Despite naming my dog after a League of Legends character, its fighting game spinoff 2XKO hasn't been on my radar. My fighting game experience is minimal, and I've never had the confidence to try online matches. Getting better at the genre is a noncommittal dream – sandwiched between wanting to learn the drums and speak a second language – but unlike the drums, which my partner has dissuaded me from with pleas to think of our tiny house and its thin walls, I don't really have an excuse for not giving fighting games a better shot. It's just scary!
Which is all to say: when Games Editor Oscar Taylor-Kent asked if I'd like to check out 2XKO, the excuses came flooding out. "But I suck at fighting games," I pleaded. "My dog ate my homework. Fighting games ate my dog!" Still, I had a trick under my sleeve. I'm good at League of Legends, and in theory, would already have an intuitive feel for its champion's kits in 2XKO. In theory.
