Riot released a statement acknowledging and refuting an accusation by an ex-girlfriend of a Riot employee, who claims League of Legends’ new character Seraphine is based on her. Stephanie, who goes by the username @step_nie on Twitter, posted a tweet stating she was uncomfortable with the similarities between herself and Seraphine.
Riot released a statement regarding the claims made by Stephanie. Riot stated that Seraphine was independently created by Riot Games and was not based on any one individual. In addition, Riot claimed that the former employee Stephanie was dating left Riot over a year ago and did not have any input into the creative design process.
Riot refuted the claim of misappropriation, and stated that they investigated the allegations after receiving a letter from Stephanie’s lawyer last month. “We confirmed that her claim of being the basis for Seraphine lacks merit, communicated this to her attorney, and invited him to discuss the facts with us.”
A lot of specifics regarding Seraphine line up very closely with facts about Stephanie, from her name to her cartoonistic sketches of herself. Seraphine and Stephanie both have cats, and the character art shows striking similarities to photos she sent to her ex-boyfriend. Seraphine and Stephanie also share the same hair color, eye color, and face shape.
According to Stephanie, she dated a Riot employee for 3 months, a man she refers to as “John.” During that time he discussed his job, and they would talk about her favorite champion, Ahri. She states during those conversations he would bring up ideas for skins that sounded a lot like her. She said that John “suggested an e-girl or awkward skin for Ahri to his coworkers that he implied was inspired by me.” Stephanie said she told him it was a bad idea from the start.
In her post she went on to say that she and John played League of Legends together regularly. According to Stephanie, when she would make jokes while they played, he said things like “we have to put that in.” She states that John also told her he was involved with K/DA’s first skins because he knew a lot of the people on the team. According to her post, John implied that he had influence over the project, and had made successful pitches in the past. She went on to state that John was not a character or a skin designer.
While there are striking similarities between Seraphine and Stephanie, it is unclear whether the case will see its day in court, as Stephanie and her lawyer have not responded after Riot’s statement.
League of Legends is available for PC.
Source: dexerto, @step_nie, and @TimRizzo
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