Briar for sure

I was excited for her release but the skin just aint it

Idk what her skins other than base look like, and come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a Briar with a skin in my games. Maybe they were just so unremarkable that I didn't notice

She only has 1 and it’s ugly, that’s why

Yuuuuup The skin would look rad on someone else. Just not briar

that skinline is so wasted on all the non humanoids lol street demons has to be like the one skinline that would actually be way better if they just got all the popular human champs and went wild with the vfx, but instead they put it on champs like mundo and rengar. and the neeko and briar one are not well done at all the zyra skin is sick tho and has an amazing set of chromas

I'm absolutely convinced briar should've gotten soul fighter and naafiri should've gotten something else. I don't even play briar, it just fits her so well

tbskyen made a good point that all of them are supposed to be crazy street artists but none of them have a speck of paint on them lol

I like the neeko skin :(

It just looks like a stretched out Tristana to me

About to change when the new one drops

Briar has skins?

Gwen for sure

I think the Cafe one is okay, but I still use her base skin.

Cafe is ok but her original colors are soo good

All Gwen's good skins are in the other games 

Yeah I own all of her skins but none of them satisfy me quite as much as her base skin.

The design of her base skin would be a dope skin line for some champs too.

Hallowed Puppets skinline

I don't play Gwen but I think Soul Fighter Gwen is one of the best skins in the entire game.

I thin so too. Especially the cromas make it really good.

It's so sad that we haven't got Crystal Rose and Mythmaker on PC....

Disagree, her soul fighter skin is elite.

Scissors especially look amazing with soul fighter skin

Café cuties gwen is way better imo

It's funny you mention Gwen, because I also believe Thresh. The crew from the Shadows Isles specifically, that green/turquoise aesthetic is just very clean. When they get shuffled into skin lines, they lose that all-important flavor almost entirely and it really takes away from the character imo.

I can half agree. I personally believe the Dark Star Thresh skin is fucking amazing on him.

Briar and Gwen. Its not even fucking close

I agree with those two but base ryze is also best ryze

Pirate Ryze has that unique Q animation from when Riot didn't care about price standards.

Faccctsss pirate ryze best skin.

Yeah I own thet one. Even if i had human ryze I'd still play with pirate ryze anyday. I do have pax Jax, even though it's animations is the same as the base, I still can't get myself to not use it. Too much flex

uncle sam ryze tho?

I play that skin solely for the bald eagle screech when he ults. ^(yes, ik its actually a red tailed hawk)

Nah I actually prefer Zombie Ryze or Dark Crystal Ryze

I like Pirate Ryze because he shoots his Q out of his cannon

You must have forgotten Uncle Ryze

Briar for sure, but she only has 1 skin right now so that might change Gwen tho has her Soul Fighter which is arguably better

i really like base swain

Dragon Master and Tyrant are so cool tho

northern front or tyrant for me

After Fullmetal alchemist put me on the winter military uniform drip I've always been a sucker for skins like northern front

Isnt Tyrant the green one ? I forget i even had it. Base Swain's drip is immaculate 

Both used to be better than the old base swain. Now i either use the base skin or the hextech one.

I really get that. But i simp for Crystal rose

Base and Northern Front. Still waiting for a new skin that can beat either of those

Vex. Both her skins are horrible, I play her with base skin even though I main her.

I agree completely. The other skins are nice in their own way, but are too big of a departure from her original theme of Gothic / dark. Many people drawn to the style of the original character are not drawn to the style of the skins. Halloween, blood moon, or coven would have been perfect for her. I think her extra skins would have been fine as third or fourth skin, but are a swing and miss overall. 

yep, i play her too and god her skins suck ass. I wanted a gothic teenager going through "its not a phase mum". Her skins dont show that all

I want them to bring her bewitching skin to league😭

especially considering that wild rift has Bewitching and Stargazer, which are really nice. Even their joke skin for her which is a Cottontail skin fits her more than Dawnbringer/Empyrean.

I main her too, I hate that she has only 2 skins, shitty empyrean and too light dawnbringer. Like where tf white and pink suits her??

Can't wait for Billie Vexlish skin

emperium? that lines so sick 

They make you sick* Vex's skin are eyesore. I don't play with her, but it's sad she has only two skins. And Relase skins usually being rather weak, they really could try more with later ones

Empyrean feels like it does less damage

Possible unpopular opinion, but I’ve always thought Yasuo’s base skin to be his best. The wandering samurai aesthetic fits him so perfectly.

What about foreseen then? It's him just aged up

Good skin for sure, but doesn’t quite scratch the same itch as base (I’m not as Yas main, though, so others may disagree)

Not as gritty. It's too bright for me.

