Valorant

Valorant runs Vanguard at ring-0 and ships updates silently, sometimes weekly. This tag is where we document what's actually happening on Riot's side — what 'detected' means versus a real ban wave, how Vanguard's HWID layer differs from EAC, what the gap between a detection signal and a real account action looks like in practice. The Valorant tag pulls together our coverage of Vanguard internals, status badge meaning, the HWID flow that's separate from the public spoofer, and the patch-day operating notes from our own pipeline. If you queue Valorant on a hardware-flagged machine, start here before you launch.