i was about to go to bed
but i uh i realized my explanation on
skin rerolls
and duplicates was probably a little
confusing and it was kind of buried in
the middle of a long video
and uh i just didn't want to be
responsible for people wasting
skin rerolls when they shouldn't use
them um
so i'm gonna front load this with the
knowledge make this a real short video
you probably shouldn't reroll skin
shards
unless you own every champion
if you don't every champion when you
re-roll
you will roll into the entire bucket of
eligible skin rerolls
and when it will look for a skin you
don't have
and it will then immediately give it to
you
let's say you only own ten champions you
reroll three skin shins
three skin shards same thing happens you
get
um
you know they disappear riot looks into
the bucket of skins
you don't own and you don't own uh
hardly any skins even if you owned all
the skins
uh for nine of your ten champions and
you were hoping to just get some skins
for that 10th champion
it's actually very unlikely you're going
to get skins for that 10th champion
you're going to get a random skin for a
champion you don't own one of the 100
zillion of champions you don't own and
it can't give you a skin because you
don't own the champion so what does it
do
it gives you a skin shard okay cool now
i have a skin shard when you get the
champion you can just
immediately turn that into a skin no
harm no foul
okay you re-roll three more skin shards
well now you got a problem
because you still don't own that skin
you own a skin shard
and so the the thing sucks your three
skin shards up and it
pulls a random skin out of the bucket
and you could get a duplicate
for um that skin
that you already have a skin shard for
and then when you do unlock the champion
two skin charts isn't gonna you don't
get two skins you're just gonna get one
scan and unlike
emotes you're just it just treats the
re-roll system treats it like a
a skin shard not like a full skin so you
just wasted two
two shards so i wouldn't i i've had all
the champions for so long and i
uh i don't really think about this
problem it only bites me
when i forget i start doing rerolls when
new skins come out
on a patch for which there's a champion
release and i forget
to immediately unlock the champion and
i'll and i'll accidentally get the skin
permanent for that champion and then
and then just keep rolling for skins not
notice that and then get a second
skin shard for that champion because my
bucket is really small i only have a few
skins i don't own
one of them is for the new champion i i
turn three shards into a
permanent for the champion i don't own i
still don't own the skin
because i just own a skin shard and they
could fix this in their programming they
could
prevent duplicates of permanent skins
but
i don't know for whatever reason they
don't so what does that mean for you
it means that unless you own all or
nearly all
of the champions um you're statistically
unlikely to get duplicates in the
beginning
but the more skins you have um
the more the more skin shards you have i
should say
for champions you don't own the more
likely it will be
that you roll a duplicate and i
i enjoy doing the skin rolling it's like
basically buying all the skins on sale
uh i've estimated that my on my best
days i could
i could get skins for basically 3 50 rp
that's kind of best case scenario maybe
450 500 if i'm really unlucky
um and so when you're getting like
mythics and
and uh ultimate or legendary skins for
for 400 350 rp you're feeling good about
life
but the second you get a duplicate you
have
dramatically increased uh what you've
paid for the skins you did get so
i really wouldn't recommend again this
is the point of this video
don't buy skin shards and start pumping
out re-rolls
have fun with the events get the skin
shards use use orange essence
turn them into actual skins uh when when
they're skins that you you want
but i would not re-roll until
you get all the champions just hold on
to those skin shards stick them in your
little bucket and have something to look
forward to
um when you get every when you
eventually get every champion if you
keep playing you will
even even with free essence uh you're
not going to accumulate a lot of essence
but you'll get them all
uh just use the essence on champion
shards that you get from leveling up
you'll get all the champions then you
know have a lot of fun uh
re-roll all those shards but again don't
do it until you want all the champions
so um and and don't feel bad about using
that orange essence i would constantly
use orange essence
uh let me let me show you a sad story i
was always like oh
you know do i re-roll or do i disenchant
i would like re-roll the cheap ones and
then i would disenchant like if i got a
legendary skin shard i'd be like oh good
i can get more orange essence
well guess what happens eventually i
have twenty three thousand three hundred
orange essence and literally
literally nothing i can use it on so
when there's a new event
and i and i open boxes you know i open
um
um you know i i get some orbs or
something
and i open them up i could get a skin
