Fun fact: When you use your ultimate as Wrecking Ball's 8-ball skin, it makes the sound of pool balls colliding with each other! I'm a huge sucker for ultimate line variations so I loved this little detail.
the fact so many skins came back with a price tag, on top of those skins coming from old updates, those old updates being anniversary updates, of remixes, of volumes, literally recycling garbage over and over and over it’s so depressing. almost incredible blizzard was able to create such a magical game and tear it down slowly and painfully into what it is today.
games do this all the time. The point of challenge skins is to be active in the game and get them for free, if you missed out/weren’t playing no worries just buy it off the shop. This whole FOMO tactic hurts game more than it helps them
@@46three like i said, if you think about it in a literal sense you were incentivized with a free skin just for playing the game when the event was active. Everyone else who didn’t play/was busy has to buy the skin you got for free. There should be no such thing as “rare” skins, BP skins are the only exception.
I love how they make those creepy/ugly recolours and people pay for them fat money...;.; especially the widow, monkey and sym recolours been f*ing weird. Idk how people look at them and say...YA LET ME SUPPORT SCUMMY BLIZZARD AND USE THIS ATROCIOUS SKIN. xD
nah honestly i have most of these skins og from 2019 and 2020 and i’m glad they released them again it’s cool for new players to get skins for there favorite hero. i’m hoping they bring back clown roadhog because i’m missing that one
Sadly with the world we live in now, a lot of game companies are now opting for "inclusiveness" and making things once rare and cherished by those who owned them - widely available to the general public. Too many fairies complain that they can't get a certain item anymore and cry that it's unfair and ruins their gaming experience.
@@Inuweebyou’re a dork. You’re not special bc you play ow in 2019 lol I have most of these skins and I could care less if they made them available at the shop. I don’t have to buy them again, so why cry?
@@Inuweeb you sound like a boomer who can't accept change. Sadly, with the world we live in now, a lot of privileged people don't understand that "exclusivity" is not good for the general public, and it's the exact same type of behaviour that the rich 1% use to keep themselves rich and the rest poor.
I had both genji and tracer skins from 2018 all star event and seeing the return was a kick in the nuts, and the whole reason ive even continue buying these all star skins was that they would never return, but oh boy was i gonna get surprised... they didnt even compensate the og's for it, like make a exclusive recolor given to those who already had it atleast lol. i really hope illidan genji doesnt come back, that'll be my last straw with blizzard.
I have the Illidan Genji, but since im really bad with him, the only way i can show it off is by inting games, so most of the time i just look at it in my collection and say to myself "yeah, it was worth it"
I’m still pissed I didn’t get LEGO Bastion. I only had 1 win left to get it, went on a massive lose streak, and was like “Eh, I’ll just do it tomorrow.” and got on the next day and it was gone :(
If you're at an old game store, and you find old copies of overwatch 1, just pop them open and check if they have any codes in them. I got noir widowmaker by offering the guy $5 for that piece of paper. I only played overwatch 2 (besides a few games when it was free on Nintendo switch a while back) but the code was still valid and I now own the skin!
@@GrizzlyO the only way to get it is to preorder ow1 highest bundle when it originally launched, or to preorder ow highest bundle when it launched on switch. keyword, PREordered. since you can't do either of those now, the only way to get it is to, as the guy said, find a copy at store with the code, that wasn't used. or buy an account with the skin on it. if you have it, you likely preordered the game or are using someone else's account that gave it to you. there's literally no other way to have it. it never came back on sale, there was never any event to earn it, no twitch drops, no blizzcon purchase, nothing. -From a Widow Main who doesn't have the skin.
I've gone on record before saying there is only one skin in Overwatch I would pay for at this point in time. I have all the skins for all my mains I could ask for, but Brick Bastion evaded me and I still regret it. I at least have Sandcastle to ease my pain, but Brick Bastion is a skin I need them to re-release. I will pay 20 bucks for it, it's that good.
fun fact, gilded hunter sombra when it initially came out, the fine print said that the skin would be available for purchase. People were very angry when you could get it in the Halloween event
I think you mean Demon Hunter. And yea, I bought a Blizzcon virtual ticket for that skin and did feel kinda scammed (the included HS cards did make up for it in the end but blah.) I remember the very next Blizzcon they offered the WOW themed Sym/Genji skins in a similar virtual ticket bundle. I ignored it, assuming they’d naturally do the same thing with those as the skin I paid $35 for… xd
hi! marammat actually had a rerun, during one of the anniversary remixes (i don't remember which one though), if i remember correctly! i specifically know / remember this bc i got the skin on pc back when it was originally released, and then later switched to console where i made a new account. during the remix events i was playing on console, and i remember being super excited to be able to get marammat again on my new acc since it was one of my favourite sym skins at the time :)
You forgot a few challenge skins, like sandcastle bastion from summer games. There are also a few OWL skins that have never returned past their original release - haroeris ana, ange de la mort widowmaker, pirate ship bastion and mm-mei
Spark plug Brigitte was a legendary skin only obtained by completing challenges during the underworld event in season 6 the event was only like 3 weeks after that the skin was gone and has not returned since making it another really rare Brigitte skin so if you have it your pretty lucky
The 2017 Winston skin is quite common. People realised that the 2016 Bastion skin was in big demand because it was a limited time skin so they just bought a lot of 2017 virtual tickets as they were only $39.99 and they went up in value almost instantly after the 2017 Blizzcon.
