Riot Games is Adding a Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat to League of Legends

Riot Games’ lead developers announced in their latest video titled “Season 2024 Look Ahead: Champions, Modes, Arcane & More” that League of Legends will be getting a kernel-level anti-cheat – Riot’s own proprietary system known as Vanguard. It will supposedly be able to reliably detect cheaters and bots, and even stop the matches after they’ve been started.

The main reason for the implementation of Vanguard is twofold – firstly, the community has long complained about lots of bots in the non-ranked modes of the game, and secondly, Riot was a target of a security breach last year, which exacerbated the concerns of the developers.

This kernel-level anti-cheat has been used in Valorant, and the results show that it has successfully thwarted any major scale cheating or botting scene.

It’s interesting whether or not the upcoming Project L will also feature the Vanguard anti-cheat or if some other solutions will suffice.