shock Blade, which has not moved for several years and has only been robbed alone; the little bee that is about to be launched is even more cute and cute...
Some people rejoice and some people worry, some heroes frantically add new skins, and some people are forgotten in the corner. Who are the most unfavored heroes in the field of skin, and how long have these unlucky children not added new clothes? This is probably a cold knowledge, right? There are also a whole bunch of skin-related questions, such as have you ever wondered how many skins lol there are?
Historically, skins used for appreciation have almost never been associated with the concept of data, but this time, we intend to take stock of some interesting data and reveal a few skin-related trivia.
General overview
With the release of Alchemical Baron Renata, The League of Legends already has 159 heroes, and the original skin is not counted, with a total of 1328 skins, and if you add the Little Bee series that has been announced to be launched, it is 1332.
(None of the following data includes the original skin of each hero)
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Heroes with the most skins
The question of who is the hero with the most skins is easy to answer, just as everyone knows that the highest peak in the world is Mount Everest, and a little understanding of league of legends will know that Izzeril and Lacus are a pair of Riot's sons and daughters, and they certainly have the most skins. Maybe you can't count how many skins they have at once, so the answer is 16.
However, it is not so easy to guess the hero with the second most skin, just as many people do not remember that the second highest peak in the world is Chogory Peak. The answer to this question is Miss Bounty Hunter Doom, who has a total of 15 skins, but it doesn't seem to be considered a favorite of Riot. I sincerely invite my colleagues in the editorial department to guess the puzzle together, and everyone guessed Anne from the beaver, and no one hit the correct answer.
Fewer people know that the world's third highest peak is Gancheng Zhangjia Peak, and there are certainly very few people who know who are the heroes whose number of skins are second only to female guns. In lol, there are five skins that are tied for fourth place, including Abeki, Akari, Annie, Arista, and Trist. These all have 14 skins. There must have been more than one person who thought that Beaver or Anne was the Riot darling second only to Lacus, but unfortunately, they both had one less skin than Miss Doom. Among these heroes, Aku, Akali, Annie, and Alista all start with A, making it almost suspicious that Riot is looking at the skin sent by the ID list
And the hardest guess of any of them is definitely the minotaur Alista, because the other Riot darlings are either handsome and beautiful or cute Lolita, and it is really unexpected to mix in a cow. But just as it is difficult to do the question, it is easy to see the answer backwards, and after knowing the answer, you will feel that this matter is also easy to understand: Arista, as the first group of heroes to appear, collected a large number of Black Bull Scalper Red Bull skins in the early stage of the game (this was considered a skin at the time, and it can only be regarded as colorful now), the family bottom is thick, plus the SKT champion skin and the Year of the Ox Zodiac skin bonus, allowing him to successfully squeeze into the 14 skins, and is the only hero without a face. In fact, the last time Alista received a new skin was on February 4, 21, or the Year of the Ox zodiac skin, if it were not for the New Year's Day and not wearing new clothes, the top eight would count his last skin update and now the interval is more than a year, which shows that Alista is actually not favored.
As for the real brother and sister, as we all know, the new skin, blue and white porcelain, just this month, less than a month since the last new clothes were issued. So there is also a gap between 14+ skins.
The hero with the most skins
The heroines with the most skins are basically big beauties except for little Lolita Annie, but the male heroes with more skin are very diverse.
The pro-son Izeriel and the dry son card are both handsome men, but Alista does not even have a human face, and the next Britz, Galen, Jax, Li Qing and Timo all have 13 skins, in addition to the traditional handsome guys, including robots, guys who can't see faces at all but can play, and furry that is indeed loved by all ages.
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The longest-forgotten hero
Who are the heroes who haven't received a new skin the longest? Ancient Fear Federtic won the tournament, and his last Skin Guard Mech was released on November 8, 2018, more than 1,200 days ago. Next up is Mondo, who is hard to forget on the forgotten list, and his last Skin Frozen Prince was released in December 2018, more than 1170 days ago. These two have not added new clothes for more than 3 years. "Three years! Do you know how I've lived these three years? "Three years later and three years, almost ten years!"
Slightly luckier than them in this category, Udir is also a regular on the forgotten list, often remembered as forgotten. His last skin was released in August 2019, more than 920 days ago. But what makes Udir even more pitiful than the champions and runners-up is that he only has 5 skins, the fewest of the top five on this list. After all, the Scarecrow has 9 skins, Mondo has 10 skins, and only Udil is really miserable in interval time and the total number of skins.
There is also an unexpected person in the top five of this list - Ritz. The man with 12 skins, the elder of the heroes, the evergreen tree on the field, the last skin was updated in January 2020, more than 760 days ago, just in fifth place (the fourth Kieran is also a familiar face). I haven't given Ruiz new skin for more than two years, do you understand what is respect for the elderly?
But the good news is that Riot has a list of thousand-day clubs that list heroes who haven't had new skins for more than 1,000 days and is dedicated to emptying the list. So if there is no accident, most of these heroes will get their new skins this year, and Federtic has been named and will be taken care of.
The average interval is the longest
The heroes with the longest average skin spacing per skin are in the top five of the list: Tariq, Udir, O'Gart, Orne and Zach. Zach produces an average of about 814 days for a new skin, and Tariq has 915, the only one with more than 900 days. Apart from these five unlucky eggs, there are no other heroes with an average interval of more than 800 days for the time being. Oroy is the only heroine in the top 10 on this list.
