Honor of Kings' Guiguzi Lands ANOTHER Season Skin — Players Furious That 117 Other Heroes Got Snubbed, Official Weibo Gets Raided

Honor of Kings is in hot water again! Guiguzi, a relatively niche hero, just received his SECOND season skin — and the official Weibo comments section got absolutely nuked by furious players.

The core beef is crystal clear: the game has 117 heroes, and many of them haven't gotten a single season skin to this day. Yet Guiguzi somehow bagged two. Players are calling out the devs — suspecting they deliberately funnel free season skins to unpopular heroes as charity handouts, while popular heroes are kept exclusively for paid sales. In other words: neglected heroes exist to pad the season skin KPI, while meta favorites are reserved for milking your wallet.

Interestingly, one player tried to defend the devs by arguing Guiguzi's first skin wasn't technically a season skin — it was tied to a major "Canyon Overhaul" event and wasn't part of any season skin series. The community absolutely clowned on this take, with responses like "you should go apply for Tencent's PR department" and someone calling this player a rare sighting of a "Tencent shill" (腾孝子) in the NGA mobile gaming section.

But the real tea goes way deeper. According to player leaks, Guiguzi's season skin was never meant for him in the first place. Rumors from weeks ago indicated the season skin was originally allocated to Daji, while Guiguzi's skin was supposed to be a Battle Pass exclusive. Somehow the two got swapped — Daji became the BP skin, and Guiguzi ended up with the season skin instead.

Veteran players dug up even more dirt. During S21, Guiguzi's season skin slot originally belonged to Genghis Khan, who got axed last-minute due to "special hero circumstances." That season's skin set only had 4 skins instead of the usual 5. Genghis Khan's unused season skin splash art and model can still be found online. Some speculate Guiguzi got drafted as filler because the current season's theme is Yunmeng Marsh, and there aren't enough Yunmeng heroes to go around.

Player frustration goes way beyond just Guiguzi. A veteran player ranted about the entire skin allocation system: in the devs' eyes, heroes are divided into tiers — for balance AND cosmetics. Some heroes are designed to rot in the gutter, occasionally fished out only to get kicked back down. The real kicker is the skin-buff pipeline — when a hero gets buffed on the test server, 80% of the time it means a paid skin is incoming. After the skin launches and sales peak, the nerf timer starts ticking based on how much the devs "favor" that hero. Players call it a literal "last meal before execution."",当然也不是所有人都在骂。有玩家认为冷门英雄本来就不会有什么好皮肤，给点免费的已经不错了。但立刻被反驳：梦奇冷不冷门？梦奇照样出了不少皮肤——可见官方并不是真的「照顾冷门」，而是看心情分配。

Not everyone is angry, though. Some argued that unpopular heroes naturally won't get premium skins, so free ones are already generous. But that argument got immediately shut down: "What about Mengqi? Is Mengqi not unpopular?" — pointing out that even niche heroes get quality skins when the devs feel like it, proving the allocation is anything but systematic.

Faced with the avalanche of backlash, Honor of Kings' official channels maintained their trademark radio silence. After all, when you have a player base this massive, you can afford to stay quiet — unlike smaller games where devs at least come out to grovel. As the original poster sighed: when a game is this huge, players just have to eat the L.