League of Legends

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League of Legends
League of Legends	2009
Teamfight Tactics	2019
Legends of Runeterra	2020
Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story	2021
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story	2021
The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story	2023
Conv/rgence: A League of Legends Story	2023
Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story	2023
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story	2024

Warnings

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

League of Legends is a multiplayer action and strategy game in the League of Legends series.

General information

Initially known as League of Legends: Clash of Fates.

Official Support

Official Garena to Riot Games migrate link

Unofficial Subreddit

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Global version only.
Official website		Global version.
Publisher website		China version.
Publisher website (unavailable)		Southeast Asia version.
Epic Games Store
Microsoft Store		Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Steam (unavailable)

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

China version requires a QQ account.

SEA Servers can only play in Riot Client now (No need for Garena anymore)^[3]

All versions require a constant internet connection for all game modes^[4].

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

All in-game settings^[5] and keybindings^[6] 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
Epic Games Launcher		Linked to riot account
Steam Cloud		Linked to riot account
Xbox Cloud		Linked to riot account

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+.^[7]^[8]
4K Ultra HD		Available, but has issues.^[9]^[10]
Field of view (FOV)	There are tools to alter your FOV but they are strictly against Riots ToS for third party applications. Riot does actively ban players for using these tools.^[11]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Uses FXAA.^[12] With DX9 Legacy mode enabled it is possible to force high quality SGSSAA in Nvidia Inspector via `0x084012C1` flag
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	25, 30, 60, 80, 120, 144, 200, 240 (used by default) and Uncapped FPS limiter. No refresh rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode	Deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness) only.^[13]

With Legacy DX9 mode enabled HBAO flag 0x0000002D (MechWarrior Online) is also available.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Hook input (legacy mode)
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts

Logitech GamePanel

Information such as total gold, minions killed, neutrals killed, wards placed, Gold/Min, CS/Min, KDA ratio, wards killed can be displayed on the LCD panel or smartphone application.^[14]

Display	Notes
Arx Control application
G19 color screen	Native support. Displays global info and champion's statistics.
G15 monochrome screen	Native support. Displays global info and champion's statistics.

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

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.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				AU, GB, PH, SG and US variant available.
Simplified Chinese				Audio dub in Chinese unavailable outside China, Global version uses only Text localization but Malaysian variant. China version uses only Text localization and Audio dub.
Czech
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Vietnamese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	Not supported anymore.
LAN play	Planned LAN but it's was cancelled for unknown reasons.
Online play	10	1 player in Tutorial and Practice tool modes. 5 players in Co-op vs AI mode. 8 players (16 players starting Season 2024) in Arena mode. 10 players in ARAM, Normal and Ranked modes 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).^[15]
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated		Developer-hosted
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)^[16]
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^[17]

Game refuse to run on system with AMD Terascale APU + GCN Dual Graphics

Use Catalyst DirectX 10.0-12.0 15.6 dlls.
Download 15.6 dlls from DirectX 10.0-12.0. Extract the contents from the `.zip` file into `<path-to-game>`/Game, contains Leauge of Legends.exe

Use Legacy DX9 mode.
Turn DX9 Mode in Launcher before start the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c, 11	Windows only. D3D9 is used if D3D11 is not supported by the machine.^[20]
OpenGL	1.5	OS X only.^[20]
Shader Model support	2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			32 bit was removed, following the release of the April 2023 (patch 13.7) update.^[18]
macOS (OS X)			Following the release of the April 2019 (patch 9.7) update.^[19]

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise
Multiplayer	Riot Client Services
Anti-cheat	Packman, Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert, Riot Vanguard	Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert uses only in China Version. Packman uses only in Global version. Riot Vanguard currently available only in Philippines server. Outside Philippines server still uses anti-cheat Packman.

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.

Network Log Reader

Official tool for diagnosing network logs and find the cause of connection issues experienced during play.

