How many people play League of Legends? Oficial League of Legends Player Count

[spezznacci]

We all know that League of Legends is one of the most popular online games in the world, but we never really knew how big League of Legends really is. It’s time to find out the total League of Legends player count.
League of Legends player count is no joke. Its player count has grown year by year and is now one of the most played multiplayer games in the world and the most played Esport in the world.
League of Legends, a game developed by Riot Games in 2009 has gained heavy popularity in recent years. It started in 2009 with a few hundred thousand players, quickly gained traction, and reached 11 million players by 2011, which then again takes a huge leap to 65 million players in 2014 and a further bigger leap 100 million players in 2017. After that, it had a slight drop in its player count to 75 million in 2018 but has made a comeback in 2020 with a range of 100-120 million players.

Let me take you through the journey of the growth of League of Legends player count
2011 – 11.5 MILLION

League of Legends Player Count Graph

This is the year Riot Games first announced an official statement with the number of players they had. It showed us in a cute little League of Legends player count graph
What we understand from that graph is that League of Legends in 2011 had:

• 32.5 Million registrations
• 11.5 Million monthly players
• 4.2 Million daily players
• 1.3 Million players playing at the same time.

But League of Legends wasn’t the only thing that had grown during the period, Riot Games the Developer of League of Legends had also grown five times their size to 300 total employees.
They had also included cool nifty stats such as how many minions were killed, how many champions were killed, how much gold was earned etc. as you can see in the infographic below.

2012- 32 MILLION
Moving into the next year Riot Games released another statement about League of Legends player count. They had again given a nifty infographic to help understand the state of the game in 2012.
What we can take away from the League of Legends graph is that League of Legends had

• 70 Million registrations
• 32 Million monthly players
• 12 Million daily players
• 3 Million concurrent players.

They had also given other information such as League of Legends has been played for more than 1 Billion play hours every month, the main age group from 16-35 and more information as you can see below.

2014 – 65 MILLION

Fast-forwarding two years into the future, Riot Games released another official statement giving details about the state of League of Legends. This time they had not come with any infographics but rather straight up information.
From the statement released by Riot Games, we understand that League of Legends now had

• 65 Million monthly players
• 27 Million daily players
• 8 Million peak concurrent players

Although Riot didn’t release as much information as before it was still apparent League of Legends was still growing. It had taken a lot longer than previously, but Riot had managed to double their monthly and daily players bringing the total monthly players to 67 million.
2017- 100 MILLION
Riot did not release any statement when they reached this mark, but according to analytical data and certain League of Legends graphs, we understand that the League of Legends player count had reached about 100 Million monthly players in 2017.
If League of Legends was a country, it would be ranked at the 15th Position as the population per country out of the 200+ countries in the world. That is right, there are only 15 countries in 2020 that have a population of over 100 million.
2018 – 75 MILLION
As to how all games have, League of Legends also had its drop in its player count. But not to worry as League of Legends has gained back its position in 2020 because of the number of Events they held and the amount of marketing that had been done. By now, we had amazing cinematics and also music by many popular creators such as Linkin Park.
League of Legends Player Count 2020 (NOW)

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[Apache]

I’ve played league of legends for about a week, but I just couldn’t get hooked into it. There’s a lot of information to soak in on day one, a lot of champions to work with. It’s fun but it’s not something I’ll see myself playing again.

 

[spezznacci]

I’ve played league of legends for about a week, but I just couldn’t get hooked into it. There’s a lot of information to soak in on day one, a lot of champions to work with. It’s fun but it’s not something I’ll see myself playing again.

When I first started playing League I hated it. I played it for 30-40 days and I absolutely hated it. However, as I was leveling up my accounts I got more addicted to League of Legends every day. You should really give League a chance and play it for some more time before quitting. How about playing with friends? That's always fun! I recommend you to try that

 

[Apache]

Yeah with friends it's actually fun! I should rephrase what I said in my previous post, playing again, yes I would. But, playing consistently, not really.