okay before we talk about project l i just want to make sure that you're all sub to the channel so please if you aren't already hit the sub button and turn on notifications because it really does help okay so in case you missed the news riot has finally shown off project l their upcoming league of legends fighting game this game has been in various stages of development for a really long time and at one point it was called the worst kept secret in fighting games officially it was announced at evo NUMBER_TOKEN and we got the tiniest amount of footage in october NUMBER_TOKEN but hardcore fans have been waiting for this game since NUMBER_TOKEN. see five whole years ago riot bought radiant entertainment a dev studio run by tom and tony cannon the founders of evo who back then were working on a game called rising thunder rising thunder is actually still playable and it's a pretty cool game but the idea was that it's a fighting game that you can play on a keyboard each character had special moves you could use with one button and they were all tied to cooldowns sort of like league of legends right anyway radiant got bought and everyone immediately assumed that riot was working on a fighting game with them and lo and behold we were all right and now that we've finally seen the damn thing it actually looks pretty cool okay so let's get the big obvious project l stuff out of the way i'm gonna try my best to communicate all this information in such a way that hopefully if you don't play fighting games this could help you understand why you might want to be excited for this game and please forgive me if i get to fighting game nerdy project l which doesn't have a name yet is a NUMBER_TOKENvNUMBER_TOKEN tag fighter that means you pick two characters to bring into a game and you can swap between them at the press of a button this is inspired by the versus series of games made most popular by marvel vs capcom NUMBER_TOKEN which used a NUMBER_TOKENvNUMBER_TOKEN system but plenty of games have been NUMBER_TOKENvNUMBER_TOKEN including marvel vs capcom infinite street fighter cross tekken tekken tag tournament even skullgirls gives you an option of playing a two character team like some of those games and unlike other ones of those games project l has an assist mechanic at any time during a match you can press an assist button to call your non-active character out onto the battlefield to do one of their attacks this can help make longer combos or you know open your opponent up into neutral it's really versatile we don't know if this game has a traditional marvel NUMBER_TOKEN style assist system where characters have a predetermined list of assists you get to choose from before you start a set or if this is more like skull girls where any move the character has can be the one assist you choose or if characters have access to multiple assists in one set sort of like in blade's blue crosstag battle what we do know is that each character seems to have access to multiple different kinds of assists and that there is some amount of ability to cancel into your tag during a combo that means that this combo you're seeing right now is only possible because echo can actually cancel his button into tagging into ari which is gonna open up some insane combos and folks they showed off some pretty sweet combos i'm not usually a heavy grappler kind of player but darius
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