LoL Ranks Explained: All League of Legends Ranks in Order

League of Legends has 10 ranks – Riot calls them tiers. The seven tiers from Iron to Diamond are each split into four divisions, while the three apex tiers – Master, Grandmaster and Challenger – have no divisions. Here's the full order and everything you need to know about LP, promotion, demotion and rank decay.

All LoL ranks in order

From lowest to highest:

1. 10 Challenger no divisions
2. 09 Grandmaster no divisions
3. 08 Master no divisions
4. 07 Diamond IV · III · II · I
5. 06 Emerald IV · III · II · I
6. 05 Platinum IV · III · II · I
7. 04 Gold IV · III · II · I
8. 03 Silver IV · III · II · I
9. 02 Bronze IV · III · II · I
10. 01 Iron IV · III · II · I

Heads-up, it's the opposite of Valorant: In LoL, Division IV is the lowest and Division I the highest step of a tier. From Silver III you go through Silver II and Silver I to Gold IV.

Emerald sits between Platinum and Diamond. If you come across older rank lists without Emerald, they're out of date.

Solo/Duo and Flex: two separate ranks

Ranked in LoL runs through two queues. Your rank in one is completely independent of your rank in the other, and you get separate end-of-season rewards for each.

• Solo/Duo: You play alone or with exactly one other person. Stricter rank restrictions apply here (see below).
• Flex: You can queue as a party of 1, 2, 3 or 5 players – parties of 4 aren't allowed. Up to and including Diamond there are no rank restrictions. If you want to play with Master players or higher, you need to be at least Emerald.

Placement matches

You only play placement matches when you're unranked – meaning you've never played ranked before or a new year begins.

• It's 5 placement matches per queue.
• Your placement depends on your results, the strength of your opponents and your rank from the previous year. If you've never played ranked, your MMR from Swiftplay and Normal Draft is factored in.
• You can't place higher than Diamond III – not even if you were in an apex tier before.
• You don't lose LP in placement matches. A loss simply gives you 0 LP. Going AFK still counts as a loss, though.

LP: how you climb

After placements, you earn LP (League Points) for wins and lose some for losses.

• At 100 LP you're promoted to the next division. Any extra LP carries over.
• Once you hit 100 LP in Division I of a tier, you're promoted to the next tier automatically – there's no promotion series (promos) anymore.

Demotion: what happens after too many losses?

• Within a tier (e.g. Silver III to Silver IV), you demote as soon as you lose more LP than you have. Riot's example: you have 5 LP in Silver III and lose 20 LP – you end up in Silver IV with 85 LP.
• Between tiers (e.g. Silver IV to Bronze I), there's demotion protection so you can defend the rank you earned. If you demote anyway, you land in the tier below with 25, 50 or 75 LP – depending on how far the system thinks your actual skill is from your rank.

Rank decay from Diamond up

Rank decay only affects Diamond and above. From Iron to Emerald, you can take a break for as long as you like.

From Diamond up, you get a balance of banked days. One day is subtracted every day, and playing games adds new ones. Once you run out of days, you lose LP every day:

If decay takes you to 0 LP or below, you drop a division. Players in Master and above who fall due to inactivity land in Diamond II. Riot explicitly points out that decay keeps running during a ban.

Master, Grandmaster and Challenger

The three apex tiers each consist of just one single league with no divisions. There's no LP cap here. The Grandmaster and Challenger ladders are recalculated every 24 hours.

• Master: You get promoted at 100 LP in Diamond I. You have demotion protection for your first three games. If you drop below 0 LP after that, you go back to Diamond I with 25, 50 or 75 LP.
• Grandmaster: You need 400 LP and more LP than the lowest Grandmaster player in your region.
• Challenger: You need 800 LP and more LP than the lowest Challenger player in your region.

The number of spots is limited per region. On EUW, Solo/Duo has at most 700 Grandmaster and 300 Challenger players; in Flex it's at most 500 and 200.

Who can you duo with in Solo/Duo?

In the Solo/Duo queue, you can only play with players in a certain rank range:

Riot also looks at your hidden MMR: from Emerald to Diamond II, you can't duo with players who have Master-level MMR while you're Diamond or lower yourself. And if you have Master-level MMR or higher yourself, you're subject to the same solo restrictions as apex-tier players, regardless of your displayed rank.

FAQ

Also playing Valorant? It has 9 ranks, no rank decay and Rank Shields instead of demotion protection. You'll find the details in Valorant Ranks Explained. If you're thinking about a new mouse for more precision, read our gaming mouse buying guide.

Sources

As of September 2026. All information comes from Riot Games' official support articles:

• Ranked Tiers, Divisions, and Queues
• Placements, Promotions, Series, Demotions, and Decay
• Master, Grandmaster, and Challenger: The Apex Tiers

Riot regularly adjusts the ranked system. If anything changes, we'll update this article.