League of Legends is getting a hotly anticipated skin for its lich necromancer Mordekaiser, but fans' joy has been 'obliterated' because it's 'stuck in a $200 fomo gacha store'
League of Legends developer Riot Games recently announced that a hotly coveted character skin is coming to the MOBA. Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser will convert the game's necromantic top-laner from his default lich appearance back to his human form. It's a cosmetic with a lot of significance to League's canonical story, and Riot clearly knows it, putting together a dramatic trailer to accompany the announcement, viewable above.
In short, it's a big moment for the League of Legends community. But any player wanting to play as human Mordekaiser will likely have to pay through the nose to do so. That's because Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser will be added to League's recently created 'Exalted' tier of skins, and these can only be acquired by engaging with League's gacha-style Sanctum. Nabbing an Exalted skin from the Sanctum can be eye-wateringly costly, with League fansrecently calculating that two-thirds of players won't receive an exalted skin before spending 32000RP, which converts to $246.15. Or as I like to think of it, four Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2s.
Naturally, the community feels pretty sour about the whole thing. " One of my all time most wanted skins ever was Sahn-Uzal/pre-resurrection Mordekaiser" wrote YouTuber NickyBoi on X, «but all that hype is obliterated knowing it's stuck in a $200 fomo gacha store». The responses to League's official reveal of the skin on X aresimilarly unimpressed, with many replies claiming that the skin looks cheap, as well as being expensive to acquire. Meanwhile, ther/MordekaiserMains channel is in complete meltdown, currently an endless scroll of posts with titles like «LMFAO @ Sahn Uzal 250$ skin» and «Can we all agree and come together to not spend a single cent on this scam skin?»
This isn't the first time Riot has landed in hot water with its community over perceived skin scalping since the launch of the Exalted tier. In June last year, fanspushed back against the introduction of a skin for vulpine mage Ahri that could cost up to $500. In
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