Play button disabled for 5+ minutes inbetween games.

I just got back into league and never had this problem before. I've repaired the client and uninstalled completely (even deleting the league registry files) and reinstalled. I've reset network winsock, ip and dns through cmd: netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset ipconfig /flushdns restarted computer

After doing all of the above, I'm still seeing the Play button top right grayed out, can't click on it. If I hover mouse over the Play button I get the following message:

**"We aren't able to create a lobby right now. Please exit the client and reopen it to try again." ** While either waiting 1-5 minutes allows me to create a lobby, I am curious to see if others are experiencing this issue and would also like to bring it to Riot's attention if the issue is widespread. Though a Google search brings up others who have had this issue, theirs either differs slightly in that they cannot ever create a game lobby and the issues that pop up on various other websites are not within (1-2 months) recent.

Please respond if you are experiencing issues and/or if you have come across potential solutions to the issue.

Thank you sincerely in advance.