Riot Insists This Stunning New League of Legends Cinematic Isn’t Setting Up a Post-Arcane Noxus Present, but Fans Still Have Their Suspicions
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Riot Insists This Stunning New League of Legends Cinematic Isn’t Setting Up a Post-Arcane Noxus Present, but Fans Still Have Their Suspicions

Riot Video games is ringing within the New Yr with a contemporary season of League of Legends — the primary of three season launches that gamers will expertise in 2025. In typical Riot vogue, there’s a cinematic trailer to go together with it, but this 12 months’s video is a main step-up from its predecessors. For one factor, it is completely beautiful — thanks, of course, to a lending hand from Fortiche, the animation studio that introduced Arcane to life. But extra importantly, the five-minute video is leaving followers of Netflix’s Arcane hopeful that this Noxus-themed trailer doubles as an thrilling prelude to a different League of Legends present.

There’s a couple of obvious nods to Arcane that make their method into the top of the brand new cinematic. One of the largest moments within the trailer that merges collection with sport comes when Black Rose members Vladimir and LeBlanc talk about how they should take “benefit of the chance that has washed up our shores,” which we’re assuming is a reference to Mel. LeBlanc additionally feedback that “Piltover was a lesson,” which Arcane viewers will acknowledge because the Runeterra area through which the unique present takes place.

Riot Insists This Stunning New League of Legends Cinematic Isn’t Setting Up a Post-Arcane Noxus Present, but Fans Still Have Their Suspicions
A primary take a look at Mel within the League of Legends 2025 cinematic trailer.

When the ultimate season of Arcane wrapped, followers have been keen to seek out out if different Runeterra areas would get some on-screen publicity. Christian Linke, inventive director at Riot and the creator and showrunner of Arcane, confirmed these suspicions in an interview with League content creator Necrit shortly after the present concluded, revealing that Noxus, Ionia, and Demacia will obtain their very own spin-off collection.

Now, upon the cinematic’s launch, followers can not help but join the dots that this Noxus-themed season of League of Legends is maybe a delicate trace in the direction of the Noxus-themed spin-off they have been ready for.

One Rioter on Reddit, dubbed RiotMiddler, has denied that the cinematic trailer is a set-up for a TV show: “Relating to the intent of the cinematic, our objective was to arrange some themes for Noxus for the season and a plot line that’ll be continued this 12 months in sport/round sport supplies (not a television present to be clear).”

But, like, have you ever checked out it? It very nicely could also be true that the intent of the cinematic is at the beginning to advertise the brand new Noxus-based season of League of Legends — there is not any precise present storyline that is teased, nor any official launch date for a new present hooked up. We’re simply saying, it appears unlikely that Fortiche went by the difficulty of creating new designs for characters like Elise, Katarina, Vladimir, Darius, LeBlanc, and Trundle with no intent of introducing them into a future collection.

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A nonetheless of Darius and Trundle combating.

Present teaser or not, we’re hyped for this new season of League of Legends, which matches dwell tomorrow, January 9. It is a fairly historic patch that ushers in a whole Noxian makeover for the Rift, a handful of visible adjustments to the map, and even some novel concentrating on animations for the all-new Noxian Warfare Turrets. Till Riot decides to launch an official announcement about its subsequent TV collection, we’ll be ready with bated breath (and doubtless re-watching Arcane).

Katie Reul is a freelance journalist whose leisure reporting has been featured in IGN and Selection.

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