Riot Anticheat Lead Disputes Inherited VALORANT Ban From Used CPU
The two accounts of the same ban disagree on scope, and Riot's own stated limits are what decide whether a secondhand component can carry a prior owner's penalty.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
A Reddit user says a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D bought on Kleinanzeigen on September 21, 2026, left them unable to play VALORANT, claiming Riot support told them the chip was on Vanguard's ban list over the previous owner's cheating. Riot anticheat lead Phillip Koskinas said he could not find the ticket and that hardware bans last four months at most.
Riot's published support page says a banned PC cannot run VALORANT on another account and that reinstalling does not lift the restriction. That is the part both sides agree on. What they split over is reach. The player says the ban spread to the motherboard and storage and survived a return to their original CPU.
Koskinas put the cap at four months, said the ban covers only the game where cheating was detected, and said support will tell a user the remaining time on request.
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