Weird Lag After Patch 4.20

Snowey·11/22/2014, 6:26:40 PM·13 votes·4,493 views

Me and a lot of my friends have had a steady increase in ping. We all now have about 200+ ping instead of our normal 114 ping. This is extremely annoying and has nothing to do with any of ours Internet. It is also happening to a lot of people in games of mine too. Does anyone have a fix for this? Or will we have to wait for Riot to come out with something to fix it?

Thanks for your help, Snowey.

17 Comments

Im Andru11/23/2014, 1:26:56 AM4 votes

I usually get 150-160 ping. That's not great, but it's perfectly playable for me. Since 4.20, i have 260-300 ping constantly, which is unplayable. Can't do dis

Ratastok11/23/2014, 1:30:20 AM3 votes

Same here

I am Ah Pukuh11/23/2014, 5:20:33 AM2 votes

I have similar issues, my ping is around 14 higher than normal, sometimes spiking to around 500+, though I get lag at times without my actual ping changing. Champs and minions start sliding, attacks without visible damage, then it all rubber bands after a few seconds while I maintain the same ping throughout the event. I'm running 2 monitors so I can see that nothing is hogging bandwidth and that I have several gigs of free RAM as well.

Snowey11/23/2014, 1:59:26 AM1 votes

So I left a Support ticket last night, I just got a response saying that he had some increase in ping as well. He also said that they were trying to work on solving this as soon as they could. We all know what that means.... It could be next season until they fix it.

LCG Vulcan11/23/2014, 3:07:56 AM1 votes

Same thing happened to me. Internet was fine on Wednesday. Then comes Thursday (or Friday, don't quite remember which) along with good ole Patch 4.20, and my internet is shite. Ping spikes, fps drops, dc's; you name it. Plz rito: don't let NA become the new EU West.

SecretAgentHulk11/23/2014, 3:37:25 AM1 votes

My guess would be it has more to do with the massive NA server maintenance on the same day than the actual patch. I haven't experienced it but hopefully it gets fixed for those that do.

Emperor Antares11/23/2014, 11:00:16 AM1 votes

all u guys should buy a new computer

warpenguin55511/23/2014, 4:23:30 PM1 votes

every since the Mac crashes I've been randomly attempting to reconnect in some games. Have no idea why, but it usually happens after 6 .

Also did anybody else used to have a huge lag spike around 5?

Red9For LEON211/23/2014, 5:58:39 PM1 votes

I've had this issue, but from what I can tell it ONLY occurs in ranked. I'm usually falling between 90-110 ping depending on time of day, but now i'm fluctuating between 180-400.

I'm testing it now, but things that I can tell you for certain are this: It does NOT occur in private matches and definitely occurs in ranked. Since the constant factor here is my internet and PC, we know that its not the problem. Which means its somewhere on Riot's end. I'm playing a normal now and from the loading screen, i'm only at 115 or so with chrome running in the background. It should go down once I exit off. I'll update you all after the match.

Red9For LEON211/23/2014, 6:26:34 PM1 votes

Ok, so its confirmed. I got a solid 90 ping the entire game with no issues. This lag seems to only be occurring in ranked (for me at least). If anyone else could repeat the test and get back to me, it would be very helpful.

œœœœœœœœuœœœœœœ11/23/2014, 7:51:02 PM1 votes

Same has happend with me. Playing for almost a year with 190-200 ping after patch I'm only getting 280-370. Really hard to play like that

XxCris1214xX11/24/2014, 2:06:37 AM1 votes

Same

Sarfee11/22/2014, 7:29:41 PM1 votes

Second this, last night had 70 ping, now i'm getting a constant 280/300... fml, it's unplayable.

Frotarious12/23/2014, 2:43:34 AM1 votes

me too rito please i have random lagg... like this blows im just gonna stop playing till this is resolved

Muchashca11/22/2014, 8:03:00 PM1 votes

I'm getting a big delay every time I open shop, but otherwise it's normal for me.

Downfall11/22/2014, 8:32:34 PM1 votes

If you are using a wireless connection try using a wired one. I know this should not fix it but it does. Playing on my laptop i used to have 200-300+ ping every game almost constantly, i decided to wire it. Ping went down to 90 and stayed there