Riot Bans Nearly 300K Accounts for Rank Manipulation in VALORANT, LoL
Riot says the penalties target boosting, account sharing and smurfing, and more enforcement is still coming as the system expands across both games.
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On September 17, 2026, Riot Games announced that it had banned 296,416 "rent-a-rank" players from League of Legends and Valorant, resulting in popular streamers such as Tyler "Trainwreckstv," Timothy
Riot bans nearly 300K accounts for rank manipulation in VALORANT, LoL
Riot Games has banned or suspended 296,416 VALORANT and League of Legends accounts for rank manipulation since late 2025, the studio revealed in a new blog post. The figure comes from Vanguard’s Anti-Boost system, which detects boosting and hitchhiking across both games. The company is also accelerating MFA and TPM 2.0 hardware requirements to cut off the problem at the source. Quick Summary Riot has revoked rank and suspended 296,416 VALORANT a…
Riot Games has released details about the impact on ranked matches following the introduction of "Vanguard Anti-Boost," a smurf detection system that was implemented in League of Legends in September 2025 and in VALORANT in July 2026. They also indicated their intention to strengthen various authentication systems in order to maintain a fair ranked system going forward.
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