I actually came from bang bang to LoL. A friend said im playing a rip off version and introduced me last year when i got a laptop for christmas. been hooked and depressed since

Exactly what Dota players thought when league was created.

He said this looks familiar but all MOBA games look the same😅

The game blew up on SEA cuz not a lot of people can afford a PC and you can play this game anywhere. Everyone gets patriotic everytime their team plays internationally that's why a lot of peeps watch. The game being a carbon copy of League helped as well cuz due to COVID, kids couldn't play on net cafes and transitioned to this game.

Just got back to that game mainly because they have a fun champ that somehow League doesn't have, the guy's ult is literally a car that you can drive across the map and it doesn't end unless you hit the terrain or an enemy champ. It's super fun i wish if league had something like that but the closest we got is Sion's ult which is lame lol.

I will never understand League players having the gall to call other MOBAs copies, when that's exactly what their game was to DotA players. LoL was formed because Pendragon couldn't monetize DotA.

It's huge here in the Philippines. People from all walks of life play it because of its accessibility. All my friends who I used to play League with have transitioned to playing ML. The quality of the game is definitely low especially if you're playing in mid tier because it's either you smash your opponents hard or you get smashed together with your teammates who don't give a f*ck what is happening in the game (they are mostly kids whose parents or siblings let them play on their phone). It can get competitive, but it's not worth the time unlike the League (and Wild Rift) where the ceiling is high especially for skill expression. My friends know it's a rip off, but it's none of their business.

This is absolutely an Asia hit, because over in the UK I heard nothing about this until I made some friends over in Asia. Wild that its popped off so much but fair I guess, shame about the kinda obvious copying (tho I imagine this is how DOTA players felt when seeing league for the first time lol)

I am from Indonesia and MLBB is so gigantic here, its because they came to Indonesian market so early than any other Mobile MOBAs and of course the gameplays simplicity make them grow so quick in the past few years. beside that in PC MOBAs market DOTA is more popular than LOL in Indonesia making LOL obscure in majority of Indonesian people

I play lol before but I stopped during college. I want to come back but it became very complicated for me, I got more stress instead of enjoyment after work. Kids in my area introduced me to MLBB and got hooked, very simple and lots of freebies even if you play without paying. Skins has special attributes though like tanks with skin has 100hp extra, ADC will have extra damage.

Almost everyone in my class play mobile legends back then... good times.

I started League in season 3. But was always looking for a perfect mobile game. I've tried them all. Peaked at mythic in mlbb, and that's what I attribute my success in wild rift too 😂

Here's the real comedy: Riot never won a lawsuit vs Moonton (MLBB) but Moonton actually WON a case vs Riot and got some Riot money too. 😂

Because you can achieve 2-4 games in an hour, can play from mostly anywhere with a connection. Also esports in MLBB is growing esp on the NA scene. And this is good for everybody else as this game isn't dominated by CN nor KR

I really wish more mobile legend players gave wild rift a chance tbh, everytime my friends see me playing wild rift they go "oh didnt wild rift copy mobile legends" which triggers the shit outta me lol

I sometimes play this type of games for cell phone and it is super nice kitear with the adc's, you even feel pro of how easy it is haha.

Essentially poor man's League of Legends, both in the metaphorical and literal sense of the word.

Actually, is not a copy paste, sure there are some characters that are similar, but bro is almost impossible to create a totally new character with never seen abilities, even riot can't do that, look at Sona and Seraphine XD, is a good game and is not a surprise the game being that popular, you guys have to try it before saying anything

wanwan is kalista with xayah e and samira ult but ur invincible while u cast it and kills extend the duration. (also dont take tower dmg)

American discovering That Mobile Game is big in South East Asia be like : 😂😂😂

Back in 2021 in m3 world championship NA reached 3rd place that's the moment moonton give NA official tournament not just a qualifier and started giving them attention to actually try to make the game big there. The eSports scene of this game is actually slowly growing in NA😅

The mobile gaming market is huge asf, other games beat Riot to the punch

The same way how DOTA players react to league on its first couple years LMAO. The cycle just repeats itself. I play DOTA, League of Legends, Wild Rift, Mobile Legends, SMITE, Arena of Valor. They're completely different games and playstyles. Like the META, rotations, etc. You can't do the same playstyle mechanics and rotations you do to these different games. But I can say, League is the winner for having most toxic players, 2nd is DOTA.

