League of Legends Voice Chat: Team Voice Is Live on NA and OCE (2026)
League of Legends voice chat is now available to whole teams, not just premade parties. Team Voice launched on October 7, 2026 with patch 26.20. It started on the North America and Oceania servers. You need Honor level 3 or higher to speak; players below that can only listen. Other regions, including Korea and Brazil, are planned next.
Does League of Legends have voice chat?
Yes, in two forms. Party voice, for friends who queue together, has been in the client for years. Team Voice, which connects you with every player on your team including strangers, is new: Riot announced it in a dev post on March 13, 2026 and started rolling it out in October.
That second part is a big change for a game that went seventeen years, since its 2009 launch, without it. Riot’s March post explained why it had held off: it previously couldn’t meet its own standards for safety and reliability, and said that had changed thanks to better tools for spotting bad actors.
| Feature | Party voice | Team Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Who you talk to | Your premade group | Your whole team |
| Availability | All regions | NA and OCE first, from October 7, 2026 |
| Requirement to speak | Be in a party | Honor level 3 or higher |
| Below the requirement | Not applicable | Listen only |
When did League of Legends team voice chat launch?
On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, with patch 26.20, according to Riot’s September 2026 dev update. The first wave covers North America and Oceania. Riot said Korea, Latin America and Brazil could follow depending on how the first rollout goes.
Riot’s plan, laid out back in March, is to roll Team Voice out “one language/region at a time, making it great in each one before introducing it to the next.” No date has been given for EUW or EUNE yet.
Who can speak in League of Legends voice chat?
Players at Honor level 3 or above. That’s the rule Riot announced for Team Voice: everyone else can still hear their team but cannot talk. In March Riot had already said that players “will have to be in good standing in order to access Team Voice,” and Honor turned out to be the measure.
Honestly, it’s a sensible filter. Honor drops after penalties for chat abuse or griefing and recovers with clean games, so players who’ve been punished recently lose their microphone in team games until they rebuild it. Our guide to the League of Legends Honor system explains how levels rise and fall.
Not at Honor 3 yet? Play clean games, avoid reports, and the level climbs back.
Listening still works in the meantime, so you won’t miss your team’s calls: the jungler’s plan, the support’s timer calls and the shotcaller’s objective calls all come through without you having to say a word.
How do you use voice chat in League of Legends?
Voice settings live in the client, under Settings and then Voice. That’s where you choose your microphone, set input and output volume, and pick between push-to-talk and open mic. Team Voice uses the same settings as party voice, so if you’ve used voice with friends before, nothing changes.
- Open the client settings and go to the Voice tab.
- Select your input device (microphone) and output device.
- Choose push-to-talk or open mic, and set a key if you use push-to-talk.
- Test your microphone level with the input meter.
- In a match on a supported server, talk with the key you set.
Push-to-talk is the polite default in solo queue. Open mic picks up keyboards, fans and family, and four strangers on your NA or OCE team hear all of it. Put simply, if your team can hear you breathe, switch to push-to-talk.
Can you mute or turn off team voice?
Yes.
As with chat, you can mute individual players, and you can leave voice off entirely if you’d rather keep your games quiet. Muting a player who’s being unpleasant takes one click in the scoreboard and does far more for your mood than arguing with them.
If you prefer text only, our guide on disabling chat in League of Legends covers the related settings. Some players simply mute everyone at the start of ranked and unmute only the calm ones (the classic “/mute all” habit carries over to voice too).
What are voice skins?
Voice skins are an option Riot announced alongside Team Voice. Voice skins change how your voice sounds to teammates, and Riot says they’re designed to stay understandable even in chaotic fights. They give a bit of anonymity for players who don’t want strangers in a ranked game hearing their real voice.
The same update promised better noise cancellation, faster connections and improved stability for voice overall. Those matter more than any skin; voice that cuts out during a dragon fight is worse than no voice.
Why did Riot wait so long for team voice?
Riot’s March 2026 dev post answered this directly. When League launched, in-game voice wasn’t standard in team games; by the 2020s it had become “the norm and expected,” and many players felt it was missing. The obstacle was safety. Riot said it couldn’t previously meet its standards for keeping voice from being used to harass people, and that advances in its tools for identifying bad actors changed the picture.
Valorant is the obvious comparison. Riot’s shooter has had team voice since its 2020 launch, so the company had years of experience with voice moderation in a competitive game before bringing it to League. Whether League’s community uses it as well is the open question for the first months.
Is team voice safe? How is it moderated?
Riot treats it as a safety feature first. Its March dev post said the company had held back for years because voice could be used to be disruptive, and that it is “committed” to preventing that. The Honor requirement, the regional rollout and per-player muting are the visible parts of that approach.
Behaviour in voice falls under the same rules as text chat. Harassment, slurs and threats can be reported, and penalties follow the same system that already applies to chat, which in practice means a player who abuses voice risks the same chat restrictions, Honor loss and, for repeat offences, suspensions that a toxic typist faces, and losing Honor 3 also takes away the ability to speak in Team Voice until it is rebuilt. Thing is, a voice report needs a moment of thought before you file it, so note the player and the moment while it’s fresh.
Tips for using voice chat in solo queue
Keep calls short and useful: flash timers, objective timers and enemy positions (the classic “flash down mid” or “dragon in thirty”). Each takes two seconds to say.
Avoid blame entirely. Nobody plays better after being told they’re bad, and in voice it lands harder than in text, for what it’s worth. If a teammate made a mistake, the useful line is what to do next, not what went wrong.
- Call what you see, not what you feel.
- One voice leading objectives is better than four voices arguing.
- If someone tilts, mute them early and keep playing your game.
- Thank people for good calls; it costs nothing and keeps the channel friendly.
Language matters too. On a server like NA, most voice will be English, but not every teammate is a fluent speaker, so simple words and clear names for places beat slang.
Will voice chat change how League is played?
Probably, at least in solo queue. Pings and short text calls have been the only way to coordinate with strangers since 2009, and a quick “jungler bot side” by voice is faster than either. Teams that use it well should take objectives more smoothly and react faster to ganks.
It won’t replace pings, though. Many players won’t speak at all, some regions don’t have it yet, and pings work in every language. The likely result is a mix: callers who talk, quiet players who listen, and pings for everyone (to be fair, that’s how most shooters already work).
Planning a climb with your new team comms? Our MMR checker estimates your hidden rating, and if voice is the push you needed to try ranked with friends, our LoL ranks guide explains how the ladder works. Long story short, League of Legends voice chat for full teams is live on NA and OCE, Honor 3 lets you speak, and the rest of the world is next in line.
FAQ
Does League of Legends have team voice chat?
Yes. Team Voice launched on October 7, 2026 with patch 26.20 on the North America and Oceania servers. Party voice for premades has existed for years.
What Honor level do you need for voice chat?
Honor level 3 or higher to speak. Players below Honor 3 can listen to team voice but cannot talk.
When is team voice coming to Europe?
No date yet. Riot is rolling it out one region at a time, with Korea, Latin America and Brazil mentioned as possible next regions.
Can I turn off voice chat in League of Legends?
Yes. You can mute individual players or keep voice off, and use push-to-talk if you only want to speak when you choose.
What are voice skins in League of Legends?
Voice effects announced with Team Voice that change how your voice sounds to teammates while staying understandable.
Where are voice settings in League of Legends?
In the client settings, under the Voice tab: microphone, volume, and push-to-talk or open mic.
