If you’re regularly clashing with other Summoners in Riot’s League of Legends, you’ve likely encountered the Your session has expired error. While not the worst error you can get, it can still end up impacting your overall experience with the MOBA. But is there a way to fix it?
Here’s everything we know about the League of Legends Your session has expired error, what it means and whether or not there’s a fix for it.
League of Legends Your Session Has Expired Error
The League of Legends YYour session has expired error is one of several recurring errors that players of Riot’s MOBA have to deal with periodically. Its full text reads as follows: “Your session has expired. Please log in again to continue.”.
As you can probably guess from its description, the Your session has expired error throws you out of whichever activity you were doing and requires that you log back into the League of Legends client.
A good portion of players is reporting encountering the issue at the end of matches, rendering them unable to honor other players. In worse cases, players get thrown out of queues and, upon logging back in, have to deal with a queue dodging timer penalty.
While it’s cause isn’t clear, a forum user claims to have received an answer from Riot support indicating that the issue is “a problem of which our teams are aware and they are doing their utmost to resolve it as quickly as possible”.
Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a surefire fix for League of Legends’ Your session has expired error, but you can keep an eye on the LOL server status here.
Players have reported some success uninstalling and reinstalling the game or calling upon the arcane magick that is port forwarding, but ultimately, you may just have to wait it out.
For more help with League of Legends, check out our guides on the Something unexpected happened while trying to create your lobby, Unexpected error with login session and Login queue is experiencing heavy traffic errors. You can also learn more about the League of Legends Patch 10.13 update that’s coming soon.
