Reports of widespread League of Legends login and launch outages in the US
User reports and outage-tracker data show login, launch and latency problems for League of Legends in the US on Sept. 17; Riot had not issued an official cause in the cited story.
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Complaints began around mid-afternoon local time and peaked roughly 30–60 minutes later.
Downdetector data in the article showed 36% of reports were login failures; other reports cited game launch and purchase errors.
No official Riot statement or root cause was provided in the cited coverage.
Affected users could not connect or launch the client, preventing queueing for matches.
In‑client purchases and downloads/updates were reported as impacted by some users.
The outage is time-sensitive because it interrupts play and competitive schedules for affected regions.