Riot Games has announced a host of new League of Legends skins – the first newly revealed LoL skins of 2022.
These include Porcelain skins, Withered Rose skins, Crystal Rose skins, new skins in the existing Firecracker line and also another Prestige Edition Lux (in the Porcelain skin line).
Lux already has a Battle Academia Lux Prestige Edition skin, and also an Ultimate Elementalist Lux skin. There’s a trailer here:
Xayah is also getting a Prestige version of her Brave Phoenix skin.
We’ve included the new skin splash arts and PBE (public beta environment) in-game previews, courtesy of the official League of Legfends UK, Ireland and Nordics Twitter account, below.
There are also new summoner icons arriving in League of Legends to coincide with the launch of the new skins.
These new in-game items and skins are expected to arrive in patch 12.2, which is due to go live on January 20th 2022.
New High Noon and Star Guardian skins are also expected to be released later this year.
The news comes as the 2022 League of Legends esports season is about to begin.
Riot reveals League of Legends esports start dates for Spring 2022 LEC, EU Masters, NLC and ERLs. The LEC Spring 2022 season schedule was also confirmed today.
Porcelain LoL skins
The Porcelain skins are for the following champions:
- Porcelain Protector Ezreal (complete with catjam drummer meme dance animation)
- Porcelain Amumu
- Porcelain Kindred (pictured above)
- Porcelain Lissandra
- Porcelain Lux
- Porcelain Lux Prestige Edition
Withered and Crystal Rose LoL skins
There are three skins in this line:
Firecracker 2022 LoL skins
New League of Legends skins in the Firecracker line include:
- Firecracker Diana
- Firecracker Xin Zhao
- Firecracker Sett
- Firecracker Tristana
- Firecracker Teemo
In other League of Legends champion news, yesterday the first League of Legends champion of 2022 – Zeri – was leaked.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
