Vainglory’s biggest update yet brings character skins to the MOBA-fest

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Six new hero skins are here! Photo: Super Evil Megacorp
Six new hero skins are here! Photo: Super Evil Megacorp

If you’re like us, you’ve been playing the crap out of the amazingly addictive online arena game, Vainglory, since it came out for the iPad and iPhone, ganking enemies from the safety of the bushes, releasing the Kraken, and pushing down the lane to smash the opposing team’s base crystal to win the game.

While the development team at Super Evil Megacorp has released updates in the past, they’ve just dropped the most major update yet: the introduction of a character skin system to customize the look of your heroes as they dash across the map, wreaking havoc and crushing the enemy team.

There are six new heroes with two tiers of customization out in the update today, with a ton more to come.

Here’s how it’s going to work.

You’ll occasionally earn cards–Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary, with only the first two available now–after your matches, which you can then use to turn in and unlock skins for your favorite heroes. Each skin will have three tiers (though only tier one and two are available now). The first tier can be unlocked with either cards or ICE, the in-app purchase currency. The second and third tiers, however, can only be unlocked with cards, and these will be available for purchase down the line.

The six current heroes with two new skin options each are Dark Parade Adagio, Prehistoric Glaive, Raver Girl Koshka, Bug Petal, Shogun Ringo and SAWborg. Eventually, all the heroes will have their own skin options, too.

Prehistoric Glaive will rip you a new one. Photo: Super Evil Megacorp
Prehistoric Glaive will rip you a new one. Photo: Super Evil Megacorp

Super Evil Megacorp continues to impress with their support of this amazing game, with these new skins (a common and expected feature of most MOBAs on Mac and PC), their fantastic Twitch channel, and their continuing push into eSport tournaments, like the upcoming Vainglory cup series tournament.

We hope to see you on Halcyon Fold with your new hero skins soon.

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