As a live-service game, League of Legends is constantly being updated with new champions, items, and more to keep the game engaging. To ensure these features are well-balanced and contribute to healthy gameplay, they are first added to the public beta environment (PBE), where players can test the many changes before they reach the live servers.
Yet much like the main game itself, the PBE server has long been subject to a handful of occasional issues, most of the time being attributed to large updates being patched in for testing. Like with League, Riot holds the PBE to an efficiency standard, so many of these issues are solved in a timely manner, thus allowing players to test a myriad of content and offer their feedback.
Related: Is League of Legends down? How to check problems, outages, and server status
Here is some information on whether or not the PBE server is down for maintenance, as well as how to check the server status on your own.
Is the LoL PBE down?
On May 31, Riot Mortdog announced via a tweet that the PBE had been taken down to “address some issues” that have been plaguing the testing realm for the past several hours. He made it clear within the announcement that it may take a considerable amount of time to amend the issues, meaning there is no clear indication as to when the PBE will go back online.
This means players will not yet be able to test the new skins announced today, including new additions to the Shan Hai Scrolls skin line and a new Mythic-tier skin coming in Patch 13.12. It is still expected that everything currently available on the PBE for testing will launch on the official servers on the days they are supposed to.
How to check LoL PBE server status
The official Riot Games service status website allows anyone to check the status of each of the developer’s games in every region of the world, including these games’ test servers. Upon accessing the website, scroll down to the League of Legends icon, then for region scroll to the very bottom of the list to see “PBE.”
This will bring users to a page where they can view the status of the PBE server, including any error messages and ongoing or extended maintenance periods. There is also a list of all issues that have been recently resolved, should users be interested in seeing previous issues within the server.
