Riot Games has announced that Champion skins will be making their way to Legends of Runeterra in patch 2.8.0 on May 19th, 2021, fulfilling one of players’ most popular requests.

New Event – Dark Horizon

Travel along the infinite cosmos on the Dark Horizon Event Road, with rewards from the furthest
reaches of the universe. A galaxy of new personalization items is also coming in the patch,
including Cosmic & Dark Star champion skins, as well as our first Legendary-tier board,
complete with its own Mega Guardian.

Champion Skins

Caught in an eternal conflict, Cosmic Zephyr Yasuo and Cosmic Exile Riven serve as
warriors to defend the light against the unspeakable horrors of the Dark Star’s thralls, Dark Star
Zed and Dark Star Shyvana.

Champion skins are a new way to personalize your favorite decks by taking them to an entirely
new dimension! Equipping a champion with a skin will alter the art for all copies of each of that
champion’s levels, as well as their accompanying flavor text. Some skins have entirely new
level-up animations and alter the appearance of summoned units (i.e. Dark Star Zed’s Living
Shadows).

New Lab – Duo Queue: Shared Spoils

Patch 2.8.0 brings a new rotation to Multilab:

• Lab of Legends
• Duo Queue: Shared Spoils (New in 2.8.0!)
• Ultra Rapid Draw

Grab a duo partner and a few of your favorite decks. It’s time for an entirely new 2v2 experience
with independent lanes! In Duo Queue: Shared Spoils, each teammate plays their own 1v1
match alongside their partner. A choice of unique ‘supply drop’ cards are offered to a player on
each team every few rounds; the drops a player doesn’t choose are offered to their teammate,
so choose your drops wisely to support your team! If both players on a team win, their team
wins. If one player on each team wins their match, they’ll enter into a tiebreaker match to
determine the winning team.

Just like with other co-op Labs, the P.I.N.G. system has returned with new pings to
communicate with your partner – you can also drag and drop them on the board or directly on
cards!

Bonus rewards await winners after each victory, with a small chance to earn Epic & Champion Wildcards, or even Prismatics if you’re lucky enough, so fight hard!

Personalization

Champion Skins

Cosmic Zephyr Yasuo

Alternate art + new level-up animation

Dark Star Zed

Alternate art + new level-up animation

Cosmic Exile Riven

Alternate art

Dark Star Shyvana

Boards

Dark Horizon

There is no escape.
This board has special visual effects and music.

Dark Emissary’s Realm

This board is always equipped with an exclusive Mega “Dark Emissary” Guardian, interactive
elements, special visual effects, and music.

Guardians

• Minionaut
  • That’s one small step for minions…
  • Personality: Spacey
  • Loves: Moonwalking
• Dark Star Drake
  • He once got the Dark Emissary’s autograph.
  • Personality: Insatiable
  • Favorite Food: Star Systems
• Cosmic Genius Von Yipp
  • Don’t even get the professor started on String Theory.
  • Personality: Mercurial
  • Loves: Long naps near suns
• Dark Star Von Yipp
  • Try not to let his cute widdle paws distract you from the promise of Armageddon in his eyes.
  • Personality: Beguiling
  • Loves: Batting planets out of orbit
• Cosmic Construct T-Hex
  • ENABLING ENIGMATIC DEITY PROTOCOL
  • Personality: Astute
  • Hobby: Calculating possible futures

Card Backs

The Cosmos

The Dark Star

Shadow of the Dark Star

Cosmic Exile

Emotes

• More Fired Up
• Sparky Sparky Von Yipp

Icons

Dark Horizon Icons

Bundles / Event Pass

Dark Horizon Event Pass available in the Store for 975 Coins. Grants access to an upgraded
event path with premium rewards, and immediately unlocks the Cosmic Genius Von Yipp
Guardian Variant:

• Play games to earn Star Fragments and unlock more rewards!
• Purchase before June 2 to get an exclusive quest that awards 10 Star Fragments and a
  Rare Prismatic Chest!
• Event ends and passes expire June 16th 2021 at 10:00 a.m. PT. Horizon’s Edge Bundle is available in the store for 1590 Coins, prorated for any items owned in
  the bundle. Bundle includes:
• Dark Horizon Board
• Exclusive Dark Emissary’s Realm Board with Mega Guardian
  Cosmic Divide Bundle is available in the store for 4921 Coins, prorated for any items owned in
  the bundle. Bundle includes:
• Cosmic Zephyr Yasuo
• Dark Star Zed
• Cosmic Exile Riven
• Dark Star ShyvanaBugfixes
• A Mighty Poro created by Braum level 1 should no longer visually overlap with other
  units in the back row.
• Several improvements to text across the game in our continued effort for text
  consistency