League of Legends Ping Test
A good League of Legends ping is under 60 ms. Under 30 ms gives the instant Korean solo-queue feel, and 30–60 ms is ideal for climbing at any rank. From 60 to 100 ms the game stays playable once you adjust last-hit and skillshot timing; above 100 ms, expect missed CS and phantom dodges.
Lower = better. The number is the real HTTPS round-trip from your browser to that region; your in-game ping will read a bit lower.
League of Legends is unusual among big online games: each server region runs from essentially one physical location. EUW sits in Amsterdam, NA in Chicago, KR in Seoul, BR in São Paulo. You can't pick a data center within your region, so your ping is decided the moment you choose where your account lives. This test shows your latency to the areas nearest each major LoL server, which is exactly the information you need before committing to a region or playing abroad.
Regions we test for League of Legends
These are the 9 regions where League of Legends players are typically served, ordered roughly west to east. Run the test above to rank them by your own latency, or open a city for a dedicated ping test to that location.
What counts as good ping in League of Legends?
| Ping | Verdict | What it feels like |
|---|---|---|
| Under 30 ms | Korean solo-queue feel | Animation cancels, tight kiting, and reaction dodges all feel instant. The ideal band for mechanically intensive champions. |
| 30–60 ms | Ideal for climbing | The range most of EUW and central NA plays on. No practical handicap at any rank. |
| 60–100 ms | Adaptable | Playable at every level, but recalibrate your muscle memory for last-hits and skillshot leads. |
| Over 100 ms | Handicap | Expect missed CS and phantom dodges. Consider playing the shard closest to your actual location. |
Got a specific number? Is 30 ms ping good? · Is 60 ms ping good? · Is 100 ms ping good?
How to check your League of Legends ping in-game
- Press Ctrl+F during a game to toggle the FPS and ping readout in the top-right corner of the screen.
- Compare that number with your best region in the test above. Expect the in-game figure to read a little lower, because it times game traffic rather than an HTTPS request; the order of regions is what should match.
One region, one data center
Because Riot consolidates each LoL shard into a single site, geography inside a region matters enormously. An NA player in Illinois enjoys sub-15 ms to the Chicago server while a player in California or the East Coast lives at 60–70 ms — on the same 'region'. In Europe, EUW and EUNE both resolve to central-European sites, so the practical difference for most players is small.
Use the regions below as anchors: Frankfurt and Ireland bracket the European servers, Virginia and Oregon bracket NA's Chicago site from both coasts, and Seoul, Tokyo, and Singapore cover the Asian shards.
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League is more forgiving than a shooter — there's no peeker's advantage — but latency still lives in the details: last-hitting under tower, orb-walking with kited autos, and dodging hooks or Ezreal skillshots that travel for fractions of a second. Korean solo queue is famous partly because most of the country plays under 10 ms, where mechanics feel almost frame-perfect.
Most players adapt fine up to about 60 ms. Between 60 and 100 ms you can still climb, but champions that rely on animation-cancelling and tight spacing (Riven, Kalista, Draven) get meaningfully harder. Above 100 ms, expect missed CS and skillshots you 'already dodged'.
Playing from abroad or on a second region
Traveling or smurfing on another shard? Test the region nearest that server first. A European player visiting the US East Coast will land around 100+ ms back to Amsterdam but often under 30 ms to NA — rolling a temporary NA account usually beats fighting the Atlantic.
How we measure this
Browsers can't send the ICMP or UDP packets games use, so this tool measures the warm HTTPS round-trip time from your device to the cloud region closest to each of League of Legends's server locations — a reliable proxy for the latency you'll experience, not a direct ping to League of Legends's game servers. We warm up each connection first so TCP/TLS handshakes aren't counted, then keep the best of several samples. Absolute values can read slightly higher than in-game ping; the ranking of regions from fastest to slowest is what you should rely on.
League of Legends ping FAQ
Does this show my exact LoL in-game ping?
No — and no browser test can. Riot's game servers don't answer web requests, so we measure HTTPS round-trip time to the cloud region geographically closest to each LoL server site. It's a dependable proxy: if Frankfurt tests at 20 ms for you, your EUW ping to Amsterdam will be in the same neighborhood, especially since Riot Direct often shaves a few milliseconds off the public route.
Why is NA ping so much higher than EU ping on average?
Geography. NA has one server site in Chicago serving players from Vancouver to Miami, so both coasts sit 50–70 ms away by pure distance. Europe's playerbase is packed much closer to the Amsterdam and central-EU sites, so typical EUW/EUNE pings are lower. Nothing on your end is wrong — it's physics.
Should I play EUW or EUNE for better ping?
For most of Europe the latency difference is a handful of milliseconds, since both shards are hosted in the central-European corridor. Choose based on language, friends, and queue quality rather than ping — then use our test before big patches or travel to confirm your route hasn't degraded.
Can I lower my League ping without moving house?
You can't beat distance, but you can stop wasting milliseconds: use ethernet instead of Wi-Fi, close background uploads and cloud sync while playing, and test whether your ISP routes poorly to central Europe or Chicago at peak hours. Our guide on lowering ping walks through each fix in order of impact.
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