How to Surrender and Remake in LoL: /ff and /remake Rules

In League of Legends you surrender with /ff and cancel a broken game with /remake. On Summoner's Rift a surrender vote opens at 15 minutes (12 in Swiftplay) and needs 4 of 5 votes. A remake is only possible in roughly the first two and a half minutes, when a teammate is AFK or never connects. Here are the exact timings, vote rules and penalties.

Last checked: November 9, 2026.

Surrender and remake at a glance

How to surrender in LoL

Type any of these in chat to start a surrender vote:

• /ff
• /surrender
• /concede
• /forfeit

A vote pop-up appears for your team. Teammates click yes or no, or type the command themselves to vote yes. Since patch 25.15 the vote stays open for 25 seconds (it used to be 60). If the vote fails, the game goes on.

When you can surrender

Summoner's Rift

In Ranked Solo/Duo and Ranked Flex, the surrender vote opens at 15:00 and needs 4 of 5 players (70%) to agree. Riot set this in patch 13.7, dropping the old 20-minute standard vote and the unanimous early surrender at 15 minutes. Riot said normal games had already been testing the lower timer for several patches before that change, and Normal Draft uses the same 15-minute mark.

Swiftplay

Swiftplay games are shorter, so the surrender time is lower. In patch 26.2 Riot cut it from 15 to 12 minutes, after average Swiftplay games had become about six minutes shorter.

When a teammate is AFK

If a teammate is AFK or disconnected, your team can call an early surrender sooner than 15:00. Patch 26.1 moved this point from 3:30 to 2:55, the same patch that made most start-of-game timers run 35 seconds sooner. Before that point, look at the remake window below instead.

Arena

Arena has its own rules. The earliest you can forfeit is 6 minutes, and there's no early forfeit for AFK partners, since cancelling the game would be unfair to the other teams. Arena's AFK detection works on a timer instead:

• A warning appears after 70 seconds of doing nothing.
• After 180 seconds of inactivity, the AFK player's vote no longer counts toward forfeiting.
• After 300 seconds, the AFK player is disconnected.

How /remake works

A remake cancels the game when a teammate fails to load in or goes inactive at the very start. Everyone except the inactive player leaves without a win or loss.

Remake is available in normal and ranked Summoner's Rift games, Howling Abyss (ARAM) and rotating modes. It isn't available in Co-op vs. AI games.

The remake timeline

If a player's 55 seconds of inactivity ends close to 2:25, the team still gets at least 30 seconds to type /remake. For example, if it happens at 2:15, the team has until 2:45.

These timings date from patch 26.1, when Riot moved the remake window from 1:30–3:00 to 0:55–2:25.

Remake rules

• First Blood blocks it. If the player goes AFK or disconnects after their team has given up First Blood, the remake option is gone.
• Executions don't count. Only a kill by an enemy champion blocks the remake. Dying to a tower or minions doesn't.
• One vote per game. A remake vote can only be started once, so don't call it too early.
• Votes needed: in a 4v5, at least two players must vote yes. In a 3v5 or worse, one player can make the call.
• Keep moving. Players who stand idle while waiting for the remake can be flagged as AFK and punished too.

Penalties for remakes

When a remake passes, the game ends straight away. Active players gain and lose nothing: no LP, Blue Essence or XP, and no win or loss on their record.

The inactive player gets:

• A loss on their record.
• LP loss, the same as losing the game.
• An AFK flag, which counts toward leaver penalties.

In Ranked, Diamond IV and above players in the inactive player's premade take the same penalties. This only applies if the premade player is Diamond IV or higher themselves; lower-ranked duo partners aren't penalized. In normal games, nobody in the premade is punished except the inactive player.

A remade game also doesn't count toward anything that needs a number of completed games, such as getting through low priority queue or unlocking content.

Games that end for other reasons

Disruptive Game Termination

Since patch 26.10, if Riot's systems confirm severe sabotage during a match, such as a player selling all their items and running around, the rest of that player's team is offered a vote to end the game. The disruptive player and their premade can't vote.

• If the vote passes: the game ends, the affected team loses no LP or MMR, the other team gets a normal win, and the disruptive player and their premade are penalized.
• If it fails: the game continues, and the affected team still can't lose LP. They can win LP if they win.

Loss Prevented

When League has a server-wide problem, Riot can switch on a compensation mode. Affected games show Loss Prevented in match history: nobody gets a loss or loses LP or MMR, wins still count but at a 50% rate for LP and MMR gains, and XP is awarded in full. Riot can't turn this on for a single player after the fact.

Surrender etiquette

• Call the vote when the game is really lost, not right after one bad fight.
• If a vote fails, accept it and play the next fight properly.
• Don't go AFK because a vote failed. That turns a normal loss into a leaver penalty.

For the full list of chat commands, including /mute and /ignore for when a vote turns heated, see our LoL chat commands guide.

Frequently asked questions

When can you surrender in League of Legends?

On Summoner's Rift, the surrender vote opens at 15 minutes in Ranked and normal draft games, and at 12 minutes in Swiftplay. If a teammate is AFK, an early surrender becomes possible from 2:55. In Arena, the minimum is 6 minutes.

How many votes do you need to surrender in LoL?

You need 4 of 5 players, or 70% of the team, to vote yes. Riot removed the old unanimous 15-minute surrender in patch 13.7.

How long do you have to remake in LoL?

The remake window runs from 0:55 to 2:25 of game time, and only opens once a teammate has been inactive or disconnected for at least 55 seconds. Votes started before 2:25 get at least 30 seconds to finish.

Do you lose LP if a game is remade?

Not if you stayed active. Only the inactive player takes a loss, loses LP and gets flagged for AFK. In Diamond IV and above, their premade partners at that rank are penalized too.

Why can't I remake even though a teammate is AFK?

Common reasons are that your team gave up First Blood before the player went inactive, the 2:25 window has passed, or a remake vote has already been used this game. Remake also isn't available in Co-op vs. AI.

Is there a penalty for surrendering in LoL?

No. A normal surrender just counts as a loss for your team, the same as losing the game. Penalties are only for leaving or going AFK.