>>720676438
Because I quit League years ago and they'll never add my fav champs in to begin with.

I’m beginning to care more against my better judgement because at the low-mid level I play at, the game is pretty fun. Feels like I’m robbing people most matches. I do think that as I get better the game’s flaws will rear their heads more and more, so not sure if I’ll keep it up for long.

>9 character roster
>casual unfriendly
>fighting game
>have to pay for more characters
>need a second player
It was never going to succeed. Even best-in-class fighting games struggle to break five-digit player counts, and this has all the same pitfalls but worse.
I have no idea what they were thinking if their goal was being successful.

>>720676992
That last part isn’t really true though, you don’t need a second player at all. But yeah, even with one Teemo on launch bringing it to 10, that’s an abysmal roster for a tag game.

Arcane Season 2 was total ass

>>720676438
>9 fighters
>no yordles
>shit name
who thought 2XKO was a good name for a League of Legends fighting game? what does it even mean?

>>720676438
would work in 2016
but
see
the thing is
it's not
i mean
it's not
i mean
it's not
2016
any more

>>720676438
I don't know what this is but your image gives me two reasons not to care.

>>720677563
double kill

>>720676438
>Why does no one care?
Arcane S2 completely dropped the ball on why people should care about the franchise, add the infamous reputation League has fostered alongside an anemic launch roster with the unspoken implication they'll Jew out the other characters, and there's simply no reason to care about it.

>>720676438
Character designs and chosen artstyle isn't even that impressive for oh mighty Riot. They should have been able to make a 2.5 aesthetic which even mogs Arc Sys, but they spent all the money paying frauds for 10 years and filled the rest of their company with women, chinks and jeets.

The only people who enjoy tag fighters are people who grew up on MvC games which is an increasingly dwindling number of people, and Tekken Tag 2 players, who hate every non-tekken fighting game.
Everyone else hates tag fighters.

I care
I'm not a big tag fighter guy but I'll still give it a shot

I don't want to ever play anything made by riot games. The company is run by drooling greedy retarded fucks. I'm 100% sure that in a year they are going to turbo buff ahri and w/e other most popular champs into braindead easy win champs and sell 300 dollar skins for them

I didn't finish S2 of Arcane
Did Jinx ever turn into Harley "haha so quirky" Quinn like this game's silly animations imply?

>>720676438
no EVO no play
>why
I only play Fighting Games to prove i'm better then other players. if there is no tournament for it then i simply don't play it. After all the only reason why people play fighting tournament games is for the esport. that's why people still play Smash and Street Fighter games. because they are still covered by EVO. Like it or not, that's the truth.

that's why. again I say
no EVO no play

>>720676438
Because fighting games fucking suck dick and people need to stop making them man

>>720680354
1. smash is not at evo and hasn't been in 3 years
2. there are more tournaments than evo

>>720680354
>no EVO no play
There was an exhibition at UFA just now. Did I miss some news about why this wouldn't be at Evo?

>>720680354
you've never participated in a tournament with strangers in your life

>>720676438
Not on Steam.

>>720676438
Because there isn't a single character I played in League in the roster and the ones they picked instead aren't interesting enough to make me want to try them.
They were never going to be able to appeal to everyone considering League has like 120 characters now, but they could have appealed to more than just the crowd that watched arcane and got upset whenever Heimerdinger was on screen.

>>720680851
>more than just the crowd that watched arcane and got upset whenever Heimerdinger was on screen.
Well I would get upset whenever Heimer was on screen during the actual game too, so it's all good
What were they thinking with Braum and Illaoi

>>720680949
I can only imagine that those two were part of some Riot mandate since they were also in that Ruined King game with Ahri and Yasuo, but those two at least also have the justification of being apparently popular in main League.
The pick I really don't get is Darius, as he's been in the game since the earliest teaser screenshots but he's the most generic of generic human soldiers without even being the poster boy for the generic human soldiers that's Garen.

>>720676438
>tag fighter slop
DoA no one but autistic losers care for tag shit.

>>720678617
"Double KO" would have been much better, but that's almost certainly copyrighted by someone else already.
Should have just given it a proper name with LoL in the title.

