Welcome to 2019, everybody! Our typical Friday slot for the Arena of Valor weekly roundup means we?re already four days into the new year, but we already have some very exciting news!
We?ll be kicking things off with that sliver of information (which you can probably spot in your peripheral vision down below). We?ll also be condensing each of our topics down a smidge going forward so that we can fit more headlines into each week, too.
Let?s get the first AOV roundup of the year off to a great start!
SAO‘s Kirito is Coming To AOV!

In what we can only imagine is an effort to cross-promote both Arena of Valor and the ongoing third season of the Sword Art Online anime, Kirito looks set to enter Athenor in an as of yet undisclosed manner. Love it or hate it, there?s no denying that Sword Art Online is something of an anime phenomenon. Debuting back in 2012 following the lofty release schedule of the original light novels, Sword Art Online won over anime fans across the world, and even spawned a sub-genre of shows taking place inside video game worlds. With VR right around the corner at the time, Sword Art Online couldn?t have released at a better time.
Teased by Garena earlier in the week, who handle Arena of Valor in some Asian territories, an image appeared showing Alice wielding Kirito?s famous blades. Soon after, images of Kirito alongside heroes Mulan and Miyamoto appeared in-game. Some think Kirito will adopt the movesets of one or both of these characters like a sk...