I remember buying a ticket to blizzcon to get the sombra skin. I'll never forget the anger and disappointment when they decided to give that skin away for quests. That day my love for this game shattered.
I had the cheaper version of this happen to me, I didn't buy it but I took a long break from the game after years of non-stop playing. Find out they had a stupid weekly event and I completely missed it.
I guess I can count myself lucky that all of the skins (aside from the OWL team colors) you featured in that video I happened to own all of them so I suppose I could give myself a pat on the back for that.
@@unoriginalsaturn5953 I would say technically zero since it is against Blizzard's ToS to sell/buy accounts. But if that wasn't the case then I can say about over a thousand USD.
Im still upset about oni genji and officer dva losing their event rarity because console only players were upset about not being able to get it so they moved the skins into the loot box pool. (I was also console only for OW and was able to obtain them through my shitty dell laptop). I bet if they never would've done it you would actually see the skins being used. End of the day im holding a grudge over some damn pixels but dammit let me be slightly cool with some rare skins
Not to mention the other skins for Tracer, Bastion, Reaper, and Pharah you could ONLY get by pre-ordering or buying a special edition of the first game.
@@Luckyluckyluc think you can for like 10 or 20 bucks, not sure if it still the case but since blizzard added those later than every other skins when I merged my account on release
the funny thing is, i tried to refund Alien Zarya and Blizzard denied my refund request ticket for some reason. i’m okay with having it now but i did try and do what i thought was right by the community but now i just have it still and i do use it.
You forgot the Overwatch 1 Leauge team skins, the Overwatch 1 Contenders skins and the Overwatch 1 Leauge gray skins which you can't get anymore. Especially the Conterders skins could only be obtained by watching on Twitch while some of the League gray skins required the All Access Pass in 2018, some cheering bits and some watching the OWL for specific events like grand finals.
Nice video! I thought I would see Symettra's Holi skin in the same tier as Lego Bastion. It was a week challenge and it never came back >< I'm sad cause I'm an OG player and this is one of the very few I don't have 😮💨
Holi did come back! In the OW2 shop though so it wasn’t free. I think she came back around the same time as the Cowboy Bebop collab in March. If you’re willing to fork up the change she might come around again :3
I was completely oblivious that the Winter Mercy skin is rare at all. I thought it's just the part of all the winter skins that you can get for 750 credits. Good to have at least one rare skin ;)
as someone with the alien zarya skin, i had absolutely ZERO clue about the sinatraa allegations until after the refund window had closed because i had been burnt out of playing at the time. i dunno if i'm glad or not that i didn't, because personally i think the skin is butt ugly and i never use it
Really GREAT video, but I think you forgot to include mei's league mm-mei skin. Was in the game through 28 Apr-11 may 2021 celebrating the 2021 may melee, sold for 200 league tokens. it's kinda old and hard to find people using it so maybe thats why you forgot about it!! I really was waiting to hear you talk about it since I'm a VERY PROUD owner of this skin, I've never seen it in any game since it was released. fun-fact: it's the only skin where mei doesn't wear glasses other than "Empress" (a legendary skin in the shop) to date. (I really hope you see this and maybe put it in your next video to clarify people of this forgotten mei skin(that I proudly own :3))
the brig skin is the starcraft medic. The starcraft reference skins have got to be my favorite (simply because I love the aesthetic). I think soldier would be the best for a marine skin, but they are technically rein sized so it'll never happen ): The one weekly skin I'm most sad about missing was deadlock ashe, and there's no way I'm forking over shop prices for it
You did forget some of the skins from the anniversary remix like mage mercy which I don’t think you can get anymore and you also forgot some other skins.
I Didn’t realise my BlizzCon Winston skin was that rare, wow I feel special now, I actually have most of these, Wow Genji and Symm, Lego Bastion, MVP Zenyatta skin, Noire Widow, Pink Mercy, Most of the epic OW1 skins, I assume my account is probably worth a pretty penny hahaha
I really wish this was a more "here are the rarest skins." video instead of "here are the rarest skins and OH THIS SKIN SUCKS and next we have this hero's best skin Frosty Roadhog returned in the Winter Wonderland 2023, which was the 2nd OW2 Winter Wonderland event. The Tracer flag emotes were one of the unfulfilled promises of OW2 that were gonna be universal emotes. You can see JQ with those emotes in the OW2 twitter thread.
I know I sound elitist but I wish old exclusive skins were kept exclusives (like how oni genji/police dva were from hearthstone) and not later made avail; or the pink mercy being brought back, why not just offer a recolor instead or a diff character pink? takes away the exclusivity. That's okay I'll cry into my blizzcon and alien Sinatraa skins XD
Aye! I actually have Inferno Junkrat, Brick Bastion and Demon Hunter Sombra! I was beginning to get worried that I wouldn't have any of these as an OG player who has only played on and off since Covid I will now be running these 3 skins exclusively lol (I have Kerrigan Widow too but since it's the "least rare" on your list I found it less cool than the other 3 lol)
As a long time OW1 player, I own quite a few of the skins in the video: Kerrigan widow, American reaper, Deadlock Ash, Ice Cream orisa, Carbon Fiber sigma, 8 ball hamster, Nano cola Dva, Dr. Ziegler mercy, Combat Medic bap, Comic book tracer, Maestro sigma, Ana bastet, Ash mardi grass, Sandstorm cas, Inferno junk, Corredor lucio, Holly moira, Auspicious soldier, Lego bastion, Snow angel mercy, Noir widow, Sombra demon hunter, Reynor rein. I wonder how much all of them cost now.
