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League of Legends’ New Champion Sparks Controversy Over Animation Similarities

fragster Yasser 25. October 2024

Although she hasn’t been released on the official servers yet, League of Legends’ new champion, Ambessa, is already causing controversy in the community. On the Riot Games MOBA Reddit, a user named “Ravager_Squall” posted a rather unusual discovery and compared the movement of the new LoL character with another existing champion: Shyvanna. In the post, the game fan comments: “I made a brief comparison of the animation of Ambessa and Shyvanna’s way of walking”, and published a video, raising many questions and funny comments from players.

Within less than two hours of publication, the video has already reached more than 700 upvotes on the League of Legends subreddit. Check out the comparison:

I've made a short clip comparing Ambessa and Shyvanna's walk animations.
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League of Legends’ new champion’s walking animation draws criticism

The author of the post also made an analysis of what he found strange in the animation of Ambessa, a new champion that will be released in November in League of Legends: “Shyvanna’s animations are faster, Ambessa’s are slower and stiffer. Her head seems to stay still while the rest of her body moves, while Shyvanna’s animation is more fluid.”

Some fans of Riot Games’ MOBA also took the opportunity to joke about the discovery: “Intern Dave thought he was doing a great job when he CTRL + C and CTRL + Ved Renekton’s weapons and put them on Shyvanna’s model.” Referring to the recent layoffs made by Riot Games, another player commented: “Wow, it seems like the layoff (effect) came quickly.”

Riot wants to explore characters from Arcane for LoL title

Ambessa will be the first League of Legends champion to come from the Netflix series Arcane (Image: Riot Games & Netflix)

New League of Legends champion has not yet been released on the official server

Despite the criticism, the new champion is not yet on the official League of Legends servers, being only on the test server. Therefore, any errors, bugs or changes can still be made before the character is officially released in the game. Ambessa will definitely arrive on Summoner’s Rift on November 6, when LoL patch 14.22 is expected to be released.

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