r/LeaguePBE • • Jul 15 '26

Guide HOW TO PLAY ON PBE

10 Upvotes

Hello,

We're getting a lot of posts regarding how to play on PBE or how to create a PBE account. See below for a summarised guide. You can find the more DETAILED version HERE. We will remove new questions about PBE accounts and refer you to this post.


0. Open a private browser tab.

  • Use a VPN if you're in Vietnam, the Philippines, or Germany. We cannot help you with which VPN. Use it to connect to another country like USA. Use at your own risk. It's only needed for account creation. You must play without the VPN.

1. Click on this link.

2. Open the Riot Client. Sign out of your Live account. CLOSE AND RESTART THE RIOT CLIENT. Log in on your new PBE account. If you see "Switch Account" as an option, press Close instead, then Update. PBE will download.

3. If you run into issues, please first see our "Common questions" below or our more detailed guide HERE. Feel free to ask questions here after.




FAQ / Frequently asked questions

Can I use my Live account for PBE?

  • No. You never could.

"League of Legends PBE is not available for your current account. Please switch accounts to open this game." / "PBE isn't available in your region." / "PBE requires a PBE account to play."


"League of Legends cannot be launched with your current compatibility mode settings (...)"

  • This issue is more common on Windows 11.
  • Right-click on the Riot Client -> Properties -> Compatibility. Change this to Windows 8 or Windows 10. You can experiment to view results.
  • Restart your computer.

Do I need honour level 3, 4, 5?

  • No.

How do I link / Do I need to link my PBE account to my Live account?

  • You can't, and you don't have to.

I already have an (older) PBE account, but I can't access it!


Amy Sery, on behalf of the entire r/LeaguePBE team~


r/LeaguePBE • • Jul 14 '26

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs and Feedback Thread: League Classic

27 Upvotes

Hello everyone! Riot Ducké here, QA Lead for League of Legends Classic.

Welcome to League Classic! 

For the full breakdown see: /dev: League of Legends Classic 

League Classic is a new gameplay experience that aims to recreate moments like those, and to create totally new ones that were never possible before.

We started with Season 3 as our anchor, but League Classic is more of a collection of greatest hits, rather than a singular moment in time. That means it’s got things from a variety of seasons, like every single Summoner (yes, even Fortify), almost every single item from the first few years of League, including Atma’s Impaler and Frozen Mallet, and a lotta pre-rework champ kits. But, there’s one core truth: No Yasuos allowed.

Some notes about the features of League Classic:

  • Champions

We’re launching Classic with 60 champions: the OG 40 plus another 20 hand-selected champions released from 2009-2013.

  • Classic Levels

Classic Levels are a one-time progression system, much like account levels. It’s a free progression track that everyone has access to. You gain levels just by simply playing games of Classic. On it you’ll unlock things like Masteries, Runes, the Summoner’s Journey, IP, BE, as well as a variety of cosmetics, including the Rustier Blitzcrank skin.

  • Runes & Masteries

Before you load into a game of Classic, you’ll need to pre-select Runes and Masteries based on who you want to play.

In Classic you’ll unlock both of these just by playing, and there’s no need to upgrade them, they’re all the old Tier 3 as a baseline. And you can put them in Rune Pages. You’ll get three to start, an additional two from Classic Levels, and you can buy more for IP (those are back for Classic) which you get just by playing.

As for Masteries, again, you won’t have to grind long to unlock those. You’ll have all Mastery pages and points fully unlocked after hitting Classic Level 4.

And if you forget to set your Runes and Masteries before a game, don’t worry. Everyone gets a default page, so you won’t be substantially less powerful than anyone, just a little sub-optimal.

  • Classic Skins

Classic Skins are essentially skins that make Classic champs look the way they did in 2009-2013. So if you miss pre-rework Evelynn’s visuals, no worries, Classic Skins bring those back.

Classic Skins are unlockable through Classic Skin Tokens, which you get through the Seasonal Pass (on both the paid and free tracks) or in the Shop. You can use these to unlock any Classic skin, and if your main doesn’t have one yet, you can wait to unlock it at a later date.

  • Classic Chromas

We’re also adding Classic Chromas which are chromas for Classic Skins, and inject even more 2009 flair. Do you remember the original Tundra Warwick? You’re about to.

  • Portraits

Portraits are alternate-styled loading screen splash, ranging from playful doodles made by one of our resident designers, to pretty reinterpretations of champions. Portraits will rotate in the loading screen, so you can collect them to show off your favorites as you wait for your team to load in on a potato. 

