League of Legends: Wild Rift, a Riot game, arrives in Brazil in March. Amid exciting news released to celebrate the new season of League of Legends, Riot Games announced the forecast for the arrival of the open beta of LoL: Wild Rift, which begins in March in North and South America, but has yet to be detailed. Another big revelation from the developers is that Wild Rift will not be confined to the traditional Summoner’s Rift map. The game will also be expanded to Howling Abyss in 2021 with the infamous ARAM. There are currently about 50 champions in the Wild Rift open beta and Riot has announced that it plans to release two new heroes a month this year. Katarina, Rammus, and Dr. Mundo are some of the names that will join the cast of characters soon.
In addition to the new champions, a new Lunar New Year festival event was also announced in February and the first official ranked season, which will start soon in some regions where the game is available. The League of Legends: Wild Rift open beta started in October 2020 in countries like Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. Then, in December, it was time for other countries in Europe to receive the testing phase. League of Legends: Wild Rift is Currently Available for Android and iOS Devices.
Riot Announces Plans For League of Legends: Wild Rift
Before the game has had a full global release, Riot Games is ready to commit to supporting the esports development of its first fully mobile title League of Legends: Wild Rift. It will take the initial steps to build the Wild Rift esports ecosystem. As it has with previous game launches, Riot will not invest in a full franchised system or global league structure in Wild Rift’s first year, but will instead take time to experiment and observe community response to various competitions. official competitions will “come to life later in 2021.”
Some initial plans have already begun to take place, particularly in Southeast Asia where mobile esports are already a dominant, thriving ecosystem. Riot has tapped ESL Gaming to operate official professional and collegiate esports for Wild Rift in Malaysia and Thailand. North American esports organization Noble Esports has already signed a Wild Rift roster in India despite the game not yet releasing in the region. Southeast Asia and Japan are expected to begin high level esports competition early in 2021.
While details remain scarce, Riot also reaffirmed its plans to expand esports operations for Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics in 2021. Additionally, Riot announced that Shenzhen, China will host the 2021 League of Legends World Championship Finals. China was made the host for Worlds 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic prohibiting the tournament’s traditional multi-city tour through its host region.
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