Wanting to do something special for an awesome friend. Riot, please help? <3
I'll start this off by talking about my friend, rather than asking for ideas on how to celebrate their wonderfulness. So I have this friend named Kenny. He's always been nice, but today, I noticed just how amazing he is. When a new skin comes out, and if I mention I might get it, or that I think it's awesome and can't afford it, etc., I will often find that Kenneth has gifted me whatever object it was I wanted. I have rarely ever asked him to, and often times I precursor me talking about a cool new skin with "Please don't buy it for me," usually followed by a reason such as "I don't play the champion, so it would be a waste." Here's looking at you, Mecha Malphite. And Project Yasuo. And that new Soraka skin... And Sweetheart Annie... Truly, the list goes on.
Kenny is a giver. And this isn't just with me. I have other friends, and so does Kenny, and he just likes to give and give. To pretty much everyone. He put $100 on his account in Riot Points back when they did the double bonus RP (Giving him 17,000 RP). He spent more than half of this money people besides himself, and doesn't regret it. He actually will buy those mystery gifts for random people at the end of a game, if they say they are having a bad day on League, etc. I've seen him do it. He does plan to one day own every skin that is purchasable, but it's rare that he buys things for himself. And usually when he does, it's a name change to something he thinks would be funny. Most recently, he bought a name change to become HurrDurrHurr, to accompany me in my new name of DurrHurrDurr. Things like this set him back from his goal.
Why? Because Kenny is a giver. But yesterday, I put some RP on my account, and I thought of my friend Kenny. I know he loves to play Nautilus, and is trying to carry himself out of his current level of ELO Hell (Silver II) by jungling himself up to Gold. I asked him off-hand what he thought of the new Nautilus skin, and found out he absolutely loves it. He told me he'd be right back - that he was going to get his credit card. Before he returned, I had already gifted him this new Nautilus skin. How did Kenny react? He cried. This man who has spent hundreds of dollars of his own money, making sure the people he knows online have all the skins and ward skins and other cool League-related stuff that they want, rather than buying things for himself to progress his own goal, was crying on Skype and thanking me repeatedly for my act of kindness.
I asked myself why, and I know it's because Kenny is a giver. I was planning on saving up the rest of my RP to get DJ Sona upon release, but I don't feel it's truly that important (I can always buy more RP later, after all. I have money of my own). And instead, I wanted to get ideas and maybe some help from Riot in doing something more special than simply mystery gifting my friend Kenny.
League is something we both hold dear, and though Kenny may rage at times (As we are all prone to), it's his first love. He lives in a trailer, goes to work every day (He's a land surveyor, which I think is pretty cool), and League is pretty much the only reason this guy pays for internet. He loves to give to his internet friends, and I know he loves those stories you sometimes see (Such as, super nice guy in the community loses his job; everyone gets together, buys him a new car in full, and then give him cash to help him get through a hard time and stuff). He loves that there are people out there that perfect random acts of kindness and that kind of stuff. I want to give him that kind of experience, even if it's small.
This is where I ask for your help, Riot. Would it be at all possible for me to have someone from Riot give Kenny mystery gifts? I would be more than happy to have the RP deducted from my account, but I think it would be absolutely amazing for him to get some mystery gifts from Riot itself, or from the LCS casters and the like (He loves watching the LCS, and Kobe is his favorite caster - So this would be even more huge if it's possible). This idea mostly popped into my head because of the mystery gifts we all received for good behavior this past year, but I would love other ideas if they are out there. I just want my friend to have something special, because I feel he honestly deserves it.
I look at my gifting history, and seriously, 18 of the last 25 items I have given or received are from him, to me. He gets things for our other friend, Kyle. He bought my girlfriend a mystery skin when she was sick. He gets mystery skins for his other friends for almost no reason, and he buys us full-priced skins just because we like them. I desperately want to be able to give back to him, even on the small scale, what he gives out on the large scale.
I am willing to spend up to $50 on being able to make this work. It's really all I can part with at the moment. So Rioters, if there's anything that we can do that will fit into that budget, let me know, and I will get the money on there. I have 1653 RP on my account already, as well. I implore you, help me do something special for my friend. :D