I’m glad they brought back Pink Mercy, I only played ow1 in 2019 for a few months and picked it up again august 2023 and the amount of people trying to sell accs with it was CRAZY
Personally, I thought the remix skins were special for ow1 players bc it was the very end before ow2 got introduced. I wish they did celebrate ow1 OGs like that. Anywhoo.. (Fyi this was when skins were collectable not bought in a store) Random memory being is that I was sad for missing out on nano cola Dva first time lol finally got it in ow2♡ that made me hype bc I simply just liked her ponytail hairstyle. Overall, talking about ow skins can be a controversial topic since they brought back pink mercy.. gatekeepers were mad about that. Final thought, I like how most ugly skins are considered rare-ish LMAO 🌟This video was very educational about the "forgotten" skins
so basically in a nutshell the rare skins are event skins from when the game was either dead due to a content drought or due to it coming from the prehistoric era
The Blizzcon VIRTUAL tickets in 2016 and 2017 were $40 and they got you those Bastion and Winston skin respectively. The Blizzcon 2018 and 2019 virtual tickets were $50, and they got you the Demon Hunter Sombra and Illidan Genji+Tyrande Symmetra skin, respectively. They were not $3000 initially. The Raynor Reinhardt is not the "cheapest" one here, the thing is, Blizzard wasn't selling the codes for these, you could gift them, but after the 2019 Blizzcon, you could no longer redeem them as codes.
You did miss a few... MM-Mei, most notably. It was a one time skin that never returned. Also, Papercutter wrecking ball(one time event skin) Fantasma Sombra(one time event skin), Conductor Reinhardt.
mmei returned in ow2 ( i know bc i started in ow2 and i have it) it was also briefly purchasable through an exploit in the bnet shop which was just a direct link to the product.
@@kkcool-u2k it had massive controversy surrounding it because of her corn-rows, they wouldn't legitimately bring it back out of fear of backlash from the woke community. Maybe a few people cheated to get it, but it's still a skin you very rarely see.
@@empathymain Some ppl didn’t like it but it wasn’t “canceled” asshat. No shot they wouldn’t bring it back bc of “woke” ppl. Do know what game you’re playing?
U forgot a free Halloween Zarya skin that was available through a weekly challenge 😭. Nobody ever mentions it, but it’s a pretty neat skin and I wish I had it.
Fun video to watch, and I usually don't comment on people's appearances but brother I gotta say you have some of the kindest eyes I've seen a person have 😔🙏 Real friend-shaped dude
I have the blizzcon Winston skin; what makes it enjoyable for me is the albino look mixed with the carbon fiber look. It’s also fun running it with the “no this is not a costume” voice line
As of now, October 19th, you can still get overwatch league skins if you still have tokens, however it is not everything they once had. For example, the entire Philly Fusion collection. I got the Dva Fusion skin back when Poko was a monster in the league. So knowing I have something that can't get obtained now is... something? I guess?
Man i remember 15 year old me planned on Oni Genji being one of these skins as it was the only one I actually grinded out, took a break in 2018, only to come in OW2 and it was in the shop :(
One of my friends who just started playing overwatch asked me for 1v1, i joined the match and then instantly left as soon I saw the purple goblin genji skin I was like "nah im already cooked 💀"
Little sidenote: You could get the Blizzcon tickets by just purchasing the Online Live ticket for around 30-40€ back in the day? That's how I got the Illidian skin back then, I actually organized a watchparty with a friend due to the ow2 leaks going on prior so I really wanted to watch the show live. You didn't need to buy the attendant tickets for 200$ they were only for inperson attending
Missing skins that should be included: - Doomfist Monk - Reinhardt Germany epic skin (can’t remember name of it) - Winston Ancient Bronze - Winston Ocean King - Wrecking Ball Paper Cutting - Ashe Lunar new year epic (also can’t remember name of it) - Bastion pirate ship - Cassidy Masked Man - Mei MM-Mei - Sombra Fantasma - Symmetra Mistletoe - Symmetra Marammat - Tracer Union Jack - Brigitte Goat Think those are all the ones I may be wrong tho - Symmetra
@@benkai9921 it was a summer games weekly challenge skin I believe. Also there’s another Ashe one that isn’t tiger huntress. It’s a pretty shit epic but super rare. I’ve only ever seen it used like twice
Ive barely played OW1, a friend of mine gave me as a birthday gift on July 22, was able to collect a few lootboxes til Oct, got a few of these rarer skins, such as comic tracer and kyogishin hanzo
Shout out to people who have gingerbread bastion making their coins uneven
Blizzard really laid a trap and every one fell for it.
I lost my og account, didnt even know it was that rare
I am one of those, thats how the cookie crumbles i guess.
