Video taking off 59x its usual first day

K/DA climbs out of its coffins with Miyeon and Soyeon on "FIRESTARTER"

Fortiche animates the virtual group's first new music video in years, with Sophie Powers and Mimi Webb joining the two original voices and an EP due October 21.

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League of Legends Story of October 20, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 8,940,181 views a day, 59 times a normal first day on this channel (152,312).

K/DA - FIRESTARTER ft. MIYEON and SOYEON of i-dle, Sophie Powers, Mimi Webb (Official Music Video)

Four coffins stand in a candlelit hall in front of a memorial wreath marked K/DA. Then claws come through the lids. For a virtual pop group that last released new music with its ALL OUT EP in 2020, it is a very direct way of saying it is back.

The return landed hard. "FIRESTARTER" drew about nine million views in its first day on the League of Legends channel, where a new upload usually opens with a small fraction of that.

On screen, K/DA is still Ahri, Evelynn, Kai'Sa and Akali, four of the game's champions styled as a pop act. Behind them, two voices go back to the beginning: Miyeon and Soyeon of i-dle sang on "POP/STARS" in 2018, and that video remains the channel's most watched, at nearly 670 million views. Sophie Powers and Mimi Webb are the new arrivals.

The animation comes from Fortiche, and Sean Bankhead is credited with the choreography. After the mock funeral, the four storm a stage carrying lighters and gas cans. Akali raps among shattered statues and later rides a motorized skateboard that throws pink sparks across the arena floor. Kai'Sa dances through purple mist with glowing ribbon trails, and the finale moves to a bright concert stage in white and red, with fireworks and flames behind the group.

The comments read like a list of favorite frames. Viewers keep pointing to Evelynn's lipstick turning into fire, to a voguing sequence shown as if through a thermal camera, and to Akali's moves, which some compare with Soyeon's own live performances. Many take the coffin opening as a joke about how long they waited. The channel has already cut Kai'Sa's voguing into a Short of its own.

This is Riot's own release for its game, and the tags point to new K/DA skins arriving with it. It also comes in the middle of Worlds 2026, after True Damage's "Know My Name", as we reported here. The FIRESTARTER EP follows on October 21.

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What viewers say

Whoever thought of lipstick fire transition for Evelynn deserves a raise
@pinkblush8798See it on YouTube
Can we talk about how good the beginning is? They break out of coffins to come back from the dead after being gone for so many years 😂♥️
@LukeA471See it on YouTube
Give the genius who thought about making that voguing sequence a thermo scanner view a big fat raise.
@niernull9562See it on YouTube

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K/DA LET US STARVE FOR YEARS JUST TO SERVE US A FIVE STAR MEAL 😭
@uhohjayjaySee it on YouTube
They really said “here’s the company card, impress them.”

KDA you are worth ALL THE WAITING
@ItbeE_StaySee it on YouTube
Akali doing overtime with the amount of gigs she getting 😭
@EncaizaSee it on YouTube
It took them six years but K/DA and Fortiche just saved 2026
@mohitosaanSee it on YouTube
whoever at riot that keeps calling soyeon and miyeon for kda i need you to know your employment is SAFE
@ApriqottSee it on YouTube
Kaisa doing ballroom type vogueing and dipping at the end of it is so amazing
@voguevision1355See it on YouTube
i would open a nail salon just to hold these animators' hands
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