How to Change Language in League of Legends

LoL Esports

September 25, 2023

Davide Xu

Here is a guide on how to change the language in League of Legends. Are you ready to show off like the best Chinese or Korean pros?

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Step-by-step guide on how to change language in League of Legends

While you probably have seen other tutorials or videos on how to do it, this is how I usually do it. To start off, here are the first steps:

Go to your Riot Games, League of Legends folder.
Search for “LeagueClient.exe“, right-click on it, and create a shortcut.
Be aware to not choose other programs with the League logo (usually named things like “LeagueClientUx”).
Right-click on the new shortcut and go to”Properties”.
In the “Shortcut” tab, find “Target:”, and at the end of the text, add –locale=

Based on which language you want to choose, add one of the following language codes after the “=” symbol in the “Target” box:

Language	Code
English (USA)	en_US
English (Great Britain)	en_GB
English (Australia)	en_AU
French	fr_FR
German	de_DE
Italian	it_IT
Polish	pl_PL
Romanian	ro_RO
Greek	el_GR
Portuguese	pt_BR
Hungarian	hu_HU
Russian	ru_RU
Turkish	tr_TR
Japanese	ja_JP
Korean	ko_KR
Chinese	zh_CN
Taiwanese	zh_TW
Spanish (Spain)	es_ES
Spanish (Mexico)	es_MX

For example:

If you want your client and game to be in Japanese, write: –locale=ja_JP,
then press “Apply” in the “Properties” window.

If you want to change League of Legends language to Korean, write: –locale=ko_KR,
then press “Apply” in the “Properties” window

How to change LoL Voice Language

If you want to know how to change League of Legends voice to, for example, Korean:

Go to the LoL folder, find clientSettings.xml change the region locale to “ko_KR”.
Then reopen the client and wait for the voices to be fully downloaded.

You can do it with any language, but always make sure to close the client first before making any changes.

Is it not working? Here’s the latest fix

While this used to work in the past, recent patches have changed the method. Aside from creating the shortcut, make sure to go to the “General” tab in the “Properties Window“, look for “Attributes:” and check the “Read-only” box. Then click “Apply”.

By doing so, it should allow you to get the desired language from your client. This is because the “Read-only” setting does not allow for the shortcut to be changed.

Make sure to not manually click on League and don’t press the play button or it will launch in the original language. If you can’t still change the language in League of Legends, try to do it a few more times, and create new shortcuts: it can sometimes bug out.