[2020] It's really weird that the themed orbs (K/DA, Worlds, Spooky) don't give increased chances of the skins they correspond to.

Originally posted by SparklesMcSpeedstar

I disagree.

I'm probably not one to talk about this since I've not done more than cursory research into things like gacha business models, and Riot does have extra worlds tokens to spice the orb packets, but having a sea of potential outcomes (skins with no rate-ups) will never fly in other gacha models.

What happens instead is that the average player would hesitate to buy the orbs to 'roll' for the skins. It can of course be argued that you could just buy the skins you want, instead of having rate-ups. But the entire gambling aspect of lootboxes relies on you thinking that orbs are less 'expensive' than just straight up buying the skins, and having rate-ups 'trick' the player into buying more.

Originally posted by CorruptedAssbringer

Not to disagree with your sentiment, but doesn't the misleading naming of the orbs somewhat contradict what you're saying? The naming of the orbs is akin to what gacha based games do, with event specific lootboxes/gachas.