I’m a bastion one trick and even I didn’t get scammed by that thing, instead now it’s sold for 1900.. coins not credits. Wtf
I had 70 coins when that sale was on so I see this as a W
“ this skin never appeared again “ * 10 seconds later * “ this skin made a reappearance … “
I wish they still did skin challenges, its hard getting skins as a new player without just buying a bunch of coins
they do, aztec sombra was done last season
literally the point. and they won’t make it easier because the point is that they want you to spend money.
not at all like they used to
@@cyberfencer And i'm pretty sure you could've got an Ein Wrecking ball skin
Just idle Twitch streams whenever there's a drop. Even I'm surprised at some of the skins they drop sometimes as someone who has played since launch.
Imagine getting a skin for simply logging in....now they're all a minimum of $20
Imagine paying for the game instead of it being free to play
Overwatch was a game overwatch 2 is a product @@brycenb2994
@@brycenb2994 it was a one time purchase of $20 for me (: lol
@@brycenb2994 you paid once and you owned the game. Now the game owns you.
@@brycenb2994i mean they still got better stuff when the game costed money💀 literally almost most things were free
As an OG Overwatch player, I have most of those rarer skins. This is making me consider listing my account on ebay lol.
I bet you could charge A LOT
Same! Having Noire widowmaker always felt nice but now, knowing it's worth this much...
Omg same lmao
@@codex_jinorasame
right! me having the noire widows skin, the illidan/tyrande skins and the lego bastion set got me questioning if i should sell my account lol
Fun fact: When you use your ultimate as Wrecking Ball's 8-ball skin, it makes the sound of pool balls colliding with each other! I'm a huge sucker for ultimate line variations so I loved this little detail.
no way.. thats so sick 😭
Jesus course it does. Now I’m more jealous lol
I forget about that at times and then get the sound when ulting and I get a little happy when I hear it 😅
fun fact balls 8 skin + dramatic highlight : - he drops the glases in this highlight
I own the skin and dont hear it.
the fact so many skins came back with a price tag, on top of those skins coming from old updates, those old updates being anniversary updates, of remixes, of volumes, literally recycling garbage over and over and over it’s so depressing. almost incredible blizzard was able to create such a magical game and tear it down slowly and painfully into what it is today.
amazing video by the way
games do this all the time. The point of challenge skins is to be active in the game and get them for free, if you missed out/weren’t playing no worries just buy it off the shop. This whole FOMO tactic hurts game more than it helps them
Gotta wring that extra bit of money out of the game, player achievements/time invested be damned.
@@46three like i said, if you think about it in a literal sense you were incentivized with a free skin just for playing the game when the event was active. Everyone else who didn’t play/was busy has to buy the skin you got for free. There should be no such thing as “rare” skins, BP skins are the only exception.
I love how they make those creepy/ugly recolours and people pay for them fat money...;.; especially the widow, monkey and sym recolours been f*ing weird. Idk how people look at them and say...YA LET ME SUPPORT SCUMMY BLIZZARD AND USE THIS ATROCIOUS SKIN. xD
My jaw actually dropped when i saw that last Sigma skin because i've genuinely never seen it in my entire life until this video
1. Thanks for making it to the end of the video
I have it, is only an epic skin.
I also have it, alot people ask what skin it is in chat when I run it
You can look at it in the character menu, in the skins list. You just need to filter the skins options right
That skin actually looks amazing, never seen it until now aswell
Calling Carbon Fiber Sigma ugly is a questionable take at best
Ikr! I was gonna comment this. I'm a Sigma main and it's one of the only two epic skins I have added to my favorites for skin rotation.
agreed, i thought that was a bit off
i love carbon fiber Sigma, he goes so well with the other character bee skins
Cool, not just me! You are very kind to limit it at "questionable."
orange is a great color
Rereleasing skins that felt like ‘rewards’ at the time is kind of a slap in the face I didn’t realise they did it for so many
nah honestly i have most of these skins og from 2019 and 2020 and i’m glad they released them again it’s cool for new players to get skins for there favorite hero. i’m hoping they bring back clown roadhog because i’m missing that one
Sadly with the world we live in now, a lot of game companies are now opting for "inclusiveness" and making things once rare and cherished by those who owned them - widely available to the general public. Too many fairies complain that they can't get a certain item anymore and cry that it's unfair and ruins their gaming experience.
@@Inuweebyou’re a dork. You’re not special bc you play ow in 2019 lol I have most of these skins and I could care less if they made them available at the shop. I don’t have to buy them again, so why cry?
@@Inuweeb you sound like a boomer who can't accept change. Sadly, with the world we live in now, a lot of privileged people don't understand that "exclusivity" is not good for the general public, and it's the exact same type of behaviour that the rich 1% use to keep themselves rich and the rest poor.
I had both genji and tracer skins from 2018 all star event and seeing the return was a kick in the nuts, and the whole reason ive even continue buying these all star skins was that they would never return, but oh boy was i gonna get surprised... they didnt even compensate the og's for it, like make a exclusive recolor given to those who already had it atleast lol.
i really hope illidan genji doesnt come back, that'll be my last straw with blizzard.
I have the Illidan Genji, but since im really bad with him, the only way i can show it off is by inting games, so most of the time i just look at it in my collection and say to myself "yeah, it was worth it"
Literally me too !!
