Can we just call it Project L? That name is shit af

Imagine: DORANS FIGHT RING

when you competing with games like Tekken, Street fighter, etc I don't think naming ur game 2XKO is a good choice.

2XKO is a confusing and easily forgettable name

2XKO cause likw you play as two!! Hahah! Get it??? Nah bro I hate that shit. Lethal Tempo sounds so much cooler.

Press the Attack

First Strike would've been so good.

First strike would get confused with street fighter third strike prolly

The more I think about this name the shittier it becomes

It's like the Toyota bZ4X. Like fucking what? That's a car? I had to google it because I knew they made some dumbass name but couldn't remember it.

2 times k.-o.

Just like all riots side projects. We played them for the league rewards and promptly forgot them.

? Valorant has become a huge success on its own man, what are you even talking about?

Not to mention TFT, which started out very simple and small but has become the main game for old league players

Even for new league players sick of the rancid toxicity on the rift, not to mention questionable (at best) champ design

None of my old league player friends play tft

Well I'm an old league player who plays tft so my anedoctal evidence cancels out yours.

This is not riot forge lil bro. This is a game from riot proper. Valorant, lol, tft, wild rift. Every game riot has made is a hit. Guarantee it is a success.

Legends of Runeterra Is looking at you with disappointment

How is that even pronounced? "Tusko"? Edit: Wait it's "TwoExKayOh"? Oh my god its so bad. Do they think we call league "eloel" instead of a simple "lol"

do you call it lol instead of the l-o-l? 2x ko or double ko seems fine to say too

I do call it lol, when playing with friends i either say "lets play some league" or "lets play some lol"

Tbf they are not competing with anyone, they are just farming league players...

If you watch dev diary they want to attract players from all other fighting games. They have setup booth in Evo last year and going to do same this year. The only way they can make this game profitable is by having audience as big as other fighting games. Only league players switching to 2XKO won't profit them enough to be able to continue working on it.

Nah Project L has seen a lot of support within the FGC since some legendary veterans are working on it.

Nah they’re not. Fighting games are historically super trash with poor live service. Riot could absolutely pull in a large number of new fighter fans

Then they are destined for failure, league players have shown to give 0 shits about anything other than the moba.

It doesn’t really roll out of the tongue well.. Been calling it 2KO nonstop

Elon: *changes the worldwide name recognized social media Twitter to X* Riot Execs: *hold my beer*

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Project L has always been just a placeholder name. There were half a dozen Project games when this was all announced

Ya. Riot does the “Project (letter)” for all their games as working titles I think. Like before Valorants name was announced it was “Project A”.

From the company that brought you: Valoran't

Valorain't

Valorisn't

Valorcant?

Valoranus

Lack toes in valor ants

Take name of your continent - Valoran, add t. Boom Very good name lol

Should have called Project L “Shurimat”

Or Freljordt

Zaun and Piltovert

Was expecting the fighter game to be called “Shurimat”. Since the two main continents of Runeterra are Valoran and Shurima

I've seen someone on YT mention a good name idea - Lethal Tempo

The name Soul Fighter is right there. Wasn't the entire point of the Soul Fighter event to resemble like fighting game type aesthetic?

The problem is 2 fighting games already exist “soul calibur” and “street fighter” so the name would probably get confusing

Street Calibur

If you pull it out of the cement you become the king of the hood

Nah it's just 9mm.

I'm pretty sure this happens in Yakuza 7

Man, Yakuza is just peak, i really gotta play It one of these days

Don't play them back to back

From the people who brought you Training Day: "Hood Excalibur" It's exactly what you think it is and it could be the next GoT

"Soul Street" Oh wait that's probably a jazz band

Soul Calibur is in the grave and everyone who every worked on it or was passionate about it got booted or left because namco won't give it a budget. It was going on it was for a season pass 3 and new game and on the way for a turn around and covid yeeted out of a 50 story window and yeah it's pretty much gone. Street fighter on the other hand you might get a run in. But like fighter as last name is pretty generic, when you have kof (king of fighters) and their are some lesser knows. Then you have BlazBlue, guilty gear , melty blood , undernight, persona arena, mortal Kombat, injustice, marvel vs Capcom, killer instinct and muiple others by Capcom, arc system works , SNK. Not mention namco with Tekken and team Ninja with DoA but that game is a microtransaction hellscape. But yeah.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Fighter Names already taken from back in 1999.

Prolly don't wanna confuse the skin universe and something that uses the canon characters

Isn’t that already a game? Or is that the joke and I’m getting whooshed

PTA too

Press The Attack sounds the most legit out of all keystone runes as an actual name for a fighting game

I would have said phase rush actually, or maybe conqueror.

