Back to basics: Riot explains why LoL’s Mythic items are being removed for 2024

After spending only a couple of years with League of Legends’ new Mythic items, Riot Games is returning back to basics by sunsetting the system for next year.

In a new developer’s blog post today, lead designer Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison spoke about the multiple reasons why the team has chosen to remove the system. Mythics, for example, were originally made to bring “kit warping effects that augmented champion fantasies for other classes.” But they also made it rather difficult to balance across the countless champions available in the game, especially with newer releases.

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