Teamfight Tactics, the recently launched auto battler game mode in
League of Legends, will be coming to mobile devices.
Launching in early 2020, with betas planned throught the remainder of the year, the mobile version of
Teamfight Tactics will feature full cross-platform play with the PC version as well.
Teamfight Tactics is Riot's take on the growing auto battler genre, made popular by the
Dota 2 mod,
Auto Chess. It launched as a separate game mode in League of Legends in June of this year and became so popular that Riot decided to fully support it with regular updates. The mode is an 8-player free-for-all, in which players buy and sell champions, equip them with items and strategically deploy them on a grid-like map where they fight automatically until only one player is left standing at the end of the game.
Auto battlers typically lend themselves quite nicely to mobile devices, so it was only a matter of time before
Teamfight Tactics made the jump. But Riot is also doubling down on their mobile venture, also
announcing a mobile console version of their core 5v5 Summoner's Rift mode, dubbed League of Legends: Wild Rift. Unlike
Wild Rift, it seems that
Teamfight Tactics will be brought to mobile devices as is, with no major gameplay changes.