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Riot Games' nearest audiences span an unusually wide range of entity types — Video Game Franchises, Game Developers, Sports Teams, Social Media, and a scattering of food and entertainment brands — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
The shape is broad. VALORANT leads at 0.83, followed by League of Legends at 0.78 and Blizzard Entertainment at 0.76 — the only other Game Developer in the top 10. Hearthstone (0.74) and Overwatch (0.70) round out the Video Game Franchise cluster, which accounts for four of the top five neighbors. That core is expected; what's notable is how quickly the neighbor set diversifies beyond it. SFGiants (0.72) and the Los Angeles Angels (0.67) are Sports Teams sitting inside the top seven — ahead of Pokémon GO (0.67), Discord (0.66), and Niantic, Inc. (0.66). Two MLB franchises outranking a social platform built around gaming is the sharpest cross-kind signal in the set. The top 10 contains five Video Game Franchises, one fellow Game Developer, two Sports Teams, one Social Media brand, and one additional Game Developer — a mix that resists a single-category label.
The overall picture is an audience whose shape is defined by gaming's core but bleeds steadily into live sports and platform communities, suggesting a broad consumer profile rather than a tightly bounded gaming niche.
