Zilean players and counting.

A year or two ago I’d taken a fairly lengthy break fromLeague of Legends.

The learning, and re-learning, and re-re-learning.

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Let’s step back a bit, though.

The state of League of Legends, midway through 2022, is that it is utterly gigantic.

Both have spread into other genres like card battlers and action-RPGs and team shooters, for instance.

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The expectation is for many more seasons than just this one.

Estimates put concurrent player peaks at somewhere between the eight to 12 million mark.

Adding a hit Netflix series is unlikely to have caused a drop.

LoL State of the Game: the cover of Ruination, a LoL book, over Kalista’s splash art

Forget World of Warcraft - the new cultural and financial yardstick for League of Legends is probably Pokemon.

It’s never been as vast or elaborate or downright luxuriously expensive as it is now.

The solution then was to increase the durability of all champions across the board.

LoL State of the Game: the Worlds 2020 stage in Shanghai with a big crowd

It has, generally, been successful enough.

It’s tempting to big this change up a bit.

you might find plenty more pieces like it in ourState of the Game hub.

LoL State of the Game: Nilah’s splash art showing her riding a wave and using a whip made of water