Riot blasted following "diabolical" AI League of Legends Wild Rift trailer

Riot Games has drawn criticism from fans after a new trailer celebrating the third anniversary of League of Legends' mobile spinoff Wild Rift appeared on Chinese social media giant, Weibo. The trailer, featuring Aurora, Ezreal, Jinx, Seraphine, and Yasuo, appears to have been created using generative AI, and has since been removed from Wild Rift's official social accounts.

Described as "diabolical" by one X user, the trailer follows a somewhat bizarre plotline surrounding the League of Legends champions, whose models appear to have been created using AI. Celebrating the MOBA's third anniversary (or '3nd,' according to the trailer), the characters appear to be singing at some sort of concert, reminiscent in many ways of TFT's stellar Remix Rumble cinematic from 2023.

Wild Rift China released a cinematic made using AI and it is diabolical 😭 To think this was an official release that several people approved of 🙄
It features Seraphine, Jinx, Aurora, Yasuo & Ezreal. pic.twitter.com/8FxtfdyL4S

— Aroush (@AroushTheKween) August 4, 2025

The crowd itself, animated in comic style, immediately sparks suspicion, but the models for each champion are very clearly AI generated. Similarly, there are consistent spelling and grammar errors, including the aforementioned "3nd aniversary [sic]" and various bizarre T-shirt slogans, including 'klans.' Some of these could potentially be forgiven as just poor translation, but the collision of the 'n' and 'd' in '3nd' matches the odd blurring that we often see in AI-generated text.

Later in the track, we see a cut sequence where Aurora, Ezreal, and Yasuo count down from three, but only hear a female singer. The audio here is also out of time, and the lyrics themselves don't really seem to make much sense. The track is clearly K-Pop inspired, likely a response to the genre's resurgence in the wake of Netflix smash hit K-Pop Demon Hunters, but the vocals feel off when compared to Riot's other musical endeavors like K/DA.

The deleted video allegedly appeared on the official Wild Rift Weibo account. According to one of the moderators of the game's official subreddit, u/StarGaurdianBard, it was apparently removed "due to backlash from Chinese fans."

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