How many people are playing 2XKO?

2XKO does not publish a public player count and is not on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts figure. The closest live popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 64 people are watching right now, peaking at 503 this week.

Who are all the champions in 2XKO?

The playable 2XKO roster is Ahri, Blitzcrank, Braum, Darius, Ekko, Illaoi, Jinx, Teemo, Vi, Warwick, Yasuo, Caitlyn, Akali, Senna, Thresh, Lux. Samira has been announced but is not yet in the game.

No. 2XKO is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is 2XKO on?

2XKO is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5.

Is 2XKO still popular?

2XKO is holding steady. Over the past 30 days Twitch viewership is down 7%.

When did 2XKO release?

2XKO was first released on January 20, 2026.

2XKO

Jan 20, 2026FightingXbox Series X|SPC (Microsoft Windows)PlayStation 5

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2XKOplayer count & live stats

2XKO is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. The closest public, real-time popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 64 people are watching 2XKO on Twitch right now, peaking at 503 this week (last checked 59 minutes ago).

Holding steadyTwitch viewership is down 7% over the last 30 days.

Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
First released: Jan 20, 2026

2XKO live stats

Watching on Twitch

Concurrent viewers · hourly

146 24-hour peak viewers

503 7-day peak viewers

8,025 30-day peak viewers

137,166 12-month peak viewers

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Live stats last updated 59 minutes ago.

2XKO monthly peaks

Highest concurrent viewers recorded each month, most recent first.

Peak viewers reached 137,166 in May 2026 and has since fallen 98%, to 2,706 in September.

Riot co-founder Marc Merrill said in October 2026 that the game needed player counts "in the high hundreds of thousands, or if not millions" to sustain the live-service model it was built around. (Inven Global — Marc Merrill on the Lemonade Stand podcast)

Month	Peak viewers	Share of peak
October 2026so far	8,025	6%
September 2026	2,706	2%
August 2026	6,133	4%
July 2026	1,769	1%
June 2026	40,241	29%
May 2026	137,166	100%

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2XKO — frequently asked questions

How many people are playing 2XKO?: 2XKO does not publish a public player count and is not on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts figure. The closest live popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 64 people are watching right now, peaking at 503 this week.
How many champions are in 2XKO?: 2XKO has 16 playable champions, with Samira announced but not yet playable. Riot is ending active development with patch 1.3.5 in December 2026, so the roster is closing: 16 champions are playable, and Samira has been announced as the final addition. Servers remain online beyond 2026 and every champion is already unlocked for free.
Who are all the champions in 2XKO?: The playable 2XKO roster is Ahri, Blitzcrank, Braum, Darius, Ekko, Illaoi, Jinx, Teemo, Vi, Warwick, Yasuo, Caitlyn, Akali, Senna, Thresh, Lux. Samira has been announced but is not yet in the game.
Is 2XKO on Steam?: No. 2XKO is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is 2XKO on?: 2XKO is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5.
Is 2XKO still popular?: 2XKO is holding steady. Over the past 30 days Twitch viewership is down 7%.
When did 2XKO release?: 2XKO was first released on January 20, 2026.

All 16 2XKO champions + 1 announced

Riot is ending active development with patch 1.3.5 in December 2026, so the roster is closing: 16 champions are playable, and Samira has been announced as the final addition. Servers remain online beyond 2026 and every champion is already unlocked for free.

Rushdown · 4All-Rounder · 2Bruiser · 2Zoner · 2Grappler · 1Hybrid · 1Mixup · 1Strategist · 1Striker · 1Trap · 1

Champion	Archetype	Added	Patch
AhriLaunch roster	Rushdown	Oct 2025	Season 0
BlitzcrankLaunch roster	Grappler	Oct 2025	Season 0
BraumLaunch roster	Bruiser	Oct 2025	Season 0
DariusLaunch roster	Striker	Oct 2025	Season 0
EkkoLaunch roster	Mixup	Oct 2025	Season 0
IllaoiLaunch roster	Bruiser	Oct 2025	Season 0
JinxLaunch roster	Zoner	Oct 2025	Season 0
TeemoLaunch roster	Trap	Oct 2025	Season 0
ViLaunch roster	Rushdown	Oct 2025	Season 0
WarwickLaunch roster	Rushdown	Oct 2025	Season 0
YasuoLaunch roster	All-Rounder	Oct 2025	Season 0
CaitlynAdded at the Season 1 console launch	Zoner	Jan 2026	Season 1
Akali	Rushdown	Apr 2026	Season 1
Senna	Hybrid	Jun 2026	Season 1
Thresh	Strategist	Jun 2026	Season 1
Lux	All-Rounder	Sept 2026	Patch 1.3.1
SamiraAnnounced as the final champion — not yet playable	—	Announced for Oct 2026	Patch 1.3.3

Archetypes verified individually against Riot Games — official champion pages and Evergreen Transition FAQ on October 6, 2026.