Bro in World we just came for the opening lmao

Try mobile legends bangbang now is m5 tournament,and if u have great skin the skill effect is so amazing

When a game is so easy to learn it gets more traction. I personally enjoy League more. No not playing League just watching, I don't need more brain damage in lifem

Bro not all attribute ml have for its champions can be traced from leauge because same could be said toward league of legend and dota, dota being the earliest moba game in this concept in particular. If you look closely they may seen copy in hindsight but have difference you could not claim it as a copy if its not exactly the same.

The only reason why league of legends views is low because the playerbase dont really care about the championship unless its T1 in it 💀

Ml is big in SEA I dont play it But majority of people i know that plays in their mobile Plays it And people dont pc or have a pc( which is big amount of us) Knows ml more than lol Whenever i play lol in pc or even wildrift, people assume im playing ml which kinda annoys me I just say no this is the original one ( when i say original i meant which ml copied not the, og and forget dota Or the starcraft one) I thinks thats the reason we got wild rift early access in sea Becuz people play more mobilr games here and ml actually dominates here in mobile

Imagine if riot actually catered to the SEA audience

we already broke that m4 world championship

it's an official game in SEA GAMES

mobile legends bang bang does go hard i wont lie, when i travelled it was my league of legends fix hahaha

Haters will hate but MLBB is for life

Before I got into League I played Mobile Legends and another mobile Moba called Heroes Evolved. While both are worse than League in literally everything, I still enjoyed playing it with my brother back then

Younger people get shorter attention span. Remember how DOTA players reacted when LOL released? Lots of it were also copied but eventually got changed and gotten better. LOL's game duration is shorter than DOTA. MLBB's game duration is way shorter than LOL's game duration. I play all of these games. RIOT released Wild Rift but did it succeed? Not in SEA. Because I think the average game duration is 20-25 mins. MLBB's average game duration is only 10-15 mins. That gap is huge in my opinion. Plus, I think it's too late. Attention span is a key thing here. Same analogy like how massively successful Reels, Shorts, and Tiktok is right now in SEA or in other parts of the world as well. Mobile gaming is huge in SEA, and as far as I know, in other regions, PC and console games are still the first choice.

"this game looks familiar" It's a MOBA of course it looks familiar. Every MOBA game looks the same, just plays different

People who are saying they still have wild rift please dude... wild rift is dead bruh... there are two reason, wild rift is made for like medium to high spec device and most sea people doesn't have that kind of device and mlbb is really low spec game thats why they play it lol. The second reason wild rift came in really late to the market... not only that knowing mlbb is a rip off version of league riot didn't sue them because they think they are a cheap ass game in the beginning... but now its become big and riot goes to shamble by pushing wild rift but become a waste because unless bang bang get banned there is no chance people playing wild rift in sea 😅

there are reasons ml is successful, most games that copies other games and doesn't blow up so you cant just say a game is good/popular because it copies another games

played that 4 years ago in classroom

Most people from developing nations cant afford a relatively cheap PC , but they definitely can afford a mobile phone since they needed it for work anyways. Thus kids in these region are more likely to have a phone than a pc . So that+ moba + ease of access = huge playerbase and viewership. Go figure , NA boomer gaming market is a decade behind. Also not to mention , Riot turning a blind eye on SEA but focusing on the dead NA region for the past decade had made them lose 1 of the player base of the densest region of people around the world.

If they would establish a circuit for wild rift I am sure the player count is more then ML, there is obviously (apparently) an audience for competitive mobile mobas so RIOT could really capitalize off that. I think they already have competitive WR in Korea but that’s it I believe?

