League of Legends turns into Street Fighter, as Naafiri finally lands

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League of Legends is taking some big cues from Street Fighter 6 for its coming summer event, with fresh details on Soul Fighter confirming a new four-player battle mode as well as the launch date for new LoL champion Naafiri. We’re also getting new skins for the Riot MOBA, a crossover with Teamfight Tactics and the rest of the Runeterra universe, and a metagame dedicated to Samira. After 2022’s Star Guardians, summer is definitely looking up for League of Legends.

Ok, let’s start with the new League of Legends mode. The Soul Fighter summer event centers on a SF6 and Tekken-inspired multiplayer battle between four teams of two players. It works like this. Across four distinctive and very colorfully designed coliseums, LoL champions fight it out in pairs, rotating to different opponents after each round. It’s 2v2v2v2, and after each pitched battle, you have the chance to power up using Augments. Last team standing wins.

But there’s another twist: this is a crossover event between LoL, Teamfight Tactics, League of Legends Wild Rift, and League of Legends Runeterra, so champions and characters from the wider Riot world will occasionally drop into your Soul Fighter matches to stir things up. In some cases, they’ll be helpful. In others, they become another tough obstacle between you and victory.

There are also dedicated Soul Fighter skins for essentially the entire LoL tier list, including Samira, Viego, Naafiri (more on her in a second), Shaco, Pyke, Sett, Lux, Jhin, Gwen, Evelynn, Shaco, and Pyke.

Plus, Samira is getting her own dedicated metagame. ‘Tournament of Souls’ puts the Desert Rose into a style-drive, combo battler mode. As you play standard LoL matches, you develop Samria’s reputation, which unlocks new Tournament