League of Legends is no stranger to the usual network lag, ping spikes, and other connectivity issues that every online gamer must face. Don’t worry, since we’ve got your back covered. Here’s the most proven fixes for the lag and ping spikes on League of Legends.
End VPN Providers.
VPNs can take up a large amount of your network bandwidth, and must most preferably be turned off when you are playing League of Legends.
Ensure it isn’t a server fault.
You need to make sure the problem is indeed on your end, first and foremost. Use this League of Legends down detector as well as the RiotGames Service Status page for this purpose. If the servers are indeed down, you must simply wait till all services are back to normal and get back to playing League!
Run a speedtest.
Use Ookla’s speedtest to find out if your network connection is suffering for whatever reason. If your ping is above 100 ms, this could be a very real problem for you when you are gaming, since it means that any input you provide to the game is registered only that much time after you do so. Using an ethernet connection is always the way to go for the best connectivity. If you must use a Wi-fi connection, try and restart your router to see if that fixes the connection.
End processes using your internet.
Open your task manager by right-clicking on your taskbar. Here, navigate to the Performance tab and select “Open Resources Monitor”. In the new window, open the Network section and wait a few seconds as the processes using your network show up. You may choose to end the ones you are absolutely sure you will not need.
Check your ping.
Search cmd in the windows search bar and hit enter. Type in the command ping google.com to check your latency lost to google.com, and anything above 100 ms should be worrying. If you also see packet loss, run the command: ipconfig /flushdns. This frees up your DNS Reolver Cache.
