2XKO, Riot Video games’ free-to-play League of Legends preventing sport, launched on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection consoles yesterday after roughly 18 months of closed beta exams. Whereas it’s too early to touch upon the general high quality of 2XKO’s gameplay, PlayStation 5 gamers aren’t too impressed with its efficiency.
After roughly 18 months of closed betas and “Alpha Lab” playtests, Riot Video games has lastly launched its beginner-friendly, free-to-play (however microtransaction-heavy) preventing sport 2XKO in full. There’s no vital consensus relating to 2XKO but. At launch there aren’t even any reviews of the console version. But I sunk a few hours into it this morning and may verify that it’s nonetheless simply nearly as good because it was over the past closed beta.
Little caveat there: I performed on PC. 2XKO has technically been out there on PC in early entry since October 7, 2025, however solely formally launched on Xbox Collection S/X and PS5 on January 20. That is related as a result of, in line with the quite a few posts which have popped up on the r/2XKO subreddit over the previous 24 hours, the PS5 model of the sport has a couple of performance-related points.
2XKO on PS5 could be the roughest I’ve ever seen a preventing sport launch. Excessive display tearing in fights, lags in matches and in lobbies, horrible monetization.
There’s a fantastic preventing sport right here however it’s dying by 1000 cuts. pic.twitter.com/w4jT0pyN5m
— reyna cervantes (@Jfcdoomblade) January 21, 2026
As detailed in essentially the most lively PS5-related thread on the subreddit, titled “Game runs like total ass on the ps5,” PlayStation gamers have reported that they’re experiencing crashes, frequent FPS drops and, mostly, heavy display tearing.
“I’m not having FPS drops (though I’m on PS5 Pro), but the screen tearing is horrendous,” writes person trugay. “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen on a console title. It makes this a fairly disappointing release. I’m enjoying the game and its mechanics, but this is really dampening the experience.”
Over on Twitter, person Jfcdoomblade uploaded a clip of the FPS drops in motion and acknowledged that “2XKO on PS5 might be the roughest I’ve ever seen a fighting game launch.”
Oddly sufficient, I used to be unable to search out any related complaints from Xbox Collection customers. Actually, the one Xbox-related thread I may discover was from one person gushing about how a lot enjoyable they’re having.
It’s necessary to notice right here that the display tearing challenge can’t be correctly replicated by way of recorded footage, as display tearing happens by way of the monitor used to show the picture. PS5 house owners have theorized that the display tearing challenge in 2XKO could solely happen when the sport is performed on a 120hz display.
In case you’re confused as to why the identical challenge isn’t popping up for PC gamers who’re utilizing 120hz screens, PS5 customers have further theorized that this can be on account of a problem with how v-sync has been applied on the PlayStation 5 model of 2XKO.