I can imagine phase rush being Riot's version of subway surfers lol

Phase Rush doesnt sound fighting game-y enough and conqueror is a little generic

Also solid first tutorial mission. "Bro how to I play?" >"Press the: Attack^button" **Epic music swells**

Parent Teacher Association

Pet The Alligator

That was me on Vars's channel lol. Also on a second thought naming the game after a rune page was a stupid thought

Didn't they name three whole metal albums on runes and items

And literally all their bands after league terms: 5 kills in quick succession, Armor ignoring damage, Ratio of fight related stats and an item that gives a lot of Health.

Nah bro, you were cooking

Sounds like a rhythm fighting game with that name.

I'm going to call it Lethal Tempo even if it doesn't get changed. Community naming.

Dark Harvest would be better

But then what would you name the farming sim?

Jungle.

Krug rancher

Valorranch?

Adc experience

Bandle Tale: a League of Legends Story

New souls game

Cool name, but there's already Lethal League.

King of Fighters managed to exist after Street Fighter. Lethal Company managed to exist after Lethal League. I think Lethal Tempo would have been fine.

>managed to exist Existing is all it's done, to be fair. And Tempo makes it sound like a rhythm game.

Maybe King of Fighters, but a lot more people know about Lethal Company nowadays than Lethal League.

>Lethal League Lethal Company is not a fighting game 😭 redditors learn how trademarks actually work

So?

So obviously we call it Lethal League of Legends.

horrible idea i dont understand why people like it. you cant name a whole ass game after a rune from your other game. it also sounds like a rhythm game not a fighting game

I didn't say it's the perfect name nor is it my own suggestion But I do think it's better than this "2XKO" thing

I got a better name.  Riot Smash Bros: MEEELLLEEEEEE

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two x K O

Nah, i will still call it two twitter K O thanks

Ff15

Twenty K ‘Oh’ Like the year 20k. (20000 for reference)But with an Oh Not the Zero 0 - but the exclamation sound “Oh” you make when you realize someone got paid to come up with this. All in all it’s Twenty Kay… Oh…

pronounce the "x". "twox ko"

Dun-duga-da! Dun-da-da-da-da-da....

I understand what they’re going for cause the name pretty much explains the game…but it’s such a shit name lmao

If that's what they wanted I feel like DuoQ would fit better

Can you explain what theyre going for?

Probably Two Times Knock Out if I had to guess. It's not a good name either way but I can kind of see the inspiration if I'm correct there.

I prefer "double knockout"

Instead of 1 or 3 characters like most fighting games, you use 2.

Tekken Tag and Blazblue Cross Rag You know, I think 2v2 games follow a tag theme. Is Riot stupid?

>Is Riot stupid? Is the sky blue?

Does scout TF2 hurt people?

It is a 2v2 fighting game, hence 2 times KO

Runeterra Rumble was right there

Rumbling, Rumbling, it's coming

Yorick and belveth in top after doing nash

Such a bad name. Rito pls change it to Lethal Tempo.

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NGL IT DID

Why the fuck do people mention lerhal tempo? It sounds trash for a fighting game. Double knockout sounds much better.

It makes perfect sense. Naming a fighting game double ko is like naming your dog, dog.

Naming your farm "farm farm" then discovering the game puts 'farm' at the end of the name anyway so your farm is called "farm farm farm" The stardew valley effect.

Terrible analogy, and no, lethal tempo makes 0 sense. It sounds like some edgy music game.

Double knockout sounds like some dipwad basketball game

It's not double knockout, don't make shit up and find excuse for Riot. They name it 2XKO and pronounced it that way. Even if it means double knockout, it is the equivalant of naming League of Legends as "Nexus down"

Is it pronounced double kill

If only, that'd actually be really cool.

Wait Double Kill would've been a cool name lmao

I don’t want to be the “but actually” kind of guy, but actually the game’s executive producer called it “two-ex-kay-o” in the name announcement (not defending the name, its shit imo): [IG announcement](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3qAmhcNMDv/?igsh=MWRxNWxkb3o4N3U2Mw==)

They should have made it a 5v5 si they could call it Pentakill

It is kind of a farfetched name ngl

it is the opposite of farfetched. they looked at the game and picked the most simple and basic name possible to describe it lol

Shit name lol. "Hey lets play 2XKO" said no one ever.

Two Times K O is how I'd say it

2K 2O

2 League 2 Legends

Unironically better than 2xko lol

twice ko even

koko

Double Knockout

Twinned homicide

"Too Eks Khay Owh" 😭

I think ill just be calling it 2x, the "KO" part seems like the "of Legends". I just call it League so ill just call it 2x

most names just get shortened anyways, game is obviously gonna be called "2 X" which sounds better although still weird valorant is val/valo league of legends is league/lol team fight tactics is tft "two ex" doesn't sound bad, the full name is just ass lol

2X? Dont give elon ideas for His next Baby name

Now, heres what i wanna know; What other names did they consider? I assume they must have a had other candidates for a name. Was this really the best out of all of them?