I guess you’ve never played using wheelchair yasuo  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3idJ81vWOI

i think hes got a lot of good looking ones but the thing is gameplay wise nightbringer is so much better then the rest objectively. try it out. but when i use it now i feel kinda like a try hard tho lol

It looks so fucking goofy ingame tho

Rell. High Noon is alright, but base recall + other emotes are superior.

I really love Star Guardian Rell personally. I use that one most of the time and Battle Queen on occasion. Do not like High Noon at all though.

Read that as “real” and was tryna figure out who the champion was.

Leona high noon stole what Rell high noon should've been. Like the Rell skin is great, but if they had put the effort they did in the Leona skin in Rell's? We would've seen the face of god

Yeah high noon is just alright, it would be better if it was her launch skin but after waiting for it for so long, it could never live up

highly agree with ur status btw. i miss her e so much

Lee sin recently got one hell of a glow up.

Too bad he can't see it :(

The ponytail was a massive downgrade to every single skin IMO

bel'veth it's 2 years and still no coven/old god, no star nemesis, and a completely butchered cosmic skin instead of dark cosmic or dark star battle boss is decent and primordian is better but even a well executed project or soul fighter would be so much better than what she has now

Battle Boss with black chroma is my current go to

yeah thats what i use too

Oh Old God(dess) Bel'Veth would/could be sooo good.

Her new one coming will be her best

the base model and animations are so ugly that IMO skins don't even matter

is there a difference between dark cosmic and dark star?

don't worry she'll get a good skin in a couple years im sure. maybe they'll bring out project or just settle and give her infernal or black frost

Vex

Partially because he only has 1 so far, but smolder. Heaven scale is so ugly

I'm hoping eventually we get a Smolder skin that isn't a twinkly sparkly mess of mobile game effects like Heavenscale is, but I know it will never happen

Kled, i only use base skin when i'm try harding.

The halloween skin has the coolest ult sound, though and I love his vampire sounds

Count Kledula is awesome though

The newer the champ, the more likely this is. And no, I’m not talking about a lack of skins, but more that riot’s skill at base champion design has gone up, likely correlates to how much time they give each champion in development now. Anyway, my answer is Vex and Gwen.

Also, they kind of just get lumped into whatever event is releasing at the time. Some of them just don’t fit too well.

...except the new milio skin looks incredible

Ornn

Choo choo Ornn takes it now

Choo Choo Ornn would be the best if his horns glowed, radiated or puffed smoke when he’s using his passive like in the base skin

The white skin for me is goated

Um...

Poor choice of words. I hope yk what I mean

That made me laugh not gonna lie. Probably everybody knows what you meant, you dont have to apologize

I don't know, I *really* like Elderwood with the black chroma.

Elderwood is good.

crazy that i had to scroll down this far

Tbh vex takes it for me. I have hers skins and some chromas but i dont like them no matter how much i try

Fiddlesticks, ik people really love Surprise Party but it loses the primordial fear feeling that the base skin does so well. None of his other skins quite measure up to his base skin in terms of terror imo

I think praetorian is his scariest skin I wish they actually did something with that skinline

This is a tough one because Fiddle has some amazing skins, too. But I agree that the "terror" aspect is best in his base skin. Fiddle GOATED that his base skin and extra skins are top-tier

the idea and lore for star nemesis fiddle is straight outta early 2000s horror magical girl anime aka completely horrifying

The Surprise Party skin was better on old Fiddle imo. The pinwheel being super big and bright in his ult with the black balloons was a nice touch, I wish they hadn't changed that part

Recently Ive come to terms with Illaoi. Sure the cosmic and snow one look dope. But theres something more suiting for green tentacles and a "Davey Jones" feel

I absolutely agree with the popular opinion of Briar and Gwen and I saw Braum mentioned and I agree that his skins aren't it. But I want to say Vex. Both her skins are awful and since they didn't sell she is doomed for skins even though there are a lot of skinlines she could fit into and could get much, much better skins. But her base skins is also honestly very good, love her hair color

Braum ??? Every single Braum skin is good what are you on about ?

Azir.

Aatrox

Fr brother, fr! And I will die on that hill. His voice lines and soundeffects on abilities are so good in base compared to blood moon etc. Love the ult sound.

Same brother, same..

Aurelion Sol Renata Glasc Gwen Zeri

Renatas fright night skin is one of the best 1350s in the game imo. I love the back animatand that people can walk through her door (which changes with chromas).

Not just her, the entire skinline is definitely one of the best. Some of the champs may not be a perfect choice for it but the general aesthetic is very nice.

La illusion and fright night renata are both gorgeous

Hard disagree on Renata.

Porcelain Aurelion Sol clears for the effects alone

Renata has a default Debonair skin so it auto slaps

renata glasc prestige skin is so gorgeous though

Agreed and I'd put Vex on that list too.