Please let us know if you have any feedback about the mode or if you experience any bugs!
See you on the (Classic) Rift!


r/LeaguePBE • • 2d ago

Bug Report / Feedback - TFT Brambleback bug

3 Upvotes

I was playing PBE for choncc or treat, and I was given brambleback. I then found out that sometimes he just.. get stuck in air. And he'll remain that way the rest of the round. I hit three star and I lost both times because he just did absolutely nothing. So yeah just beware of the Back when playing


r/LeaguePBE • • 5d ago

Bug Report / Feedback - TFT Unable to submit bug reports!

2 Upvotes

Up until the most recent patch, I felt like the gameplay was consistent and solid. More recently I encountered two bugs in the game. One was 'random powerful augment' (something like that) - 'Item anvil and golden egg'. I never got the golden egg, presumably because my bench was full? Another game I got the augment that consumes 3 components to create an artifact anvil. It only consumed 1 component. I had built an item right before selecting the augment. I went to submit a bug report in both instances, but was unable to do so because of website errors? One time it gave a website error, the other time it just kept prompting me to login but did not appear to ever submit. This evening I got a survey from riot about the game. Mostly useless. I filled it out hoping there was a way to report the bugs and the bug reporting issues but there was not even an opportunity to provide any text feedback. Anyways, just very disappointing to not be able to easily report small problems with the game. Seems like they aren't even interested in fixing the problems! Has anyone else experienced this?


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: True Damage Know My Name Senna

8 Upvotes

"Music brings us to life. That's worth fighting for."

True Damage Know My Name Senna comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

True Damage Know My Name Senna should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: True Damage Know My Name Qiyana

7 Upvotes

"Is that all they brought to face us? My omele could defeat them, and she is 85."

True Damage Know My Name Qiyana comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

True Damage Know My Name Qiyana should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: Prestige True Damage Know My Name Ekko

7 Upvotes

"Back to going forward."

Prestige True Damage Know My Name Ekko comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

Prestige True Damage Know My Name Ekko should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: True Damage Know My Name Akali

7 Upvotes

"Stage ain't ready for what I bring. Got my own code, my own truth."

True Damage Know My Name Akali comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!
  • Custom VO!

True Damage Know My Name Akali should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: True Damage Know My Name Yasuo

3 Upvotes

"This story is not yet finished."

True Damage Know My Name Yasuo comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

True Damage Know My Name Yasuo should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: 16.21 Chromas

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

We’ve got new Chromas coming up for the 16.21 skins:

  • True Damage Know My Name Qiyana: 8 Chromas
  • True Damage Know My Name Akali: 6 Chromas
  • True Damage Know My Name Senna: 8 Chromas
  • True Damage Know My Name Yasuo: 5 Chromas
  • Prestige True Damage Know My Name Ekko: 1 Chroma

Aforementioned Chroma sets should be available on PBE soon!

We hope you all will enjoy the new sets; and as usual, we’re looking forward to hearing your constructive feedback.

Thanks!


r/LeaguePBE • • 9d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs and Feedback Thread: ARAM Mayhem - Journey to Stardom

6 Upvotes

ARAM: Mayhem has returned with our new release - "Journey to Stardom". With it brings a whole host of fun new augments, from riding a Jinx rocket, to stealing Pyke's passive, re-enacting your favorite Riot music video, getting together for a big group hug with your allies, and more!

Augments aren't the only thing we have in store for you this time. Journey to Stardom brings a new mechanic into the mix with Headliners! Headliners bring a persistent effect to the game, along with them some awesome background tunes, so be sure to listen in! Your favorite bands are coming to the big stage including KDA, True Damage, and.... BEES??? Who knows who else might stop by to jam out!

Take center stage as you audition to join the bands by completing in game missions. Impress the bands enough and you might just get noticed by the members themselves, offering you a chance at unique rewards including new augments!

Jam out with us and let us know what you think! Let us know here if you have any feedback or bugs! See you on the big stage!


r/LeaguePBE • • 13d ago

General So is Riot not gonna listen to feedback or address concerns about Heartsteel icons being AI?

8 Upvotes

title.

Heartsteel's bundle icons look AI generated and they dont even have the respective details that all members had, there hasnt been any kind of transparency about concerns from players and anyone that wanted to buy the bundle. I was interested in buying the bundle but I don't want to give my money to a company that uses AI for art, and besides not even looking good feels like a robbery


r/LeaguePBE • • 17d ago

Bug Report - SR/ARAM/RGM Where is the new Classic loading screen and new Classic champion select screen???

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1 Upvotes

r/LeaguePBE • • 20d ago

General PBE HEARTSTEEL Border Icon feedback, Ezreal + Aphelios

50 Upvotes

The new icons for HEARTSTEEL: Live My Life of Aphelios and Ezreal REALLY need to be edited. They barely resemble the champions themselves, whether referring to the MV, the promo art, or their splash arts.

