Arena of Valor has 100M daily active players in China

Wangzhe Rongyao or Honor of Kings, the original Chinese version of Arena of Valor, has reached an average of 100 million active daily users, according to developers, Tencent.

For comparison, League of Legends’ daily player count peaked at 8 million back in 2019 while Mobile Legends: Bang Bang had a 75 million monthly player count last year, which averages to about 2.5 million players per day according to Moonton.

Honor of Kings is massively popular in China, evident not just in its player statistics but also in its healthy esports scene. Some of the world’s most popular K-pop idols even stream the game catered especially for their Chinese fanbase.

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AoV esports isn't just for men, and these girls are here to prove that! Fire Leopard is the first all-female AoV team based in China. The team will be coached by the head coach of the Chinese national team for the Asia Games Nai Cha while esports coach Hu Niu, former Olympic volleyball gold medalist Xie Ming, and King Pro League telecaster Ling ER will join Fire Leopard as advisers. They will be joining the Chinese league King Pro League and will be competing against other KPL teams like Top Esports Young and RNGM Academy at the King G-League next season. #arenaofvalor #aov #esports #rov #honorofkings
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Honor of Kings made its debut back in November 2015 on Android and iOS by developer TiMi Studios, the same studio that worked with Activision to create Call of Duty: Mobile.

Honor of Kings, @TiMiStudios 's premier mobile MOBA, has set a new world record of 100 million average daily active users year to date. Congrats and happy fifth anniversary! pic.twitter.com/sYCrE7W750
— TiMi Studios (@timistudios) November 1, 2020

The mobile MOBA actually shares an interesting story with Riot Games, the creators of League of Legends. Back in 2015, Tencent made a proposal to Riot to port League of Legends on mobile, which Riot rejected.

As a result, Tencent created a new game called Wangzhe Rongyao, which instantly became a huge hit. It was released in China first and would later on launch globally as Arena of Valor (AoV) or Realm of Valor (RoV) in Thailand.