Riot Video games has apparently cancelled an in-development platform fighter referred to as Pool Get together. A report from Mikhail Klimentov (ReaderGrev) claims that Pool Get together would have had gameplay just like Nintendo’s Smash Bros., set within the League of Legends universe.

There have been round 70-80 builders engaged on the sport earlier than Riot Video games sunsetted its growth. It’s additionally steered that Riot Video games was engaged on a platform fighter as a result of they noticed potential in constructing an esports panorama round it.

Joe Hixson, senior communications director at Riot Video games, responded in a press release to Klimentov, saying that Riot Video games all the time has various initiatives in “varied phases of R&D, and spinning initiatives up and down occurs a number of occasions a 12 months.”

The report additionally alleges Riot executives had been “spooked” after the perceived failure of Multiversus, a crossover IP platform-fighting recreation from Warner Bros. Although Pool Get together was initially envisioned as a “hardcore preventing recreation,” it went by means of a number of revisions, together with the addition of social gathering recreation parts and gameplay mechanics that are “casual-friendly”. It has additionally been claimed that the basic adjustments to the scope and imaginative and prescient of Pool Get together left among the employees pissed off.

The report has additionally claims that Riot Video games supplied half of the workforce engaged on Pool Get together to be reassigned to a distinct mission inside the studio, and different builders had been in search of new positions inside the firm. In keeping with Klimentov’s supply, 10 have nonetheless not obtained a suggestion nor had been a part of the inner software course of, which may indicate they’ve left the corporate.

None of this has affected 2XKO nevertheless, Riot’s publicly introduced preventing recreation. The corporate is getting ready to debut a brand new demo at Evo 2024, and plans are in movement for a 2025 launch.