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, why the public spoofer explicitly does not support Valorant, and why our color-based external design sidesteps the patch cycle entirely. If you queue Valorant on a hardware-flagged machine, start here before you launch.