Champion skin

Champion skin (or just skin) refers to the color scheme or appearance of a champion. In League of Legends, most skins can be bought from the Riot Store with Riot Points, while others are or were available only from special events or promotions. Some of the skins in League of Legends also give champions different particle effects, quotes, and sound effects. Every skin has its own splash art that is displayed in champion select by clicking on the thumbnail after selection.

To see the splash arts on the wiki you can visit this page: Skins. Additionally, you can see the splash arts, along with the Chinese ones and a link to a 3D model of each skin by going to the Skins & Trivia sub page that is included in every Champion page. Other ways to access these pages are to just search for the champion name on our search bar and add "Skins" after the name; or you could click any of the links below which contain the names of skins.

Skins in the Store
Skins that are/were purchasable in the store usually come in 4 different price tags: 390, 520, 975 or 1820. The skins tagged with the 1820 price, also called Legendary Skins, are skins that usually affect the champion in more meaningful ways than just changes in appearance. As an example, will make him shoot out fireworks for his skills, instead of the normal projectiles. This however isn't always true, especially for older legendary skins, where only the model was changed; those skins still had far more work put into them than the others at that time.

Every few days, some skins are put on special discount for 50% or 75% of the original price. The current discounts are available on the Main Page.

Available Skins
As of February 14th, 2012 there are currently 281 skins available in store.

Linked Skins
{C}Some champions have skins that share a certain theme with skins from other champions. Follow the link above to see these themes.

Price Changes
A few skins have permanently received a price reduction:

Upcoming Skins
The following skins are expected to be released in the near future.

Each patch will usually include two skins that are only made available the following week This can usually be seen in the champion details panel, or in the skin select wheel in the Champion Select lobby. However, some skins can be seen in-game but not available for much longer (e.g. Pulsefire Ezreal, which was including in the Fizz patch).

More recently, "leaked" skins are only visible from the skin select wheel and are hidden in the champion details panel.

Collector's Edition
These Skins are available only through the Collector's Editions (digital or retail). The two pre-order exclusive skins were no longer available after October 26th, 2009.

Special Events
These skins were or are given for free for special events.

Unavailable Skins
The following skins can't be bought because they were seasonal event skins or were removed from the store.

Legacy Skins
The Legacy Skins were all skins available from the store normally, but were chosen by Riot on November 2011 to be placed in a Black Friday Sale (75% off), after which they would no longer be purchasable in the store. They only appear in the champion's information tab if you own them. Removal Date: 28th November 2011.

2010 Winter Games Celebration
These skins were only available from February 12th, 2010 to March 2nd, 2010. Their release coincided with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Riot Soccer skins
These skins were released during to the FIFA World Cup, the male ones on June 22, 2010 and the female ones on June 28, 2010. All of them were removed from the store on November 1st, 2010.

2010 Harrowing
These Halloween-themed skins were only available from October 18th, 2010 to October 31st, 2010.

Snowdown Showdown 2010
These skins were only available from December 14th, 2010 to January 6th, 2011.

2011 Harrowing
These Halloween-themed skins were only available from October 19th, 2011 to October 31st, 2011.

Snowdown Showdown 2011
These skins were available from December 13th 2011 to January 10th 2012.