Is Valorant Down?

Did your connection slip right when you had an agent in the crosshairs? Don’t fret; Riot Games makes troubleshooting Valorant outages and lag easy with its official channels. While Riot runs scheduled maintenance often, unexpected and widespread outages are rare.

We’ll show you how to find out if the Valorant servers are online. If you don’t find any evidence of an outage, use our Valorant-specific troubleshooting steps to find issues with your system or local network. We’ve provided steps and links to every solution below.

How to troubleshoot a Valorant outage

Thankfully, Riot Games makes it easy to find information on the status of all its games, and it regularly posts updates to social media on known issues. If Valorant is offline because of an outage or maintenance, all you can do is wait for it to be resolved.

If you can’t find evidence of an outage, it’s time to look at Valorant error codes and run through a couple of troubleshooting steps to rule out an issue with your system or home network.

Check the Riot Games server status page

Riot Games maintains a reliable server status page for its multiplayer games. This should be your first stop when running into connection issues with Valorant.

Step 1: Navigate to the Riot Games Service Status Page.

Step 2: Select your region.

Step 3: Click on Valorant.

Step 4 (what to look for): A red or yellow warning icon or a critical-labeled message signals an unexpected service issue with the servers, while blue icons may notify of planned maintenance. The status details are important, so be sure to read the description. All is well in the example above.

If Valorant is in the middle of an outage or an update, all you can do is wait for it to come back online.

Look for outage reports on social media

Sometimes it may take a bit for an issue to be officially recognized on the Riot server status page, in which case you should head over to X and check the official Riot Support handle or run a broad search for Valorant reports.

• Check the official @RiotSupport Riot routinely posts about unexpected outages, login errors, extended maintenance windows, or disabled features (like when Clash mode or Ranked queues get temporarily turned off).
• Search keywords like “Valorant down” or “Valorant servers” on X and filter by latest. If thousands of players just got booted, you’ll see an immediate flood of reports and probably a lot of memes and angry tweets.
• Check r/VALORANT/ on Reddit. If there’s a widespread issue, odds are high that someone is posting about it.

Learn if others are experiencing issues

If you haven’t found the info you need, check a third-party down detector’s Valorant page. Outage detector sites can tell you how many people have reported a Valorant issue in the last 24 hours. This is helpful, but also prone to false positives and negatives. Pay close attention to the actual numbers represented in the charts. Outage trackers are useful tools, but take the data with a grain of salt.

What if the servers are up, but you still can’t connect?

The Riot servers might be running perfectly fine, but loading very slowly or not at all due to a local issue with your home network or internet connection.

Check for Valorant error codes, restart Vanguard, and check your system

Check your internet connection

If you still can’t get into your game, there’s a good chance your internet connection is the problem. Your best first step is to run a quick speed test. A speed test provides you with a bunch of useful info (like download speed and ping) along with verification that your connection is indeed working.

If you don’t get results at all, you’re either experiencing an internet outage or there’s something wrong with your home network. If you get results but they’re slower than what you’re paying for, check out our tips to improve your connection.

Valorant requires a rock-solid, packet-loss-free connection. If you are playing on Wi-Fi, try hooking up an Ethernet cable temporarily to see if local wireless interference is causing you to drop packets and time out from the game host.

Fast-paced shooters like Valorant benefit greatly from a zippy connection with lightning-quick latency times.

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