League of Legends Fighting Game Reveals New Name and Release Plans

The League of Legends fighting game has been re-revealed with a brand-new title, 2XKO, with the developers providing fans with a potential release window for next year. This League of Legends-branded fighting game was first revealed in 2019 as Project L, alongside Legends of Runeterra and the animated Arcane series as a way to expand the IP into different genres and mediums. Among the projects in development at Riot Games, Project L has had a somewhat rocky production.

The game formerly known as Project L was a League of Legends 2v2 tag-team based fighting game, similar to other tag fighters like Marvel vs. Capcom, Dragon Ball FighterZ, or BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. Players could form a team of some of their favorite champions, like Darius, Yasuo, Jinx, and more. After years of anticipation and sporadic updates, Riot Games released a new trailer showing off some of its playable roster and what to expect for the game's future.

This new trailer starts with the game's former title being slashed away by Yasuo, changing it from Project L to 2XKO. This is followed by a brief gameplay showcase of 2XKO's roster, which consists of popular League of Legends champions like Ahri, Darius, Yasuo, and the aforementioned Ekko. 2XKO replicates the abilities and move sets of the champions and translates them into a fighting game setting. For example, Ekko can make temporal clones of himself to avoid attacks while Ahri has her signature energy orb projectiles.

In a follow-up video with Riot Games executive producer, Tom Cannon, he reveals a number of details regarding the upcoming fighting game. He reveals that 2XKO will be receiving a number of different playtests in order to refine and provide more feedback in 2024. Hands-on playtests will be available for fans to try out, starting at EVO Japan 2024 in April, with it also being available at smaller scale FGC events. Cannon also promises play-at-home testing will start sometime before the end of 2024, along with a projected launch