Even if you ignore their likeness issues, Ezreal's necklace is completely wrong and his hair is the wrong colour and Aphelios' lip ring is off-centre.

Example Edit + Gif comparison
Splash + Icon Comparison


r/LeaguePBE • • 19d ago

General PBE Emote feedback: HEARTSTEEL Sett + Aphelios + Ezreal

26 Upvotes

Sett's prestige emote for Live My Life is missing his nose scar, and his face looks very uncanny. please fix it.
Also, Aphelios' face is wrong and his lip ring is off-centred, despite being centred everywhere else, and his nails need to be painted black.
Ezreal's necklace is wrong, his is looks wrong, and his teeth should be added. What's the point of having defining characteristics if you constantly erase them.

Edit as an example


r/LeaguePBE • • 21d ago

Bug Report - SR/ARAM/RGM High Roller Augment Bug

3 Upvotes

Playing Zeri, grabbed High Roller and Upgrade: IE, was hoping for lots of anvils with crit stats.

1: Are there WAY fewer anvil drops than before? It certainly felt like it, but this might just be balancing and not a bug...

2: Was playing against a Maokai, and I swear that when his saplings were changing state from static to running at us, or when they dying, it's unclear, but it looked like they dropped an anvil too. There were no minions around me at least, and the anvil orb spawned right where the sapling was when it died in a bush, far from the minion path.

Game ID: 4534839694
Timestamp: 18:52


r/LeaguePBE • • 21d ago

Bug Report - SR/ARAM/RGM All Classic Karma's basic abilities are bugged

5 Upvotes

All the abilities below cannot be cast on ally or enemy minions, wards and monsters (but they should)

RQ is not healing them

RQ healing tooltip isn't displaying the correct math for the percent missing health, it always shows 5% because the %AP scaling isn't being added (the healing itself isn't bugged, just the tooltip)

W and RW can only select champions

E and RE can only be cast on ally champions or yourself

I'm not sure if those differences are intended or are just bugs, because I don't really remember a moment where she couldnt do any of these things before getting the rework


r/LeaguePBE • • 21d ago

Bug Report - SR/ARAM/RGM Classic Quinn PBE Feedback & Bug Report Thread

5 Upvotes

Hello! After testing the newly re-released Classic Quinn on PBE, I've found several bugs affecting her audio and visuals that I wanted to report here prior to her official release. Thankfully, none of the bugs I've encountered so far have been gameplay-related, but her audio/visuals do need some fixes. I have marked the most egregious/critical bugs as (!) CRITICAL.

Default/Base Quinn Bugs

General

Harrier (P)

Blinding Assault (Q)

Tag Team / Skystrike (R)

Phoenix Quinn Bugs

General

Harrier (P)

Tag Team / Skystrike (R)

Woad Scout Quinn Bugs

General

Harrier (P)

Blinding Assault (Q)

Tag Team / Skystrike (R)


r/LeaguePBE • • 22d ago

General Feedback for Alune's emote, Sisterly Support

9 Upvotes

Hi! As someone who has a tooth gap, it was really important to me when Aphelios was confirmed to have one.
I understand Aphelios and Alune are not identical twins, but neither are my sister and I, who both have tooth gaps from our dad. And my dad's brother and sister have tooth gaps, too. I think it would make a lot of sense to add a tooth gap to Alune's emote, to add to the feeling of them being twins

Edit here


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Aphelios

24 Upvotes

"Through your eyes, I see such wonders…"

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Aphelios comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Aphelios should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Ezreal

16 Upvotes

"When you've got talent, there's no such thing as a lucky shot."

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Ezreal comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Ezreal should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Kayn

14 Upvotes

"Their screams will echo in this place."

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Kayn comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Kayn should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: Prestige HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Sett

12 Upvotes

"Wait, hold up. Are we gettin' paid for this?"

Prestige HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Sett comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

Prestige HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Sett should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: HEARTSTEEL Live My Life K'Sante

9 Upvotes

"Hehe, it wouldn't be worth it if it were easy!"

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life K'Sante comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life K'Sante should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!


r/LeaguePBE • • 23d ago

Collective Bug & Feedback Thread PBE Bugs & Feedback Thread: HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Yone

6 Upvotes

Post PBE Updates:

  • Update to his Recall (B) to include in Aphelios sticker 

Thanks for all the comments!

"Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul."

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Yone comes with:

  • Custom models and textures!
  • Custom VFX!
  • Custom SFX!
  • Custom Animations and Recall (B)!

HEARTSTEEL Live My Life Yone should be available on PBE soon! Feel free to leave constructive feedback or questions you have so far down below!