Usami Rito Returns to League of Legends Ranked After a “Hundred-Year” Gap, Finishes 4-2

NIJISANJI — Usami Rito, a Nijisanji streamer, went live on Friday with a surprise League of Legends ranked solo queue session, his first in what he joked was a hundred years, and won four of six games over three and a half hours. The stream was titled “The Blank 100 Years.”

He opened by asking viewers to calm down, saying he did not quite know why he had chosen that moment to play. He began the day in Gold IV and said he badly wanted to reach Platinum, with Emerald as a longer-term goal. He picked Malphite, a tank champion, in his first four games, remarking that it was the champion he was best at and that its pull never let go of him. Chat teased him about it. In the fifth game he switched to Garen and played through the champion’s Demacia-themed voice lines, and in the sixth he took Mordekaiser. After the last game he tallied the record at four wins and two losses.

“LoL really is scary. Once you start, you can’t stop.” — Usami Rito, after a lost game

Midway through, Usami took stock of the way the stream had run away from his plans. He said he had meant to play for a short time but could not stop once he started, and that he was torn between several games he wanted to play that day. Later he stopped to ask chat about a yellow creature that had appeared in the game, saying he first thought it was him; chat joked along that it was.

He closed by saying he would stream again at 9 p.m. that day, after deciding he wanted to keep playing games on a Friday night. Viewers sent 12 Super Chats during the stream, and chat answered his sign-off with cheers for the evening plan.