Most of the playerbase are from Southeast Asia… you won’t hear about it a lot in Europe or America lol

well it looks familiar because it is a MOBA too. while its true that on its early days it has too much similarities to LOL. but nowadays it do not have that many similarities to LOL now. there are still some issues of copy right here and there but if you compare it to other mobile MOBO it is one of the least similar to LOL. riot sue moonton for copyright but only after mlbb became big in SEA so big that wild rift is having a hard time competing against mlbb. riot sue moonton too late where mlbb has too little similarities to LOL but if riot sue moonton way earlier on its early day riot would definitely win. but riot sue it after or just before the launch of wild rift it makes me suspicious that riot sued moonton because they having hard time competing with ml in mobile MOBA.

he gets mad over a mobile game

the games very popular in SEA

Not to be that guy but why are people shtting on Mobile legends. It was released long before wild rift. Is it copying a lot of stuff from lol? Yes. Did league copied a lot of stuff from Dota? Yes. Did dota got the game from a mod of blizzard's warcraft? Yeah. So no company has the right to make a sound about copying.

the only mobile game to have stood a chance against the pc giants btw

Heard about this game, but never seen anyone play it irl. Who actually plays this? And how is it so big?

The whole Philippines plays that sht. From every age group

I gave lol a chance and in my opinion i still like mlbb more since i already put 100$ in to that game and im already used to mlbb game so i dont want to let this game go. So please dont come attacking me. I do personally agree that mlbb copied lol

Every comment “rip off”. Just like how Valorant is Overwatch + CSGO no?

But if we count chinese viewership combined of league then i dont think its even close to anygame…only in msi they had 30m peak in jdg vs t1

It's the same you sai KoF is familiar as street fighter.

Bro boutta be tweaking if he actually becomes addicted to this game

Actually strange that I've never heard of it!

That little shit is a breed of Kalista and Fiora.

I find it difficult to believe those numbers aren’t inflated with view/subscriber bots.

That's sad this guy compares a pc game to a mobile game to get his serotonin😭🤣

Wild rift is too unstable in some SEA regions and lack of servers which give us high pregional broadband delay and horrible matchmaking as we are paired up on china which you gonna hope you have the latency advantage thats why MLBB is big its because none of its competitors are even that competitive

For ML, most of the casual playerbase are noobs. Some players who reach mythic are in the middle of being pro and noob, while mythical glory players and mythical immortal players are the pros of the game. Most players in ML do not play very well, but there are a few outliers, and in the esports scene, ML has its very own share of crazy outplays

In mobile legends u can put ur photos on avatar so everytime u play with raging asian u can see 160cm 60kg beast

That's why Riot need to global release Wild rift.

MLBB was basically Riot paying for their hubris. People were begging for Riot to make a mobile version of League, and Riot outright refused to do so. That's when Moonton said "screw it, I'll do it myself." And that's not all. Riot then tried to sue Moonton for copying their stuff. They got laughed out of court, both in the US and in China. In order not to make Riot completely lose all semblance of dignity, China did eventually order Moonton to change their game's name, hence the words "Bang Bang". You know what the best part is? Riot couldn't name their own mobile version of League "mobile League of Legends", because the same rule that made Moonton rename their game likewise prevents Riot from using "mobile" and "legends" now.

Esports charts is inaccurate anyway, it doesn’t take into account the Chinese streams since the flare system makes it impossible to know how much actual viewers there are - you can only estimate but with Chinese viewership the games wouldn’t even be close

This is the reason why Wild Rift existed

I cant play league bc the qeue time for a match is like 20 - 40 minutes, also the ping in sea is so bad

Es más cómodo jugar recostado que sentado hasta que te duela el trasero 😅

Riot shot themselves in the foot, they should had released wild rift way earlier. Now MLBB already hit critical mass.

But wtf is this audio why does it always suck in the clips?

wild rift still on pre-register :). Riot could have have made huge profits if they released wild rift in Asia with huge population but nah they kept delaying over and over and it still on pre-register . during that mlbb took the ooppurtunity meh . And m a League and a mlbb player . I dont disrespect the league community but the way some league players here are disrespecting the mlbb players it clearly says a lot about the community

When we getting a bang bang stream Pedro?

MLBB probably the most famous/popular mobile moba game in South East Asia.

The actually got sued 😂 but company rich af

Its popular in asia esp here in Philippines. Cos its convenient you can play it on phone. The game is fast too. Thats why so many children play it and hard to play alone 😂

im actually GM in mobile legends, it is pretty fun :) also i main wanwan and didnt actually know she got a new skin! ty caedrel!

NGL I played that game years ago and it was reaaaaallly fun, wway better than WIld Rift

They actually sued them twice and still couldn't delete the game from the app store

The hottest mobile game in China is the glory of the king.

