The best character skins in Apex Legends

It’s almost startling how many skins are available in Apex Legends. While the game started out with a small cast of characters and a handful of outfits, over the course of several years it’s accumulated a multitude of fun, flashy, and dramatic skins for every legend under the sun. No matter who your main is or what your personal style is, there’s something for everyone in the game’s skin roster.

To celebrate how far the game has come and the myriad of weird and wonderful skins it contains, we’re rounding up the very best in Outlands couture. While there are a lot of excellent skins in Apex, only the best of the best were eligible for our list.

Here are the best character skins in Apex.

The best skins in Apex Legends (2023)

Road Warrior Bloodhound

Road Warrior was available during season six when it was granted as a reward to players who reached level 50 of the premium battle pass. Besides being one of the more difficult-to-find skins nowadays thanks to the rarity of previous battle pass skins, Road Warrior is a favorite of cosplayers and designers. A simple search for the skin will reveal plenty of art, costuming, and other creative work inspired by the skin’s unique look. It’s the closest thing Bloodhound has to streetwear, and it’s that edgy yet battle-ready look that has kept it in the hearts of players for so long.

Opalescent Serpent Ash

Beauty, elegance, and deadly perfection: the Opalescent Serpent Ash Legendary encapsulates all there is to know about snakes and Ash. The skin is initially striking for its vibrant pink and white pearlescent color scheme, but the details are where the skin really shines. Ash’s hip plates become snake heads, and her hood detail is another snake coiling all the way around her head. The wiring underneath the exterior plating becomes green scales, and the skin is packed with small nods to the lunar new year theme of season 15’s Celestial Sunrise event in her armor and the knots fastening it all together. This skin is as lovely as it is threatening, making it perfect for Ash.

Judge Jury Executioner Lifeline

This classic Lifeline skin was available during season two’s Iron Crown event, more commonly known as the last time Solos was available in the game. It recently received a recolor in the form of Ghost Stalker, but the original colorway takes the top spot. Judge Jury Executioner turns the normally demure and friendly-looking Lifeline into a masked combatant capable of turning the entire tide of battle in her favor. The skin features plenty of intimidating sharp edges and divinely gold bangles on top of an armored bodice.  It’s not a Halloween skin, but it looks like it could be—use it to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies.

Broseidon Fuse

Fuse has only been around since season eight, so he hasn’t had as much time to accrue skins as some of the older legends on this list. He can still keep pace with the best of them thanks to Broseidon, though. This skin was introduced during season 11’s Dark Depths event and is still available for purchase. It turns the explosives expert into the legendary god of the deep, complete with finned missiles, trident-inspired boots, and a blue shark-shaped cannon that releases his ultimate. If you’re looking for Fuse’s most “silver fox” skin, Broseidon was made for you.

Apex Voidshifter Wraith

The Apex community might be divided on the game’s new Prestige skins in general, but it’s difficult to argue that the Apex Voidshifter Mythic Wraith skin is one of the best cosmetics ever added to the game. Wraith players have always loved putting their girl in a mask, and the fully leveled-up version of Apex Voidshifter gives them exactly that in a skin that at once feels like it was ripped right out of the Titanfall playbook, and also like nothing else Respawn has ever made. Wraith’s wild, electric blue hair and blue-and-gold color scheme turn her into a superhero the likes of which the Outlands has never seen. The unique finisher that comes with the skin is the cherry on top.

Memoir Noir Pathfinder

Perhaps Pathfinder’s most iconic skin, Memoir Noir was available during season seven’s Fight Night event and has come back for sale in the shop a few times since then. The detective-style skin gives the robot a snappy hat, a collared jacket, and a mustachioed representation of his emotions on his chest. Memoir Noir is one of the few skins that also change the legend intro animation on the legend select screen prior to a match. Put together, it’s enough to catapult this skin into the best of the best.

A Gaze Eternal Revenant

Usually, Respawn likes to make Revenant’s terrifying presence as obvious as possible. His Legendary skins turn him into demonic relics, ancient gods of death, various robotic merchants of death, and even the Big Bad Wolf. A Gaze Eternal from season eight’s Chaos Theory event is the odd skin out, and it’s perhaps the scariest of the bunch because of it. Crowned in royal blue and gold, Revenant gets a blank, marble face and pupil-less stare befitting the name of the skin. In fact, he gets several stares, as the skin is covered in the same blank face, making sure you’re being watched from every single angle. It’s a strange and unsettling skin as opposed to a stereotypical “scary” one, and it still stands out as one of the most unique takes Respawn has ever given players on Revenant, or any of the characters in the Apex universe.