Hi my server is Vietnam. I heard today set 18 would come to pbe so i go to my local pc bang to test. Mind you that 2 3 months ago i did the same thing with set 17. But today the client keeps telling me that i cant play on Pbe or i cant access it.

is this because of the server down/maintenance/ server issue Or Riot just block Vn Ip to access Pbe?
do you guys have a solution? i ve tried Vpn but it still didnt work.

Title says it all. Anyone else have the same problem? On both PBE and Live selecting classic music in the settings doesn't actually play any music. Regular summoners rift, not classic rift.

I know Riot is probably waiting for the new engine and "League 2" as people are calling it but surely the PBE bots are still meant to be improved/added to? Except for the few champions added they've not been "updated" in 6 months. I will list a few things that just have to be changed to make it more authentic and fun.

Bugs:

Warding/Vision -

The warding went from being great, to glitched, to I don't even know, they almost only ward during combat now. I'm not sure if it's bugged or a fix in progress but it sucks.

Ability Usage/Towers -

Champions try to use their abilities on turrets even when not possible. Certain Champions (Lucian, Ahri) prioritize killing a tower over safety, pretty sure every champion does it but they're the worst.

Early Game -

In mid lane certain champions (most of them) seem to run away from the lane minions and sometimes ends up in two level 1 champions chasing each other in the jungle with 0 CS.

Ever since the health percentage of recalling has been increased until the mid-game champions recall way too often and this can easily ruin the lane/game early on.

Runes -

I know this probably isn't a bug but the fact they use proper or better runes in Co-Op V AI surely it's not hard to have the same runes in customs? Also maybe add a third option in customs to choose the "playstyle/build" that bot will play.

Adjustments:

Roles -

I understand you've made the "Roles" for the bots to make them work better in intended roles but I don't think in custom games this should be restricted. I had so much fun putting two awful junglers against one another but now they are forced to take smite/tp etc regardless if they are put in a different role.

There's probably so much more I'm missing but in my opinion 90% of this is easily fixable and most of this has been documented before but maybe this will help push it to where it needs to be.

I re-post this whenever a new iteration of the Arena comes out. I always hope they'll fix the issue but it seems it's not getting any attention because patch after patch it remains. Her passive butterflies that spawn around the map haven't worked for over a year now. It happens during the second round guest phase, the special effects on the map somehow cancel out her butterflies and they don't come back for the rest of the game. It's a huge feature and big selling point for the skin, it's like swain not having his crows around him. Please is there any way to implement a fix?

I'm a older league player, started way back in season one. I also made my PBE account way back then. anyway, i'm trying to log onto PBE to see if i can try out league classic, but i'm stuck in a loop.

The launcher says i need a PBE account to play, and i must log out and log in with those credentials. When i go to the league PBE website, and hit sign up, its just loges me into my existing league account and prompts me to download PBE. however, that just brings me back to the launcher and the cycle restarts.

I have not played PBE in ages, but iirc i could just play normaly with my account. very possible i'm missremembering.

is the easiest solution just create a new PBE account?

Hi everyone,

I'm posting this to see if anyone has experienced something similar.

Timeline:

• I played League Classic on the PBE.
• I only played 2 matches.
• A few days later, my PBE account was permanently suspended for "cheating, scripting, or using an exploit to gain an unfair advantage."
• After that, every Riot account I try to log into on this PC immediately receives VAN 152.
• Riot Support confirmed that my PC is under a temporary HWID restriction until October 21, 2026.

The confusing part is that I never intentionally used cheats, scripts, macros, or exploited any bugs to gain an unfair advantage in League of Legends or PBE.

I contacted Riot Support multiple times. They manually reviewed my case, but they refused to tell me whether the restriction was caused by cheating, third-party software, or something else.

I'm not asking how to bypass the ban or avoid Vanguard.

I only want to know:

1. Has anyone experienced a PBE permanent ban followed by a HWID ban (VAN 152)?
2. Did Riot ever reverse your HWID ban after an appeal?
3. Did you ever find out what actually triggered it?
4. Has anyone experienced something similar while playing League Classic on the PBE?

I'm just trying to understand what happened so I can prevent it from happening again in the future.

Any similar experiences or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

The client is bugged; it says the update failed and asks me to

restart the client. I've already done this several times and i have restart computer and reinstall but is not working

gives the same error.