Pedro has just begun the rabbit hole. Wait until you see the funnel jungle strats the dominate MLBB pro meta

3 mill viewers prolly from indonesia

Imagine League but pay to win, that's MLBB.

Its called goverment diff. Thats why its successful

All I see are a bunch of gate keeping and superiority complex

It's not a copy they have heroes ultimate more characters then league

I love Caedrel and thanks for pointing that out ML really copied League

I think Mobile Legends came out before Wild Rift

Finally!! Caedrel found the forbidden Treasure It's as close as you can get to League of legends call it mini league of legends xD Jesus take the wheel

i play mythtic rank to mobile legends this game dont have ward and to many bug champion if this game got ward and bug champion become fixed this game become best moba game for all moba games best rank for play no look like league of legends and to many penalty for nothing u have full win game send u 13 if u loss - 22 but mobile legends dont have sheet system rank look like league best pings for play good geraphic very good game but ward very important idk why this game dont have ward

Mobile legends is super big in my country, even had pros be imported to other countries I could see men and women play it even on bus but I sticked with wild rift cause it's more polished and Fun fact mobile legends has no role queue so it's a fuck fest whether its ranked or not I played it once and got the highest rank in less than a month, it doesn't even feel rewarding

i tried this when i was on vacation to singapore philippines and thailand it was definitely a rip off but seeing how i dont wanna offend anyone but the countries in south east asia looks underdeveloped i can see why this would be more popular since everyone has phones but not everyone has pcs still cant believe a blatant rip off can perform this well and a game barely even heard of

Imagine copying over a more popular game and getting higher viewership. Couldn't be Riot Games...

Its easy actually, they just isolated there game on the reagion that has the most mobile phone users, then slowly introduced it to western market.

Mobile Legends got lucky, as they were one of the first MOBAs that are stable and optimized enough for potato smartphones, together with decent gameplay at the time. Better MOBAs got released later on, but everybody is already playing MLBB by this time. Only F2P players would switch to another game. Not going to lie, it was fun when I got addicted to it, still might be better than most MOBAs on mobile to this day. Anyway, I wouldn't even be surprised if they just copy features from League or Wild Rift, get sued for it, pay the fine, but get more revenue for it in the long run.

China is now getting MLBB. Now, the US will take notice once this blew up in China, which has a high probability of doing so because mobile games esports generally are getting more respect (people don't consider mobile gaming as legit gaming before). The only reason this hasn't blown up in the west because Riot Games has control of the West. This is the reason why MLBB has been regarded as a LoL rip-off for more than 5 years already (at least it really started that way). Wild Rift entered the mobile scene but is already too late because Riot has too much high ego they don't wanna touch on mobile potential. In fact, recently, they've given up on Wild Rift esports scene entirely and the only one doing esports on it is China and SEA. I wouldn't be surprised if next year this blow up in the west. Mobile Gaming has huge potential ever since and companies are just now realizing it. PUBG and COD at least recognized it. LOUD esports, a huge name in Valorant, literally started in Mobile Gaming esports, in Freefire. Gaming companies should realize it's not all about the graphics. In fact, it's sometimes a hindrance. The PC requirements for PC games nowadays is getting crazier, and some of them turns out to be dogsht. This is why games like Genshin Impact really takes time to compress and adjust everything in order to accomodate even potato phones because they know the potential of mobile. Even Diablo transitioning to mobile (which I actually don't like), proved quite beneficial to them because they're making money.

Imagine if LoL made wildrift before mlbb

do? Worldwide playing ML?

I have talked with friends about this. If there was a company with a game similar to league, riot had no chance. It's such a shit company and their success relies so much on luck/being the first in the genre.

Mlbb is basically more simpler than other LOL/Dota based games ( at least from my personal experience after playing aov first then mlbb afterward ), that's why when the dev announced their upcoming project with just lil bit more complicated system/mechanisms, some of their players giving their protests already 😂 even when the update didn't yet implemented 😂 Even from aov players perspective, that's pathetic tbh 😂

Bro I knew about this game and never tried cause I used to play Vainglory and graphics of Bang Bang is shit. If Vainglory dev team didn't destroy itself it would have been huge right now.