How to Fix League of Legends (LOL) Lag the Easy Way
When League of Legends is lagging but your internet is fine, the cause is rarely speed. It is consistency: a ping spike or a few lost packets at the wrong moment costs a fight, even on a fast connection.
Speedify is an app that sends your game traffic over more than one internet connection at once and recovers packets one of them drops, which cuts packet loss and lag spikes. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN that can be a little slower; with two or more connections in Redundant Mode it sends each packet over every connection and uses the copy that arrives first, so your ping follows whichever connection is faster at that moment.
Speedify cuts ping spikes by sending your game data over every connection
Take a look at what causes League of Legends ping spikes and lag, how reducing packet loss cuts it, and how to reach the game on a school network.
How to Reduce League of Legends Lagging with Speedify
- Download Speedify on the Windows PC or Mac you play League of Legends on.
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- Add a second internet connection: keep Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and add a phone shared over USB or Personal Hotspot, or a second Wi-Fi network.
- Click Connect. Speedify sends the game traffic over both connections and recovers packets lost on one of them.
- Launch League of Legends and play as usual.
Why You Get League of Legends Ping Spikes
LoL players regularly report ping spikes and poor gameplay, such as low FPS. So why does League of Legends lag?
In online games, lag is often caused by an unreliable internet connection. Lag in LoL can also come from your computer, such as too little RAM or a weak graphics card; this post focuses on network lag.
League of Legends Packet Loss and Other Causes of Lagging
When you play an online game like League of Legends, information is passed between your device (e.g. a smartphone or a computer) and the game servers. This information is sent in small bundles of data called packets. Unfortunately, sometimes packets are lost along the way, which slows down your connection. In severe cases of packet loss, you may find that you become disconnected from gameplay entirely!
Here is what to try first when League of Legends gets laggy:
- switch to an Ethernet connection : a cable from the PC to the router avoids Wi-Fi interference, which reduces packet loss and gives a more stable link to the game servers
- keep your computer, network drivers and router firmware updated, and check the Riot Games service status page when everyone in your match is lagging.
- change League of Legends game settings: lower graphics settings such as shadows to raise FPS when the lag comes from your computer.
If the lag continues, the connection itself is the problem, and that is where Speedify helps: Speedify combines multiple internet connections at the same time, so packets lost on one connection are recovered over the other.
Use Speedify to Reduce League of Legends Packet Loss and Lag Spikes
While you are running LoL on your computer, Speedify works on the connection side of the problem: lost packets and stalls that show up as lag spikes.
By default, computers only connect to the internet through one connection at a time: Wi-Fi, cellular or Ethernet. Speedify allows your device to connect to the internet using multiple internet connections simultaneously, so when one connection drops packets or stalls, the game traffic keeps flowing over the other.
If you’re playing League of Legends on your computer, you can combine your home internet with a public Wi-Fi network or 4G/5G cellular from a phone or USB modem. On a phone, Speedify lets you use both Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular at once. You can set a data limit per connection so you do not go over your data cap.
Unblock League of Legends on School Network
Speedify encrypts all traffic from your device, like a VPN. A school, workplace or other restricted network then sees only an encrypted connection to a Speedify server, not the game, so LoL often works where it is blocked. Check your school’s rules first.
Keep a League of Legends Match Going When One Connection Drops
Speedify also has auto failover. When it detects that a signal is weak or spotty, Speedify moves all the data to the working connection, so the match continues instead of disconnecting. Once the other connection is available again, Speedify adds it back.
If you want to cut League of Legends lag spikes, download Speedify and combine two internet connections for a steadier game.
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