shard for it for a skin i don't know
unless there's
you know six skins but out of a thousand
skins odds are i'm not and i haven't
seen
the words you know upgradeable in a
while um
last you know i don't know 50 50 skins
that have come out
i reroll and i'm hoping to see i'm
hoping to see the words
uh you know upgradeable but i always see
the word owned
and so i pretty much have to you know
re-roll three skins and get the
get the new skins using you know
re-rolls and so i've slowly
because sometimes events give you one
dress that's just been accumulating this
and i have i have nothing to spend it on
um
can't really spend it on emotes i no
point in just enchanting these
i own all the emotes that you can roll
into which is actually not that many
there's a bunch of emotes i don't own
the bucket of rollable emotes is
actually
smaller compared to the total versus
skin shards which are mostly re-rollable
there's only about i want to say 50
skins you can't roll
uh somewhere around there and i just
actually did a count earlier i think i'm
25 scans short
of owning owning them all i can maybe
i'll make a video and go through the
ones i don't own
um but yeah i know the emotes are kind
of funny
uh instead of rolling three you just
roll one
so you know it doesn't there's no
downside to accidentally getting a
duplicate
i own this already because i own them
all um
so you just keep swapping uh so you know
this is owned
one permanent for another and if they
add one to the bucket of rollables
you know i'll be able to basically the
next
16 22 emotes they come out with 23.
i i already have i already have the
the permanent shards i can re-roll into
those um
ward skins i do not own all the ward
skins but you just get so few of them
i get occasionally from the from the
crates that um
yeah i could re-roll into these but i
just yeah i don't have enough and
there's really no consistent way to get
them
uh icons uh same thing
just like with ward skins i definitely
don't have them all
but it is very inconsistent to get
shards because usually
uh for with events and other things you
just get
you just get the icon so it's it's weird
to get a shard
for an icon that you already own uh
or awards or a ward skin chart for a
award that you don't already own
uh yeah so i will likely never own all
of those because i'm not gonna buy them
and i will never get enough of these
shards to get them all either um
yeah so that's that's it uh
these are my existing skin shards the
last event was pretty good so actually
i did double down on that i didn't need
to use that many to get the the skins
from that event so i
this is probably the most skin shards
i've ever had
i don't intend to actually spin rp for a
while so i'm hoping
uh this gets me through a couple
you know three four uh skin events
you can do the math you know every three
shards is a skin
um so it'll be a nice little buffer
unfortunately i cannot use these to gift
skins to anybody and
yeah i've i've been banned from uh
spending any
any additional rp on this game for a
while i like to budget it out and so i
just agreed only i only spend so much
for
a certain period of time uh i've spent
that money
so i just got to let this tide me over
um
until until the next event um so good
luck
uh if you got all the skin if you have
if you own all the champions you have
them all unlocked
yeah roll away um and uh
if you're kind of in between you own all
the champions and you're not sure should
i roll should i upgrade
just don't hold back if you're even
close to getting all the skins or that's
your goal at your eventual goal
you will end up with too much orange
essence and nothing to spend it on
we get the blue essence store but we do
not there is no orange essence store
uh and i just have nothing to spend it
on you know i can't
i can't upgrade anything i own it all so
it's just a waste
um i mean presumably i'll i will
look into some skin shards um
you know when there's a new event and i
have some orbs to
create more shards they'll be shards for
the new skins and i always wait
um before i start you know re-rolling my
skin shards to see if i i get lucky and
i get a shard for skin i don't own
uh when there's new skins released just
doesn't happen
so spend your orange essence don't worry
about saving it
um highly unlikely you're gonna get like
the skin you wanted
um and you're like oh i should have
saved my orange essence okay whatever
uh uh
spend it while you can you'll end up
like me and and you'll you'll have
orange essence and nothing to spend it
on
uh but don't reroll skin shards
until you own basically all of the
champions or you will
see uh duplicates and duplicates equals
wasted skin charts you just wasted two
skin shards
that's basically 300 450 rp depending on
how you want to
how lucky you got uh getting them so
that's like you know two or three bucks
or so you just threw down the drain
every time you see a duplicate
so waste of time to do to do mass
re-rolling until you and all the
champions
uh that's all i got and uh best of luck
uh fellow collectors and other people
who like to
um spend money on free-to-play games
boomer out