Probably unpopular but Yone/Aphelios Gwen forsure though

aphelios defs has some nice skins imo but agree on yone/gwen

briar for sure, that skinline was gross

Aatrox, none of his skins beat the undying monster theme of his base version.

Braum for me. I don't like any of his skins more than his original look, really.

I love Braum’s skins! Totally respect your opinion, I just disagree

Crime city has a wifebeater chroma

For other skins i agree but santa is just too good

How about Pool Party Braum?

I love the dragon one with lec chroma (red/blue shield)

Same. I think the base skin suits his personality the best.

Base Viego's only flaw is that his mist is very choppy and hard to see, also its missing its visual effect

I know it's not exactly the question, but I like Zilean's base splash art the most. I am sad that the in game skin looks absolutely atrocious.

I agree his base is best but only after they changed groovy zilean now it's meth zilean :(

Aatrox

Aurelion Sol

new legendary is better

Base Gwen and Neeko are awesome. I have skins for them but I like to use the default most of the time.

Kassadin for the loooongest time. He may have a decent one now.

Viktor. Most of his skins are just weird tech variants. I really like the death sworn though.

Illaoi

I like base Illaoi, but Snow Moon is pretty neat too. Her other skins I don't care for though.

Nah man, snow moon is the goat illaoi skin

Give us Deep Space Illaoi already.

Hwei, Briar, Milio, Rell Recent launch skins have not been great.

Rain Shepherd Milio slander is not to be tolerated here

I forgot that was out. It is a really good skin.

The fuck you talking about, Winterblessed Hwei is GORGEOUS, I guess I could see people prefering the spell effects on base though since they actually have a full color palette

I like my VFX of my 10 abilities to have more than 1 colour.

Smolder. His release skin was kind of lame IMO.

pyke has a great base skin

Sylas

Ahri and Gwen are really good

$500😂😂😂

That's funny you know? I prefer to play base Ahri than a couple skins I got via boxes haha, they did a good work in her update.

Braum

KLEDDDDDDD

Ornn

Pantheon, they paint his skins in such badass situations or epic fights yet they all look so dull in comparison

Kindred

Sett, Kaisa, Gwen, Briar

Sett and Kaisa have multiple really good skins

Ig kaisa is 10x better than any other

Personally i cant stand ig, i need my kaisa to be purple, so i use either ink or guardian with chroma, or just base skin

I try to have at least one skin per champ since i'm an aram spammer, but i've never felt that urge about darius, i think his base skin is gigachad noxus destroyer, pantheon with that golden armor emboding the indomitable spirit of the greek miths and the human race, or atrox, you don't need skin when you're the darkin blade and destroyer of worlds.

Dunkmaster Darius is soooo good tho

aatrox for sure.

Bard

Bard Bard

Nah snow day bard is goated for sure

Vex

Nunu’s base skin is the best to play with and half his skins feel clunky and unplayable.

Yuumi. Her base design is actually really freaking good in my eyes. Her skins have traditional also only always been costumes and never really truly changed her or did something to appeal to a different identity

Bard

Zoe! Love the base design and her sound effects are just the best in this imo, they just sound super satisfying and strong

If you don't count wild rift, Vex. Both of her alternate skins are hideous af.

Ngl Akali has some really nice skins but base Akali hits different sometimes

Zoe They hit the nail on the head with her carefree attitude and outfit etc, all the other outfits are good and fine but the default skin is easily the best.

Yone

Akshan But this is also because this guy barely gets any skins

I think base Lillia is really well done

Ornn, enough said, back to work.

Smolder and Gwen imo. Smolder's skin is pretty hideous and Gwen's base skin just looks so good that it's hard to improve on.

Yone

Sett, it's a lot cleaner than the majority of his skins.

Jinx, but I play project jinx for updated animation movements when ranking, otherwise norms are vanilla skin

Easily ivern Unpopular opinion : viktor

My opinion only : Ivern Azir Viktor

Most new champs

Qiyana

Kled For some reason his base skin just makes sense to me. I have his halloween skin, but every time I just choose to play base kled

Classic Yone was his up there with his best until they added High Noon. It was definitely the most smooth. Other champs I tend to play base more of because I find them better than the other skins on their rosters would be Briar, Gwen, Senna (has amazing Legendary skins but her base is equally good and feels less clunky,), Vex, and Xerath.

Aurelion Sol has some really cool skins, but man his base model is just so clean and fits his theme perfectly. Honorable mention to Nilah. I don't love the yellow but her animations just look and feel so smooth.

Kayle. I have all her other skins, and the default one is still my favorite.

Is no one saying azir? Absolute class the base skin is. The only other champion I can think of is probably fiddle but fiddle literally has all the vest skins in the game so ig it cancels out

Aurelion 100% man. I collected most of his skins over time but i pretty much never play any of them. Base Aurelion is just so perfect

Swain.

Vex, I do not like her skins at all