Riot Games has revealed its plans to celebrate Pride Month for 2022 across its various games.
2022 marks Riot’s seventh year supporting LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, plus the rest) folks and allies.
There’s a host of activities and free content Riot is offering – we’ll break it all down by game below.
League of Legends Pride content for 2022
New Pride icons have been added. You can pick these up for 1 Blue Essence. They include:
- Prismatic Pengu Icon
- Cotton Candy Pengu Icon
- Galactic Pengu Icon
- Sunset Pengu Icon
- Twilight Pengu Icon
- Primary Pengu Icon
- Sherbert Pengu Icon
- Mint Pengu Icon
By equipping these icons you’ll be able to activate homeguard trails that celebrate the diversity of the LGTBQIA+ community in-game. The homeguard trails will be active until the end of June.
You can unlock the Pride 2022 emotes through missions that’ll pop up in your client starting June 1st 2022 and can be earnt until the end of June.
| Mission Name and Availability | Mission Requirements (Matchmade games only) | Reward |
| Pride 2022 – Priceless Plunder (Available 6/1) | Play one game in a premade group OR Earn 750 points from time spent playing and winning games | TF and Graves emote AND Rainbow poro emotes |
| Pride 2022 – The Big Score (Available 6/1) | Earn 40,000 Gold OR Earn 750 points from time spent playing and winning games | Animated Emote |
Valorant 2022 Pride content
Share your Pride in Valorant with the latest Pride Bundle – a collection of eight player cards and gun buddy that let you wave the colors you wear. The bundle and items are only available between June 1st to 20th, but you can use them to show your Pride in-game all year long.
Just find the bundle in the store and select “purchase” at 0VP. You can also “purchase” the items individually at 0VP.
Keep in mind, these are not automatically added to your collections, so you’ll have to unlock them from the store.
Legends of Runeterra Pride activities for 2022
In Legends of Runeterra there’s a new card back, Guardian, emote and icon. The icon is the same for Wild Rift (see further in this article).
Players can pick up the Pride bundle in the store for 0 coins starting June 15th 2022. It’s available until July 20th.
Teamfight Tactics Pride 2022 details
A brand new Pride boom comes to TFT, that alongside Riot’s other Pride booms, can be equipped to show your LGBTQIA+ pride, but also your pride in winning each round. These include:
- Mint Boom
- Rose Quartz Boom
- Sapphire Boom
- Catseye Boom
- Obsidian Boom
- Tanzanite Boom
- Citrine Boom
- Rainbow Boom
The new Pride booms drop in patch 12.10, via a new mission, Tacticians Stand United. It’s a pretty easy mission, simply play two games of TFT (standard queues), or play one TFT game of Double Up before June 30th.
Equipping any of the Pride icons in League of Legends will also give your Tactician the correlating Pride trail to swoop in on your preferred item from the carousel.
Wild Rift Pride goodies for 2022
Wild Rift is getting a new Pride emote, a new icon (Aquamarine Poro) and a temporary trail (Rainbow Lane).
You can also get the seven poro icons from the 2021 Pride event by completing the first of Wild Rift’s two Pride missions running from June 1st to 22nd 2022.
| Mission Name | Mission Requirements | Reward |
| We Win Together | Play 1 game | 1 New Icon (Aquamarine Poro) 1 Temporary Trail (Rainbow Lane) AND The 7 Icons from Pride 2021 if not already owned |
| United We Play | Play 10 games with either a Pride icon or the homeguard trail equipped | Emote selection chest – pick between the Pride 2021 Emote or the Pride 2022 Emote |
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