How to Check League of Legends Server Status

Use Riot Games Service Status first, select League of Legends and your region, and read both Current Messages and Recently Closed notices. If Riot reports no incident, compare with another player or connection before changing local files.

Related 1v9 reading: LoL version-mismatch fixes.

Check the official Riot status page

Open Riot Games Service Status.
Select League of Legends, then choose the exact account region.
Read Current Messages for active incidents and maintenance.
Check Recently Closed if the client is recovering from a resolved problem.
Compare the incident time with the first error you saw.

The page is regional. A healthy North America notice does not rule out an EU West or Brazil problem, and a global social post may not describe every shard. Save the official status page rather than a temporary outage URL.

Use third-party reports as supporting evidence

Downdetector and community reports can reveal a sudden cluster before Riot posts a notice, but they are user-submitted signals, not confirmation of the cause. Look for a sharp regional spike and reports matching the same login, queue or latency symptom. Do not treat an isolated complaint or social-media rumor as a server outage.

Riot outage or local connection problem?

Evidence	More likely cause
Official regional incident and many matching reports	Riot service issue
Only one device fails; another device/network works	Local client or network
Client begins patching after restart	Stale or incomplete update
All internet services fail	Home network or ISP

Safe local checks when Riot reports no incident

Exit League and Riot Client normally, restart the computer, and let Riot Client finish any patch.
Restart the router and test a wired or trusted alternate connection if available.
Disable only an optional VPN or proxy; do not turn off antivirus or firewall protection.
Confirm the account is signing into the intended region.
Use Riot’s supported repair and log-collection flow if one device continues failing.

When the message is a version mismatch

A client/server version mismatch deserves its own sequence: check patch deployment, close stale Riot processes, reopen the current client and repair before reinstalling. It is different from a broad outage, which is why this page links to the dedicated mismatch guide instead of duplicating unsafe file-deletion advice.