LoLSKINSFour skins you can buy, one you have to earn, and a band that performs live at the Worlds final in Brooklyn. Here is what the whole set costs and where the token wall sits.
All five skins arrived on October 21 (Image: Riot Games)
The True Damage Know My Name skins went live on October 21 in Patch 26.21, and this is not a normal skin line drop.
Know My Name is the official Worlds 2026 anthem. It is the thirteenth Worlds anthem and the first one performed by a Riot virtual act rather than a guest artist. The band performs live at the Finals Opening Ceremony in Brooklyn on November 14.
So the skins are effectively tour merchandise for a concert that has not happened yet.
Five skins, four of which you can buy outright.
Buying the four purchasable skins costs 5,870 RP. Akali carries the Legendary tag, which means voice work and animation changes rather than a recolour.
Chroma packs ship for all five, including the Prestige Ekko.
For reference, the last comparable drop was the HEARTSTEEL Live My Life set two weeks ago, which used the same Legendary plus Epics plus Prestige structure. Riot has settled into a rhythm with band skins, and the pricing no longer varies much between them.
Ekko is the centrepiece of the set and the one with no confirmed price.
Riot’s patch notes say he releases on October 21 and nothing else. They do not state how you obtain him. The sites covering the drop have filled that gap with three different answers: event tokens, 150 Mythic Essence, or the Battle Pass.
Those are not small differences. Event tokens mean grinding a pass against a deadline. Mythic Essence means spending a currency you might already have sitting there. A Battle Pass means buying one.
Riot is also changing the Mythic Shop in Patch 26.22 so that offerings become player-specific, with rotation timings already shifting in 26.21. That makes the Mythic Essence route plausible, but plausible is not confirmed.
Open the client and look before you plan around any of it. We will update this piece once Riot publishes the method.
The same five champions as the 2019 original: Akali, Senna, Ekko, Qiyana and Yasuo.
The vocal credits are worth reading.
Yasuo has been in the group since 2019 and still does not sing. He is in the band, he is on the splash art, he gets a 1,350 RP skin, and his contribution remains unclear. That has been a running joke for seven years and Riot has done nothing to resolve it.
Riot has used guest artists for every previous Worlds anthem. Imagine Dragons, Zedd, Cailin Russo, Lil Nas X and others all recorded one and then moved on.
This time the band is the product. True Damage wrote the anthem, the anthem became the skins, and the skins go on stage in Brooklyn next month. The campaign runs in one direction instead of borrowing credibility from an outside name.
Whether that is better music is a separate argument. It is certainly a tighter commercial loop, and it tells you where Riot is taking the music side of the game.
The track and music video landed on October 8, which is thirteen days before the skins.
That gap is deliberate. Riot seeded the song first, let it build through the Worlds Play-Ins, and dropped the skins once the Swiss Stage was underway. Our breakdown of the Easter eggs in the music video covers the Faker and T1 references hidden in it.
The live performance at the Barclays Center closes the loop. Our Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage guide has the road to that final, which runs through Allen, Texas first.
Depends which one.
Akali at 1,820 RP is the only Legendary in the set, and Legendary pricing is defensible when the skin changes how the champion sounds and moves. If you play her, this is the obvious purchase.
The three Epics at 1,350 RP each are a harder sell unless you already main one of them. Senna and Qiyana both have thin skin catalogues, so the value is better there than on Yasuo, who has more options than almost anyone in the game.
The Prestige Ekko is the one to check on first, because the other four will still be in the shop next year and he may not be.
One more consideration. True Damage skins have historically been tied to Worlds moments, and this set will be on stage in Brooklyn in November. Buying during the event is the closest League gets to buying a tour shirt at the venue.
Quite a lot. Caitlyn and Jinx both come down, Hubris and Gluttonous Greaves get split along a melee and ranged line, and replay downloads are now capped at 10 per hour. Our full Patch 26.21 breakdown covers the changes that actually move the meta.
The same patch also brings Journey to Stardom to ARAM Mayhem, where True Damage appears again as one of the Headliner rule sets.
Riot’s full notes are on the official League of Legends site. We cover every skin release in our League of Legends section.
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