To maintain competitive integrity, Riot Games utilizes several advanced defense mechanisms:

: Software that automatically snaps a player's crosshair to an enemy's "hitbox" (usually the head) and fires with pinpoint accuracy.

Modern VALORANT cheats typically fall into a few primary categories:

: Riot often uses "ban waves" rather than instant bans to prevent cheat developers from quickly identifying which specific part of their code was detected.

: Vanguard operates at the most fundamental level of the Windows OS to monitor for unauthorized drivers or memory manipulation.