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How challenges work in League of Legends

Each League of Legends challenge is a personal target built from your own recent games. Most are settled by one Ranked Solo/Duo game, some by your next few. Your result is read from your match history after each game ends.

Before you play

Link your Riot account

Results are read from the League account you link, so link the one you actually play on. Games played on any other account do not count.

  1. On the challenges page, select Connect on the League of Legends tile
  2. Pick your region and enter your Riot ID as name#tag, then select Search
  3. Check that the account shown is yours, then select Agree & Link Account

Your first challenges appear once 5 of your newest 100 Ranked Solo/Duo games are counted. Ranked Flex, normal games and ARAM are not counted.

How it works

  1. Pick a challenge

    Each one is a target built from your own recent League games. Some also ask for a role or a champion.

  2. Start it, then queue up

    After you start the challenge, you have 12 hours to begin a Ranked Solo/Duo game on your linked account.

  3. We follow your game

    We see when your game starts, and read your result from your match history once it ends.

  4. Get your result

    Meet the target and credits are added to your balance. Free practice works the same way, with no credits involved.

  5. If time runs out

    Over several games, the qualifying games you played decide it, and falling short is a loss, Off-Meta runs too. Only no game at all returns any entry.

Where your result comes from

Your result comes from your own League match history, read through the Riot Games API. It is read-only: Zenko never changes anything on your Riot account, and you never report a score or send a screenshot.

  1. You play

    A Ranked Solo/Duo game on your linked account, played as you normally would.

  2. Riot records the match

    The finished game lands in your League match history with its stats.

  3. We check your target

    We read that match and compare your stats with your target.

What counts

Counts

  • Ranked Solo/Duo games on the Riot account you linked
  • Games that begin after you start the challenge, up to 12 hours later
  • Games of 15 minutes or more that end in a surrender: they count, and your stats stand
  • A game you leave or go inactive in, other than a remake, is a lost game that uses a try, on any role, champion or length

Doesn't count

  • Ranked Flex, normal games, ARAM and every other queue, though if time runs out after one, the challenge ends as a loss
  • A game that began before you started the challenge, even one already in progress
  • Remakes, and any game shorter than 15 minutes
  • Games on a role or champion your challenge does not allow: they use no try, but time running out after one is a loss

When results appear

League games are followed as they happen. We see when your game starts, and your result is read from your match history shortly after it ends. There is nothing for you to report.

  1. Your match starts
  2. We see the game as it happens
  3. Your match ends
  4. Your result appears