LoL Challenger and Grandmaster LP Cutoff
See what it actually takes to hold an apex slot on your server right now.
What it takes to finish inside the top 300 if the ladder recalculated right now.
- Lowest Challenger now
- 2,203 LP
- Challenger slots
- 300
Updated
LP Cutoff on Every Server
Right now Challenger takes 2,304 LP on EUW and 1,575 LP on NA. Grandmaster takes 1,712 LP on EUW and 1,085 LP on NA. Read from the live ladder at 19:55 UTC on 12 September 2026.
What it takes to reach each apex tier right now, and what the lowest player holding it is sitting on. The gap between those two columns comes from players below the line who have already climbed past the lowest holders and are waiting for the next recalculation.
| Server | Challenger | Grandmaster | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server | Challenger, To reach | Challenger, Lowest now | Grandmaster, To reach | Grandmaster, Lowest now |
| EUW | 2,304 | 2,203 | 1,712 | 1,603 |
| EUNE | 2,047 | 1,952 | 1,419 | 55 |
| BR | 2,011 | 1,872 | 1,358 | 27 |
| KR | 1,836 | 1,756 | 1,336 | 1,258 |
| VN | 1,636 | 1,587 | 1,076 | 1,003 |
| NA | 1,575 | 1,491 | 1,085 | 938 |
| LAN | 1,567 | 1,472 | 1,047 | 15 |
| JP | 1,453 | 92 | 1,018 | 935 |
| OCE | 1,300 | 1,300 | 919 | 863 |
| LAS | 1,250 | 1,207 | 815 | 667 |
| TR | 1,178 | 1,071 | 744 | 490 |
| RU | 1,060 | 1,038 | 668 | 583 |
| TW | 1,014 | 999 | 495 | 444 |
| SEA | 844 | 781 | 413 | 237 |
| ME | 766 | 721 | 391 | 365 |
A very low “lowest now” is not an error. Players who stop queueing keep the tier for a while and bleed LP the whole time, so the bottom slot is often an account on its way out. The “to reach” column is the one to climb against.
What the LP Cutoff Actually Means
Reach the lowest Challenger and you are in
The LP moves every game, the tier does not
Tier membership is recalculated on Riot's schedule while LP changes every match, so by the time you read any figure, players below the line have climbed past the people holding the last slots. On BR the lowest Challenger is sitting on 1,872 LP, but the bar that actually decides the next recalculation is 2,011 LP. Matching the lowest holder puts you in the queue to replace them. Clearing the real bar is what takes the slot.
Every server has 300 Challenger spots
Apex size scales with the server
The slot count is set per region, not globally. Right now SEA carries 323 Challenger slots while OCE carries 50, so the same LP total means very different things depending on where you queue. The counts drift by a few either way as the ladder recalculates.
A low cutoff means the server is easy
Decay drags the bottom of the tier down
Players who stop queueing keep the tier label for a while and bleed LP the whole time, so the lowest holder is often an account on its way out rather than the real bar. JP reads 92 LP for its lowest Challenger, which is why a tracker that publishes only that figure can show a number nobody could climb to. The bar to actually get in on JP is 1,453 LP.
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Frequently Asked
Questions
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There is no fixed number. Challenger holds a set number of slots per server, and at each ladder recalculation every player in Master or above is sorted by LP and the top ones take those slots. So the bar is the LP of whoever sits exactly at that slot count across all three apex tiers combined, not the LP of the lowest current Challenger, who got in at the previous recalculation. The table above shows both figures for all fifteen servers, refreshed every two hours.
Grandmaster works the same way, one tier down. It holds the next block of slots after Challenger, so the bar is the LP of whoever sits at the Challenger and Grandmaster slot counts combined, again counting every player in Master or above. Master itself has no slot limit, which is why only Grandmaster and Challenger have a cutoff at all.
No. LP updates the moment your game ends, but apex tier membership is recalculated on Riot's own schedule. Between those two events you can be sitting on more LP than several people still holding the tier above you. Passing the bar puts you in line for a slot at the next recalculation rather than moving you immediately.
Continuously, because it is just the LP of the players at the boundary and they are playing. The practical rhythm is that it drifts through the day and moves in steps at each ladder recalculation. It climbs hardest in the closing weeks of a split, when everyone still in contention is queueing for the same slots.
Because the slot count is set per server while the player population is not. A large, dense server has far more players competing for a similar number of apex slots, which pushes the LP at the boundary up. Smaller servers carry fewer slots but also far fewer contenders, so their bars sit lower.
It varies by server and is not the same 300 and 700 everywhere. Large servers carry roughly 300 Challenger slots, while quieter ones carry closer to 50. The slot column in the table above reads the live count for each server, and it drifts by a few in either direction as the ladder recalculates.
Because they publish the LP of the lowest player still holding the tier, and that account is often decaying rather than competing. A player who stops queueing keeps the tier label for a while and bleeds LP the whole time, which drags that figure down to a number nobody could climb to. The bar that matters is where the slot count falls once every apex player is sorted by LP, which is the figure this page leads with.
Yes. The table covers EUW, EUNE, NA, KR, BR, LAN, LAS, OCE, JP, TR, RU, ME, SEA, TW and VN, and every server is read from the same live ladder on the same refresh, so the numbers are directly comparable across regions.
