League of Legends is one of the most famous games in the world, and therefore has its fair share of clones and wannabes. Some of these mobile games just straight up copy images out of the game, and fans are not amused.
League of Legends is a famous game all around the world. The game is profitable for Riot Games due to the various skins that get released for some characters with every patch. This concept has worked for many years now so it's obvious that some clones have tried to copy LoL.
League of Legends Mobile Clones
Riot Games is always in some sort of legal battle versus at least one cheap mobile rip-off. The last very infamous contender was the game “Mobile Legends” which has straight up copied some champions in the game. Obviously, with over 160 different champions in LoL and many of them fitting a common MOBA trope, there are bound to be similarities between characters in different games.
The new arising copycat is the game “War Spell: Team Tactics RPG”. While the champions don't necessarily look alike to anything we have in League of Legends, they copied the concepts of some champions or straight up mix them together. All in all not bad... right? Since most characters look different enough to be their own design.
The issue lies in the abilities. War Spell: Team Tactics RPG straight up took some images of League of Legends abilities and barely re-designed them, if you can even call it that. They changed the colors a bit, but conceptually it is still exactly the same.
Nobody would have even realized it since the game is new and not as big, but X/Twitter user @ttwisted35 took the time to compare a few images.
I was giving them the benefit of the doubt but even Maokai's old ultimate!? pic.twitter.com/goRhraU5oL
— twisted (@ttwisted35) December 27, 2023
The harpy character Tisiphone straight up uses all of Xayah's ability icons. At least they had the courtesy to color them red, which you can't really say for the dwarven character. He uses a mixture of Graves and Tristana icons and even has a Miss Fortune Ult thrown in there. Needlessl to say this isn't the only case and @ttwisted35 has made even more screenshots of what looks like Twitch, a demonic Lilia and even Tahm Kench.
Fans of League know what happens to these kinds of games, and behind the scenes, I am sure that Riot's lawyers are already on the case.
Do you know about some more League of Legends mobile clones? Let us know in the comments.