Is Riot Games Down?

No — Riot Games is up

Riot Games's status page: Not available · we could not read it
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 567 ms

Right now

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FlareWarden checks

riotgames.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 567 ms
Checked: 53 minutes ago

By region

Ashburn reachable, 418 ms
Dallas reachable, 450 ms
Frankfurt reachable, 464 ms
Johannesburg reachable, 1433 ms
London reachable, 607 ms
Los Angeles reachable, 661 ms
Newark reachable, 237 ms
São Paulo reachable, 272 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	DNS	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Ashburn	105 ms	1 ms	6 ms	413 ms
Dallas	162 ms	1 ms	51 ms	443 ms
Frankfurt	19 ms	1 ms	17 ms	418 ms
Johannesburg	0 ms	0 ms	4 ms	1409 ms
London	12 ms	3 ms	10 ms	596 ms
Los Angeles	159 ms	2 ms	8 ms	581 ms
Newark	37 ms	3 ms	13 ms	226 ms
São Paulo	17 ms	1 ms	3 ms	267 ms

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History

Riot Games website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · riotgames.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 863ms

Last 30 days

91-day clean streak

Oct 7 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of riotgames.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Riot Games's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 90 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Riot Games does

Riot Games operates League of Legends, Valorant and Teamfight Tactics as live services, with matchmaking, ranked ladders and account systems behind them. Competitive play depends on a stable session for its whole length, so an outage does not merely block logging in: it abandons matches that count towards a player's rank.

What an outage looks like

The client fails to sign in or hangs on the loading screen after patching. Matchmaking queues never find a game, or a found game fails to launch. Matches disconnect mid-play and reconnection loops without succeeding. The store and battle pass fail to load while play works, and friends lists show everyone offline when they are not.

What to do about it

Check status.riotgames.com, Riot's own service status page, which covers its games and reports by region and shard rather than globally, so confirm the one your account plays on. Avoid queueing for ranked during a known incident, since a game abandoned to a server fault can still carry a loss and a leaver penalty.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Riot Games is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Riot Games outage FAQ

Will I get a leaver penalty for a game lost to an outage?

Sometimes, which is why queueing during a known incident is worth avoiding. Riot's systems record a disconnect without knowing the cause, so penalties and rank losses can apply automatically. Riot does sometimes reverse these after a confirmed incident, but that is a manual decision rather than a guarantee, and appeals take time.

Which region should I check on Riot's status page?

The one your account is on, since Riot runs separate shards and an incident usually affects one rather than all. A player on a European shard can be unaffected by an outage that stops North American play entirely. This also explains why friends in other regions insist the game is fine when it plainly is not.

Is Riot down or do I need to patch?

A pending patch usually blocks the client with an explicit update prompt rather than a failure, and repairs itself once the download finishes. An outage gives sign-in failures or endless queues instead. Check status.riotgames.com first; if it is clear, running the client's built-in repair resolves more local problems than reinstalling does.

Do purchases made during an outage still arrive?

Purchases that completed are recorded and the content appears once the store component recovers, though sometimes with a delay. A purchase that errored may not have been taken. Rather than buying again, check your account and payment method once the status page is clear, since duplicate purchases need a support ticket to refund.

Why can I play but not see my friends online?

Chat and friends services run separately from the game servers themselves, so social features fail while matches work perfectly. Everyone appearing offline is a common symptom of that split rather than evidence that nobody is playing. It generally resolves on its own and does not affect your ability to queue.

How we measure this

We request Riot Games's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. Our checks only change their verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Riot Games publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Riot Games itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. A reading counts for 45 minutes; we read the feed again within minutes of any change to its incidents. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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