14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Riot Games announces that its special Halloween event for League of Legends, The Harrowing, is now live and allows gamers to experience an entirely new game mode and get access to a range of special skins that have been selected from the most successful releases of the past few years.
The event is set to take place until the start of November and gamers can enjoy the new Hexakill set of rules, with two teams of six battling each other on the Twisted Treeline map.
Riot Games states on the official page that “Bringing twelve champions to League’s most close-quartered map ensures intense gankery and more than a few opportunities to net yourself a coveted hexakill. We’ve bumped up gold and experience rewards across the map and controlling both altars now buffs you as well as your minions. Claustrophobes—and arachnophobes— need not apply. Welcome back to the Twisted Treeline.”
LeBlanc, a mage focused on illusions who wields great power, and Wukong, a martial artist who also happens to be a mage, get new skins as part of The Harrowing event and some fan favorites have also been brought back to the store.
Riot Games is known for its ability to deliver special takes on the classic Multiplayer Online Battle Arena core mechanics of League of Legends.
It will be interesting to see whether there are any plans to extend the presence of Hexakill after Halloween.
Long-term competition in the MOBA space
The Hexakill event for League of Legends is designed to keep the big community of the title engaged for as long as possible.
The game is involved in a long-term competition with DOTA 2, the title from Valve, in a genre that is one of the fastest rising in the industry.
Both video games are free to play for all those interested, but Riot Games and Valve are releasing a wide variety of ancillary content for both of them, and dedicated players can end up spending hundreds of dollars on skins and other items.
Over the past year, Riot Games has been trying to improve the quality of the community that has coalesced around League of Legends, going as far as to issue bans to those players who have been labelled as toxic.
The effort has been successful but it is still hard for newcomers to get into the MOBA genre, mainly because of the complexity of the team-based mechanics required for high-level play.
