How to Check If Your LoL Account Is Banned or Suspended

Checking if your League of Legends (LoL) account is banned or suspended starts with understanding Riot Games’ code of conduct. Riot will either ban or suspend a player’s account when its code of conduct has been violated. These bans and suspensions are usually temporary. However, extreme and repeat offenders may have their accounts shut down permanently.

LoL Bans and Suspensions vs. Restrictions

Riot Games penalizes all players who threaten its gaming communities, including LoL. Bans and suspensions prevent players from accessing their accounts for a set time. As for restrictions, these are time-based limitations enforced against your account for minor infractions.

Restrictions against LoL accounts typically occur when a player exhibits inappropriate behavior such as cheating, AFKing, or verbal abuse. However, those restrictions can escalate to bans and suspensions against repeat offenders who fail to learn from their mistakes.

Bans and suspensions placed by Riot Games prevent players from accessing games like LoL. During this time, you can’t log into the game until these have been lifted. There’s usually a specified time if the ban or suspension is temporary. However, these bans and suspensions can be permanent if players refuse to respect Riot’s rules.

Temporary vs. Permanent Bans and Suspensions

Temporary bans and restrictions prevent players from accessing their LoL account for a designated period. This occurs after warnings and restrictions have been ignored by the offending player. Temporary bans typically last a few days or weeks. Consider the temporary ban/suspension a much-needed timeout to take a breather from LoL. This way, if you wish to play the game again once the ban is lifted you may do so from a refreshed perspective.

However, players who fail to learn from a temporary ban or suspension may face a permanent lockout from their account should they commit violations again. This also applies to players caught with an offense extreme enough to justify a permanent ban or lockout from LoL.

Riot Games has zero tolerance for players who don’t respect the rules and the gaming community. Those rules are in place to protect games like LoL, maintaining a positive in-game experience for all its players. They won’t waste time with one bad player who fails to respect the game and those who enjoy it. Should your LoL account face a permanent ban this means it’s lost forever. Permanent bans occur when repeat offenders ignore multiple warnings and disregard previous suspensions.

Common LoL Banning Reasons

Riot Games will give a player a reason why a ban or suspension has been placed against your account when you attempt to log in. These reasons can include the following:

• AFKing (Away from Keyboard) – AFKing and leaving the game puts your teammates at an unfair disadvantage against their opponents. This displays poor sportsmanship and Riot Games (and the LoL community) will tolerate it.

• Cheating – Players exploiting the game to gain an unfair advantage ruin the experience for everyone. Avoid cheating and using third-party software and play the game with integrity.

• Intentional Feeding (Trolling) – Deliberately sabotaging a game to “feed” off a repeatedly slain LoL champion to gain an unfair in-game advantage. Riot Games (and veteran LoL players) can easily spot an intentional “feeder” who repeatedly targets weaker players for personal gain.

• Offensive Account Name – Creativity is only as good as the respectful nature that comes with it.

• Toxic Behavior – Discriminating, harassing, and verbally abusing fellow players diminishes the gaming experience for everyone, including yourself.

Can I Remove My Bans and Suspensions Against Me?

If you can prove your ban and/or suspension is unfair, you may convince Riot Games to reverse its decision. The best proof is screenshots. If you have these, use them. Otherwise, Riot won’t change its decision.

Violating Riot’s terms of service is a serious offense. Such offenses include boosting and win-trading. The primary reason these are included is to protect a player’s account and maintain games like LoL’s integrity. If you believe you’re the victim of an unjustified ban or suspension, state your case with Riot and respect whatever decision it makes.

How to Appeal Bans and Suspensions

If you feel your ban or suspension is unwarranted, submit a ticket to Riot Games to appeal the decision. Submitting a ticket on Riot’s website will lead to selecting “Discuss a Personal Suspension, Ban, or Restriction” as your request. From there, enter the requested information and submit.

Be patient as Riot Games processes your appeal. Provide sufficient evidence to prove your innocence and the team will reverse its decision. It will also notify you, usually by email.

However, if Riot Games isn’t satisfied with your appeal, the ban and/or suspension won’t be lifted. If it’s temporary, wait it out. If it’s permanent, there’s nothing more you can do. Riot usually gives many warnings before banning and suspending accounts. If those have been ignored and the violations continue, Riot will “permaban” the account. Once this is done, there’s no going back.

Avoiding Future LoL Suspensions

If a temporary ban or suspension was placed against you and you’ve waited long enough to return to LoL, follow Riot’s code of conduct. This helps avoid getting banned or suspended again. The key is to respect Riot and the LoL gaming community.

LoL is a popular massively multiplayer online game. With so many different personalities and players with varying skill levels, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. If you come across cheaters and toxic players, don’t waste your time with them. The best bet is to report them immediately and avoid contact with them.

However, AFKing or bowing out of a game while in progress is unwise. Just finish the match with your teammates so you don’t face potential bans, suspensions, or restrictions. If you’re becoming frustrated, take a breather after you finish your game. Again, don’t AFK or leave mid-match as this will raise a red flag against you.

While in mid-game, you can access LoL’s chat commands and enter /fullmute, /muteself, and /deafen to protect yourself (and the community) from potentially toxic behavior.

Conclusion

To check if you’re banned or suspended, attempt logging into your LoL account. You know you’re blocked if you’re unable to do so. If it’s a temporary ban, you have to wait it out. This can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. It depends on the severity of your offense and if you’re a first-time or repeat offender.

Permanent account bans occur when players blatantly refuse to adhere to LoL’s code of conduct. Before a permaban takes place, Riot will issue warnings, restrictions, and temporary bans/suspensions. If all those are ignored and players continue to violate the rules they will be permanently locked out of their LoL account. Once this happens, there’s no going back.

Bans and suspensions also lead to penalties such as chat restrictions and in-game progress. Repeat offenders may face longer bans and suspensions before they’re permanently banned. Riot Games takes all offenses seriously, as it should. It won’t tolerate cheaters and players exhibiting toxic behavior. If you wish to remain on Riot’s good side, follow LoL’s rules and respect its gaming community.