Make-A-Wish patient Bryan created this character skin for League of Legends.
Make-A-Wish patient Bryan created this character skin for League of Legends.
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Riot Games sells cancer patient’s LoL character skin for charity

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A cancer patient had a dream to make his own League of Legends skin, or customized character appearance. Contacted through Make-A-Wish Foundation, Riot Games agreed to let him do it. And it turned out so good, Riot Games is now selling the skin worldwide and donating the proceeds to charity.

That’s a dream come true for the patient, Bryan, an 18-year-old from Saratoga, California and a big League of Legends fan. He was recovering from osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, and his parents said that they could tell how he was feeling by how many League of Legends matches he had played. As he recovered, he played more and more. His cancer is in remission right now, and he’s getting ready to go to college.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.