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Vendor Policy Changes Riot Vanguard

Riot Vanguard: still no path to Linux

A Riot developer said in January 2024 that Linux has too much attack surface for Vanguard. Every tracked Vanguard game is still Denied.

anti-cheat.org Team 1 min read

Riot Games' Vanguard is the strictest anti-cheat we track, and its position on Linux has not changed.

4
Tracked Vanguard games
4
Currently Denied
0
Working on Linux

The stated reason

In January 2024 a Riot developer said that Linux has "too much attack surface" for Vanguard to protect. That fits Vanguard's design: it is a kernel-mode driver that loads at boot, and it assumes a locked-down Windows platform.

See the Vanguard vendor profile and our explainer on kernel vs. user-space anti-cheat.

Affected games