2021 – The Year of LoL

2021 marked a great year for Riot Games, with League of Legends (LoL) earning multiple awards at the Game Awards 2021 after an incredible World Championship. To celebrate their success, we’ve rounded up all their key 2021 milestones, along with highlighting where the game is now

League of Legends

League of Legends is a team-based MOBA, in which you battle it out across multiple game modes to see who can destroy each other’s base first. With over 150+ champions to choose from, ranging from assassins to swordmasters, you’ll need to utilise each champion’s five core abilities, special skills, and experience boosts, to secure your team’s victory. As you gain more experience in the virtual battlefield, you can earn gold and purchase powerful items to help you and your squad defeat the competition! 

To be victorious, you’ll need to carefully work together and strategies to figure out the optimum rota of champions, spells, and items, to increase your chances and successfully defeat the opposing team’s horde of enemies.

Some of the champions include;  

2021 Highlights

The 2021 World Championship

Another year, another World Championship. The pinnacle event, packed with nail-biting esports action, features 24 teams from all continents in a month-long battle for the Summoner’s Cup.  

The 11^th World, whilst disrupted due to COVID-19, was still the same action-packed event, that fans adore. Taking place in Reykjavik, Iceland, across 121 games, it came down the wire between LCK’s DWG KIA and LPL’s Edward Gaming. Resulting in best-of-five games, the first five-game finale since 2016, it was Edward Gaming who grabbed the Summoner’s Cup! Mid-laner Lee ‘Scout’ Ye-chan, also scored the World 2021 final OPPO MVP award for his performance in all five games against DWG KIA.  

What’s more, the 2021 League of Legends World Championship was broadcast in 18 different languages, across 34 platforms. In total, a record-breaking, 1,084,991,999 total hours were watched worldwide! The world was glued to their seats as we watched these incredible esports professionals battle it out.  

The Game Awards 2021

Riot Games scored another fantastic year at the Game Awards 2021. Winning two of the biggest awards, including best esports game and eports event! What’s more, the man behind the successful DWG KIA team, Kim ‘kkOma’ Jeong-gyun, rightfully earned the title of best esports coach of 2021! Instrumental in the team’s huge success, kkOma, pushed this unstoppable team to earn multiple first-place finishes this year and their place in the final two! 

Since 2021…

Since 2021, Riot Games has continued to update League of Legends with countless updates, new gameplay modes, extra champions, champion skins, and much more! The highlights of which include:

• New champions such as Aurora, Smolder, and Briar.
• Balance changes to fine-tune gameplay by making it more varied.
• Improvements to existing features such as a smaller auto attack range and increased passive damage.

What’s more, the LoL World Championship continues to draw in fans, with the 2024 event taking place in Berlin!

Official PC System Specification

League of Legends has been designed to be one of the most PC-friendly games. This ensures players, of all skill levels, or those with a budget PC to an enthusiast-level PC – can strive to become the next LoL champion!  

Best PCs to Play League of Legends