Gameplay, Vanguard & More | Dev Update - League of Legends 

I've played this game for 12 Years, and thanks to Vanguard I will not be playing it anymore.

Please don't integrate Vanguard into LoL. This program is so aggressive and messes with my PC everytime. So I was forced to stop playing Valorant because of this...

imagine optimizing league for older PC's then putting in Vanguard to get rid of all that effort, crazy.

Vanguard is literally the reason im never coming back to league tbh i am a rather security and performance focussed person, so I will absolutely NOT run a kernel level software all the time, even if i just want to play one game of league a month. thats a security risk and performance dip i will not accept. I dont think riot will change anything about this, but as long as vanguard has to start with windows all the time and runs even when im not playing league is unacceptable

First I thought Meddler was fired too lol

Vanguard is nearly maximally intrusive and affecting of people's ability to play. You really expect people to hand over that kind of access to protect the game, when the whole reason there are so many scripters and hackers right now is because you couldn't protect your own data? I'd rather play with a hacker in half of my games than play league with Vanguard. It's arrival will be my permanent deletion of the game unless it's removed. Principal alone is enough justification, let alone all the potential sketchy things it opens the playerbase to.

I am happy so many actually oppose Vanguard.

na fam vangaurd is not touching my pc yall shouldnt need that kinda access for an anti cheat I dont trust it

Skarner is one of the “surprises” right

Just make it so that Vanguard isn't always on when league isn't even open.

Vanguard will be my retirement of LoL, I never used cheats and I'll never will, that's not the reason, but because I will never install any application on my system that runs on kernel level, no matter what it is, it's not happening, period. I had a good time all these years in LoL, it was a fun journey

Hey, just letting you know I'm quitting because you're introducing vanguard. Nothing against you all as people, but riot as a company is simply not trustworthy of ring 0. There has been a long history of compromises and indecent behavior from both Riot and partial owner/parent company Tencent. Farewell league of legends

The vanguard implementation was the final reason for me to finally delete LoL form my pc. No way I'm insalling a kernel level anticheat on my pc...

As long as vanguard isn't deleted, I'm not playing any riot game. Remember, however many players you lose because of that rootkit, it is your own fault

Im not letting something as intrusive as vangaurd on my PC, thank you guys for the fun i was able to have with this game its been great

I have not once encountered someone in league that felt like he cheated. And everything in league needs to be confirmed by the server anyway. Putting Vanguard into League feels wrong.

I'm quitting in the vanguard update

I ain't playing anymore if vanguard is a requirement.

Playing late night ARAMs with the boys was fun while it lasted, but I'm not going to be installing Vanguard just to play a game I only half enjoy.

I didn't think the reason why I'd finally stop playing League was introduction of Vanguard, and yet here we are. Having an always-on rootkit is a no-no already. And on top of that with the announced requirement for TPM 2.0, I am just not willing to go out and buy a piece of hardware for my PC to enable it.

I don't want kernel level spyware from China on my machine Riot.

The only thing that really makes me hate Vanguard is the fact, that it disrupts many community-developed eSport broadcast production toolkits (like the one from the Riot Community Volunteers. I am part of eSports Cologne, an eSports club in Germany and we do many community casts of our club teams in the Prime League. Due to Vanguard coming to League, many features like gold graphs, custom scoreboards, objective counters etc will not be working anymore, as they have used passive memory reading. I, and many other esports communities, would really appreciate, if Riot Games could make this data available via the API or cooperates with community developers (like the RCVolus) to find a good solution. Thank you very much for reading and supporting with a like!

hey, listen man. just here to let you know me and my friends have already uninstalled league after the initial vanguard news. we had issues with it in the past and it was the sole reason we are not playing valorant. best wishes, league player since season 2.

I've played league on and off for about 8 years now but with the addition of Vanguard I'm quitting with this update. I beta tested Valorant and the version of Vanguard used then caused a boot drive corruption on pc which cost hundreds of pounds to fix. I forwarded this information onto Riot and while I'm sure they've taken that information onboard to make sure it doesn't happen again, I can't afford to risk it. This isn't even considering the other implications of having software running at ring 0, and the security risks involved with that. Even though League is pretty toxic, its been the go-to game that my mates have played for years and we've made some good memories, so for that thanks riot.