>double knockout
dumb name

Why does it not have a Ryu/Shoto/Ragna type character.

>>720681175
>The pick I really don't get is Darius, as he's been in the game since the earliest teaser screenshots but he's the most generic of generic human soldiers without even being the poster boy for the generic human soldiers that's Garen.
I doubt it has anything to do with Noxus getting a season but maybe his skill set appealed. Axe into vortex and guess for game.

Tag fighters are great in theory, but as long as tag games keep trying to ape the spastic hyperaggression that Mahvel established, it's a tainted genre.
The only one that was 'just right' is DBFZ, it had just the right pace and system mechanics that (even besides being Dragon Ball) made it appealing to a bigger audience and kept them around much longer.

>>720676438
>Simple controls
It feels good to do traditional inputs and the devs know that. Anyone doesn't, don't play fighting games

>>720676438
because the game isn't out yet and it only has 8 characters to show for it so far

>>720682161
The game's got too much tag fighter kuso bullshit for casuals so the simple controls are entirely pointless. And I've seen a tonne of people say the simple controls feel unintuitive. I really hope this fad dies.

>>720681528
thats darius

>get in closed beta
>install riot fuck shit launcher
>have to install Chinese spyware anti cheat, for a fucking fighting game
>whatever
>restart pc so spyware can fully take effect
Yea this pissed me off. I hope this is a catastrophic failure for riot and turns them off making other games and stick to their dogshit moba and awful animations

>>720681175
Eh Darius was always popular and he has been in the game for a long time, he's a safe pick.

>>720676438
Because Riot decided to bring their BLANDEST characters to the roster.

>>720676438
Stopped playing because I couldn't get burnice. Thats why I dont care. Sorry.

>>720683603
I forgot to mention not getting burnice in ZZZ made me drop all live service sloppa. Hope this clarifies why i said this & why I dont care. Good bye now

The game's aesthetics are so bland that this dude thought it was a gacha

>>720682283
>a tonne of people say the simple controls feel unintuitive
It absolutely is. They bloated the inputs with every possible button combination to cover all of the system mechanics they crammed in there.
Since it is a six button fighter, you only get two other buttons on a gamepad for macros, and you're going to need them for L+M and L+H.
For all of their attempts to make it "simple" they made a fucking mandatory eight button fighter with a shitload of command normals, diagonal ones at that.

>>720676438
fighting games are for brown people and fatties

>>720682371
Honestly the fact that Riot’s anti-cheat needs kernel-level access for a 2D anime tag fighter is absolutely ridiculous. It’s not like people are aimbotting in a shooter or speedhacking in an MMO-what are they trying to stop, macros for combo trials? The launcher is straight out of Tencent hell too, bloated to hell with garbage nobody asked for. I was hyped to actually dig into the beta but after all the hoops just to launch the damn thing I noped out hard. Imagine needing a restart and root access just to whiff a Darius axe.

>>720676438
>tagteamsloppa
>riot games
>dogshit roster in both size and hero choices
>touch of death combos
>clunky animations that make it awkward to play
>no fucking yordles
>dumb name
>the same game but marvelslop is coming out to mog it soon
I got an invite and I don't even remember applying. I will obviously not use it.

>>720684120
Because they’re autists and don’t actually know how to make a simple game.
The game has a lot of sauce which is nice but it legitimately has too many mechanics. It’s incredibly unintuitive and having two fucking special macro buttons is retarded.

I can't really explain it. I love fighting games so I'll give anything a shot, but I can't deny how the drawn out development time, constant betas and changes, unfocused design philosophy, small roster, etc would put anyone off. I mean I'll still give it a shot, but its kinda like they went" DAMN, find here you go already, happy?". I think the Tokon and Invincible announcements scared them into forcing something out.

>>720676438
i honestly don't know their goal with this game, i remember being promoted as a new way to play fighters where neutral was key and how much they wanted to even the playing field between new players and veterans but then they made the gameplay like your typical generic anime fighter with one touch combos, to the point it feels like it was made for fighting junkies, total opposite, i'm old and lazy now so i rather learn the new marvel game than this kusoge

>>720676438

rising thunder was ten years ago. league has become one of those games that many play and no one talks about.

why would anyone play this or care about it? they should have made rising thunder its own thing ten years ago and they might have some buzz around a sequel at this point.

this will appear at EVO next year, one time, and that'll be it.