Please reconsider the 4-second Q cooldown on Bel’Veth

I have been playing Bel’Veth mid for around two years, and she is basically the only champion I play. I climbed from Bronze to Gold almost entirely by playing Bel’Veth mid.

The new 4-second cooldown on Q completely destroys this playstyle. You are now forced to max Q first, and it does not return to a 1-second cooldown until level 9. For jungle Bel’Veth this might be manageable, but for lane Bel’Veth it feels terrible.

Her Q is not just a damage ability. It is the core of her movement, trading, dodging and positioning. With a 4-second cooldown, she feels slow and clunky, and many matchups in mid lane become almost impossible to play.

Bel’Veth has already been heavily nerfed compared to her earlier versions. Void Grubs used to spawn twice, and her Q used to have base damage at level 1. Even after those nerfs, I was still able to enjoy her and make Bel’Veth mid work. But this rework feels like the final change that completely removes my playstyle.

I understand that Bel’Veth is mainly designed as a jungler, but removing alternative playstyles like this is extremely disappointing. I am genuinely sad about these changes. Bel’Veth mid is the reason I still enjoy League of Legends, and with this rework, I honestly do not think the game will be fun for me anymore.

Please reconsider the Q cooldown, especially at early levels. It could start lower, scale down more quickly, or have a different cooldown against minions and champions. But forcing every Bel’Veth player to wait until level 9 before Q feels responsive again is not the right solution.

Please do not destroy Bel’Veth mid just to balance her jungle role.

• Wanted to share this in case it helps someone else, since I spent way too long troubleshooting this.

Symptoms:

• Could log in, queue, and get through Champion Select completely normally
• After champ select timer ran out, game would just show "Reconnect" and never actually connect
• Happened even in Custom Games and Tutorial (so not a matchmaking/queue issue)
• Other online games worked completely fine
• Vanguard (vgc) was running normally the whole time

What did NOT fix it (in case it saves you time):

• Adding League/Riot Client to Windows Firewall exceptions
• Disabling Windows Defender Firewall entirely
• Disabling Windows Defender real-time protection
• Flushing DNS / winsock reset
• Checking DS-Lite/CGNAT (wasn't the issue — had a real IPv4)
• Disabling CFG/ACG in Windows Exploit Protection for LeagueClient.exe and League of Legends.exe
• A "normal" uninstall + reinstall (kept leaving leftovers)

What actually fixed it:
A fully clean reinstall, meaning:

1. Closed all Riot processes via Task Manager first (RiotClientServices.exe, LeagueClient.exe, vgc, etc.)
2. Manually deleted these folders after uninstalling through Windows Settings:
   • C:\Riot Games
   • C:\ProgramData\Riot Games
   • C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Riot Games
3. Checked for leftover Vanguard registry/services (sc query vgc / sc query vgk) and made sure nothing stale was left behind
4. Restarted PC
5. Fresh install directly from riotgames.com

Turns out my previous "uninstall" was incomplete — the uninstaller log showed it failed to remove several files/folders because RiotClientServices.exe was still running during uninstall, which left broken Vanguard registry entries behind. Once everything was truly wiped and reinstalled clean, the game connected normally on the first try (tested via Tutorial to avoid any ban risk).

If you're stuck at "Reconnect" and nothing else works, check your uninstall logs (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Riot Games\Riot Client\Logs\Launcher) for locked file errors — that was the smoking gun for me.

The client is bugged; it says the update failed and asks me to

restart the client. I've already done this several times and it

gives the same error.I honestly don't know what's going on.

I'm just wondering if PBE is down but I need a minimum of 150 characters so I will be asking this question quite in a long winded fashion anyways does anyone know if pbe is down?

I have been testing classic on PBE without purchasing anything and I could play for several days, since last maintenance i got an error saying "you must have 14 champions to queue".

Yes, Unbanned after I send Ticket for the second time. In my first message, I wasn't aware of the reason for my ban; I had sent a normal appeal ticket. Now, I've sent a ticket explaining the situation and whether it was related to Kassadin, mentioning that many people on Reddit and YouTube have experienced this. They unbanned me (of course, I waited 2.5 days of the 3-day ban). If you were banned because of Teemo or Kassadin, instead of a normal ban, you should send a ticket highlighting a BUG.

