I'm both glad and sad to have stumbled upon this thread. it's nice to know i'm not alone on the issue, but it also sucks to hear its a bigger problem than i anticipated. i've got nothing to add except that i've experienced the same late night latency jitter and lag on league, where everything else, regardless of location, pings where it normally should at that time.

the nights are my time to solo q too, /sad

Im just going to add, that people do not need below 100 ping to play, i play on 200 with no troubles.
However before the latest round of patches i was playing at 120ish.
This is average australian ping, none of us can get bellow 100

Has anyone tried the technique the OP posted here??? does this still work accurately?? In game i tend to sit at 5000ms latency (literally) and running the tracert from this .txt file yields rather grim results:

1 2 ms 4 ms 1 ms static-xxxxxxxxxxx.wireless.unwiredbb.net [xxxxxxxxx
2 2 ms 2 ms 15 ms ge-1-5.fat-crtr2.unwiredbb.net [xxxxxxxxxx]

3 5 ms 2 ms 4 ms ge-1-0-5.fat-crtr1.unwiredbb.net [xxxxxxxxx
1]
4 27 ms 12 ms 15 ms ge-2-2.sjc-crtr1.unwiredbb.net [xxxxxxxxx]

5 75 ms 199 ms 206 ms ge-7-46.car4.sanjose1.level3.net [4.71.114.133]

6 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms ae-1-60.edge2.sanjose3.level3.net [4.69.152.17]

7 12 ms 21 ms 10 ms gblx-level3-40g.sanjose3.level3.net [4.68.62.178
]
8 15 ms 10 ms 19 ms ae9-20g.scr3.snv2.gblx.net [67.16.145.117]
9 19 ms 18 ms 17 ms po6-50g.ar4.lax1.gblx.net [67.16.129.202]
10 30 ms 29 ms 28 ms internap.te1-4.ar4.lax1.gblx.net [64.215.30.78]

11 17 ms 17 ms 26 ms border1.po2-20g-bbnet2.lax010.pnap.net [216.52.2
55.103]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

i know i don't have the best internet but i have been able to play just fine with 200ms max and around 80ms average. This is just ridiculous? I am not sure if these results can even be trusted but sitting at 5000ms constantly would lead me to believe this is what is going on.

Pings to google.com yield 2ms-60ms.

Thought it was my router, so just went to get a 160$ one and still no improvement to the issue. I believe it has something to do with the DNS server or something. Idk. Ive tried literally EVERYTHING and still massive ping. Almost played for a year with no issues and now it is ridiculous. I just love this game too much to give up looking for a solution, but it is frustrating. I just want a solution. Someone help us. Riot help us. Please.

Hanig the same problem, posted in a few other ping threads but no response yet, please fix this riot i hav elike 7k games played, i love this game, i just want to playyyyyy T T

Regardless of the Server Message saying it's the ISP's, for a majority of players. It's not. LolDrop was hinted to be back a few weeks ago and it very well may be what's affecting a lot of your games. My MS to my ISP doesn't go above 26 MS. I even did a test while I was lagging in game(990-5k+) since I couldnt do anything anyways and my MS was still super low.

Riot won't admit they have DDOS'ers. This level of lag out of the freaking blue and when I can't trace it to my ISP; only caused by DDOS or really ****/outdated servers. I've played games far too many years of my life and I've gone through thousands of DDOS attacks and this is so similar.

My friends and I generally have around 90-105 ping, but over the past two-three weeks or so it's been doubled and now were at around a constant 160-180.