Champion Skins

**CHAMPIONS ➞ *PICK CHAMPION* ➞ SKINS**

**Champion Skins** are Cosmetic Items that allow players to customize the look of their Champions and can be equipped and changed through the Customize tab in the champion's profile. Weapons and Champion Skins can be mixed and matched.

These item pairs are generally bundled together into collections. Emotes, MVP poses or sprays associated with a collection will usually also be unlocked along with the champion and weapon skins. The current Prime Gaming item can be found here. A list of skin collections can be found here.

## Rarity

Skins are separated in different tiers, each tier having more customized elements and higher cost than the previous one:

* Common
	+ Simple color changed or "recolored" versions of the default skins. These skins usually cost 30,000  or 160 .
* Uncommon
	+ A full color scheme change of the default skins. These skins usually cost 40,000  / 200  or 60,000  / 300 .
* Rare
	+ Minor model changes and upgrades along with re-textures from the default skins. These skins usually cost 250  if available for purchase.
* Epic
	+ Full model changes with a different theme than the original's. They may also have special visual effects, a custom voice pack, and animation changes. These skins usually cost 800  if available for purchase.
* Legendary
	+ Full model changes with a different theme than the original's that include major animation changes, a custom voice pack, and new visual effects. These skins are usually exclusive to chests and special events.

There are some Rare champion skins without any weapon attached to them that are available for 200 , and some stand-alone Rare weapon skins that cost 125  to unlock.

## List of Champion Skins

* Androxus - Maeve
* Makoa - Zhin

## Trivia

* Prior to the Paladins Beta Version 0.68, which was released on March 28, 2018, players were able to mix and match bodies with accessories with the Parts and Pieces system. This system was restrictive on the skin designs for the team, so it was removed to allow higher quality skins with less boxed-in and limiting parameters, and also increase the overall performance of Paladins.
* Many champions originally had several additional recolors in the past, though these were eventually removed. The reason given for this was that multiple recolors made the store confusing and messy, cluttered skin equipping UI, and ran the risk of hiding content that could make money.
* As said here, the goal of skins is to attempt and stay true to the base character, where a skin can be looked at and seen as a logical alternate version of the champion; one example given was Kraumpus Raum, how Raum and the concept of the Krampus share a similar type of "evil character fantasy", with it being said a Krampus skin wouldn't really make much sense on a character such as Sha Lin. Though many skins don't actually seem to take this into consideration much, and while some are understandable, such as the various Crossovers skins, others aren't so much, such as Sweet Shop and Toothache Evie transforming the insane power hungry ice witch into a cheerful baker, Aurora Furia transforming the vengeful girl that lost her sister and fused with a Pyre entity, into an incredibly arrogant savior who's more concerned about being praised than actually saving people, or Pirate's Treasure and Eight Oceans Io transforming the more pacifistic and reserved Io into a stereotypical pirate to list a few examples.
* One concept that was thrown around involved skins that "leveled up" over time, progressing from a relatively simple design to something more complex, with concepts showing off examples for Azaan, Viktor, and Ying. However, the tech behind the system was apparently "too costly", though this specific concept could be brought back as a regular skin someday.

**Champion specific Cosmetic Items**
**Champion Skins**  •  Weapon Skins  •  Voice Packs  •  Emotes  •  MVP Poses  •  Mastery Items
**General**
Deal of the Day  •  DLC

1. ↑ Parts, Pieces, and a Unifying Vision for Beter Skins, Paladins Website
2. ↑ File:Level Up Azaan Skin.png
3. ↑ File:Level Up Viktor Skin.png
4. ↑ File:Level Up Ying Skin.png
5. ↑ ThunderBrush on Twitter
6. ↑ ThunderBrush on Twitter
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8. ↑ ThunderBrush on Twitter