503RADARINCIDENT ARCHIVEMETHODOLOGY
RESOLVED

Riot Games outage — August 16, 2026

Payment Issues

Riot Games’s VALORANT was disrupted for 12h 16m on August 16, 2026.

Key facts

DetectedAugust 16, 2026 · 15:08 UTC
Confirmed15:08 UTC
Resolved03:24 UTC
Duration12h 16m
ServiceVALORANT · eu

Timeline

  1. 15:08Z

    Detected · Official

    Reported directly on RIOT's official status page — no earlier independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) signal.
  2. 03:24Z

    Resolved

    Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.

How this was detected

Confirmed by RIOT's official status page — no independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) corroboration.