How to Get the New Skippy Weapon in Apex Legends

If you have been wondering how to get Skippy Apex Legends players are already obsessing over, you are not alone. Skippy is easily the biggest cosmetic pull of the entire Cyberpunk crossover, and unlike most weapon skins, this one actually talks back to you. Here is exactly what it takes to get your hands on it.

What Is Skippy in Apex Legends

The Skippy Alternator Apex Legends skin brings the sentient, foul-mouthed smart pistol straight out of Cyberpunk 2077 into the Outlands. It is not just a paint job either, since Skippy has full voice lines, comments on your gameplay in real time, and reacts to knocks and kills like it has genuine opinions about your life choices. Which, honestly, it might.

This weapon skin is the headline cosmetic of the Apex Legends Cyberpunk event, running from July 14 to August 4 inside the Night City Legends Wildcard takeover, with the wider Cyberpunk Collection remaining purchasable in the store until August 18.

How to Get Skippy: Where It Actually Lives

Skippy is a Apex Legends Mythic weapon skin, and Mythics do not drop randomly out of Apex Packs the way regular loot does. You unlock it through the Cyberpunk Collection tab in the in-game Store, which is the dedicated section holding every crossover item for this event.

• Open the Store tab and head into the Cyberpunk Collection section
• Locate the Mythic Skippy Alternator listing
• Purchase it directly with Apex Coins, or with Crafting Metals if it is flagged as craftable

Skippy is not handed out through the free Eddies Reward Shop. That track covers the Epic Valkyrie and Mirage skins along with packs and crafting materials, but the Mythic Alternator sits in the paid Collection, so budget your Coins or Crafting Metals accordingly if you actually want to walk around with a gun that judges you.

As with most premium items, the exact Skippy Apex Coins price is set once the Collection actually goes live in the Store, so treat any number floating around before launch day as a rumor rather than a fact. Mythic weapon skins in past collections have generally landed in the higher end of the pricing tiers, so expect Skippy to sit there too.

If you have been stacking Crafting Metals from previous events, check whether Skippy shows up as craftable inside the Collection menu. This is usually the cheaper route if you already have a stockpile sitting unused, and it saves you from having to top up your Apex Coins balance just for one weapon skin.

Upgrading Skippy With Exotic Shards

Getting the base skin is only step one. Apex Legends Exotic Shards let you push Skippy further with additional visual tiers, ordnance skins and unique knock effects, turning the weapon into a proper progression system rather than a one-and-done cosmetic.

• Earn or acquire Exotic Shards through the event
• Spend them directly on Skippy's upgrade path in your inventory
• Unlock extra visuals, ordnance reskins and knock effect variations as you go

Where You Can Use Skippy

The Apex Legends Night City Legends mode is where Skippy feels most at home, since the Alternator fits the whole chrome and neon theme of the event perfectly. That said, once you own the skin, it is not locked to the event mode. Cosmetics carry over to your account permanently, so you can bring your Apex Legends talking gun Cyberpunk crossover skin into standard Battle Royale and Ranked once the event mode itself wraps up on August 4.

Do Not Wait Too Long

The purchase window is the part people regret missing the most. Once the Cyberpunk Collection leaves the store on August 18, Skippy goes with it, and there is no guarantee it comes back later at the same price, or at all. If Skippy is on your wishlist, this is not the event to procrastinate on.