Please note that you are using this project on your own discretion, we don't hold any responsibility for any actions taken on you/on your account

Those who cannot start LOL after the 11.17 update check here: Update to newer wine-lol version

You can also refer to r/leagueoflinux for frequent updates regarding the game on linux

The Garena Client is almost exclusively intended for Asia (Includes south, south-east, east, etc). If you do not belong to the aforementioned regions (Like NA, EU, etc.), Please use the Riot Client instead (What Lutris ships by default)

This is the way I personally use to start LOL on Linux, through Lutris. The code for starting game without Lutris is still in the script though.

Wine Dependency (Maybe redundant, but just to be sure nothing goes wrong)

Source: https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/how-to-get-out-of-wine-dependency-hell/

Antergos/Manjaro/Arch derivatives (enable multilib in pacman.conf):

sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S wine-staging winetricks
sudo pacman -S giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses opencl-icd-loader lib32-opencl-icd-loader libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader cups samba dosbox

Solus:

sudo eopkg install wine wine-devel wine-32bit-devel winetricks

Ubuntu:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
sudo apt install winetricks

Fedora:

Enable RPM Fusion repo

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install lutris wine winetricks
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

Install Lutris

Follow Lutris official docs here: https://lutris.net/downloads/

  • Install Garena and LOL from Lutris

Garena: https://lutris.net/games/garena/

Note for Garena: After installing Garena, do not login, close the window

Install LOL from Garena

Open Garena from lutris and install LOL like you normally do on Windows.

Also, enable Disable proxy when browsing for better Garena experience (it sucks by default)

Garena setting

  • Change the installation directory

Open the Wine Prefix directory (where your Garena is actually installed)

For ex: /home/nhubao/Games/garena-vn/drive_c

Create a new folder there, name it as you wish. For my case, I befittingly named it "fuck u garena" image

The directory for the newly created folder should be something like the following example

/home/nhubao/Games/garena-vn/drive_c/fuck u garena

Now, open the Garena Client via Lutris and change the installation directory for LoL

Garena Client --> League of Legends --> Wrench icon (in the bottom left of the page) --> Locate Game Files --> Change --> Locate the directory to the newly created folder

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Now click Install and it should now start installing!

  • Alternative Method For Installing LoL

If for some reason the installation doesn't complete via the Garena Client, try the folllowing method:-

  1. Head over to this link (If you wish to use the English language) Or use this link (If you wish to use the Vietnamese version

If you wish to inform us about different language options, please raise an issue and we will add it!

  1. Click on Game Download

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  1. Save the file and wait for it to install

  2. Extract the folder into the directory where the game is supposed to be installed by Garena

For Ex: /home/nhubao/Games/garena-vn/drive_c/fuck u garena

  1. Head over to Lutris, select the Garena client and under the options for Wine, select Run EXE inside Wine Prefix image

  2. You will now be prompted by an installer which will extract all the game assets, click Next and the installation should begin

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  1. This is how it should look like now!

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Note: It may take a few minutes to start, give it some time, it may show the Play option again, just ignore it.

Result

LOL on Linux

Update new wine-lol

  1. Use lutris-ge-lol-* from lutris (Here, * signifies the latest version and release)
  • Go to Manage runners --> Manage Versions and install the latest lutris-ge-lol
  • Change the wine version of LOL( Configure--> Runner Options --> Wine Version) to lutris-ge-lol-*
  1. Custom wine-lol
  • It currently only have prebuilt for Ubuntu/Debian based and PKGBUILD for arch based: https://github.com/ekistece/wine-lol
  • After installing both wine-lol and wine-lol-glibc, change the wine version of LOL in lutris to custom and enter this path: /opt/wine-lol/bin/wine

Disclaimer

  • If the game crash with some message that saids core dump... just press OK and wait a bit, the game will continue at the exact state