Why is League of Legends down? Riot Games provides server outage update as thousands complain; when game will be back

League of Legends by Riot Games is down for thousands of users in North America and the game provided an update on their status page.

League of Legends by Riot Games is down for thousands of users in North America on September 15. At the time of writing, Downdetector noted nearly 6,000 users facing issues. The site also noted that users had been facing issues since 9:11pm ET.

The site that tracks outages noted that users faced issues with login and game launch. League of Legends or Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game. It has drawn many users over the years and they rushed to complain about the downtime.

League of Legends down: Thousands complain

Several people shared the issues they were facing with League of Legends. One remarked “was getting unknown player issue and now I can't log in at all.” Another added "I can "log in" into league because I have it set to auto log me in. When the screen loads it's pretty much all black and says ugh. Edit to say: I JUST updated the client when this happened. This isn't the first time league broke after an update."