League Server Status: How to Check If League Is Down

League of Legends server status is published by Riot for each region separately, so a green light for one server says nothing about yours. Before you reinstall anything, find out which region your account sits on and read the status for that region only.

A server outage and a broken connection at home look identical from the login screen. The steps below separate the two in a couple of minutes.

Is League of Legends down right now, or is it just me?

Three things fail in almost the same way: the game servers, the login and account service, and your own internet connection. The client shows a spinning login button or an error box in all three cases.

The quick test: try to open any other website or app on the same device. If nothing loads, the problem is your connection, not League. If everything else works normally and only the League client hangs, move on to the region status check.

Where do you check the official League server status?

Riot runs a service status page for League of Legends, and it is the only source that reports on the servers themselves. Community outage trackers only count how many people are complaining, which is useful as a second opinion but is not a statement from Riot.

1. Open the League service status page from a phone or browser, not from inside the game client. If the client cannot connect, it also cannot show you the status.
2. Switch the page to your region. This is the step people skip.
3. Read the incident list, not just the coloured banner. An incident can be open while the banner still looks calm.
4. Note the time of the last update. A stale page means the incident is still being investigated.

You can reach the status page from the company’s official website if you do not want to search for it each time.

Which League server am I actually on?

Your region is the server your account was created on, not the country you are sitting in. Someone who moved abroad still logs into the old region until they transfer the account.

If you are not sure, the region is shown on the League client login screen, usually as a short code near the bottom or in the client settings. Write it down once; every status check and every support ticket will ask for it.

How do I tell a server outage from a problem on my own PC?

Work from the outside in, and stop as soon as one test explains the symptom.

1. Check the status page for your region. A confirmed incident ends the search.
2. Try logging in from another network, such as a phone hotspot. If it works there, your home network or router is the cause.
3. Ask a friend on the same region. If they are in a game and you are not, the servers are fine.
4. Restart the client fully, including any background launcher process, then restart the computer.
5. Restart your router, and give it a couple of minutes to come back before trying again.

What do the status labels mean?

• Operational means no known problem is being tracked. It does not mean nobody is having trouble.
• Degraded performance means the service answers but slowly: long queues, slow client, laggy store.
• Partial outage means one piece is broken, such as ranked queues or the shop, while normal games still run.
• Major outage means logins or matches are failing for that region.
• Maintenance is planned downtime announced in advance. Nothing is broken and nothing needs reporting.

Why does the client say the login session failed?

Login session errors point at the account service rather than the game servers, which is why they can appear when the status page looks fine. The usual causes are a client that has been running for days, a stored session that expired, or a queue that quietly dropped you.

Close the client from the system tray or task manager so no part of it stays running, then open it again. If the same message comes back three times, treat it as a service problem and check the status page again in fifteen minutes.

What can I do while the servers are down?

Nothing you do locally will bring a region back, and reinstalling the client during an outage is the most common way people waste an evening. Avoid these while an incident is open:

• Reinstalling the game or deleting your client folder.
• Changing your password repeatedly because login fails.
• Queuing over and over, which can leave you with a leaver penalty if a match starts and never loads.

If a game did start and then dropped, try to reconnect once the region is marked operational. Reconnecting to a finished game is normal and does not damage the account.

How do I report a League problem to Riot?

Report only after you have confirmed the status page shows nothing for your region and another network gives the same failure. Riot handles player reports through its support system rather than by phone.

Submit the ticket from a browser at the company’s official website rather than through the client, since the client may be the thing that is broken.

What should I have ready before contacting support?

1. Your summoner name and the region the account is on.
2. The exact error text or code, copied word for word, not paraphrased.
3. The date and time of the failure, with your time zone.
4. A screenshot of the error screen.
5. A one-line list of what you already tried: other network, restart, other player on the same region.

Tickets that include the region and the exact error text get answered faster, because the first thing support does is match your error to a known incident. Without the region, they cannot even start.