League of Legends

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Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Key points

Free to play

General information

Official Website

Official Support

Official Forums (North America)

Unofficial Wiki

Unofficial Subreddit

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Global version only.
Official website		Global version.
Publisher website		China version.
Publisher website		Southeast Asia version.

The Global version requires a region-bound League of Legends account.^[1] Transfers between specific regions are available for purchase.^[2]

The China version requires a QQ account.

The Southeast Asia version requires a Garena account.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game>\Config
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/20590/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

All in-game settings^[3] and keybindings^[4] are account-bound and stored in the cloud.

Launcher general settings.
Launcher in-game general settings.
Launcher in-game interface settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game interface settings.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Launcher in-game hotkey settings.
In-game hotkey settings.

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Launcher audio settings.
Launcher in-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Localizations

Supported languages will vary from region to region. See Riot Games' support article for details.

Use LVOC to bypass audio region restrictions.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				North America, EU West, EU Nordic and East, Oceania
Brazilian Portuguese				Brazil
Simplified Chinese				China
Czech				EU Nordic and East
French				EU West
German				EU West
Greek				EU Nordic and East
Hungarian				EU Nordic and East
Italian				EU West
Japanese				Japan
Korean				South Korea
Polish				EU Nordic and East
Romanian				EU Nordic and East
Russian				Russia
Spanish				Spanish (Spain) for EU West.
Latin American Spanish				Spanish (Latin America) for Latin America(s).
Turkish				Turkey

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		10	Versus, Co-op 3v3, 5v5. Custom lobbies available for 1-10 players. Special events may provide unique game modes and team sizes (1v1, 2v2, 6v6).

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking		Ranked mode unlocked at level 30, with 20 (5v5) or 12 (3v3) champions unlocked.^[5]
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP		Only available for tournaments. Uses a pre-generated code instead of an IP address.

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	80, 443, 2099, 5222-5223, 8088, 8393-8400
UDP	5000-5500, 8088

This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Issues fixed

League of Legends Help Center

Expansive official knowledge base covering everything from client & patcher issues, to in-game or login issues, and much more.

Constantly sees updates on a daily basis as the official support team adds or maintains the support articles.

Troubleshoot the issue according to Riot Games Support's League of Legends Help Center^[6]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9	Windows only.^[7]
OpenGL	1.5	OS X only.^[7]
Shader Model support	2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

Tools

Hextech Repair Tool

Official automated troubleshooting tool able to fix issues related to corrupt game data, connection problems, and firewall issues.

Capable of automatically submitting a ticket to Riot Support if the tool wasn't able to fix the issue experienced.

Supports both Windows and OS X.

Lag Report

Official tool for testing the network connection to the game servers of a region.

Browser-based, no download or install required.

Provides a comparison report for ISPs in the user's location.

Supported regions: North America, EU-West, EU-Nordic East

Supports both Windows and OS X.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3^[8])	Vista, 7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz	3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (XP) 2 GB (Vista and newer)	2 GB (XP) 4 GB (Vista and newer)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB	12 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support	Nvidia GeForce 8800 AMD Radeon HD 5670 512 MB of VRAM
Other	Screen resolutions up to 1920x1200

Official system requirements

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.8.5
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT ATI Radeon HD 2600	Nvidia GeForce GT 330M ATI Radeon HD 4670
Other	Screen resolutions up to 1920x1200

Official system requirements

Notes

↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/20590/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (20590) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Separate Servers - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"An account created for a particular server will not be able to log into the website or the version of client made for the other servers."
↑ Account Transfer FAQ - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01
↑ Patch 5.22 notes - League of Legends - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"All in-game settings [...] are now saved server-side per account, rather than on individual computers."
↑ Hotkeys (Keybindings) FAQ - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"they are account-bound and saved on our servers"
↑ Unlocking Game Modes - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-12-30
"Ranked Solo/Duo and Ranked Flex queues for 5v5 Summoner's Rift will open at level 30 and when you acquire at least 20 champions. Ranked Flex 3v3 Twisted Treeline will open at level 30, once you acquire at least 12 champions."
↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2017-09-30
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 A Trip Down The LoL Graphics Pipeline - Riot Games Engineering - last accessed on 2017-09-29
"There are over ten million games per month played on Windows XP, so to maintain backwards compatibility we have to support DirectX 9 and can only use the features it provides. We use a comparable featureset from OpenGL 1.5 on OS X machines as well"
↑ Dropping Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-09-30
"Service Pack 2 is no longer compatible with the latest security protocols. This isn’t a change to League itself, but a required security update to the connection between players and our servers. The only versions of Windows compatible with the latest protocols are XP Service Pack 3 and above for 32-bit, and Vista and above for 64-bit."

[gamedir-3] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-4] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/20590/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (20590) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Separate Servers - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"An account created for a particular server will not be able to log into the website or the version of client made for the other servers."

[2] Account Transfer FAQ - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01

[5] Patch 5.22 notes - League of Legends - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"All in-game settings [...] are now saved server-side per account, rather than on individual computers."

[6] Hotkeys (Keybindings) FAQ - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-10-01
"they are account-bound and saved on our servers"

[7] Unlocking Game Modes - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-12-30
"Ranked Solo/Duo and Ranked Flex queues for 5v5 Summoner's Rift will open at level 30 and when you acquire at least 20 champions. Ranked Flex 3v3 Twisted Treeline will open at level 30, once you acquire at least 12 champions."

[8] Verified by User:Aemony on 2017-09-30

[Graphics-Pipeline-Dx9GL-9] 7.0 ^7.1 A Trip Down The LoL Graphics Pipeline - Riot Games Engineering - last accessed on 2017-09-29
"There are over ten million games per month played on Windows XP, so to maintain backwards compatibility we have to support DirectX 9 and can only use the features it provides. We use a comparable featureset from OpenGL 1.5 on OS X machines as well"

[10] Dropping Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-09-30
"Service Pack 2 is no longer compatible with the latest security protocols. This isn’t a change to League itself, but a required security update to the connection between players and our servers. The only versions of Windows compatible with the latest protocols are XP Service Pack 3 and above for 32-bit, and Vista and above for 64-bit."

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Developers

	Riot Games
Release dates
Windows	October 27, 2009
macOS (OS X)	March 1, 2013

League of Legends

Contents

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Save game cloud syncing

Video settings

Input settings

Audio settings

Localizations

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Ports

Issues fixed

League of Legends Help Center

Other information

API

Middleware

Tools

Hextech Repair Tool

Lag Report

Network Log Reader

Game Log Reader

LVOC - LoL VO Changer

System requirements

Notes

References