Mobile Legends Sued Again by Riot Games, What's Up?

Recently, shocking news emerged where Mobile Legends was officially sued by Riot Games for the umpteenth time.

The feud between the two developers games namely Riot Games and Moonton, indeed some often heated up. In this case, Moonton as the developer of Mobile Legends was sued by Riot.

Previously, Riot Games had sued Moonton in 2018 because games made, namely Mobile Legends imitates a number of parts of League of Legends.

On May 9 2022, Moonton as the developer of Mobile Legends received another lawsuit from Riot Games. This lawsuit is not much different from the previous lawsuit regarding allegations of plagiarism in games Wild Rift, LoL version for Android and iOS.

Riot Games officially filed a lawsuit on Monday (9/5) to the US Central District Court, California. This place is the same court where Mobile Legends was sued by Riot Games in 2018.

At that time, Tencent Holdings, which is also the parent company of Riot Games, successfully won a lawsuit worth USD 2.5 million from Moonton.

This time, Mobile Legends is being sued by Riot Games for using a number of Wild Rift content, trailers, and promotional materials. According to him, Moonton's actions had violated copyright.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is currently one of them games The most popular MOBA with downloads reaching 500 million times. With this large number, Riot thinks there will be content and promotional materials from LoL to games the.

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Mobile Legends Sued Due to Character Similarities

In the latest lawsuit, there are a number of things that are alleged to be plagiarism from Mobile Legends, one of which is the resemblance of a number of characters. In this case, skins K/DA Ahri in LoL and Wild Rift has similarities with Guinevere in Mobile Legends.

Ahri herself is champion original or original character from Riot Games who will be present at LoL in November 2018 and LoL: Wild Rift in October 2020. Meanwhile, the hero Guinevere with skins “Psion of Tomorrow” will be released in April 2022 on Mobile Legends.

The two characters are indeed very similar with their bright blue and purple clothing and purple crystal fox tails. Not only that, both Ahri and Guinevere also have one skills and the attributes are the same in both games.

Another character, Zac, who was released in LoL in March 2013, also has a resemblance to Gloo, which was released in 2021 in Mobile Legends. The two characters also have the same clothing appearance and abilities in both games

Apart from that, there are a number of other characters in Mobile Legends who are suspected of copying characters in LoL and Wild Rift.

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The Similarity of Promotional Materials Makes Mobile Legends Sued

Apart from having the same character, another thing that is being sued by Riot Games is the use of the same promotional material as Moonton. In this case, there are several trailers as promotional media games which is similar to the Riot party.

One of them is regarding Moonton which released it trailers hero Paquito in January 2021 and Riot Games claims there is a resemblance to trailers Runaterra. They consider trailers Paquito has the same character and color in trailers-his.

In addition, a Moonton promotion for the “Summer Splash” skin theme (Summer Splash Trailer) is similar to Riot Games' Pool Party Trailer. The resemblance is visible in terms of character, color, and shooting.

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Similarities in terms of Marketing Materials

Almost the same as the previous point, the similarity of marketing materials also made Mobile Legends sued by Riot Games, developers LoL and Wilf Rift. One of the cases is that Riot suspects that Moonton committed plagiarism when he did campaigns.

This happened when Riot sent customized Nike shoes to promote Wild Rift last October 2020. Not long ago, Moonton also sent shoes sneakers The Nikes are very similar, with the gold fonts being in the same section as the Nike shoes from Riot.

On the other hand, there has been no response so far from Moonton as developers Mobile Legends regarding a lawsuit from Riot Games.

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This case certainly adds a bad record for Mobile Legends. This is because Moonton has several times received the same lawsuit from Riot Games.

That was information about Mobile Legends being sued by Riot Games due to allegations of plagiarism with LoL and Wild Rift.

For those of you who want to know more about the lawsuit, you can visit the site scribd about the complete document.

Source:

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/tencent-s-riot-games-alleges-bytedance-unit-copied-wild-rift
• Riot Moonton Complaint Document