>>720688728
They should have made it more of a party game like smash or just made a PvE co op game.

No one gives a fuck about tag fighters outside of aging and dying off marvel fans.

>>720676438
Shitty and pretty small roster though a lot of champios and they choose the most shitty ones for that

>>720689174
It's not that tag fighters are unpopular, really I don't think the specific mechanics matter very much to 90% of the playerbase, the problem is they're making a "league flavoured tag fighter" instead of "League of Legends fighting game with tag mechanics." The vibes are just wrong so people look at it and think "But I don't really like tag fighters that much" instead of "I can't wait to play the league fighting game"
Look at Tokon, mechanically it's only a little less tag focused than 2xko and might work out to be even more since it doesn't have a real solo groove despite the shared health bar, but 90% of the casual discussion about it isn't focusing on the fact that it's a tag fighter, they're just excited about Ironman's new design and trying to guess the next characters and shit.

Main reasons why it hasn't clicked for me
>The "simplified" controls are ass and unintuitive, having TWO dedicated buttons for specials just makes the mental mapping more convoluted
>Sound design is dogshit

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>>720676438
>tiny ass, boring roster
>went from 1v1 to tag shit
>took too fucking long to come out
>no Yordles

>>720676438
It's a game of contradictions which appeals to nobody.

>>720676438
Wasn't it announced like six fucking years ago? I don't even remember if I still played League back then.

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>>720676438
>malware anticheat
>marvel clone without the autism of marvel games like Lightning Loops
>simplified inputs
>bland ass league characters and even as a non league fan I know there are better choices (like renekton, the yordles and that egyptian god guy)
>took 10 years to come out
>rollback now isn't a distinguishing feature
>no hot girls and this ahri is too covered up

>>720693472
>Wasn't it announced like six fucking years ago?
It was announced 9 years ago in press release after Riot bought Cannon bros and Killians studio Radiant Entertainment back in 2016. Reason why Riot bought studio is literally pitch of League fighter by Killian lol. This shit was in development for almost a decade.

No Yordles, no play.

>>720676438
as long as i dont need to run chinese kernel level anticheat i will play the game

>>720697828
I have bad news for you.

Maybe I'm off, but I get the feeling this game was made to appeal to Twitter League fans. Despite the fact that those guys likely have very little interest in fighting games.

>>720697640
The next character is Teemo

>>720676438
Is it true you have to unlock characters to play them online?

>>720700126
Yeah but
Only 3 of them are locked and you get 2 character coins for the tutorial so only need to unlock one (takes a few hours)
Also you can play and test characters any way you want offline

>>720676438
Is this hi-fi rush?

>>720676438
this is the death of fighting games
mechanically sanitized and troonified
Muh daigo parry, bro!

>>720676438
it's a game made by pros for pros, there's basically no ground for casuals to try and get into it

>>720688401
When they first announced this game, their simple goal of having a free global fighter with rollback and stylized animated graphics was good enough. Everyone was burned out on SFV, Tekken was still on 7, and anime fighters were still dead with Strive not being a thing yet.
Then tons of fighters have come out since then with mostly standardized rollback (still need crossplay to be that too), all new graphics/art styles, and Project L suddenly doesn't look as impressive when they've only added a character per year.

>>720699976
Oh great, straight up the worst one.

>>720700439
>there's basically no ground for casuals
What do you mean, the game has no special inputs

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>>720676438
>riotslop
Cause it's guaranteed shit tailor-made for bugs and browns

>>720700548
riot are retarded in thinking that the game is still "accessible" for casuals because it has no motion inputs and shitty autocombos
like other tag fighters it gets sleazy as fuck and there's a lot of shit going on that a noob won't be able to catch onto easily while they get rolled by timothy who played mvc3 for years

>>720700738
to Riot, it's enough
they see it like Valorant where it's easy enough to get into but going against anyone with skill gets them demolished of course

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Fighting games have a rich, varied and deep history of excelling at creating compelling character designs & superfluous but fun extra reasons to love them.
League, among other games like Overwatch, sit at the opposite end of the spectrum, and need enormous amounts of shilling & side media just for sheeple to get stockholm'd into liking them.
Why would anyone look at a game this devoid of content, this devoid of charisma, and decide to commit to it, outside of being confident they can make money (They're retarded too, but that's a different subject altogether).

