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Is League of Legends down? How to check problems, outages, and server status

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Jerome Heath
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Jordan Marney
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Published: Jan 9, 2025 05:50 am

League of Legends has a gigantic player base, which makes it challenging to keep the servers up and running. Despite Riot Games’ best efforts, the servers occasionally malfunction, disrupting the community.

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While it very may well be problems on your end causing the game to crash, it can also be on Riots’. Let’s explore how you can determine if the League servers are down.

How to check League of Legends service status

Riot has a landing page for its server status website, which offers access to all five titles, including League. Select League, and then choose which region you want to check the status for. Once you have selected your region, you can see the server status for the past 24 hours. The message “No recent issues or events to report” will appear if the servers work fine.

If you believe Riot has not addressed an ongoing problem with the server, a page allows you to report any issues you may be experiencing.

How to use Downdetector to see if League of Legends is down

Downdetector is an excellent alternative for checking if League servers are down. The website monitors server outages in real-time and provides a comprehensive timeline of issues over the last 24 hours. If League is down, the site should light up with hundreds or thousands of reports in your region, whether North America, Europe, Korea, or anywhere else. If everything is normal and the site hasn’t detected any outages, the issue is likely on your end.

How to check Riot Games Support

There’s nothing wrong with checking Riot Support on X (formerly Twitter). If there’s a major issue in your region and the League servers are down, Riot will almost certainly tweet about it.

If there’s an issue, Riot will tweet something like: “We are aware some players are receiving an unexpected error when trying to access League, and we are working on a fix.” Unfortunately, that’s one tweet we’ve seen too often.

If there is no information on the above pages, we recommend patience as a last resort. The League servers should be back online soon!

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Jerome Heath
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Jerome has been in and around the gaming industry for the last eight years, and he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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Jordan Marney
Freelance writer covering League of Legends, VALORANT, and more. Over five years in the industry with one of my biggest highlights getting to interview Faker at the 2022 LoL World Championship. You can reach out to me via X.
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