Servers

Riot Games provides servers to host various aspects in League of Legends. This includes: logins, games, chat, the RP Store, the ingame shop, etc.

Regions

To help solve the problems of high-latency caused by long distances and to avoid language barrier issues, Riot Games hosts multiple servers around the world.

*There are some servers around the world that are not run by Riot. For example, SEA servers are run by Garena, a Riot Games partner. China Servers are run by Tencent (Tencent bought Riot Games with a majority stake, becoming another partner of Riot Games).^[1]

Server Countries	Server Name	Abbreviation	Release Date	Language(s)	Location	IP Addresses	Publisher
	Brazil	BR	September 13, 2012[2]	Portuguese	São Paulo, SP,  Brazil	104.160.152.3	Riot Games
	Europe Nordic & East	EUNE	July 13, 2010	Czech, English, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian	Frankfurt, Germany[3]	104.160.142.3	Riot Games
	Europe West	EUW	July 13, 2010	English, German, Spanish, French, Italian	Amsterdam, Netherlands	104.160.141.3	Riot Games
	Latin America North	LAN	June 5, 2013[4]	Spanish	Miami, FL, United States	104.160.136.3	Riot Games
	Latin America South	LAS	June 5, 2013[4]	Spanish	Santiago, Chile		Riot Games
	North America	NA	October 27, 2009[5]	English	Chicago, Illinois, United States	104.160.131.3 104.160.131.1(?)	Riot Games
	Oceania	OCE	June 28, 2013[6]	English	Sydney, Australia	104.160.156.1	Riot Games
	Russia	RU	April 17, 2013[7]	Russian	München,Germany	162.249.73.2	Riot Games
	Turkey	TR	September 27, 2012	Turkish	Istanbul, Turkey		Riot Games
	Japan	JP	March 15, 2016	Japanese	Tokyo, Japan		Riot Games
	The Philippines	PH	July 17, 2010	English, Filipino	Taguig City, Philippines	122.11.128.127	Garena
	Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia	SG	July 17, 2010	English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia	Singapore		Garena
	Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao	TW	July 17, 2010	Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin Taiwanese	Taipei City, Taiwan		Garena
	Vietnam	VN	July 17, 2010	Vietnamese	Vietnam		Garena
	Thailand	TH	July 17, 2010	Thai	Bangkok, Thailand		Garena
	Republic of Korea	KR	December 12, 2011	Korean/ Hangul	Seoul, South Korea		Riot Games
	Public Beta Environment	PBE		English	Los Angeles, CA, United States		Riot Games
	People's Republic of China	CN	2011	Mandarin Chinese, Simplified Mandarin Chinese	Shanghai, China		Tencent

Garena South East Asia

Main Article: Garena

Garena is a consumer Internet platform provider based in Asia. It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. ^[8]

Garena SEA is composed of 5 Servers:

• Philippines
• Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
• Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao
• Vietnam
• Thailand

Discontinued Server(s):

• Indonesia

Each Servers have it's own Headquarters and it's own pricing for Champions, Skins, Bundles, etc. Currently, Server transfer is not available to these servers.

• Indonesian server will shutdown on May 16th 2019 12:01am WIB (GMT +7) ^[9] and will be transfered to Singapore and Malaysian server. Players who transfer accounts before ID server closes will get an additional prize, after the server ID is closed the player can still transfer the account, but will not get the additional prize.

China Server Network

China has a total 29 servers, with 19 hosted by China Telecom and 7 hosted by China Netcom. Players cannot join servers hosted by a different Internet Service Provider. Each of these servers houses up to 650,000 players, but some are dedicated to different skill levels.

Full Network Area (No network restriction)

1. 男爵领域
2. 峡谷之巅 (Super Zone)

This server is meant to scout potential players for LDL and LPL.^[10] Entry requires Solo/Duo Diamond II and above in another server, accounts are raised to level 30, awarded Blue Essence for the required champion pool for ranked, and gain 1000LP per win. Settlement date is the last day of the natural month, new players will start counting the next month. On the settlement date, a player is removed if their recorded monthly games do not total at least 24 (18 games in July), if they are the lowest ranked player, or no player is at least Diamond II.

China Telecom (电信)

China Netcom (网通)

Other (No network restriction)

1. 教育网专区

This server is meant for new players to the game.

Possible Future Servers

This is a list including servers that have been hinted, announced, or have been requested frequently.

• African Servers (Frequently Requested)
• Riot based South East Asia Servers including Singapore/Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and Indonesia (Riot Games Singapore, Frequently Requested).
• Middle East & North Africa Server (Release is confirmed)

Transfers to Another Server

When creating an account, the player must choose a server to use, which is usually the server to which their country belongs. Once created, the account belongs solely to the server in which was created, with the login credentials being invalid for other servers.

In order to play with the same account in another server (that is, to transfer it to another server), a transfer can be purchased in the PvP.net client's Riot Store ('Account' tab).

Generally, transfers to other servers cost 2600. RU, TR, BR, LAN and LAS servers do not have the possibility of transfer to some servers. Currently, is not possible to transfer from or to servers SEA, CN, and KR. One cannot transfer to SEA because the server is hosted by Garena^[11], and CN because the server is hosted by Tencent, Both a 3rd party partner. The latter is due to KR only being available to users in South Korea.

Transfer from	Transfer to
	NA	EUW	EUNE	SEA	KR	BR	TR	RU	LAN	LAS	OCE	JP	CN
NA		2600	2600	N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	N/A
EUW	2600		2600	N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	N/A
EUNE	2600	2600		N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	N/A
SEA	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KR	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
BR	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	N/A
TR	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	?	N/A
RU	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A	N/A	2600	N/A
LAN	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	2600	N/A	N/A		2600	N/A	?	N/A
LAS	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	2600	N/A	N/A	2600		N/A	?	N/A
OCE	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600		?	N/A
JP	2600	2600	2600	N/A	N/A	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600	2600		N/A
CN	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

See also

• Launcher
• Garena

References