League of Legends is getting its first in-game season of 2025 soon and, as is Riot's tradition, there's a big and flashy new trailer with some gorgeous animation to accompany it.
Namely, it has collaborated once again with Fortiche, the studio Riot threw $250 million at to make Arcane, a bet which I'm pretty happy to say has paid off.
The venture's been so successful, in fact, that Riot's promised new shows featuring Demacia, Noxus, and Ionia. We know that Fortiche is involved, making this season's Noxus-themed trailer very interesting because, well, just look at the thing.
It's all looking too fleshed out to be a throwaway. New designs take a while to formulate—meaning smaller-scale animation projects like trailers and the like will try to keep the scope of what they actually show relatively limited.
Unless Fortiche is incapable of keeping its cool (which is very possible) the sheer budget poured into this trailer's multiple locations has me suspicious we basically just got a trailer for a new show disguised as a game advertisement.