Although the last skin of the Scarecrow and Mondo has passed a long time, after all, they have come out a lot before, pulling the average interval down, only Udir's two lists have entered the top five, the total number of skins is still small, it can be said that it is the only designated stealth person in this game.
A year of harvest
Since the first beauty suit was launched in 2009, League of Legends has entered its thirteenth year. So, in the past ten years, which year has the most released skins?
Sorted by year, the number of skins released each year is as follows:
It can be seen that in 2009, the game was just launched, and the skin output was not much; in 2010 and 2011, the game was in a period of rapid development, and new heroes and new skins were launched in a spurt, and this momentum gradually slowed down in 2012. After that, the game entered a period of steady development and mature, in 2013, skin production fell a lot compared to 12 years, but in the following years it increased steadily overall. In 20 and 21 years, skin production reached new highs. This year, in less than two months, 29 new skins have already appeared, and then there are other new series that are about to be released, and it is expected that this year will be at least the same as the previous two years, and may also be surpassed.
Skin series
League of Legends originally designed the skin when there was no series concept, or only a vague concept, with the development of the game, Riot paid more and more attention to telling a good story, and naturally paid attention to the construction of the theme of the skin series. So, how many series can League of Legends skins be divided into?
In terms of subdivision, you can count as many as 185 series, and the subdivision here refers to the thorough subdivision, for example, the battlefield boss and the video game goddess are counted as two series, and in fact they belong to the same world view. Even if you merge the same worldview, you can get as many as 109 large series, including an unnamed category that contains some skins and series that cannot be classified.
Since there are so many skin series, we won't list all of them here, but we can tell you some of the more bizarre series.
Most members
Before writing, I also let my colleagues speculate about this, and colleagues reported several popular star series in a row, such as pool parties, guardians of the stars, source projects, etc. Unfortunately not. Of the series they mentioned, source plans came in second and pool parties came in third.
The number one series is less famous than they are, but more established is the well-established Canyon Legends series (commonly known as the Halloween series, Known as TheRick-or-Treat in English), with a total of 31 skins, including the Women's Gun and Morgana 2.
The second-ranked source program has 26 skins, including 3 best skins, and the pool party is the third with 24 skins.
It is worth mentioning the fourth-ranked Infernal series, which many people have probably forgotten and did not even know that such a series existed. This is typical of early skins without themes. Hellfire has 24 skins, including the Ash Lord Aurelian Thor, the Wildfire Vine, the Flame-tailed Demon Fox, the Obsidian Guardian Murphytt, and the Dark Flame Two Souls. Many of these skins are old, appearing as companion skins of heroes, and the series has not been clearly unified, so it is clear that the number of members is large but not famous. Luckily, Riot has noticed this, and on January 7, in the Official League of Legends [2022 New Season Skin Incident] video, Riot called on everyone to vote for the highest priority renovation series, including Hellfire.
The fifth-ranked series, known in English as Disguise, has a disguise, including the Guardians of the Stars Pajamas Party, the Apocalypse (Skua) People, and the Guardians of the Stars COS Agat.
However, the distinction between these skin series seems to be constantly adjusted, for example, Meow Kai belongs to the two series of Disciuse and Cat and Dog Wars at the same time, and it seems that the treatment of skin series Riot is still continuing to comb.
Minimum number of members
Originally, there were three series with only one skin, one of which was the Impact Blade, but the Impact Blade, an old and lonely series, recently welcomed cool new members, becoming a new favorite in one fell swoop, out of the bottom position.
Today, the only two remaining one-skin series are related to Agath.
One is star guardian COS Agarth, this skin also belongs to disguise, but it is too special to be classified as a normal star guardian or pajama party, so it has its own series, and in the foreseeable future, this series should not easily add new members.
The second is Kaiju (Monster), the only skin in the series is Agath's AbyssAlbon. Monsters have a corresponding series, that is, the mecha-themed Overlord, and the Overlord series now has six members. The worldview of these two series pays tribute to the Pacific Rim, and there are more legends that the Overlord series should have 14 characters, but we still don't know who the remaining 8 are, and the last update of the Overlord series was in 2018, which has been more than 1280 days without movement, but the Shock Blade can be reborn, so we can't judge that this theme can't be saved. If you continue according to this setting, the monster series is still possible to expand, after all, 1 monster is really not enough for 14 mechs to fight.
The maximum time has not been updated
In fact, several ancient series have not been updated for more than 4,000 days, and should not be updated, here are just two examples, such as the American series containing the beak of the Alliance, The Statue of Liberty Karsas and the American Uncle Reez have not been updated since July 2010, more than 4250 days ago; for example, the Ninja Hospital series has also maintained the status of the trio for nearly 4000 days. There are many similar series, so I will not repeat them all.
After these data and cold knowledge are taken stock, it is obvious that they are also part of the game, but the luck of the hero on the skin is very different. However, skins exist primarily to please the eye, and it's only natural that popular heroes and series will get more favors. It can be seen that Riot is still digging deeper into the depth and breadth of the skin, and the renovation of the ancient series is gradually underway, and more new collections will be launched this year. In the intricate universe of skin, there is much to look forward to.