Have you ever dreamed of playing as Graves but with a jacked Peter Griffin skin?
Or perhaps you dreamt of Patrick from Sponge Bob spinning around in Samira’s R and destroying the enemy team in quick penta.
Maybe those are only my dreams that I wake up from in the middle of the night rushing to PC to check if it’s possible. Well wait no longer because custom skins are here and they are fairly safe to use. Meaning you are unlikely to get banned if you play outside of Asia. Mod creators claim that there has been no bans for the past 3 years and it’s not blocked by Vanguard, but as always with custom software it’s use at your own risk kind of situation.
So if I haven’t yet painted a clear enough picture in your head let me try again. Custom skins are created in community-driven platforms which figured out how to replace an existing skin with a custom model, texture, sound effects and in rare cases even VFX.
One skin even inspired riot games to finally make their own version of it. Yes! You heard me right the infamous K/DA Gragas is coming to town with 2024 worlds patch.
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As of 2024 there are few categories of custom skins or mods you can install among them are:
To be fair with the functionality that the mod installer provides you can theoretically modify ANY item that’s in the game so sky and your persistence is the limit.
All custom skins are running on an LCS Manager created by a collaboration of people working on League Toolkit.
This list is in no particular order and is reflection of my personal taste and insanity so take it with the grain of salt. Honestly there is so many different skins to choose from that I’m sure almost everyone would come up with a very different list if presented with an opportunity.
Some might hate Minecraft but the quality of this skin and how much it fits the theme of the champion checks all my boxes. Just turn on the video linked below and see his spawn animation at the beginning of the game and if you are not in love please leave an angry comment.
Features:
Note that the skin replaces default Morderkaiser so you will no longer be able to use it anymore unless you uninstall or disable this mod.
I will not include more Minecraft mods to not make this list too boring.
Now something for the fans of Warhammer 40,000 series. Samira reimagined as Sternguard Veteran. While in my opinion nothing beats the quality of Sauronkaiser skins it’s a pretty decent quality and the theme fits so perfectly that it deserves all the praise it can get.
Features:
Download the Malum Caedo here.
You might see a theme already, yes it’s a homage to another popular franchise. If you have ever dreamed of slamming mere mortals with your maiar mace then give it a go. Arguably Sauron Morderkaiser might be a better fit but the skin is still amaing and feels extra satisfying to stack with your Q.
Features:
Download the Sauron Nasus here.
To break my streak this one is just a visual upgrade to the base Tryndamere. You can tell a lot of love and work has been put in this skin and I have strong suspicion Kaizen is a Tryndamere main.
Features:
Download the Kaizen’s Tryndamere here.
Now something kawaii for people who enjoy OG skinlines from Riot Games. To be fair Tahm Kench should have probably gotten this skin long time ago, but do not fret becasue moders are here.
Features:
Download the Rain Shepherd Tahm Kench here.
The situation is tricky, while allegedly some Rioters said they are fans of custom skins it’s still use at your own risk situation. Definitely Riot Games could have easily banned all custom mods if they wanted to with the recent May rollout of Vanguard (which can easily detect whether you have tampered with the official game files). However Riot Games have not issued any penalties so far and the LCS Manager still works. This combined with the fact that there are no known bans outside of Asia (Korea and China) points to a fairly safe status.
Regardless of what was said above I highly recommend you routinely check custom mods/skins Discord servers to monitor the situation.
Remember while the program itself is safe you are still downloading files from unknown strangers on the internet so an antivirus and common logic such as using well known mods and creators is a good practice to follow.
The best part about any modding scene is it's community. As it's to be expected most of it is concentrated around the 2 beforementioned pages. So if you hope to learn more about how the mods are created, have some questions on the best way to install the mods, need help creating your own mod or any other questions the best bet would be to join their discord servers.
If you are already immersed in the community let us know in the comments what are your favorite skins!
