The skins are one of the engines of League of Legends. Through the aspects Riot Games manages to get economic revenue from a video game that is free from its origins. Even some professional teams benefit from them, as is the case of clubs like T1, Fnatic or Invictus Gaming when they get the Summoner’s Cup. A priori, cosmetics do not have any advantage within Summoner’s Rift since it is an aesthetic element. However, professionally some are prohibited for possible advantages.
just as you remembered Free League Memes On twitter, some skins cannot be used competitively. Normally professional players have many options in the case of wanting to play with skins, so it is not a problem for them. However, playing them means a penalty as Riot Games considers them ineligible at the competitive level. The reasons are the following:
- The feasibility to buy the aspect
- Providing unfair advantages to players
- Animations or particles that are difficult to see visually
Technically in League of Legends they do not exist skins that are pay to win, but reminders at the professional level indicate that some aspects can give small advantages if they are played with mischief. Within the competitive scene, the entire visual section is extremely important, since seeing or not a determining aspect of the game (such as Orianna’s ball) clearly can determine the fate of a play. Therefore, also the result of a match with its respective context. These are the professionally prohibited aspects:
- Star Guardian Syndra
- Warwick Gray
- Hairy Fizz
- DJ Sona
- Kog’Maw War Machine
- project ashe
- Elementalist Lux
- iBlitzcrank
- Sivir Pax
- Heimerdinger Dragon Tamer
- Draven Draven
- Riot Singed
In addition to the reasons mentioned, viewers also play an important role in banning skins. Although it is true that Riot does not allow temporarily limited aspects so as not to encourage their purchase, there are also others that are to take care of the audience visually. As some Reddit users have recalled, cosmetics like Elementalist Lux are not allowed because they require a lot of effort from the game while in spectator mode, something that can spoil the user experience. Technically the aspects pay to win they do not exist since, otherwise, they would not have gone on sale. However, the developer prefers to avoid any possible problems with those mentioned.
