Valorant Vanguard Has Banned Over 3.6 Million Cheaters In Past 4 Years

In the latest report, Riot has unveiled that Valorant's anti-cheat, Vanguard has banned over 3.6 million accounts till August 2024. The game released four years ago, so it means that a ban was issued every 37 seconds.

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Riot added that this number doesn't include other types of bans including botting, boosting, or intentionally queueing with cheater. You can check out the graph for number of bans given over time below:

As you can see in the graph above, the majority of the bans are Hardware bans and their numbers increased drastically in July 2022. This is the period when the digital copies of Windows 11 were launched and it became important to enable Secure Boot or TPM 2.0, so that could be one of the major reasons for the spike. 

"Even though the fight continues to grow in complexity, we’re still keeping up with
our commitment of getting cheaters out of our games as quickly as we can," said Jose “the3” Chavez, Data Engineer from Riot’s anti-cheat Vanguard team.