League of Legends is one of the OG games of the MOBA genre and still has a large player base. Well known for inspiring rage in even famous streamers, it is also known as a beloved and easy to get into MOBA (compared to others in the genre).

One thing that many players love about League of Legends and that has been grown over time is the game’s lore. Taking place in the world of Runeterra, players want more games exploring the world and characters. This is only one of many reasons that the announced League fighting game spinoff Project L is hotly anticipated, although one rumor about it was debunked by none other than Riot Games.

An image was leaked of what looked like a web page for Project L talking about what players could expect from the game. This included the rather surprising claim that players would “earn and battle with NFTs as digital items.” NFTs, for anyone unfamiliar, are blockchain tokens that denote ownership of a digital product, ensuring any items a player might get would definitively be theirs. While this might seem strange when the game was announced back in 2019, NFTs in games have been growing in popularity. However, Joe Hixson from Riot Games has denounced this leak in a tweet, shutting down rumors about the NFTs.

According to Hixson, the website shown in the leak was likely Riot’s official site altered using a simple tool. Easy to fake, the whole leak is, according to Hixson, “very, very fake.” If this is true, it’s likely the League card game spinoff announced will not use NFTs for its cards either, although this has become general practice for some online card games. Why the hoax was done is not known at this time, though it could have been anything from simple trolling to educating people about NFTs.

With this leak revealed as a hoax, the status quo of things known about Project L returns, which means very little. While player testing has supposedly begun, there’s little news on the game’s development or core mechanics, let alone a possible roster.

Still, the idea of a League of Legends fighting game has plenty of reasons to stay hyped, even without those sweet, sweet NFTs (or perhaps especially without them). The idea of channeling some of the game’s most powerful ultimates into spectacular finishing moves is just as appealing as seeing the MOBA movesets translated to a 2D fighting space. Obviously players would prefer it be well polished on arrival, but for many, it can’t appear soon enough.

League of Legends is available on PC.