After an Alpha test in June, League of Legends: Wild Rift has finally begun its closed Beta in South-East Asia on September 16th. The Closed Beta is now live in Indonesia. Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore are soon to follow with even more markets to be included in the coming months. So far the game has brought a total of 40 champions from the League of Legends, 34 from Alpha and 6 new for Beta. Their visuals were updated to better match their appearances in Lore and some of their abilities were changed to better work on mobile and consoles. There were supposed ‘leaks’ saying that Riot has another 15 champions in the pipeline including Yorick, Karma, Wukong. However, these claims were unsubstantiated. There has been no official statement from Riot regarding this.
For the first few levels, players can unlock starter champions like Master Yi just by levelling up.
Players will also earn Blue Motes and Poro coins which can be used to buy other champions and unlock cosmetics (like skins and emotes) respectively. Riot is planning on making the game free-to-play friendly, so there will be many ways for players to earn enough through grinding. Completing tasks such as graduating the Wild Rift Academy will reward players with skins, poses and champions. Wild Rift will also feature a free champion rotation like in League of Legends.
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There are a few champion differences in Wild Rift in comparison to League of Legends including in terms of ability progression, max champion levels.