"That's it?" -Patchy the pirate

Vanguard goes in, I'm uninstalling. Finally.

The moment Vanguard is necessary to play, I'm quitting League, I'm not giving that type of access to my PC

thank you for no longer allowing me to play the game, that i played without a problem on my pc for the last 6 years.

can we skip for that part when you withdraw the vanguard idea ? people cant wait it when the client crash and die because of it

Despite privacy concerns, vanguard also stops people with older pc builds from playing league, since vanguard does not support older builds unfortunately

Don't really want a kernel level spyware on my machine Riot

Can't play with vanguard running, lag x3

I hope enough people quite League for Vanguard to be removed

WHERRES MY SKARNER REWORK

League was aways a game that I kept going back to no matter how much time it passes after I get tired of it... well, It was. I'll not bow my head like Valorant players accepting Vanguard running in my OS background even when I'm not playing the game, nothing justify that, no other anti-cheat is intrusive like that. Thats where I'm out for good. It was a good ride.

I unistalled LOL because of vanguard annoucement, if they end up putting it in sure i will never come back, and i am not the only one

Quitting in Vanguard update.

Bold of the developers to let us know they're installing a trojan horse. Thanks for the heads up!

really disappointed you've chosen to go ahead with a kernel level anti cheat

Any reasonable person will see this is a ticking time bomb. Has Riot been hacked before? Yes. Has a kernel level anti-cheat do shady stuff in the background happend before? Yes. Is riot connected to a shady entity? Yes

Ty Riot for implementing Vanguard and ending hundreds of thousands of players League addiction ❤️

I uninstalled League and every Riot game because of Vanguard. I know I'm just one player, but no matter how much I love League, I'm not going to install that malware on my PC.

I've been playing League for over a decade, but I'll stop playing entirely if Vanguard becomes a requirement.

Vanguard isn’t worth losing 100k players for 1% high elo scripted every 80 games

WHERE IS THE SCORPION 😭😭

this was the most underwhelming dev update so far

I'll be completely honest, adding Vanguard to League sounds like something good but for a player like me it probably means I'll stop playing. Why? Let me explain. I mainly play ARAM and TFT very casually. I used to play a lot of League but nowadays I don't have the time for those long ranked games. Having said that, if you guys make me have Vanguard ON every time I boot my PC I'll probably just uninstall League. I like to have very little things running on my PC while working, as I do video editing and need every last processing power of my PC and to be honest I just like having a clean system tray. That means I would have to manually quit Vanguard every time I boot up my PC, which is not worth it in my opinion. I'll wait to see how you guys go about Vanguard but if it's the same way as with Valorant, which I'm guessing it will be, I'll be sadly saying goodbye to my casual play sessions of League.

I like League of Legends, I've been playing it for years, but with Vanguard they give me a reason to stop playing it, which is most likely for the best, to finish a cycle and start a new one.

Where is Skarner at my boy is still being forgotten even when getting updated

For those who don't want to watch the whole video ,yes they will install the spy ware i mean vanguard

Clearly we're going to need a bigger stink about Vanguard to grt them to walk it back. There was basically no opposition to it when it was pitched.

So I'm curious. Is it true that Vanguard will grant access to all of our data? That's not something I'm comfortable with.

So in summary, Meddler is getting married.

Vanguard coming to league was the final nail in the coffin to ignore this time wasting game with one of the worst communities of all time. And Im gonna be honest, the community is 100% your fault for punishing rude people more than actually disruptive people.

Remove the Vanguard implementation. It is disproportional, unjustified and potentially harmful to many people's systems. In 10 years, never have I been this disappointed in Riot's decisions.

