A Dark Gambit

Cinematic · LeBlanc

Overview A Dark Gambit is a cinematic for League of Legends, released in April 2025. The cinematic features LeBlanc and Zaahen as part of the Season 2025 Noxus narrative arc, depicting LeBlanc's scheme to reach Ionia through manipulation and dark magic. The Story A Dark Gambit reveals the Matron of the Black Rose at her most calculating. LeBlanc seeks passage to Ionia — specifically to the First Lands , which she describes as "but a doorway" to something beyond.

Excerpt from the official cinematic by Riot Games on YouTube. Story and characters © Riot Games.

View the original cinematic at Riot Games on YouTube

Where this sits in Runeterra

LeBlanc in the codex

More LeBlanc in the archive

• Garen: First Shield short story
• Everywhere, and Everyone short story
• Tyrant’s Fall I Mini Cinematic cinematic
• Twilight’s End cinematic
• Trials of Twilight cinematic
• Beginning of the End cinematic
• Welcome To Noxus: Bringer of Ruin l Motion Comic – League of Legends motion comic
• Welcome To Noxus: The Demon’s Hand l Motion Comic – League of Legends motion comic