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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
League of Legends Pride 2025 event guide - All missions, how to get all items, best tips, and more
League of Legends Pride 2025 event brings new and returning cosmetics, a special mission, and festive in-game effects to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community. Riot Games is once again honoring Pride Month in League of Legends, bringing back beloved cosmetics, introducing fresh rewards, and spotlighting LGBTQ+ representation through iconic champions. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now From June 1–30, 2025, players can earn free emotes, exclusive icons, and bonus Battle Pass XP while celebrating inclusivity in Runeterra. League of Legends Pride 2025 event details League of Legends Pride 2025 marks the fifth annual celebration. The game's diverse roster includes champions with confirmed LGBTQ+ identities, such as Diana and Leona's celestial romance and Vi and Caitlyn's Arcane-fueled dynamic. Riot Games emphasized their commitment to inclusivity in a recent newsletter: "Pride is more than a moment—it's a celebration of identity, creativity, and community that lasts all year. " Alongside champion representation, players can earn free emotes, icons, and bonus Battle Pass XP. All League of Legends Pride 2025 items and missions Pride 2025 mission: United Together League of Legends Pride Month 2025: Exclusive Cosmetics & Unity Celebration! A limited-time mission rewards players for teaming up: - Objective: Play 3 games with a premade team. - Reward: 600 Battle Pass XP (BXP). This mission helps players progress faster in their Battle Pass while promoting cooperative play. How to get the Free rell 'rainbow warpaint' emote in League of Legends Rell, the Iron Maiden, receives a new Pride-themed emote: - Design: Features Rell with a rainbow flag backdrop and a bisexual pride flag painted on her face. - How to get: Claim it for free in the in-game store during the event. how to get the Returning pride emotes (1 blue essence each) in League of Legends Three legacy emotes are back for a minimal cost: 1. Twisted Fate & Graves: Shows the duo smiling together. 2. K'Sante: The warrior flexes with Pride colors. 3. Vi: Displays rainbow hues on her gauntlet. How to get the Summoner icons and pride trails in League of Legends Eight Pengu-themed icons return, each representing a different LGBTQ+ identity: Icon Name Pride Flag Representation Cotton Candy Pengu Trans Galactic Pengu Nonbinary Sunset Pengu Bisexual Twilight Pengu Asexual Primary Pengu Pansexual Sherbert Pengu Lesbian Mint Pengu Gay Bonus: Equipping any of these icons activates a rainbow Homeguard trail during patches 25.11 and 25.12 (throughout Pride Month). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now How to get the League of Legends Pride 2025 items Each item has a different acquisition method: - Rell's emote: Free via in-game offer. - Legacy emotes (Graves/TF, K'Sante, Vi): 1 Blue Essence each in the store. - Pengu icons: 1 Blue Essence each in the store. Most players already have enough Blue Essence, making these cosmetics nearly free. Also read: How long are the League of Legends Pride 2025 items available? All items are limited-time drops, available from May 31 to June 30, 2025. Miss the window, and they'll be unavailable until (or if) Riot brings them back.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Riot is reversing its unpopular League of Legends changes
Riot Games is hitting "undo" on its recent massively unpopular changes to League of Legends that essentially made everything in the game harder for players to unlock without spending money. After the company saw negative comments spammed across social media, widespread talk of a player boycott and over 32,000 signatures gathered on a petition to fire CEO Dylan Jadeja, the company acknowledged that the recent updates "didn't hit the mark for everyone." As a result, Riot is (among other changes) bringing back Hextech Chests and cutting in half the Blue Essence cost of all champions to win back disgruntled players. For a master class in the corporate art of selling opposing messages with equal gusto, watch Riot Games' last two League Of Legends dev update videos back-to-back. Less than three weeks ago, studio head Andrei van Roon and executive producer Paul Bellezza put on their best Ward Cleaver faces to matter-of-factly explain why unpopular changes to the game were necessary for Riot's long-term financial sustainability: Fast-forward to Wednesday's video, and the same pair can be seen hustling to backpedal as hard as possible, acknowledging that "some of you are frustrated, even questioning if Riot is still the company you've always known" while promising they "get it." (I almost expected a crisis hotline number to flash across the screen.) "When our decisions don't land the way we intended, it can damage your trust," Bellezza somberly admits: Setting aside the amusing nature of corporate attempts to personalize business decisions, today's changes should help inspire more confidence from the fanbase. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Hextech Chests aren't just returning — you'll find more of them. Starting with next week's patch (25.05), you'll be able to earn up to 10 Chests and Keys per Act. Eight will be spread throughout the free Pass (in place of the Seasonal skin and Mystery Epic or Lower Skin); another two will be learnable through Honor (the game's system to encourage good sportsmanship). Riot stressed that these will be identical to the Chests previously earned through Champ Mastery. Other changes include a 50 percent reduction in Blue Essence cost for all champions. In addition, Riot is delaying the widely panned Sahn Uzal Mordekaiser Exalted skin "to take more time to make sure it better delivers on its core fantasy." It also plans to take more time improving future Exalted skins, which means "you likely won't see one in every Act this year as originally planned." Finally, Clash is returning to a monthly schedule, Your Shop will be back in Patch 25.06 and the Blue Essence Emporium will reappear in 25.07. The community is (understandably) pleased with itself in forcing the pivot. "Holy shit, bullying works," u/DirtyChickenBones (an all-time handle if ever there was one) posted in the League subreddit. "NEVER STOP BULLYING CORPORATIONS," u/HunniePopKing yelled triumphantly — as if perched on the bow of the Titanic — in the same thread. Others retained a grounded realism about the reversal. "Don't think for one second this changes their approach," u/eBay_Riven_GG wrote. "They will keep limit-testing what they can get away with. Keep complaining if you want improvements." Reacting to Bellezza's comment about the changes not resonating with players, u/350 wrote, "'Didn't hit the mark for everyone,' bruh, it didn't hit the mark for anyone except the CEO." You can check out Riot's dev blog post for more details on Riot's reversal on all those changes that "didn't hit the mark."
