Happy Pride!
Since 2018, we’ve celebrated Pride across our games and across Riot. This year, with more games than ever before, all our games are celebrating Pride together by spotlighting LGBTQIA+ creators, artists, cosplayers, and community members throughout the month. In-game, League, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, and Wild Rift will have new Pride-themed content to bring more ways to express your pride while roaming the Rift, holding B, or hitting a high roll on the convergence.
Across our offices, we will be raising money for charity through March for Pride and hosting a wide range of events all month long. This Pride, we’re appreciating the friends we queue with and celebrating the differences that make the communities across our games so vibrant.
Let’s get into all the ways we’re celebrating Pride in 2026.
New Pride content in our games is available… now! As always with our Pride offerings, this new content will be completely free. Just log in, claim it, and it’s yours.
Here’s what’s coming to League, VALORANT, TFT, and Wild Rift.
League is celebrating Pride 2026 with two new emotes. “We Shine Together” with Twisted Fate, Caitlyn, and Leona and “Keep Swimming” featuring Nami.
TFT’s new emote features Shork sporting a rainbow jetpack and flower crown. C’mon, just look at that smile. Want more information on everything TFT and League are doing for Pride? You’ll find that here.
In VALORANT, players can pick up a new spray, “All Love,” featuring Wingman sprinting with heart held high, alongside a new equipable title: “Holding Space.” Want more on VALORANT’s Pride celebration? It’s here.
K’Sante is making his Wild Rift debut and the ntofo-wielding, Tope-loving, Pride of Nazumah is making a proper rainbow-fueled splash with a new icon “Stand by Me” and emote “Built to Carry.”
To welcome K’Sante to Wild Rift, we created new art depicting a captured memory in time of K’Sante and Tope’s relationship where he’s helping lift his former partner to the summit of a hill.
Speaking of art, we’ve got a lot more where that came from. This year we partnered with eight community artists, one for each of our games (plus Riot as a whole), to create original Pride-inspired artwork. For 2XKO and Riftbound, our two newest games, this art marks them joining the Pride party for the first time.
From K’Sante climbing a mountain to Agents hanging on the couch, each artist delivered something colorful, beautiful, and full of pride.
Follow Luzdanaee here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Leochamposa here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Souwa here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Mamobot here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Yawe here: Facebook
Follow Daniju here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Cherriielle here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Follow Jeremy MOMU here: Twitter (X), Instagram
Inside Riot, we celebrate Pride all month long in our offices around the world. Rainbow Rioters, our Rioter Inclusion Group for LGBTQIA+ Rioters and allies, and our D&I team take the lead on bringing the community together during Pride month.
Whether it's Karaoke in Manila, a Rainbow Road Gaming Night in Berlin, a Pride-themed Night Market in Los Angeles, or Drag Queen bingo in Singapore, there will be no shortage of Pride this June.
Rioters are also raising money for LGBTQIA+ charities through our annual global virtual wellness challenge, March for Pride, that brings together Rioters from all 20+ offices to complete roughly 66 million steps (the distance between Riot’s office in Los Angeles to Sydney). Whether it's running, walking, meditating, or pacing around your house while playing TFT, it all goes to a great cause.
Our music team has updated the Riot Games: Pride Playlist on Spotify, this time in partnership with LGBTQIA+ creators in Riot’s partner programs. Creators shared their favorite songs to listen to during Pride, and why. Here are a few of their picks:
Future Starts Now – Kim Petras
“I chose this song because it perfectly captures the feeling of pushing through impossible odds to become yourself. ….. For a cis listener, it might be about a bad day. For a trans or questioning listener, it's a lifeline during a dysphoric episode. This song is queer joy, it makes me feel proud to exist.” – kl4irs
Tokio Hotel – The Heart Gets No Sleep
“It gives me the vibes of "love" felt in every way” – Mobsecene_93
All the Things She Said – t.a.t.u.
“The song tells the story of two girls in love who feel fear, confusion, and social pressure because of their relationship. Lines like “all the things she said running through my head” reflect anxiety, emotional obsession, and the internal conflict of accepting those feelings.” – anbbit.cute
Whether you’re listening, playing, or spending time with your community, we can’t wait to celebrate Pride with you!
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