Same
I just enter my collection to gaze and admire my Illidan Genji and think to myself “man, i wish he wasnt my literal worst hero”
Same 😂
Time for you to start playing genji pong
I’m still pissed I didn’t get LEGO Bastion. I only had 1 win left to get it, went on a massive lose streak, and was like “Eh, I’ll just do it tomorrow.” and got on the next day and it was gone :(
If you're at an old game store, and you find old copies of overwatch 1, just pop them open and check if they have any codes in them. I got noir widowmaker by offering the guy $5 for that piece of paper. I only played overwatch 2 (besides a few games when it was free on Nintendo switch a while back) but the code was still valid and I now own the skin!
Is the skin rare on ow2? Cuz I have it and idk how I got it.
@@GrizzlyOI would say it’s quite uncommon
@@GrizzlyO the only way to get it is to preorder ow1 highest bundle when it originally launched, or to preorder ow highest bundle when it launched on switch.
keyword, PREordered.
since you can't do either of those now, the only way to get it is to, as the guy said, find a copy at store with the code, that wasn't used. or buy an account with the skin on it.
if you have it, you likely preordered the game or are using someone else's account that gave it to you. there's literally no other way to have it. it never came back on sale, there was never any event to earn it, no twitch drops, no blizzcon purchase, nothing.
-From a Widow Main who doesn't have the skin.
I've gone on record before saying there is only one skin in Overwatch I would pay for at this point in time. I have all the skins for all my mains I could ask for, but Brick Bastion evaded me and I still regret it. I at least have Sandcastle to ease my pain, but Brick Bastion is a skin I need them to re-release. I will pay 20 bucks for it, it's that good.
I feel this. I want Illidan Genji so bad. When I'm big ballin' I will pay the $3,500 for it idc
I have it in my account, I'll sell it to u for tree fiddy
Same 😢
I'll sell you my account @@TheWatchOverOW
@@TheWatchOverOW you can buy a recoloured version in the shop every now and then
fun fact, gilded hunter sombra when it initially came out, the fine print said that the skin would be available for purchase. People were very angry when you could get it in the Halloween event
I would have been angry if they have never rereleased bc i didnt get the ticket bc of the fine print
I think you mean Demon Hunter. And yea, I bought a Blizzcon virtual ticket for that skin and did feel kinda scammed (the included HS cards did make up for it in the end but blah.)
I remember the very next Blizzcon they offered the WOW themed Sym/Genji skins in a similar virtual ticket bundle. I ignored it, assuming they’d naturally do the same thing with those as the skin I paid $35 for… xd
I’ll never forgive them for upping the price of the special league skins by 50%
Idk if it’s too rare but Symmetra had an event in 2020 for her Marammat skin, I can’t find if it ever had a rerun but I’m 90% sure it didn’t.
hi! marammat actually had a rerun, during one of the anniversary remixes (i don't remember which one though), if i remember correctly! i specifically know / remember this bc i got the skin on pc back when it was originally released, and then later switched to console where i made a new account. during the remix events i was playing on console, and i remember being super excited to be able to get marammat again on my new acc since it was one of my favourite sym skins at the time :)
@@marcybons oh thats sick mb lol, i wasnt too active around the time the remix event happened so mayb thats y i couldnt remember lol
I think he def skipped some of the skins in those challenges bc I remember Sym having another challenge of those for winter wonderland
Symm actually has 3 of these weekly challenge skins. Marammat, holli and a Christmas themed one
You forgot a few challenge skins, like sandcastle bastion from summer games. There are also a few OWL skins that have never returned past their original release - haroeris ana, ange de la mort widowmaker, pirate ship bastion and mm-mei
Some of them are in the shop now
@@uberhaxornovanongalaktiksk9798 not a single one of those is but ok
Haroeris Ana did return. I didn't get her on her original release and was able to obtain her later when they rereleased her.
@@Undeadflower626they made them available from time to time. But I think og means that you can’t buy them rn
Ang de la mort re released multiple times??? I'm pretty sure
I feel proud/lucky to have both Tyrande Sym and Illidan Genji. Seeing peoples reactions to them make me happy.
You can still get them as a recolour version in the shop
same :P
Idk why like I have them but they were so easy to get if ppl wanted them… ppl say they are but like so many ppl have it
Yesss as a sym main i totally agree ^-^
@@aikebert What sucks is that I want to use Sym JUST because of the skin, even though I absolutely suck with her lmao
Spark plug Brigitte was a legendary skin only obtained by completing challenges during the underworld event in season 6 the event was only like 3 weeks after that the skin was gone and has not returned since making it another really rare Brigitte skin so if you have it your pretty lucky
The 2017 Winston skin is quite common. People realised that the 2016 Bastion skin was in big demand because it was a limited time skin so they just bought a lot of 2017 virtual tickets as they were only $39.99 and they went up in value almost instantly after the 2017 Blizzcon.
I remember buying a ticket to blizzcon to get the sombra skin. I'll never forget the anger and disappointment when they decided to give that skin away for quests. That day my love for this game shattered.
I had the cheaper version of this happen to me, I didn't buy it but I took a long break from the game after years of non-stop playing. Find out they had a stupid weekly event and I completely missed it.