>>720676438
most soulless artstyle and characters designs ive ever seen

>>720700927
that reminds me, the other potential players were looking forward to was the riot esports money
but now they have saudi esports

>>720676438
You could just look at whatever that creature is on the left

Something about this art style just doesn't meld with me.

>>720700927
For League I agree but claiming Overwatch had bad character designs is simply wrong.
Most of Overwatch characters clear the entire rosters of DOA, Soul Cal, MK and Killer instinct, probably most of sf3 and blazblue as well.
The only reason Overwatch had any success to begin with was because of charadesigns.

>>720681175
>The pick I really don't get is Darius

He's basically the face of Noxus. He was just as obvious as Jinx and Vi getting in. Illaoi's the odd one in.

>>720676438
>Target casual audience with a fighting game of one of the biggest franchises of the past decade+
>Has an absolutely massive cast of characters to choose from
>Make the most casual-unfriendly degenerate tag fighter the genre has seen in over ten years
>Only make ten characters
>League popularity slipping, casual fans only really interested in the cartoon
>Looks cheap visually despite having nearly a decade in the oven

>>720676438
is he about to kill that woman?

>>720705324
And Braum

>>720676438
A two player tag fighter sounds like the most retarded idea i have ever heard of in my life.

>>720700927
>Fighting games have a rich, varied and deep history of excelling at creating compelling character designs
You mean Capcom and SNK designs. Everything else is trash

>>720706080
It's so obvious that a smash clone was the game they should have made. It covers their retarded desire for co-op gameplay and its the level of casual that a F2P LOL fanbase requires.

>>720700439
>for pros
No it isnt. The casualisation is off-putting to them, its a game for nobody.

>>720706435
The problem is that the directors are GG autismos and thry’re never go for anything not “technical” enough

>>720706525
Pros only care about money. If Riot puts money up for tournaments they will play

>>720706321
Don't forget the fighter with the best designs of all time: Mortal Kombat.
There's Blue Ninja... Orange Ninja... Green Ninja... Yellow Ninja... Purple Ninja...

>>720706536
actually, they're former MVC:I and KI devs

>>720680319
No
They just retconned Viktor and Warwick. The story was nonsense, and on the final battle they literally stop the action to talk in one of the most jarring climax cut-offs I've seen. Oh and they clued in LeBlanc's rework where she has a mannish jawline and says the phrase
>You may be thinking that my face looks familiar. Perhaps you are right… or perhaps not.
Which is middle school creative writing.

>>720706536
They're MvC2 autists

>>720676438
Took WAYYYY too long to come out. Should have released before SF6. Also no one cares about League anymore they are too late.

>>720676438
Lol because fighting games are garbage

>>720706536
A smash clone can be as technical as they want it to, it also fills an actual void for a smash game without dogshit online and for an audience over the age of 8. Everyone involved is a boomer Capcom fanboy who wanted to make something traditional but it's the wrong IP and the wrong audience for it. It also makes them look bad because capcom and arcsys are just better at it than them.

>>720706598
>Pros only care about money
>its a game for 50 people
yes, ill repeat. Its a game for nobody.

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>>720676438
>still have to install riot's shitty launcher and Vanguard to play
HAHAHAHA nah fuck that
Hate that riot still has plenty of cocksuckers throwing money at them, they gotta be one of the worst companies out there
Shame about characters like Zoe, Briar and the fem-yordles but they'll be forever stuck in terrible games behind that rancid launcher and anti-cheat so I'll never play them again.

>>720676438
>No Lee Sin
This game will die before it even releases.

>>720676438
>zesty black with granny hair
Do artists like drawing these characters?

