League of Legends outage peaks at 11,000 reports on Downdetector

League of Legends experienced an outage Wednesday night, with more than 11,000 user reports on Downdetector after issues started around 8:33 p.m. ET. Most complaints focused on launching the game, and some pointed to server connectivity. Riot Games had not publicly commented, and the cause was not disclosed.

The number of complaints climbed quickly before easing to just over 3,000 later in the evening.

Players posted frustrations on Downdetector and on X. One person wrote, ‘league of legends be down every other day now.’ Another complained, ‘I’m trynna queue up some league of legends aram mayhem man fix this sh*t.’ A separate user criticized the client as ‘one of the most poorly engineered pieces of software’ they had used. Others vented about matchmaking, a broader concern not directly tied to the disruption.

Some users shared screenshots of an error stating, ‘cannot complete your request because service is unavailable.’ Community posts suggested ending Riot processes in Task Manager, restarting the Riot Client, and checking server status. With reports in the thousands, access issues persisted for many players during the peak.

Later comments pointed to partial recovery. ‘yey its working!’ one post read. Another noted, ‘ARAM works lets go guys inv me,’ while others reported inconsistent results, such as queues not starting for some players.

League of Legends is a free online action-strategy game developed by Riot Games. The game depends on continuous online services for authentication, matchmaking and regional servers, which can prevent players from logging in or starting a match during outages.

Previously, we reported that Riot expanded the LoL Game Changers EMEA season with N.E.O.

Riot typically routes service updates through its client and status pages. No public update from the company was observed during the period of elevated complaints on Wednesday.