Every LoL Worlds Skin, by Year and Team

Every LoL Worlds skin set exists because five (sometimes six) players won the Summoner’s Cup and then got to pick a champion they played on the way. That is the whole idea behind Worlds skins: the winning roster chooses, Riot builds the set, and it lands in the shop months after the final. Fifteen championship sets exist so far, from Fnatic’s Season 1 skins to T1’s three-peat in 2025, and ten of them belong to Korean teams. Below is every set by year and team with the player behind each skin, the real release date, the launch price, how long each one took to arrive, and what the Worlds 2026 winner’s set will look like.

If you only care about what a skin costs today, our breakdown of LoL skin tiers and RP prices covers that side. This page is the history and the rules.

How Worlds winner skins work

The short version: players pick, Riot builds, and the set ships the following year. Each player on the winning roster chooses one champion, and the skin is themed around them: their jersey colours, inside jokes, and usually a recall animation built from a dance or gesture they sent Riot. FPX Vayne’s recall features four stray cats that hung around FPX’s training base. T1 Varus eats a croissant, because Gumayusi ate one on stage at the 2024 semifinals in Paris.

There are rules behind the picks. A player has to have actually played for the team at the tournament to qualify: per the LoL Wiki’s summary of Riot’s criteria, that means at least 2 games in the Play-In or group stage that affected advancement, or at least 1 knockout game. And the champion has to be one the player used at least once during that Worlds. That is why T1’s sixth man Rekkles had no 2024 skin: he was on the roster but never played a game. It is also why Keria could not get the Lux skin he wanted for 2023. He did not play her at that Worlds, so he took Bard instead and Riot hid a Battle Academia Lux cameo in T1 Bard’s recall.

Three more mechanics matter:

• Riot shares the money. Riot’s patch 26.14 notes state that it shares a portion of proceeds with LoL esports teams, so buying the set is the closest thing to a tip jar the game has.
• The Finals MVP gets a second skin. Since the 2022 set, the Finals MVP receives an extra cosmetic: Prestige DRX Aatrox for Kingen, Prestige T1 Jayce for Zeus, Prestige T1 Sylas for Faker, and for 2025 a new purchasable MVP T1 Miss Fortune for Gumayusi.
• Release timing is not fixed. It has drifted from late April to mid September depending on the year, which the table below makes very obvious.

Every LoL Worlds skin, by year and team

Here is the full list of championship team skins. The year is the year the team won Worlds, not the year the skins arrived. Release dates and launch prices are from the LoL Wiki’s per-skin records and Riot’s patch notes, last checked October 2026.

A few rows deserve footnotes. The Fnatic skins are the odd ones out: Fnatic won the first Worlds in 2011, but their set did not arrive until September 2014, after the Taipei Assassins and the first SKT set were already out. That is why the TPA skins count as the first team skins ever made, and why they started the shared group splash tradition that lasted until the iG set broke it. Faker’s first pick was Ahri in 2013, but he got Zed because Popstar Ahri was in development at the time. And Doinb picked Malphite for FPX because it was the only champion his wife could play, which remains the most wholesome reason anyone has ever chosen a rock.

How long each set took to reach the shop

Plan on roughly six to ten months between the final and the skins. The table below sets each final against the release date. The first three columns come from the table above. The final dates are the published dates of each Worlds final, rounded to the month.

Between 2019 and 2022 Riot had the process running like a clock, with spring releases around six months after the final. The three T1 sets drifted back into summer, and 2024’s set was the slowest modern release at around ten months. 2025 pulled it back to mid July. If you want to guess when the Worlds 2026 winner’s skins arrive, mid 2027 is the reasonable bet, and nobody outside Riot knows the exact patch until it hits the PBE.

The players and champions that keep coming back

Faker owns this list. He has six team skins (SKT T1 Zed, Ryze and Syndra, then T1 Orianna, Yone and Galio) plus Prestige T1 Sylas, which makes him the most commemorated player in the game by a distance. Behind him, a handful of names show up more than once:

On the champion side, Lee Sin is the king of team skins with three (SKT T1 2013, FPX 2019 and T1 2023). Ezreal, Gnar, Jarvan IV, Jhin, Orianna, Rakan, Thresh and Vayne each have two. If you main any of those, you get to pick which roster you are cosplaying, which is a better deal than the Ambessa players got. Riot has also kept the oldest sets alive: patch 26.20 added Elite chromas to the 2013 SKT T1 Jax, Lee Sin, Vayne, Zed and Zyra, twelve years after release.

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Team skins vs Worlds event skins

A team skin and a “Worlds skin” are not the same thing, and the store does not always make that clear. Every year has two kinds of Worlds-adjacent cosmetics:

• Winner team skins, covered above. One set per championship, picked by the players, released the following year.
• Event skins for the current Worlds, which Riot ships during the tournament itself. For Worlds 2026 that is the True Damage Know My Name line in patch 26.21: Akali, Prestige Ekko, Qiyana, Senna and Yasuo, built around True Damage’s “Know My Name”, the Worlds 2026 anthem. Older examples include the Championship line, which started with Championship Riven in 2012.