Things worth knowing about 2XKO

Researched and sourced individually — each note links to where it came from.

It was built by the people who founded Evo — and who wrote the netcode the genre runs on

Twins Tom and Tony Cannon left software-engineering jobs at VMware and founded Radiant Entertainment in 2011. They had already created the Evolution Championship Series, the fighting-game world's biggest tournament, and GGPO, the rollback-netcode middleware that almost every modern fighting game depends on. Riot acquired Radiant on 8 March 2016, cancelled the studio's in-progress fighter Rising Thunder, and reassigned the team to the unannounced project that became 2XKO — which ships with server-based rollback netcode directly descended from Tony Cannon's own middleware.

Source: Wikipedia — Radiant Entertainment

Development has ended, but this is a freeze rather than a shutdown

Riot announced the "Evergreen Transition" on 20 August 2026: active development finishes with patch 1.3.5 in December 2026, and Samira was the final champion. The game itself stays up. Servers remain online beyond 2026, it is still playable on every platform, Casual, Tutorial, The Climb and Offline modes all continue, and every champion was unlocked for free in patch 1.3.1. Ranked lobbies were removed in that same patch, and the deadline for refund requests was 7 December 2026.

Source: Riot Games — official Evergreen Transition FAQ

Riot has said what the game needed: "high hundreds of thousands, or if not millions"

Riot co-founder Marc Merrill discussed the game on the Lemonade Stand podcast on 1 October 2026. He said 2XKO "resonated with some players, but not nearly enough to support the live service model it was built around", and put the threshold for viability at player counts "in the high hundreds of thousands, or if not millions". He attributed the outcome to internal causes rather than the market — "there wasn't alignment on the strategy, which then caused managerial fracturing" — and noted that Street Fighter 6 launched roughly eight years after Riot began work on 2XKO.

Source: Inven Global — Marc Merrill on the Lemonade Stand podcast

It has two release dates, and most sources pick only one

2XKO launched into Early Access on 7 October 2025, on PC only, with a roster of eleven champions. The console release followed on 20 January 2026 alongside Season 1, bringing the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and adding Caitlyn. Depending on which milestone a source treats as the launch, the game is described as a 2025 or a 2026 release — both are defensible, and the distinction matters if you are comparing player numbers across its lifetime.

Source: Wikipedia — 2XKO

Fuses are the mechanic that set it apart from other tag fighters

Rather than fixing how a two-character team works, 2XKO asks you to pick a Fuse at champion select, which reshapes the duo's whole playstyle. Season 0 shipped five: Fury grants bonus damage and a dash cancel below 40% health; Freestyle allows two Handshake Tags in one sequence; Double Down combines both champions' supers; 2x Assist permits two back-to-back assist actions; and Juggernaut removes assists almost entirely, restricting you to your point character.

Source: EventHubs — 2XKO developers on how Fuses work

Critics liked it, on a notably thin sample

The PC version holds a Metacritic score of 81, but that rests on only four critic reviews — PC Games at 85, and Eurogamer, Gamekult and Gamereactor UK at 80 apiece. The PlayStation 5 version sits at 78, and OpenCritic records 100% of critics recommending it. It was nominated for Best Fighting Game at The Game Awards 2025 and Fighting Game of the Year at the 29th D.I.C.E. Awards, and lost both.

Source: Metacritic — 2XKO

Checked October 6, 2026.

About 2XKO

2XKO is a 2v2 fighting game featuring the iconic characters from Arcane and League of Legends.

Summary via IGDB.

2XKO on Wikipedia

2XKO is a free-to-play fighting game developed by Riot Games, set in the Runeterra universe from League of Legends. It released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on January 20, 2026.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).