They said it at the time, that it would be available to buy later. It was never exclusive to the ticket
Never in my life have I ever seen pictures or heard of that last Sigma skin
I have it! It's so ugly
Most of those BlizzCon skins were also part of a cheaper online virtual ticket purchase, not just Reinhardt. Like Illidan, Tyrande, and Demon Hunter.
Yeah, I only got the virtual ticket for the skins back then and have the illidan and tyrande from those.
I guess I can count myself lucky that all of the skins (aside from the OWL team colors) you featured in that video I happened to own all of them so I suppose I could give myself a pat on the back for that.
lol i own like, 80% of them, i wonder how much my account costs ngl
@@unoriginalsaturn5953 I would say technically zero since it is against Blizzard's ToS to sell/buy accounts. But if that wasn't the case then I can say about over a thousand USD.
Im still upset about oni genji and officer dva losing their event rarity because console only players were upset about not being able to get it so they moved the skins into the loot box pool. (I was also console only for OW and was able to obtain them through my shitty dell laptop). I bet if they never would've done it you would actually see the skins being used.
End of the day im holding a grudge over some damn pixels but dammit let me be slightly cool with some rare skins
Feel that, I trudged through those 5 games of Heroes of The Storm like a champ! These youngins have it so easy…
This
not as rare as finding an OW player's dad
my dads dead bro 💀💀
@@theyluveliseesame
My dad's just fine. What do you mean?
To bad for you. Me and my dad play duos 🤑
my dad is in ohio
Rustclad torb so rare it doesn't get mentioned
It came back i think
@@miggolito i dont think so
@@sakura9959 I just checked and it did come back as a bundle for coins
@@sakura9959it did
@@sakura9959 It did, i just checked
Not to mention the other skins for Tracer, Bastion, Reaper, and Pharah you could ONLY get by pre-ordering or buying a special edition of the first game.
You can upgrade to special edition or whatever it's called whenever you want to get those skins
@@uberhaxornovanongalaktiksk9798 Can you do that still since Overwatch 1 doesn't exist anymore and Overwatch 2 is free-to-play?
@@Luckyluckyluc think you can for like 10 or 20 bucks, not sure if it still the case but since blizzard added those later than every other skins when I merged my account on release
Wow! I own like 80% of these skins! Even stuff like alien zarya and demon hunter sombra!
the funny thing is, i tried to refund Alien Zarya and Blizzard denied my refund request ticket for some reason. i’m okay with having it now but i did try and do what i thought was right by the community but now i just have it still and i do use it.
i have doctor zegular mercy, nano cola dva, and ginger bread bastion, bastet ana i didnt even know they were rare tbh
They're really not rare. He needs to learn what rare actually is
I hope your channel keeps growing dude.
I hope so too. Thank you!
ikr i love this channel lol
1:17 this is wildly phrased lmfao
Exactly what i thought lmao
The support a stream brig skin is modeled after a starcraft Medic
You forgot the Overwatch 1 Leauge team skins, the Overwatch 1 Contenders skins and the Overwatch 1 Leauge gray skins which you can't get anymore. Especially the Conterders skins could only be obtained by watching on Twitch while some of the League gray skins required the All Access Pass in 2018, some cheering bits and some watching the OWL for specific events like grand finals.
R.I.P monk doomfist
having illidan genji and tyrande symmetra has gotten me at least 1 statement every 3 games of 'i wish i had those :C' XD
Papercutting Hammond is one of my favourite skins, and I have never seen anyone else with it.
love having my Illidan Genji skin... I just wish i could play Genji well...
I remember splitting the cost of a virtual ticket to blizzcon in 2017 so I could get the Winston skin and a friend could get a sombra pillow
Nice video!
I thought I would see Symettra's Holi skin in the same tier as Lego Bastion. It was a week challenge and it never came back >< I'm sad cause I'm an OG player and this is one of the very few I don't have 😮💨
Holi did come back! In the OW2 shop though so it wasn’t free. I think she came back around the same time as the Cowboy Bebop collab in March. If you’re willing to fork up the change she might come around again :3
It came back to the shop
I was completely oblivious that the Winter Mercy skin is rare at all. I thought it's just the part of all the winter skins that you can get for 750 credits. Good to have at least one rare skin ;)
blizzards will definitely brings half of them like how they did we the other rare skins 😂
We can only hope
Not my alien Zarya 💀
Im wishing they bring back an old Halloween Zarya challenge skin its one of her best ones
I had no idea the Demon Hunter sombra was so rare. Glad I have it!
as someone with the alien zarya skin, i had absolutely ZERO clue about the sinatraa allegations until after the refund window had closed because i had been burnt out of playing at the time. i dunno if i'm glad or not that i didn't, because personally i think the skin is butt ugly and i never use it
Honestly I really like it, I don’t find many zarya skins good
Crazy how nothing of what was said was true. E girls are scary
I just like it because it's a ref to Frank Sinatra lol.
least ugly zarya skin imo
Really GREAT video, but I think you forgot to include mei's league mm-mei skin.
Was in the game through 28 Apr-11 may 2021 celebrating the 2021 may melee, sold for 200 league tokens.
it's kinda old and hard to find people using it so maybe thats why you forgot about it!!
I really was waiting to hear you talk about it since I'm a VERY PROUD owner of this skin, I've never seen it in any game since it was released.
fun-fact: it's the only skin where mei doesn't wear glasses other than "Empress" (a legendary skin in the shop) to date.
