League of Legends skins in 2025 were a perfect snapshot of modern Riot Games: the art team still knows how to absolutely cook, but the monetization keeps trying to get your wallet. Riot isn’t hiding this fact: the new Sanctum with all the Exalted and Mythic variants was created specifically to boost the revenue. The company even considered removing Hextech Chests, but quickly changed its mind after facing backlash.
But we also got quite a lot of one-off skins, and those that weren’t poorly shoehorned into unfitting skinlines that are simply known to sell well. Many of them were from new skin lines, which, hopefully, won’t get diluted by the characters that don’t fit them in the future.