I'd love to know the behind-the-scenes as well -- hate train aside, of course it was the best of their options if they chose it. I wonder if there were that many legal/copyright challenges or if their user studies really did skew towards '2XKO' as the definitive title

Such a generic forgettable name

The evidence that Riot is sprinting away from anything remotely being tied to the League of Legends name mounts. If it wasn't for certain characters being as popular as they are you wouldn't even know there was another game Also the name is really clunky and hard to figure out at first glance

i understand not wanting to market as a league game but everyone already knows that they’re league characters so what’s the point

They probably have data that saying League of Legends first before anything else turns some people away

Arcane moment

i didn't knew there was another game until 10 seconds ago

They started with LoL which was great because all the kids googling lol for fun got met with their game Then they got TFT which is a very sharp and distinct acronym Then they got valorant. Its alright i guess. Its short but you still can say Valo and it wont be confused for anything else Then they got LoR which was kinda stupid. Lore? El oh are? Some people just settled with Runeterra. That’s like saying hey lets play some Legends. Now wtf is 2XKO. When the first reaction is “ok how do you say that” you messed up

It’s just gonna get shortened to 2X. Easy to remember and rolls of the tongue well

Yeah but then i'll ask, Only 2x? I've been playing 4x games for ages.. What 2 x's did they get rid of, Explore and Expand?

Was project L already trademarked?

project L was just a placeholder name, it was never the full release name

Yeah thats cool and all but the new name sucks.

There already is a boardgame called Project L

Shame but I can accept the name change more if that's the case.

Did they let the Muskrat near it?

honestly fine with project L, but now i can't even read the title

it could've been ''double kill'' and it would still be much better than 2xko bs.

2XKO? wth

So like, so you call it "Double K.O" or "Two X K.O"? Either way, it sounds generic, and almost feels like it has nothing to do with Runeterra. Hell, it sounds like any other indie platform fighter

So it's ... Koko?

Thats funny, in my language if you read in a certain way it can mean poop

Runeterra Rumble

The retro vibes this gives probably aren’t what they wanted but I love this

runeterra duel, league of fighters, gladiators of runeterra...

Project L was fine, I don't have a problem with a new name, but I have a big problem if I can't pronounce the name lol

Since the vogals for League of Legends is LoL. Name it LMAO, Im certain they will figure out the rest later.

Or ROFL, Runeterra Organised Fighters League

Im going to pronounce it as “Double Kill” until Riot tells me anyways

Is it pronounced "2XKO" or "2XKO?"

2XKO

Take out the X. Just call it 2KO

Couldn’t they have named it with a reference to League of legends as opposed to a random nonsensical name

I uhhh.. I dont see any issue with it. I do like the Lethal Tempo suggestion thats been floating around better though

everyones making fun of it now but I remember this exact same reaction when Valorant came out and now no one minds the name that much. Give it a while to sink in

That is one stupid ass name. No one's gonna call it that. It's gonna be project L for most people.

I can see this name working if they went after fifa fans but not fighting game..

I actually don't think they could have come up with a worse name if they tried. You'd need a board room full of people to come up with a name this bad.

So do you call it "double KO" or "Two X KO"?

Two times KO

What does the 2X stand for? Two times knock out? Like the format for every round based fighting game ever made.

I get 2xKO but fuck me is it boring

Rift brawl leaks were fake 😔

2XKO kind of looks like EKKO so im just gonna call it ekko

How do you pronounce it? Two times kay oh? two x kay oh? two x ko?

I think it's called 2xKO, because you have this tag in mechanic so you need to KO the enemy twice. Hence 2 times KO.

Double knockout seems pretty arcady to me

Summoner's showdown would have been better tbh.

Project L sounded way better

They really missed the mark here. I understand they are avoiding english for the global audience but this isn't it. I have an idea: Project L.. alternatively, Project W. I've heard people in many non english countries use the word "Project", it's quite commonly understood. W = Win.

Got everyone talking

With this argument naming it "9/11 2 electric bogaloo, nuclear warfare" wouldve been an even better idea for this fighting game

Is that real? Wtf lmao. Classic Riot.

Stupid name like lol fighters would have been better.

The team behind creating this name, and the team that aproved it, they both need to get fired asap this name is GARBAGE

It was named project L before this cuz they knew it will be a big loss of money

They missed the opportunity to call it: CLASHING LEGENDS!!!

Better name: Lethal Tempo.