(I really hope you see this and maybe put it in your next video to clarify people of this forgotten mei skin(that I proudly own :3))
Enough Carbon Fiber Sigma slander!
I honestly think it's his best non-legendary skin.
totally agree
Talon on top
the brig skin is the starcraft medic. The starcraft reference skins have got to be my favorite (simply because I love the aesthetic). I think soldier would be the best for a marine skin, but they are technically rein sized so it'll never happen ):
The one weekly skin I'm most sad about missing was deadlock ashe, and there's no way I'm forking over shop prices for it
bro did not just say “normal skin tone” 1:13
Like, not purple, you rascist bigot
Yes he did, what's your point?
@@alistairzed5165 I mean, compared to purple, yeah I’d say it’s normal
Lego Bastion - so gooood, this sounds when you shooting, pure asmr
You did forget some of the skins from the anniversary remix like mage mercy which I don’t think you can get anymore and you also forgot some other skins.
Mage has come back many times
Mage has come back a lot, at one point you could buy it with credits in the hero gallery
as a new player, thank so so so much for explaining every details about the cosmetics and events, collabs,
Proud Blizzcon Winston owner
That’s cool!
Me too
22:09 isn't a recolor. it's just using tychus insteaed of raynor. two different people. The medic brigitte skin is also a reference to starcraft.
only channel i will be watching on my 4 day vacation
This is truly an honor, thank you!
I Didn’t realise my BlizzCon Winston skin was that rare, wow I feel special now, I actually have most of these, Wow Genji and Symm, Lego Bastion, MVP Zenyatta skin, Noire Widow, Pink Mercy, Most of the epic OW1 skins, I assume my account is probably worth a pretty penny hahaha
1:41 eeping
I wanna eeping toooo
Another great video. I wish you hadn’t deleted your older video essays though. They had lots of valuable information and you gave good opinions.
Yall are underestimating blizzards habit of just giving away rare skins. No skin is really rare
fun fact if youve never seen the zarya sinatra skin in game, when shes full charged, her alien antennas glow
I really wish this was a more "here are the rarest skins." video instead of "here are the rarest skins and OH THIS SKIN SUCKS and next we have this hero's best skin
Frosty Roadhog returned in the Winter Wonderland 2023, which was the 2nd OW2 Winter Wonderland event.
The Tracer flag emotes were one of the unfulfilled promises of OW2 that were gonna be universal emotes. You can see JQ with those emotes in the OW2 twitter thread.
I have both Gingerbread, Brick and Blizzcon Bastion. You could say I'm a collector💯
I know I sound elitist but I wish old exclusive skins were kept exclusives (like how oni genji/police dva were from hearthstone) and not later made avail; or the pink mercy being brought back, why not just offer a recolor instead or a diff character pink? takes away the exclusivity. That's okay I'll cry into my blizzcon and alien Sinatraa skins XD
0:40 not all of them are out though, they had the nerve to hide harois ana, goat brigitte, & spider huntress widowmaker :((
Guys these skins are not actually worth that much, don't believe this fool
OW2 League skins in the shop now differ from the ones back in OW1, so those i think are one of the rarest ones since you can't get them anymore.
So hype to see this video, been looking for one like this for a while
Aye! I actually have Inferno Junkrat, Brick Bastion and Demon Hunter Sombra! I was beginning to get worried that I wouldn't have any of these as an OG player who has only played on and off since Covid
I will now be running these 3 skins exclusively lol
(I have Kerrigan Widow too but since it's the "least rare" on your list I found it less cool than the other 3 lol)
fun fact, if you melee someone with the comic tracer skin it makes a comic book sound effect.
As a long time OW1 player, I own quite a few of the skins in the video: Kerrigan widow, American reaper, Deadlock Ash, Ice Cream orisa, Carbon Fiber sigma, 8 ball hamster, Nano cola Dva, Dr. Ziegler mercy, Combat Medic bap, Comic book tracer, Maestro sigma, Ana bastet, Ash mardi grass, Sandstorm cas, Inferno junk, Corredor lucio, Holly moira, Auspicious soldier, Lego bastion, Snow angel mercy, Noir widow, Sombra demon hunter, Reynor rein. I wonder how much all of them cost now.
I'm actually surprised at how many of these I've unknowingly collected over the years haha
Smart tactic using the cat during the subscribe plug...worked on me
You forgot Sombra Fantasma skin, was a skin from 2020 hallowen event
I will be watching your career with great interest. Never realized how rare most these skins are, great video 👍
I’m glad they brought back Pink Mercy, I only played ow1 in 2019 for a few months and picked it up again august 2023 and the amount of people trying to sell accs with it was CRAZY
It’s ironic he says the magma Moira one sucks when it looks way better design wise than the junkrat one
Corredor lucio was initially a skin i wore as a meme but now its the only one i wear now. I love this weird little cosmetic.
As a player that started in ow2, I was so pissed when I found out that you could just get Okami Hanzo in the hero gallery with cosmetic coins in ow1.
Personally, I thought the remix skins were special for ow1 players bc it was the very end before ow2 got introduced. I wish they did celebrate ow1 OGs like that. Anywhoo..
