User blog comment:KaiserLos24/Skins- Symbolism or Just For Show?/@comment-24363298-20131231204723

I think it could be both, if the person has some RP to spend, and the skin is on sale so he can buy it, and said person owns the champion already, they buy the skin just to use it whenever they use the champion. I am not good at all with Katarina yet I bought Mercenary Katarina because it was on sale. Hell, that might have been you I was playing against. I bought Katarina when she was on sale with IP, but I never used her until a Blind pick game, and decided I might as well use the skin since I own it, I mean why not? And I got wrecked by a Viktor, and my team was pissed. I haven't played her since.