League of Legends

League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game developed by Riot Games, which Tencent acquired full ownership of after initially purchasing a 51% stake . The game's success was substantial enough that the remaining shares Riot founders later sold under a buyback agreement "skyrocketed" in value, per a ZhenFund piece . Riot's founders were initially hesitant to develop a mobile version, believing they hadn't fully captured LoL's essence; once Tencent became 100% owner, it pushed through and launched Honor of Kings within months, which remains the world's highest-grossing mobile game . The title appears in elsewhere's corpus mainly as a reference point in coverage of Tencent's gaming investments and AI companion products rather than as a directly profiled subject.