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Overview

We are guaranteed to have super human League of Legends AI game playing agents by the end of 2027, here is why and what this means for one of the oldest e-sports franchises in the world.

League of Legends is a MOBA franchise developed and published by Riot Games. It boasts

Appendix

League of Legends Playerbase Count

It’s difficult to determine exact player base numbers for League of Legends but we do know certain things for sure.

u.gg (who source their information directly from Riot’s official API) report (all ranks and all regions where data is available which is everywhere outside of China which is instead administered by Tencent):

Game Mode Champions Analysed per patch (estimate)
Ranked Solo/Duo ~200M per month
Ranked Flex ~20M per month

However many Ranked Solo/Duo players also play flex and many players play more than one game per patch, these are the upper bounds per game mode.