Recently, with the season ending early, TheShy has had more time to spend with his fans. He has been streaming more frequently and is not shy about sharing his future plans.
Especially in the past few days, when Rookie unexpectedly revealed that he would not be retiring and also hinted that TheShy would not be leaving IG, the fan community for this team became even more excited and… flocked to the streams of these two stars even more. However, during a recent stream, TheShy nearly sparked a major controversy when he suddenly declared that he would never use the IG Irelia skin – which is a skin honoring the 2018 World Championship victory of his former teammate Duke.
This blunt statement left many viewers puzzled, as they immediately thought there might be some discord between TheShy and Duke, wondering if the IG star was publicly expressing dissatisfaction with his senior.
On TheShy’s chat channel, a flurry of spam messages flooded in asking the same type of questions like: “Does TheShy hate Duke?”, “Do you have a problem with Duke?”… This caused TheShy himself to feel a bit panicked and he had to quickly clarify that:
“No, I have no issues with Duke at all. I just don’t understand why every time I use this skin, I end up losing. That’s all.”
By this point, fans finally understood and breathed a sigh of relief, as the rumor of discord was dispelled, and they immediately found evidence to prove that TheShy’s explanation was reasonable. Because even in professional play, IG Irelia is a skin that is rarely used by players.
Many people suggested that this skin might be on the list of “pay-to-lose” skins, as the effects of IG Irelia’s abilities are not very impressive, and the execution of skills is not as smooth as those of popular skins for the Blade Dancer like Prestige or Elementalist.
IG fans also agreed that the quality of IG skins, in terms of practicality, is quite poor due to the colors of the abilities being too pale and difficult to distinguish. Only IG Kai’Sa from JackeyLove is highly regarded, as it closely resembles the default skin, and both the skill effects and casting are quite smooth.
And more importantly, the rumors about internal discord within IG were immediately put to rest, while fans of this team are still rejoicing at the news that both TheShy and Rookie are likely to stay with the former World Championship team for at least another year.