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League of Legends’ latest summer event debuts July 14
Announcement from LoL’s official twitter
Stunning visuals, disappointing content?
This year’s LoL summer event will be anime-themed, and on the visual front Riot absolutely delivered. All upcoming Star Guardian skins were teased:
- Star Guardian Akali
- Star Guardian Kai’Sa
- Star Guardian Taliyah
- Star Guardian Sona
- Star Guardian Ekko
- Star Guardian Nilah
- Star Guardian Senna (Wild Rift only)
- Star Guardian Orianna (Wild Rift only)
- Star Guardian Seraphine (Wild Rift only)
- Redeemed Star Guardian Rakan (Wild Rift only)
- Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah (Wild Rift only)
Those Taliyah, Akali and Xayah shots were amazing, but dancing Fiddlestick takes the cake for me!
The song used for the teaser was on point as well. An anime-esque track with heavy Shelter vibe, unsurprisingly as Porter Robinson himself is on board in this project, the quality is sure to satisfy LoL anime fans.
Sadly the same cannot be said about the event’s actual gameplay. Teased images suggest an event similar to Ultimate Spellbook in addition to some visual novel gameplay that had not been particularly popular with the player base in the past.
It’s too soon to form a conclusion about this year’s event. Riot might have polished the actual content this time around. But the fact that they are rehashing past contents instead of creating new game modes for this year will probably dull even avid LoL players’ enthusiasm.
On the bright side, if you’re an anime and LoL fan, this timeline is as good as it gets!
Riot has been on a L’s streak recently and I personally will go into this event with low expectations.
