The closed beta for the League of Legends tag team fighting game 2XKO is just around the corner, and there has been a lot of discussion about its roster.
The beta begins on September 9, with the full launch slated for later this year, and the plan is for the game to remain online through the beta into the full release, aside from periodic maintenance.
At the moment, Riot has revealed the eight characters who will be playable in the closed beta: Ahri, Ekko, Jinx, Illaoi, Braum, Darius, Yasuo, and the most recent reveal, Vi from the Arcane series. Two more will be added for a total of ten at launch.
But who will those characters be? The developers have some insights into how they select characters for 2XKO.
How Do They Pick Characters?
Eurogamer held interviews with 2XKO’s executive producer Tom Cannon and director Shaun Rivera at Evo Las Vegas, where the game had its final event demo before the start of the beta and eventual release.
For the launch roster, since they were building the foundation of the game alongside playable characters from scratch, the goal was to represent a wide variety of playstyles while...