Browser-based, no download or install required.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	3.0 GHz SSE2 instruction set support	3.0 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	12 GB	16 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support	Nvidia GeForce 8800 ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB of VRAM
Other	Screen resolutions up to 1920x1200

Official system requirements

The original system requirements were as follows: Windows XP SP2 or later, a 2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 750 MB hard disk space, Shader version 2.0, and DirectX 9.0. The recommended system requirements were a 3 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 750 MB hard disk space, and a GeForce 8800 or equivalent video card.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.10	10.13, 10.14
Processor (CPU)	3.0 GHz SSE2 instruction set support	3.0 GHz Dual Core
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
↑ League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics Will Be Published by Riot Games in Southeast Asia for the First Time - last accessed on 2022-11-09
↑ Verified by User:Posedennetshow on 2023-08-17
Practice tool cannot be played in offline mode. Requires internet connection
↑ 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"
↑ TIL if you play League on a bigger monitor, it doesn't stretch the game, it just adds more vision - League of Legends Subreddit - last accessed on 2017-09-29
↑ League Of Legends 21:9 Review - YouTube - last accessed on 2017-09-29
↑ League in 4k is unplayable, here is why - League of Legends Subreddit - last accessed on 2017-09-29
↑ LoL in 4K Resolution? - League of Legends NA Forums - last accessed on 2017-09-29
↑ support.riotgames.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ A Trip Down The LoL Graphics Pipeline - Riot Games Engineering - last accessed on 2017-10-02
"For League, we use the Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA) algorithm."
↑ Colorblind Mode - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-09-29
"We have implemented a mode for players that are affected by deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness) so they can better distinguish between friendly and enemy health bars as well as spell effects during gameplay."
↑ League of Legend´s G19 Applet -release- Thresh Patch(17.01.2013)
↑ 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 will open at level 30, once you acquire at least 12 champions."
↑ League of Legends Support: - Port Forwarding - last accessed on 2021-01-25
↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2017-09-30
↑ PATCH 13.7 NOTES - last accessed on 2023-05-16
↑ League of Legends - The Mac Client is Updating to 64-bit - last accessed on 2019-04-01
↑ ^20.0 ^20.1 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"

[gamedir-5] 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-6] 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

[3] League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics Will Be Published by Riot Games in Southeast Asia for the First Time - last accessed on 2022-11-09

[4] Verified by User:Posedennetshow on 2023-08-17
Practice tool cannot be played in offline mode. Requires internet connection

[7] 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."

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

[9] TIL if you play League on a bigger monitor, it doesn't stretch the game, it just adds more vision - League of Legends Subreddit - last accessed on 2017-09-29

[10] League Of Legends 21:9 Review - YouTube - last accessed on 2017-09-29

[11] League in 4k is unplayable, here is why - League of Legends Subreddit - last accessed on 2017-09-29

[12] LoL in 4K Resolution? - League of Legends NA Forums - last accessed on 2017-09-29

[13] support.riotgames.com - last accessed on May 2023

[14] A Trip Down The LoL Graphics Pipeline - Riot Games Engineering - last accessed on 2017-10-02
"For League, we use the Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA) algorithm."

[15] Colorblind Mode - Riot Games Support - last accessed on 2017-09-29
"We have implemented a mode for players that are affected by deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness) so they can better distinguish between friendly and enemy health bars as well as spell effects during gameplay."

[16] League of Legend´s G19 Applet -release- Thresh Patch(17.01.2013)

[17] 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 will open at level 30, once you acquire at least 12 champions."

[18] League of Legends Support: - Port Forwarding - last accessed on 2021-01-25

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

[20] PATCH 13.7 NOTES - last accessed on 2023-05-16

[21] League of Legends - The Mac Client is Updating to 64-bit - last accessed on 2019-04-01

[Graphics-Pipeline-Dx9GL-22] 20.0 ^20.1 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"

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Developers

	Riot Games
Engines
	Hextech Engine
Release dates
Windows	October 27, 2009
macOS (OS X)	March 1, 2013
Reception
Metacritic	78
Taxonomy
Monetization	Free-to-play
Microtransactions	Boost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind, Loot box, Unlock
Modes	Multiplayer
Genres	Action, Strategy
Series	League of Legends