During the Lunar New Year 2023, Riot also brought a number of Mythical skins for generals including Irelia, Garen, Galio, Sivir and Zyra. These costumes will take the main colors white and red. Along with that is the bold Asian design style to celebrate the biggest holiday of the year of the 3 regions with the most developed League of Legends on the continent: Vietnam (VCS), China (LPL) and Korea ( LCK).
Mythic skins released on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2023 – source: Clutch The Point
However, recently, some gamers have discovered a small error that makes the Mythical Irelia costume a “pay-to-lose” skin line. For those who do not know, “pay-to-lose” skins are often used to describe purchased skins, but not only do not give the champion or player any advantage, but on the contrary, make the player more difficult. . In League of Legends, “pay-to-lose” skins are often used to refer to skins that “make” opponents easier to identify skills and have ways to handle. For example, the Tryndamere Magical costume can help opponents calculate the duration of this champion’s R – Reject Death.
Tryndamere is a Riot “pay-to-lose” skin – source: Notagamer
Accordingly, the Mythical Irelia skin has an animation that occurs about 2 seconds earlier than Irelia’s blades. Normally, every time Irelia launched a hand attack, the blades would move immediately. Therefore, although the delay of the blades is not too much (only about 2 seconds), but this is really a serious error.
Mythical Irelia skin was discovered to be a “pay-to-lose” skin – source: Reddit
The reason is because Irelia is a champion that needs a good early game to increase strength. And then, her normal attacks will need to be as optimal as possible. If they were too easy to counter, Irelia would have lost a large part of her power.
Many League of Legends gamers also admitted they were quite surprised to see that the effects of the blades were somewhat slower than the visual effects when Irelia attacked. Some people even sarcastically said that maybe Riot did it because it felt that “Irelia constantly performing her auto attacks perfectly is unrealistic”.
The blade effect is slower than the cast effect – source: Reddit
Currently, Riot has not commented on the auto-attack mechanism and visual effects of Mythical Irelia. However, perhaps League of Legends gamers really feel dissatisfied when a new skin with a pretty design of Irelia is making such a basic mistake.
