Overwatch: 20 Essential Legendary Skins You Must Unlock

Richard the Reinhardt, anyone?

by Ewan Paterson
Overwatch Hanzo Okami Skin
Blizzard

Before I dive into the matter of which legendary skins look absolutely phenomenal - itself a pretty hard task considering just how many awesome ones there are - I do have to get the essential 'OVERWATCH IS AMAZING' part of the article out of the way.

Because, yeah, Overwatch is amazing. Not only has it brought back intricate team-based gameplay to the forefront of online multiplayer, it's managed to create a captivating IP with an immersive lore and a passionate community, something most franchises strive for years to achieve. Indeed, it's fairly remarkable that Blizzard have managed to launch a new franchise so effortlessly, especially one that bucks the trends of multiplayer shooters of the past generation. It's a cultural milestone of the medium, reflected by its incredibly well-deserved critical and commercial reception. You really are missing out if you haven't played it.

Right, with that aggrandising piece of prose out of the way, now for the skins, of which the title possesses in plentiful amounts. Some offer up just simple colour changes to the default outfits of Overwatch's 21 heroes, but the 'epic' and 'legendary' outfits that, admittedly, take a lot of work to unlock, reimagine these characters completely.

You equip one of these things and not only does it make your character look the sh*t, everyone in the lobby immediately knows you're to be taken seriously; a veteran of countless games there to carry your team to victory.

Well, you could actually be really awful at the game, but at least you'll be able to die fabulously?

20. Lucio: Breakaway

Overwatch Lucio Breakaway
Blizzard

We'll start off with Lucio, who whilst one of the best support characters in the game, doesn't really get the best outfits to choose from.

Out of the legendary skins he does get however, it has to be Breakaway that's his best. I mean, who doesn't want to zip around the map looking like some Sci-Fi dubstep hockey player?

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.