After 17 years, League of Legends finally supports game controllers thanks to the addition of WASD controls to the MOBA.
Riot Games has added WASD controls in ranked to make LoL more appealing to new players.
And with that update has come various accessibility improvements to LoL, including the ability to move the mouse cursor with custom inputs.
Along with all these changes, LoL players can now play the game on the live servers using Xbox or PlayStation controllers without having to make any other settings adjustments.
As long as WASD is enabled, players can plug in and use a controller with a built-in control scheme instead of a keyboard and mouse.
The following Xbox controls for League of Legends are:
- LT: Q
- LB: W
- RB: E
- RT: R
- X: D
- Y: F
- A: Auto Attack
- D-Pad Down: Trinket
- Analog stick: mouse and champion movement
Moving the left stick will move the champion around, while the right stick moves the cursor to aim abilities and buy items in the shop.
There are no official settings for controllers in LoL as of yet, but content creator SkinSpotlights believes it will be added eventually after looking into the game’s files.
However, Riot claims this is not the case, and joystick support was only added as an accessibility feature, stating:
“Something we heard from a lot of folks was the desire to use WASD on a joystick. While we don’t have plans to officially support controllers or joysticks broadly right now, we did want to enable play on joysticks through remapping of WASD for accessibility reasons.”
Will We Ever Get League of Legends on Console?
League of Legends was supposed to become playable on console through the mobile version, Wild Rift.
However, Riot scrapped plans to release a console version and revealed that choice back in 2024.
Wild Rift executive David ‘Papa Smoothie’ Xu explained:
“I wanted to officially let y’all know that we’re not pursuing a console launch at this moment.
“This was a deliberate decision to prioritize mobile investments over maintaining and trying to balance development between mobile and consoles.
“Our goal is to bring the right games to the right platforms for players, so while we see games like VAL or 2KXO show up on consoles because of the existing popularity of those genres on the platform, we haven’t seen the same for the MOBA genre.
“Splitting our dev team’s focus between console and mobile wasn’t a tradeoff we felt was right for WR players right now.”
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And in another crazy addition to the game, the reworked Statikk Shiv is too broken to be released.
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