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.
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Tracked Vanguard games
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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.