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# Riot Games

Linking your Riot account brings your **League of Legends** and **Teamfight Tactics** (TFT) ranks and matches into RivalRyze, along with **Valorant** stats where RivalRyze can read them.

## Connect Riot Games

1. Open **Settings** and pick the **Connections** tab.
2. Under **Connect through authentication directly**, click **Connect** on the **Riot Games** row.
3. Riot's sign-in page opens. Sign in with your Riot account and approve the access.
4. You're sent back to the page you started from, and your first Riot sync starts.

One sign-in covers every Riot game. RivalRyze finds your region for each game on its own.

If the connection can't start, you see **Failed to start Riot connection**. If you return from Riot and the **Riot Games** row still shows **Connect**, the link didn't go through; see [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting).

## What RivalRyze shows

### League of Legends

Your profile gets a League of Legends card, and the League of Legends game page shows your stats:

* Your rank per queue and your rank history
* Signature champions (your most played, with your record on each) and your playstyle
* A breakdown by queue
* Recent matches

### Teamfight Tactics

Your profile gets a Teamfight Tactics card, and the TFT game page shows your stats:

* Your rank and your rank history
* A breakdown by set
* Recent matches

### Valorant

Valorant stats (games, win rate, average combat score and KDA) feed the Valorant leaderboard. Riot has to grant RivalRyze access to Valorant data for this, so Valorant may show less than League of Legends and TFT.

### Leaderboards and Contests

* Your League of Legends and TFT ranks feed their leaderboards. You appear on a queue's board once you're ranked in it.
* **League of Legends Points Battle** and **TFT Points Battle** are Contests scored on the matches you play. See [Objective Modes](/contests/objective-modes.md).

## How often Riot syncs

Riot syncs on your subscription tier's schedule (every 4 hours on Free, every hour on Supporter, every 30 minutes on Legend), like the other platforms. Subscribers can also refresh right away with the refresh icon (**Update profile**) on their profile. See [the sync schedule](/connecting-gaming-platforms/troubleshooting-sync.md#5-understand-the-sync-schedule).

Scheduled syncs cover the Riot games you have a profile in. For the first day after you link, they also keep looking for games you haven't played yet.

## Disconnecting Riot Games

Click **Disconnect** on the **Riot Games** row in **Settings → Connections**. You see **Riot account disconnected successfully**. RivalRyze revokes its access at Riot and stops syncing.

Your League of Legends, TFT and Valorant history stays stored with that Riot account. If you link the same Riot account again later, it comes back.

You can link one Riot account at a time. To switch accounts, disconnect, then connect with the other Riot account.

## Troubleshooting

### The Riot Games row still shows Connect after signing in

The link was refused or didn't finish. The most common reason is that the Riot account is already linked to another RivalRyze account: sign in to that account and disconnect it there, or [contact support](/help-and-faq/contact-support.md). Otherwise, click **Connect** and try again.

### I don't appear on a leaderboard

You need a rank in that queue first. Brand-new accounts and players who haven't finished their placement games have no rank yet.

### I started playing League of Legends or TFT long after linking Riot

If the game doesn't show up after your next sync, click **Disconnect** on the **Riot Games** row, then **Connect** again. Reconnecting looks for all your Riot games again.

### My rank just changed but RivalRyze shows the old one

Wait for the next sync, or use the refresh icon (**Update profile**) on your profile if you subscribe.

## Related

* [Troubleshooting Sync Issues](/connecting-gaming-platforms/troubleshooting-sync.md)
* [Objective Modes](/contests/objective-modes.md)