This week on the channel +95K views this week

Riot Games adds 4,000 subscribers without a new upload

An older Viego art workshop remains active alongside Marc Merrill's PAX West MMO appearance and a Mel art clip.

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Riot Games Story of November 6, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Riot Artists Imagine Viego in League Classic - Super Art Power Hour Ep. 14

Riot Games left the upload calendar empty, but its subscriber count kept moving. The channel added roughly 4,000 subscribers over the past seven days, though that is a gentler pace than its growth across the past month. Daily views are also running below their usual level.

The older uploads drawing attention offer three different windows into Riot: character-making, co-founder Marc Merrill discussing the MMO at PAX West, and "This Mel Art is INCREDIBLE." Of those, the Viego episode of Super Art Power Hour is attracting the most daily views.

We previously covered its retro makeover, but the workshop has more to offer than the finished costume. Principal technical artist JP Putnam explains how joint influences make a character mesh move, before senior animator Einar Langfjord takes over. Those oversized feet create a practical problem: keeping them from clipping into each other during a run cycle. This is an artistic exercise, not a skin planned for release.

Among nearby gaming channels, Forza and Diablo are enjoying above-usual daily viewing, while Bungie and Sea of Thieves are quieter than normal. Riot's weekly view gain is close to both of the latter channels, with its own catalog supplying all the activity in a week without a release.

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The videos drawing views on Riot Games right now

Marc Merrill on Riot’s MMO during PAX West14,884 views

This Mel Art is INCREDIBLE13,365 views

The facts

Channel: Riot Games
Subscribers: 635,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 95,293
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Riot Games' audience and older uploads moved through the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

373,099

264,135

242,823

188,927

97,402

95,293

95,140

Rocket League Esports

46,648

Luminosity Gaming

455

subscribers

635,000

▲ 4,000 in the last 7 days

total views

46,131,853

views per day

13,450

typical day: 17,590

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

XBOX ON

752,000

Rocket League Esports

704,000

675,000

671,000

650,000

635,000

608,000

605,000

594,000

As of November 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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