From including Easter eggs to fleshing out complete storylines within its art,League of Legendsis known for its myriad of high-quality skin designs, accompanied by its top-tier splash art. With a great art team under its belt, the Riot team is constantly churning out amazing-looking skins for their many themed events.
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Like most games-as-a-service, Winter-themed events are always a must in League of Legends. The team behind these skins carefully crafted every detail to fit within the character’s play style and lore. Whether they are referencing Krampus or the jolly Santa Claus, League of Legends' winter skins are sure to bring the holiday spirit.
10Dark Candy Fiddlesticks
Not everything Winter-themed has to be all sweet and jolly fun, Dark Candy Fiddlesticks is outright terrifying. The skin recently got a rework and while the older version was not bad at all, the new version is more up to par with League of Legends' stunning art style for most of their splash art.
The new splash art feels more animated than before as if Fiddlesticks is about to drop down the chimney and steal all of your Christmas presents.
9Re-Gifted Amumu
Amumu is one of the saddest champions available in League of Legends. Just looking at him will make you feel pity for the little guy.
Riot decided to turn the sadness up even more by making his winter skin double down on the fact that nobody wants Amumu because of a curse that was placed on him. So whoever was gifted the Amumu simply pull off a nasty move by re-gifting him. Someone, please give him a hug.
8Snow Fawn Poppy
Yordles are some of the cutest creatures in the world of Runeterra. Although most people might find them annoying and frustrating to play against, something about small creatures with a spunky attitude is sure to win people’s hearts.
In her winter skin, Poppy looks incredibly adorable. Not only is she donning a Santa’s elf-inspired attire, but her usual hammer is replaced by a giant bell to smack her opponents around with the power of Christmas. She’s just a small doe looking for a fight.
7Slay Belle Katarina
Sometimes simplicity is all you need for a high-quality skin. Some people might call Slay Belle Katarina lazy, but its simple design of Katarina donning a cute Mrs. Claus outfit paired with small reindeer antlers is something Katarina would wear if she was forced to a Christmas-themed party.
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This outfit, combined with Kat’s art-deco-style dual swords, makes this a classic holiday skin to use in your daily ranked or ARAM games to show your holiday cheer.
6Candy Cane Miss Fortune
Just like Slay Belle Katarina, Candy Cane Miss Fortune is another one of Riot’s more simple skins. In this splash art, Miss Fortune wears the classic sexy Mrs. Claus outfit, but the most interesting and fun thing about the skin is that Miss Fortune’s guns are replaced by candy canes.
Although a quite simple skin, it is a must-own for any Miss Fortune mains for use over the holidays. Riot even made her Santa hat comically big, just like her regular hat is.
5Snow Man Yi
When Riot stops taking skin design seriously, that is when their best work comes to fruition. Master Yi is a serious character by nature but flipping the script and giving him a fun skin like Snow Man Yi is what the holidays are all about.
Not only does Snow Man Yi not even look like Master Yi, but his entire outfit is different. Dressed in full snow mountain attire, Yi is seen practicing his slashing on a wooden training dummy using a giant frozen carrot rather than his usual katana.
4Snow Bunny Nidalee
Snow Bunny Nidalee got a revamp a while ago and unlike most other winter skins that got reworked, Nidalee’s needed it the most. The old version of Snow Bunny Nidalee, while not bad for the time, didn’t seem like a winter-themed skin. The skin was, in essence, a red recolor for Nidalee.
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Cleaning up the details and focusing the angle that Riot wanted with this skin, makes the splash art pop even more. Her outfit now has Santa-inspired frills, and she’s even posed next to a snow sculpture of her cougar form.
3Santa Braum
Riot did not have to bless the world with Santa Braum. Everything about this skin is perfection. Braum as shirtless Santa, Poros at his feet with reindeer antlers, and even a giant chimney as his shield.
The skin gets even better when you see it in-game. His in-game animations are some of the best that League of Legends has to offer. His Q ability becomes a giant present to shoot at enemy champions and his R swaps his giant icicles for a row of fully decorated Christmas pine trees.
2Winter Wonderland Neeko
Neeko is one of the cutest champions in League of Legends at the moment and her Winter Wonderland skin further solidifies that fact. Unlike most winter skins, the Winter Wonderland Neeko strays from the typical Christmas motif and leans more on snow and winter as a whole.
Being a chameleon, Neeko can turn into anything and in this skin, she chose to turn into a beautiful ice princess. With her huge doe eyes, this Neeko skin is a fan-favorite, not only in the winter-themed category but as a whole as well.
1Workshop Nunu
Nunu looks incredibly cute in his Workshop skin, with him dressed as a mischievous workshop elf, but this skin should be renamed to Workshop Willump because he is the star of the show.
It only makes sense to dress up one of the cutest mounts in Runeterra as a giant red-nosed reindeer, but Riot didn’t think about how cute he would look. Willump is dashing through the snow in the cutest way possible in one of the best splash art in the game.