(Fyi this was when skins were collectable not bought in a store)
Random memory being is that I was sad for missing out on nano cola Dva first time lol finally got it in ow2♡ that made me hype bc I simply just liked her ponytail hairstyle.
Overall, talking about ow skins can be a controversial topic since they brought back pink mercy.. gatekeepers were mad about that.
Final thought, I like how most ugly skins are considered rare-ish LMAO
🌟This video was very educational about the "forgotten" skins
so basically in a nutshell the rare skins are event skins from when the game was either dead due to a content drought or due to it coming from the prehistoric era
Getting skins from only limited time events rather than buying is much more interesting
The Blizzcon VIRTUAL tickets in 2016 and 2017 were $40 and they got you those Bastion and Winston skin respectively.
The Blizzcon 2018 and 2019 virtual tickets were $50, and they got you the Demon Hunter Sombra and Illidan Genji+Tyrande Symmetra skin, respectively. They were not $3000 initially.
The Raynor Reinhardt is not the "cheapest" one here, the thing is, Blizzard wasn't selling the codes for these, you could gift them, but after the 2019 Blizzcon, you could no longer redeem them as codes.
The WoW emotes were so cool in OW1. They made a sick animation sound. Now they're just mute
You did miss a few... MM-Mei, most notably. It was a one time skin that never returned. Also, Papercutter wrecking ball(one time event skin) Fantasma Sombra(one time event skin), Conductor Reinhardt.
I have Conductor Reinhardt and I love the train sounds it makes when he charges. So satisfying.
mmei returned in ow2 ( i know bc i started in ow2 and i have it) it was also briefly purchasable through an exploit in the bnet shop which was just a direct link to the product.
@@kkcool-u2k it had massive controversy surrounding it because of her corn-rows, they wouldn't legitimately bring it back out of fear of backlash from the woke community. Maybe a few people cheated to get it, but it's still a skin you very rarely see.
@@empathymainfirst time I've heard of that.. Kind of silly.
@@empathymain Some ppl didn’t like it but it wasn’t “canceled” asshat. No shot they wouldn’t bring it back bc of “woke” ppl. Do know what game you’re playing?
they need to do a full collab with Lego and do multiple Omnic characters!
U forgot a free Halloween Zarya skin that was available through a weekly challenge 😭. Nobody ever mentions it, but it’s a pretty neat skin and I wish I had it.
That auspicious 76 skin is my favorite soldier skin to use, I've only ever seen 4 other players using it.
i will never take off my, “summer games 2016”, icon 😎
Fun video to watch, and I usually don't comment on people's appearances but brother I gotta say you have some of the kindest eyes I've seen a person have 😔🙏 Real friend-shaped dude
I have the blizzcon Winston skin; what makes it enjoyable for me is the albino look mixed with the carbon fiber look. It’s also fun running it with the “no this is not a costume” voice line
I’m ngl, that blizz con Reinhardt skin is probably one of the most common skins I see in ow. Also see the genji one pretty often too
As of now, October 19th, you can still get overwatch league skins if you still have tokens, however it is not everything they once had.
For example, the entire Philly Fusion collection.
I got the Dva Fusion skin back when Poko was a monster in the league. So knowing I have something that can't get obtained now is... something? I guess?
Man i remember 15 year old me planned on Oni Genji being one of these skins as it was the only one I actually grinded out, took a break in 2018, only to come in OW2 and it was in the shop :(
One of my friends who just started playing overwatch asked me for 1v1, i joined the match and then instantly left as soon I saw the purple goblin genji skin I was like "nah im already cooked 💀"
i have noir, illidan, alien, 2016 blizzcon skins etc feels good, ty for the vid
Little sidenote:
You could get the Blizzcon tickets by just purchasing the Online Live ticket for around 30-40€ back in the day?
That's how I got the Illidian skin back then, I actually organized a watchparty with a friend due to the ow2 leaks going on prior so I really wanted to watch the show live.
You didn't need to buy the attendant tickets for 200$ they were only for inperson attending
The blizzcon virtual tickets got you all those skins as well every year I wish I had boughten more
I’m so pissed that I didn’t get any of dva/ mercy’s twitch drop sprays. Like I’m actually livid.
Missing skins that should be included:
- Doomfist Monk
- Reinhardt Germany epic skin (can’t remember name of it)
- Winston Ancient Bronze
- Winston Ocean King
- Wrecking Ball Paper Cutting
- Ashe Lunar new year epic (also can’t remember name of it)
- Bastion pirate ship
- Cassidy Masked Man
- Mei MM-Mei
- Sombra Fantasma
- Symmetra Mistletoe
- Symmetra Marammat
- Tracer Union Jack
- Brigitte Goat
Think those are all the ones I may be wrong tho
- Symmetra
Bundesadler rein and tiger huntress ashe. I have the rein one and have no idea how tf it is rare
@@benkai9921 it was a summer games weekly challenge skin I believe. Also there’s another Ashe one that isn’t tiger huntress. It’s a pretty shit epic but super rare. I’ve only ever seen it used like twice
@@bmj8378 oh I see the epic chinese skin
Ive barely played OW1, a friend of mine gave me as a birthday gift on July 22, was able to collect a few lootboxes til Oct, got a few of these rarer skins, such as comic tracer and kyogishin hanzo