They also follow different shop rules. Event skins follow the usual event and Legacy pattern, and Championship Riven’s 2012 edition is the textbook case of an original that never came back in its first form. Team skins now have their own timeline. Under the new approach Riot introduced in patch 26.14, the individual T1 2025 skins stay in the shop until the start of patch 26.23. After that, the Epic skins move into the loot pool from the first patch of 2027, and MVP T1 Miss Fortune joins the Mythic Shop pool for 200 Mythic Essence, without her signature icon or border. If you were waiting for a sale on the T1 2025 set, the clock is running. For the full map of what disappears and what rotates back, see which LoL skins you can no longer get.

Which sets players love and which they roast

If you want the community mood on the newest set in one place, the r/leagueoflegends thread on the T1 2025 ability preview runs past 500 comments and covers every champion in it. The best-liked sets are the ones where you can tell the player chose the story. Flashy particles help less than you would think. That is our read after years of watching which team skins get bought and which ones actually get equipped:

• Liked: FPX (the cat recall, and the first team set with chromas, which FPX requested in their jersey colours), DWG (Nuguri’s Kennen is a raccoon-dog joke on his name, and BeryL’s Leona is a nod to an anime character he asked for), and the T1 2023 set, where every skin carries a reference, from Faker’s four-star Orianna crown to Gumayusi’s dog Doongi in the Jinx recall.
• Mixed: the early 750 and 975 RP sets (TPA, the first SKT set, Samsung White). Fans respect them for the history, but they are recolours by modern standards, which is exactly why Riot keeps adding Elite chromas to them.
• Roasted on release: sets whose champion pick lands outside the current meta. A team skin on a champion nobody plays in solo queue turns into a museum piece, however good it looks.

Fair warning: Riot does not publish sales by skin, so treat this section as an operator’s opinion and nothing more.

What the Worlds 2026 winner’s skins will mean

Whoever lifts the Summoner’s Cup on November 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn gets the sixteenth set. Worlds 2026 runs from October 15 to November 14 on patch 26.20, the patch Riot locked as the Worlds patch, so the champion pool for the next team skins is whatever each winning player actually puts on stage in Allen and Brooklyn. Three outcomes would make the set historically interesting:

• A fourth straight T1 title would give T1 a fourth consecutive set and, if Faker plays a qualifying game, a seventh team skin for him.
• An LPL winner would end a run that goes back to EDG in 2021, the last Chinese team skins in the game.
• A first-time champion from any region would add a new team name to the skin roster for the first time since DRX in 2022.

Expect the same structure as 2025: five team skins, an MVP skin for the Finals MVP, signature bundles, and a release somewhere around mid 2027. For the schedule, format and qualified field, our Worlds 2026 guide has the full breakdown, and Riot’s own Worlds 2026 format announcement confirms the dates and venues.

Where this list falls short

This list will not tell you what to buy. Team skins celebrate a moment, and a few of them are honestly weaker than a random 1350 RP thematic skin on the same champion. The launch prices above are launch prices: some older sets have been repriced, bundled or chroma’d since, and what you pay today depends on what is in the shop and the loot pool when you look. Release dates come from the LoL Wiki’s per-skin records and Riot’s patch notes, and a few older dates are the North American release, so other regions can differ by a day. And the “liked” section is opinion. If a set means something to you because you watched that final live, that beats any ranking we could write.

Frequently asked questions

How many Worlds skin sets are there in LoL?

Fifteen championship team sets, one for each Worlds from 2011 (Fnatic) to 2025 (T1). Most have five skins, and the 2015 SKT T1, 2016 SKT T1, 2017 Samsung Galaxy, 2018 iG and 2022 DRX sets have six. Since 2022, the Finals MVP also gets an extra Prestige or MVP skin.

Who chooses the champions for Worlds skins?

The players do. Each eligible player picks a champion they played at least once during that Worlds, and they help design details like the recall animation. To be eligible, a player needs at least 2 games in the Play-In or group stage that affected advancement, or 1 knockout game.

When do Worlds winner skins come out?

The following year, usually six to ten months after the final. Recent sets arrived in August 2024 (T1 2023), September 2025 (T1 2024) and July 2026 (T1 2025, patch 26.14).

What are the T1 2025 Worlds skins?

T1 Ambessa (Doran), T1 Xin Zhao (Oner), T1 Galio (Faker), T1 Yunara (Gumayusi) and T1 Seraphine (Keria) at 1350 RP each, plus MVP T1 Miss Fortune for Finals MVP Gumayusi at 1820 RP. They released on July 15 2026 in patch 26.14.

Which player has the most Worlds skins?

Faker, with six team skins (Zed, Ryze, Syndra, Orianna, Yone and Galio) plus Prestige T1 Sylas from his 2024 Finals MVP. Bengi, Oner, Keria and Gumayusi are next with three team skins each.

Are the Worlds 2026 skins the same as the winner’s skins?

No. The Worlds 2026 event skins are the True Damage Know My Name line that launched in patch 26.21 during the tournament. The winning team’s skins are a separate set that comes out the following year.

That adds up to 15 sets and 80 team skins, plus four MVP extras, and Faker is in six of them. The Worlds 2026 set should join them around mid 2027.

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