Servers

Riot Games provides servers to host various aspects of a game. This includes: logins, games, chat, the RP Store, the in-game shop, etc.

Riot Games Servers

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 a few servers around the world that are not run by Riot. For example, Southeast Asia (SEA) servers are run by Garena, a Riot Games partner. Chinese servers are run by Tencent, Riot's parent company.

Server Countries	Server Name	Abbreviation	Release Date	Language(s)	Location	IP Addresses
	Brazil	BR (BR1)	September 13, 2012[1]	Portuguese	São Paulo, SP, Brazil	104.160.152.3
	Europe Nordic & East	EUNE (EUN1)	July 13, 2010	Czech, English, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian	Frankfurt, Germany[2]	104.160.142.3
	Europe West	EUW (EUW1)	July 13, 2010	English, German, Spanish, French, Italian	Amsterdam, Netherlands	104.160.141.3
	Latin America North	LAN (LA1)	June 5, 2013[3]	Spanish	Miami, FL, United States	104.160.136.3
	Latin America South	LAS (LA2)	June 5, 2013[3]	Spanish	Santiago, Chile
	North America	NA (NA1)	October 27, 2009[4]	English	Chicago, Illinois, United States	104.160.131.3 104.160.131.1(?)
	Oceania	OCE (OCE/OC1)	June 28, 2013[5]	English	Sydney, Australia	104.160.156.1
	Russia	RU (RU1)	April 17, 2013[6]	Russian	München,Germany	162.249.73.2
	Turkey	TR (TR1)	September 27, 2012	Turkish	Istanbul, Turkey
	Japan	JP (JP1)	March 15, 2016	Japanese	Tokyo, Japan
	Republic of Korea	KR (KR)	December 12, 2011	Korean	Seoul, South Korea
	Public Beta Environment	PBE (PBE)		English	Los Angeles, CA, United States

Garena Southeast Asia

Main Article: Garena

Garena is a consumer Internet platform provider based in Asia.^[7]

Each server has its own headquarters and its own pricing for champions, skins, bundles etc. Currently, server transfer is not available between these servers.

• Indonesian (ID) server has shut down on May 16th 2019 12:01am WIB (GMT +7)^[8], with the player base to be transferred to the Singapore and Malaysia (SG) server. After the server closure, players can still transfer their accounts. Players who transferred accounts before the server closure received a reward.

China server network

The People's Republic of China (CN) established servers since 2011; totaling 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. Languages include Mandarin Chinese and Simplified Mandarin Chinese.

Full Network Area (No network restriction)

1. 男爵领域 (Baron Zone)
2. 峡谷之巅 (Super Zone)

This server is meant to scout potential players for LDL and LPL.^[9] 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. Settlement date is the last day of the calendar 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.

Possible future servers

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

• African server (Frequently requested)
• Riot based Southeast Asia server unifying Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines (Riot Games Singapore, Frequently requested).
• Middle East & North Africa server (Release is confirmed).

Transferring to another server

When creating a game 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, 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 transfers to some other servers. Currently, it 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^[10] and CN because of the server being hosted by Tencent, both of which are third party companies. The latter is due to KR only being available to users in South Korea, which requires a national ID to create an account.

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	2600	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