That's debatable League of Legends is a premier e-sport more so because of marketing than game design or engineering. In fact, their game client remains worse

That's debatable League of Legends is a premier e-sport more so because of marketing than game design or engineering. In fact, their game client remains worse than dota 2's in every way. It's actually pretty hard to take them seriously considering their client is still such a buggy mess after about 10 years. While the viewership of casual Valorant is greater than CS-GO, it's also not "rapidly rising" - https://sullygnome.com/game/Valorant/365/summary https://sullygnome.com/game/Valorant/365/summary And the esport viewership of CS-GO is much larger compared to Valorant. And while Teamfight Tactics was an success, Legends of Runeterra wasn't. So they are 3/4... which is still pretty good - but can also be explained by good marketing and IP handling. Similar to the new Activision-Blizzard.