League of Legends Coming to Consoles and Mobile in 2022 as Wild Rift; Crossplay Between Console and Mobile Being Explored

Riot Games has appear that League of Legends is coming to mobile devices and consoles in 2020.

The pop MOBA volition be arriving on yet unspecified consoles and mobile devices adjacent year as League of Legends: Wild Rift. You can watch the game's announcement trailer below:

While Wild Rift will largely be the same equally the original League of Legends on PC, the team has congenital the game from scratch for mobile and consoles. As expected, the game will be costless-to-play and will include roughly 40 champions at launch, with more beingness added over fourth dimension.

"Refreshed models, animations, game systems and more than--but keeping true to the core League of Legends gameplay y'all already know," Anarchism Games said. "We didn't want to just port League on PC one:i--we desire to make certain Wild Rift feels similar it was designed for new platforms, and use that opportunity to brand a bunch of improvements to the game. While you won't get your unlocks from League PC, you'll go some cool rewards for the time you've spent in the PC version. More to come on that in 2020!"

As Wild Rift differs from the original League of Legends in a few means, cross-platform play between PC and console/mobile won't exist supported. Co-ordinate to Anarchism Games, allowing crossplay would require compromises of competitive integrity, and the squad wants to brand certain that the gameplay feels off-white and fun no matter which platform is being played on. Interesting to note is that cross-platform play betwixt mobile and console is being explored.

"During certain big moments throughout the year, we'll try to coordinate event themes and releases between League PC and Wild Rift, and we're exploring the possibility of cross-platform play betwixt mobile and console, simply goose egg locked in yet", Anarchism Games writes on the game's official website.

Riot Games plans to take the game fully live globally past the finish of 2020 with the console versions being released later.