>>720677605
Crazy how fast 4 years pass.

>>720707135
Doesn't look like it. Characters like Ekko and Illaoi have far fewer pieces of fanart than most other characters, the majority of the fanart made for them is very low quality.
Even some of the newest characters added to lol's roster already have much more art than them.

>>720676438
It's annoying that they've basically adopted the drip feed live service model when the game is just barebones. You can't even match cross region. Like every other game. What's annoying is that a big reason they cornered the moba market with league is how many champs they shat out in the early years. I remember when they buckled down and released a shitter every 2 weeks till they had a good ass roster. This would never happen in the modern age. It's gonna be like 10 years till they even hit league's 1st year roster size.

>>720676438
'2XKO' is genuinely the worst title for any game I've ever seen in my life. It's even worse than those drawn out light novel titles.

I haven't seen a single webm of this game posted since the beta started
do they use their rootkit to prevent you saving clips or something, or does just no one give a shit?

>>720676438
>League
ew
>>720680354
>I only play Fighting Games to prove i'm better then other players
based I respect the unhinged level of game

>>720710405
Nobody wants to show off how the gameplay consists of both players backdashing away from one another at fullscreen while their assists are on cooldown about 80% of the time, another 10% is the most scummy tag mixups that would make BBTag cross mixups look fair and easy to react to, and the remaining 10% is a TOD combo.

>>720710405
No one cares casually speaking.
Also game went live shortly before UFA so most pros besides the jobbing ones like Diaphone didn't bother playing it.

Damn Tucksco from the League of Legends universe just dropped??

>>720676438
Arcane ruined the series. This shit is proof of it. Doesn't know if it wants to follow Arcane lore or LoL lore. So it's a mesh and it's ass.

Fuck Arcane

>fighting games in 2025
Someone needs to buy gramps a calendar

>>720680319
No. She sucked Afro-American dick and decided she wanted to be good now.

>>720710690
Still going to need at least one more decade before the retirement homes have daily fighting tournaments.

Wait for the full release but honestly, its because of a tiny roster and its only going to have Ranked and Non-Ranked and nothing else.

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game doesn't have:
>Evelynn
>Fiddlesticks
>Zyra
>Riven
>Akali
>Azir
>Gangplank
>Elise
>Thresh
>Vayne
very underwhelming roster

>>720676438
they marketed too early
they spent too much time in dev hell
they fucked the release
they didn't focus enough on the roster
the visuals aren't striking
fuses aren't interesting, they're just pick-a-port from other tag fighter systems
they didn't make the game remotely casual enough (see: dbfz is the only successful tag fighter in the past 10 years)
game is not only casual-unfriendly, but is also quite technical and has borderline kusoge balance
the name of the game is unironically just bad

>>720711301
It also has four out of the six playable character from Ruined King, even though they have almost 200 characters to draw from.

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surprise to none league players went back to league

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>>720676438
I'm more of a platform fighter kind of guy. I like SmashBros much more so I'm not the target audience.
Also this game should have been released like 8 years ago when the League hype was still on full throttle.

Now where's my fucking MMO Riot?!

>a literal Xrd tranny that also likes dnf duel in charge of balance and helping with combat design combined with a bunch of other retarded bbtag, Xrd, dnf duel and mvc2 fans coming together to make a LoL skinned tag fighting game with 9 playable characters
Why the fuck would anyone care? I wonder if the dumbasses saw dnf duel and decided they wanna add more special buttons because of that piece of shit.

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>>720681175
>but he's the most generic of generic human soldiers without even being the poster boy for the generic human soldiers that's Garen.
One thing you need to understand about Darius was that he was such a successful design that Riot pivoted Noxus's entire region identity around him. The sharp edges, color scheme, the guy's might makes right attitude, emphasis on axes, everything. Before Darius Noxus was a loose collection of bad guy freaks without a unifying theme, post-darius Noxus every new champion was made or reworked in his image. All of the rank and file soldiers were designed like him and even light touch ups on old designs like Wild Rift Riven fall more in line with the precedent set for Noxus by Darius. He looks generic because he warped the entire country he was fighting for to look like him.