League Of Legends TCG Gets Disappointing Update Just An Hour After Reveal

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While news of a physical card game using characters from quickly got fans excited for a global release, a quick update left many disappointed only an hour later. Stemming from the original MOBA, the franchise has been slowly expanding into other forms of media — most notably, the Netflix show has gained widespread popularity even outside 's core audiences, but other efforts like,, and various smaller games have also obtained varying degrees of success as well.

As shown by Valorant News on X (formerly Twitter), a Chinese trailer for a -based physical card game, titled, quickly got fans excited about a supposed global release in 2025. Just over an hour later, however, a tweet from Riot Games employee Joe Hixson refuted any global release rumors, with Hixson saying that "."

While Hixson did also note that it's "," it's been confirmed that there are no current plans for releasing the card game outside of China.

While the Chinese exclusivity of is disappointing, it's not entirely unexpected, as the Chinese market for is by far its largest audience. Furthermore, the card game that already exists,, is notably one of the less successful efforts by Riot to expand the IP outside the original MOBA, with support for the game both dwindling and making more of a shift towards PvE content.

is still an actively supported game, but a 2024 update marked a major shift in the game's development, shrinking the size of the dev team and scaling back on PvP elements as a result of low revenue.

Other games using the IP, like story-driven , 2D platformer , and other games that came out of the relatively short-lived Riot Forge publishing label, have also apparently seen less success than Riot would have liked — Forge was officially shut down in January 2024, five years after it initially launched, with, released the month after, being the label's last game to release. While other efforts like and have been much more successful, Riot may still be testing the waters with before planning a