Until this is actually fixed by Riot, if You encounter a Lab freeze, immediately close and restart your client (close on Mobile, Alt+F4 on PC). It will reconnect to the game and You should be able to continue playing (hopefully your opponent does the same, otherwise You're in for an easy win).
External link →Hey u/Kerubia, when was the last time you encountered a freeze like this? We believe we fixed the issue around 15 hours ago, 6:30pm pacific time yesterday. If there's another source of breakage out there we wanna know!
And if it's not fixed, yep this is a perfect workaround.
I didn't get to play today yet (EU), but I saw some people still posting about this.
If you did resolve the issue then it should be all good. I'll reply to this topic if I'd encounter the bug again.
Please! And thank you for getting the word out about a workaround... 'turning it off and on again' fixes all kinds of issues.
...though I'd rather we just not release those issues in the first place!
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