Runeterra’s Piltover is well-known for its positive progress, but progress can also make somewhat monstrous Hextech golem skins for players.
In Riot’s popular Hextech universe, there are two types of champions. There are artificers who wield magic and the golems created by it. Unlike traditional golems, those living in Piltover have the capacity for free will. Does this make their destructive tendencies more or less their fault? The answer may vary based on personal opinion and on the golem in question, but anyone can see how cool the corresponding skins look.
Hextech golem skins have a range of prices and rarities, so here’s everything players need to know about the magically monstrous members of Piltover.
Cost: 100 ME
Compared to the rest of the Hextech golems, Alistar serves the powerful and guards the advanced tech they used to build him. Yet his alliance with the “noble” artificers doesn’t mean that he won’t jump at the chance to pulverize any intruders, no matter who they might be.
Notably, any Hextech golem skin that costs mythic essences usually is on rotation in the mythic shop. This means players have to bide their time and save their money carefully.
Cost: 125 ME
Amumu seems to be doomed to loneliness and despair no matter what universe he exists in. In Piltover, he served as a companion for young rich children until the rich phased him out for newer tech. Their cruelty has not been forgotten, and Hextech Amumu will make those who neglected him rue the day.
Cost: 750 RP
Anivia’s Hextech golem skin shows a simpler design than other golems. That comes from the fact that she was the first true sentient life form that the artificers built. Originally created in League as an avian winter spirit, her cycle of rebirth continues in Piltover and inspired the creation of many who came after her.
Cost: 520 RP
Galio is and may always be a protector of whatever city has made him, but he had a particularly heroic entrance into the Piltover lore. Originally created by industrial families who saw the growing advancements in Hextech, he proudly guards and advertises the city while also following his own curiosity.
Cost: 125 ME
Kog’Maw might not be the most likely candidate for a pet when Yuumi exists, but there it is in its bejeweled Hextech golem skin anyway. Perhaps it’s one of the less monstrous advancements in Hextech. The jury is hung on if its spittle can still melt a hand. Somehow, this isn’t Kog’Maw’s first time as a dog, or at least something resembling a dog.
Cost: 100 ME
Perhaps the greatest hubris-based threat to Piltover, Nocturne is a literal nightmare creature who prowls under the shroud of darkness. None of the powerful people are willing to admit that it isn’t just an urban legend. People are surely going missing for other, unrelated reasons.
Hextech Nocturne will return to the shop with other mythical skins on August 14.
Cost: 125 ME
Hextech Rammus is the perfect Fibonacci spiral. so perfect and rollable that it rolled out of the lab the second it could. No one seems to have seen the powerball since, which definitely won’t result in anything terrible happening.
Cost: 125 ME
Yet another folly created by the artificers, Renekton’s Hextech golem skin is part flesh, part machine, and all weird sewer crocodile monster. The half-mad creature’s reign of madness must come to an end eventually, but today is not that day. Piltover beware.
Cost: 520 RP
Last but certainly not least is Sion, who raises many questions to which the answer is always “It’s Hextech, so it must be fine.” Monsters who engage in unstoppable onslaught are just the cost of doing good science, right? Right?
For any players who choose to disregard the laws of nature, Riot practically made the Hextech golem skins just for them. Some are locked behind the mythic shop and others in the legacy vault, so the best thing to do for anyone wishing to use the slightly off-putting skins is to wait and hope they return.
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