The non-Hermitian skin effect, where bulk states accumulate at system boundaries, challenges the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here we propose a scheme to realize hybrid skin-topological states in exciton polariton honeycomb lattices by introducing sublattice-dependent gain and loss. This non-Hermiticity couples with the intrinsic topological edge modes, leading to relocalization of edge states. We show two distinct regimes: hybrid skin-Chern states with reversible localization controlled by TE-TM splitting (characterized by a change in spectral winding number from $w=2$ to $w=-1$), and hybrid skin-antichiral states which preserves the spin-polarized property. Our results bridge polariton spin physics and non-Hermitian topology, opening routes toward controllable nonreciprocal and spin-polarized transport.

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• Chern insulators
• Exciton polariton
• Non-Hermitian systems