10 Most Expensive Skins in League of Legends

The 1,820 RP Legendary skins are not even on the list. We’re talking about a 2009 cosmetic in an account that sells on eBay for $2,000.

Riot has been shipping skins for over fifteen years, and LoL's cosmetic history is complex, with convention exclusives, beta rewards, and a single Hall of Legends bundle that broke the internet.

Here's the full countdown of the most expensive skins in League of Legends.

First flavor, skins with explicit price tags in the shop. Most skins are at the Legendary tier at around 1,820 RP, with Ultimate skins like Pulsefire Ezreal and DJ Sona at 3,250 RP, and a handful of Prestige and Mythic variants climbing higher. Faker's Signature Immortalized Legend Ahri in 2024 was released at 59,260 RP, roughly $450.

Second flavor, the rarity, the OG. The rarest League of Legends skins Riot pulled from the store years ago and never brought back. You can't buy them with RP, you can't earn them in the Mythic Essence shop, and Hextech Crafting won't do.

If your account was created before January 14, 2010, go check your collection. UFO Corki was a thank-you gift Riot sent to every player who signed up before that cutoff, celebrating the game's award win at the 2009 IGN Reader's Choice Awards. No purchase required, no codes to redeem. You just had to exist in League's tiny pre-launch community, which almost nobody did.

Riot Squad Singed is the Mad Chemist dressed up like an actual Riot Games employee, complete with 2011-era branding. The skin was handed out at Gamescom 2010, PAX Prime 2011, and a few other convention appearances. Those redemption codes were the only route in, and Riot disabled code activation entirely in 2014, which hard-locked the skin forever.

Judgement Kayle was handed out as the very first Season 1 ranked reward, requiring players to complete at least 10 ranked games before Season 1 closed. Riot has publicly confirmed the skin will never return, which makes Judgement Kayle a permanent time stamp on the earliest competitive days of League.

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Rusty Blitzcrank was released in November 2009. It was quietly removed in January 2010 after only three months of availability, reportedly because Riot decided it looked too close to the base Blitzcrank model. It cost 520 RP at the time, which was dirt cheap, but the window was so narrow that only a small portion of the player base bought it before it vanished.

Riot’s Hall of Legends event’s top-tier skin is Faker’s signature Immortalized Legend Collection, priced at 59,260 RP, roughly $450.

That got you the signature immortalized legend Ahri skin with white hair and a black dress, nine animated tails that come alive with their own heads during her kit, a custom announcer pack, a digital autograph from Faker himself, and enough emotes.

It's the most expensive single-purchase cosmetic Riot has ever sold, and the backlash was loud enough that Riot developers publicly defended the price. The skin went permanently unavailable when the event ended on July 8, 2024, with no confirmed return.

King Rammus is rare because you literally had to be playing League of Legends before League of Legends was a game anyone knew existed. Riot awarded it exclusively to closed beta testers who participated between April and October 2009, with the cutoff hard-locked after October 21, 2009.

Championship Riven was the very first skin in Riot's Championship line, created to celebrate Worlds 2012. Riot briefly sold it in the store from October 14 to October 22, 2012, and also distributed it to roughly 8,000 fans who bought physical tickets to the Los Angeles finals. The 2012 version became exclusive because Riot updated the file in 2016 with new particles and VFX, then declared the original retired. Owners of the pre-2016 version kept the original permanently.

Silver Kayle is half of the 2009 retail Collector's Edition, the physical cardboard box Riot shipped at launch that came with a game code, four champions, 10 extra champion slots, and two exclusive skins: Silver Kayle and young Ryze. Young Ryze is technically an early chroma showing Ryze in human form, and both skins were permanently locked behind the physical box.

Black Alistar is the rarest skin anyone can realistically still encounter on Summoner's Rift. It was the second exclusive in the 2009 Digital Collector's Edition, available only to players who bought the digital pre-order package at launch. Because far fewer digital editions were sold than physical boxes, community estimates put the total number of accounts with Black Alistar at around 1,000 worldwide.

Riot Games distributed PAX Twisted Fate to attendees at Penny Arcade Expo 2009 in Seattle, handing out redemption codes to roughly the first 20,000 people through the door.

PAX Jax at PAX 2010 and PAX Sivir at PAX 2011 were distributed the exact same way. Riot released Neo PAX Jax and Neo PAX Sivir years later through the Mythic Essence shop, but those are tribute reskins, not the originals.

Victorious Jarvan IV, the first end-of-season reward released in August 2011, went only to players who hit Gold or higher in Season 1 and was never sold in-store. It kicked off what's now an annual Victorious skin tradition, and it's still one of the rarest skins in LoL outside the PAX trio.

Medieval Twitch originally required 350 Refer-a-Friend recruits, and Urfwick started as a charity drop in 2010 before later returning via Blue Essence rotations.

Short answer: no. Riot's official guide to legacy and limited skins explicitly distinguishes between legacy skins, which can rotate back into the Legacy Vault during events, and limited skins, such as the PAX trio and Collector's Edition set, which Riot considers permanently retired out of respect for the players who earned them the first time.