How big is League of Legends in 2024

In this article, we will go through the popularity of League of Legends, its future, and the required space you need to run LoL, as well as the system that can run the League.

How Many GB is LoL?

The actual file size of League of Legends is 9 GB as of 2024, but with the additional downloads required such as language packs, client, and so on: The required size goes up to 22 GB. Therefore having at least 22 gigabytes is required for any system to be able to run LoL.

Systems That Can Run LoL

The simple answer to this topic is any computer system can run LoL. It's not playable on mobile phones but Riot Games has released Wild Rift for mobile users.

System Requirements for LoL at Windows

System Requirements for LoL at Mac

How Popular is League Of Legends

Well, the simple answer to that is it's one of the most popular games that is ever created, so it's really popular. Statistically speaking, we can't say anything for certain about yearly statistics of 2024, as it's in progress but for the previous seasons; here’s what we got:

• In 2023, LoL had 10,052,530 million concurrent players.
• in 2022, 13,687,409 million players.
• in 2020, 7,268,869 million players.

League of Legends had outstanding gamer interest since its release, with consistency, and it hasn't shown any kind of ‘’downfall’’ indicator at all. Presumably, it will be a long time; till gamers get bored of this amazing MOBA!

The regions with the biggest interest in LoL in the past years are:

1. Europe West
2. North America
3. Korea
4. Europe Nordic & East

Except for the general ‘’interest’’ in the game, we have 2 different aspects to speak of regarding popularity, which are LoL Esports and Ranked Games popularity; as the commitment and player base spending time watching professional games and the amount of players that spend time competing to reach higher in the ladder are the most consistent users which will be the deciding point for LoL’s future.

LoL Esports

As of 2021, League of Legends has become the most popular Esports Game. With 115 players worldwide back in the day, which the amount has increased since then!

Even while not being the most active server, Asia has over%50 of the players that watch the esports content.

All-time peak of people watching LoL Esports was in the 2023 Worlds Finals, with the number of people who watched being 6.402.760!

In 2023, there were 200 LoL Tournaments and Competitions which was being streamed with a reward pool of $8.218.746

The total prize pool of League of Legends is currently $102.737.298, League is 4th with the prize pool compared to other Esports games.

Most Active Esports Teams

The Esports teams which have played the biggest number of games are:

1. G2 Esports with a total of 433 Matches
2. T1 with a total of 426 Matches
3. Cloud 9 with a total of 419 Matches

Ranked Games and LoL Player Count

Number of average monthly LoL players

2023 151 Million/Month

2022 152 Million/Month

2021 149 Million/Month

2020 137 Million/Month

Ranked Games

Ranked Splits and rewards play a huge role in the player amount monthly, with increasing amounts near the end of the split and start of the split in all seasons of League of Legends.

In 2024, the ranked season has been divided into 3 splits, to increase the monthly player amount to a higher status than the regular system of 2022 and before which is 1 Season without splits every year.

For players of all ranks; placement games specifically play a vital role in their progress in the split.Yet the risks of those games going bad have affected many players commitment to the game, with the players with placements games below%50 win rate having a%30 Less monthly game amount compared to players with%50 win rate and above.

If you’d like to have a great start at your ranked season/split in League of Legends, hiring a duo to avoid being forced to losses due to toxic/feeding teammates could be an optimal resolution for many.