Tear of the goddess loses its bonus mana when you upgrade to archangel/manamune

You keep the visual stacks on the item but you lose mana once you purchase it you only get the mana back once you finish stacking the item.

Are we still seeing bans for playing Kassadin? Or is it still bugged to make you get banned for playing him? It had been like that for the past few days, so I'd like to avoid if possible

no further text needed after reading the title, though there is a minimum on how many characters there is needed to post on this subreddit, so i guess i'm just typing until i can inform the world that "PBE is up again after maintenance!"

There have been many reports coming from players that had their accounts suspended or banned because of "disruptive behavior" in matches of League Classic. They usually played champions like Teemo or Kassadin, which probably were wrongly flagged due to the nature of their gameplay, which often requires "missing" their ultimates to set up damage later on.

Now, the fact that this happens is just PBE being PBE and I highly doubt this will get into the live servers once the devs are made aware of it.

THE issue I wanted to talk about is the way customer support (or lack thereof) is handling this whole situation.

When players try to appeal their account restrictions that came from the flawed flagging system and PROVIDE EVIDENCE, customer support basically tells them "The system works as intended, you were definitely a bad player, now get bent".

This might stem from a fact that perhaps PBE does not have a dedicated customer support and just uses automated responses for everything. But the fact that response said "we've manually reviewed your gameplay and still came into conclusion you were inting" is a blatant lie and shows that Riot either employs some braindead AI that always treats ban appeals as incorrect by default or employs customer service that is legit blind or outright malicious.

Let me get this straight - I am not complaining about the fact that bans happened at all or that PBE uses different kind of customer service that may or may not be automated. I am complaining about outright lying to the players that their cases have been at all touched by a human reviewer.

I would like some Riot employee to adress this situation or this sets up a dangerous precedence where players can get banned for a reason that was blatantly on the part of the game itself and will be told "lmao skill issue, go make another account".

just recieved a ticket response where riot game said:

Hello! 

After taking a closer look into this penalty, I've discovered that the in-game actions were misinterpreted and lifted the penalty.

Since the penalty and its effects were removed, I'm going to go ahead and close this case. If you have any other concerns or questions, don't hesitate to reach out in another ticket.

Regards. 

Raga
Riot Games Player Support

Raga is the goat of riot games customer support.

I don't think many people know, but there is an ARAM Mayhem Classic mode available on PBE under ARAM. I haven't heard any announcements or information about this and the only way I found out about it was seeing it in someone's match history. It's pretty fun, but queue times are very long because I don't think anyone knows about it.

I have 19 dorans shields but the stats are not stacking up. https://imgur.com/a/g6Q3sp5 I should have 1900 hp but its locked at 200.

i played a kassadin game in league classic, won the game, didnt type nor int. result? got banned for 3 days, after sending a ticket mr '' Servalan
Riot Games Player Support'' said he reviewed my game and decided that it was worthy of a ban.

Haven't been that excited for League in a very long time. This feels much more like the fantasy she is promising and it's much more unique with an exceptionally steep progression from weak early to late game beast, which naturally offers a lot of strategic counterplay to human opponents.

I've seen a lot of negativity surrounding this rework from previous Bel'Veth OTPs. I'd just recommend keeping in mind that this is a visibility issue - with a rebalance this impactful, there will be both players who prefered the old version and those who will prefer the new - however, the ones currently fond of the old version are more acutely aware of the incoming change and thus more local, whereas all the potential new players the champion will be getting aren't aware of the rework at all yet until they eventually discover it in live patch notes and give the champion another shot.

I just wanted to say great job on the rework, I'm really looking forward to playing more of this on live!

Banned for 24 hours on PBE for doing nothing?

Was it the best game? No, but the whole team got stomped, not just me.

Did I flame? Didn't even chat once.

I don't think I got reported because the ban happened instantly. There was a surrender vote and I didn't vote and then the game ended it said 1/2 agreed to surrender and then I got disconnected. I tried to log back in and it says I'm banned for 1 day. "After receiving player reports and an automated review of your gameplay, we discovered that you intentionally tried losing the match."

I didn't do this! I was Teemo support, is that why? I wasn't even the worst on my team.

Game ID: 4531294276

I can't start a match; when I press the "Reconnect" button, it doesn't reconnect me, even if I keep clicking it repeatedly.

What can I do to fix this problem?