The Riot Rant-pillow! Have a bot to rant to in-game, so teammates don't see your toxicity!

Hey everyone! Storytime! To explain my idea, I need to tell the story of our brave league player, who I am totally making up. Any correlation to real people would be really funny, because I'm not even trying to do that. So get yourself some tofu + ramen, a doggo, and enjoy while being informed!

Page 1 Our story is about a player named "Z. Isa Letter". "Z." here is a Zed main, and lives with her family in the lovely state/province of whatyacallit. She just had a rough day at school, and just got home. The rest of her fam won't be home for some time, and after-school clubs were cancelled thanks to a riot from the students.

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What is she to do? Why, she logs on to League of Legends, of course! She wants to hit gold for that sweet, sweet loading screen border, and to brag to all her friends!

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Z. immediately starts a ranked queue, as she's a brave Zed player. In champ select, the support decides to play yasuo. "Not to worry!" she thinks. "This is just strategy; a windwall will block the Miss Fortune bullet time, and the rest of my team is AP heavy anyway. I'll be able to carry as I normally do."

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But THEN, much to her dismay, when the minions meet eachother in the midlane, the yasuo is there! Disaster ensues, as the yasuo proceeds to take her farm, and claim he was robbed of his role in champ select in all-chat!!

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The yasuo is surprisingly arrogant, and Z's team proceeds to tell off the yasuo, even barganing with him. "C'mon, play support, and we won't report!" they say. Z. here is about to lose her mind and flame, but then grabs her pillow-waifu and SCREAMS HER LUNGS OUT into it. It's almost enough to get rid of her anger, but it's not enough. What is she to do??

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Lo and behold! Her duo from school just logged on! This lovely fellow, Rho Dent, is a Twitch main. He adores the rat, and plays him in the jungle and in botlane. He messages her, "How is your game?". She then proceeds to steal 2 of the yasuo's kills, and returns to base to do a quick private-message rant with her online-irl-bestie. She tells him that the yasuo is mean and took her role and is spamming his stupid flute and isn't even that good and WHY CAN SHE NOT CATCH A BREAK?

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After her huge, 30-second rant, Z. feels amazing! She didn't spend anytime acknowledging the yasuo's existence to his face, and uses her Zed skills to get a Pentakill + Baron steal to win her team the game! She is showered with the legendary quadra-honor for staying cool, and gets promoted to silver 1. On top of all this, she gets an "Instant Feedback Notification" about how a recently reported player got a penalty. Had she not had a place to vent to, she would have flamed the yasuo, who had probably muted her to begin with. She said some NASTY things about the yasuo to Rho, but her trusty duo bestie knows it's just how she felt during that game, and isn't who she is as a player.

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Because of this place for her to vent, she was able to turn the game around and play her best! But not all of us will have a friend online we can private message to. This "book" is dedicated to a new in-game feature: the "Riot-Pillow". The intention is to be able to rant all you want in all-caps to something in a private-message-chat, without your teammates seeing what you type. Z. here was able to focus on the game and carry her teammates, without being reported for toxicity because of her friend. But sometimes, our friends aren't online, or we don't feel comfortable sharing these rants with them. So some empty-sink, or "pillow" could help players shove their toxicity elsewhere.

Sometimes, ignoring people just isn't enough, and you need something to beat the tar out of.

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This book is also dedicated to Riot Voidwish, who helped me understand where I went wrong in one of my games, where i was nasty to one of my teammates. Thank you, Woidwish! I wasn't expecting such a fast response from Riot, considering their huge playerbase. I hope that soomeone at Riot reads this and acknowledges this idea's existence. They put up with so many of my questions, and gave me hope that I could get to honor 2 by the end of the season (still not sure if this is possible, but I will try).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

EyeClown is a student at a very big University in Canada, studying plants and science. He/She likes to climb trees and sneaks around to surprise neighbors, loves all rodent species and will not give out any more details of their identity unless complimented. They have gone through a lot in the past few months, and even being bumped down to honor 1 doesn't dissuade them from loving this game, and the friends they've made through it. They are a Twitch main, and thinks Twitch is the cutest thing to digitally walk this earth.