I strongly believe that weapon skins should come fully upgraded. We're already paying a ton of money for the skin itself, why is Riot putting the full features behind a paywall? It's like purchasing an 80 dollar game and finding out that the developers only allow you to play 25% of the story. The remaining 75% can be purchased with 3 payments of 40 dollars (120 total).

My suggestion would be to increase the price of variants from 15RP to 25RP and allow us to get fully upgraded levels on purchase. I can understand why they had individual level upgrades in the past because some people prefer to not upgrade the whole skin. However, with the new skin level selector coming next patch, I no longer see a need for this.

I understand that Riot games is a business and they need to make money. This is why I think a middle ground could be achieved. Unlocking all animations/VFX/Finishers upon the initial purchase (1775VP or higher) and then increasing the price of color variants from 15RP to 25RP or even 30RP.