League of Legends Adding New PvE Mode

League of Legends developers announced plans to add another PVE game mode. The upcoming mid-year event for League of Legends promises to provide plenty of new content for Riot Games' popular online multiplayer online battle arena, with new events, balance changes, and a visual update for Lee Sin.

Though League of Legends is primarily known for Summoner's Rift's 5 versus 5 format, it has dabbled in cooperative game modes before. Most notoriously, Doom Bots previously pitted players against AI-controlled champions, with the twist being that these enemy characters were given ridiculously unbalanced abilities and were assisted by a gigantified Devil Teemo at the end of every match. Star Guardian's Invasion and the Odyssey: Extraction events additionally played with elements of cooperative bullet hell-style gameplay, wherein a team of players would have to fend off wave after wave of enemies while simultaneously avoiding an unending tide of projectiles. Now, Riot developers teased more details about another completely new PvE game mode, which is set to come out at the same time as the looming mid-year update.

Developers Selena Liu and Eduardo Cortejoso touched upon Riot Games' upcoming League of Legends projects, which included a brief glimpse at a planned PvE bullet heaven-style survivor. Cortejoso additionally revealed players can tackle the yet-to-be-named mode either by themselves or with a group of friends and that the gameplay experience will feel notably different from previous PvE events, though the developer also did not elaborate on the possible changes.

Not much is known about League of Legends' upcoming PVE feature. However, developers gave fans a brief look into the feature's ongoing development with a screenshot that depicted the champion Jinx surrounded by a horde of enemies, an image reminiscent of other Bullet Heaven-style games. The game mode was announced back in the January 2024 developer's update, and it was reportedly designed to be a more casual