14 years I've been playing league, going to miss it, but I'm not installing Vanguard. It's far too intrusive, paired with the fact that you have a history of your most sensitive data being leaked, and the companies, and countries you are now essentially tied with, it's definitely a big concern, too big. I understand most people will either be blissfully unaware of what vanguard is capable of, that or simply cope that it's a fair trade to keep feeding their particular video game addiction, but it's absolutely insane the type of data vanguard can harvest, ultimately you are entitled to ZERO privacy when choosing to have League of Legends installed on your computer from now on. Thinking that is in any way acceptable is ridiculous, especially when you factor in that cheating in League Of Legends, when compared to other video games, is such a non issue. It brings even more into question, why then does all my data have to be harvestable in order to play the game? Here's hoping this change will be reverted one day, but if not it's been fun. I definitely advise anyone reading this to look more into the capability of Vanguard, it inarguably harvests more than you would think necessary to prevent cheaters in a video game, seriously question if this is something you are willing to not only accept, but also encourage as a norm moving forward.

After that hack on facebook, im no trusting kernel level software from riot

Can't wait for vanguard to kill multiple PCs as you need to run it with league lol

The Vanguard patch will be the best change in the history of the game - consider it as a buff for those, who are addicted and will finally have a true reason to stop playing this game and do better stuff outside league.

I am outright uninstalling forever if you make Vanguard mandatory. Not letting that garbage on my PC no matter what you say.

Never vanguard in lol

riot's gaslighting on Vanguard is something else, acting like there are no issues people have with their anti-cheat and it's completely perfect and needed. The downvotes speak for themselves and many people are going to uninstall League because of Vanguard or run into issues cause of Vanguard.

"We hear you're upset about vanguard but we don't care lmao. Just don't use linux or play games that vanguard will get you banned in."

In my 10 years of playing league I've only met a handful of scripters, don't see the point in vanguard for league tbh

So as a TFT player I need to download Vanguard now? Cool, guess I'm not a TFT player anymore.

I hope this comment section makes it abundantly clear that the day League tries to install Vanguard (or anything similar) on my machine is the day League gets uninstalled and is never coming back. There are already industry AI solutions to automate anti-cheat. Vanguard is a violation of privacy with no purpose.

3:23 Nice, so I get to play league until April? Good to know

Seeing how Vanguard is disassembling this game and the community makes me apprehensive to return to League someday.

In addition to the Phreak-style surveys of “did vanguard improve your experience,” also monitor for “bunch of regular players who just kinda left for seemingly no reason.” Those are the players you pissed off with Vanguard. I know it’s priced into your long term strategy, but a larger playerbase with a smaller fanbase is worse still…

While I love them trying to communicate with us, the fact that this told us absolutely nothing is a bit dissapointing

Just so you all know @Riot , I will be quitting league of legends as soon as you release Vanguard, I dont want any root kits on my computer. No thank you

I love that they said they wanted to shift damage from items to champions then gave every mage the ability to only use items for damage and not rely on their own mechanics whatsoever

Skarner when?

I hate the fact that the Vanguard will be first release in my region 😭

Riot games or hackers may literaly collect and modify anithing with a kernel tool like Vanguard and I don't think they will take responsibility for any data or hardware loss.

Allow vanguard to not need virtualization off and secure boot on, along with disrupting a lot of tools people use such as utility tools. Not to mention you shouldn't have the need to have it on at all times on your pc.

Will League's Vanguard be as intrusive as Valorant's?

"Funny bugs" The absolute estate of devs

Vanguard should only turn on just before you're launching a game, doesn't need to be on before, Doesn't need to be on after. Certainly doesn't need to be on 24/7.

Ngl I got baited when they said "vs ai", I really had hopes they have made a gamemode PvE, man I miss odyssey.

No Skarner? :(

May riot forge rest is peace there are so many cool genres i would have loved to see the runeterra characters in like imagine a bulders gate with league characters or a metal gear soild like game almost unlimited options.

YOU DID IT GUYS 🎉 this was the worst one yet ❤

RIP Philippines Server sacrificial lamb for Vanguard experiment

4 minute Dev video? Necrit could get 25 minutes out of that.

what if you made vanguard only mandatory for ranked queue (and perhaps only above a certain rank?) most if not all cheaters are in ranked and the real problematic ones are in masters/challengers in my 8 years of playing league i have encountered 4 cheaters, and all of them could be caught super easily (reksai tunnel script/kayn global W)

It's been a great 12 years. Thank you for everything.

You can talk about the positives all you want, but I'm never going to install a rootkit from a company that is owned by a big Chinese corporation on my pc. What do I tell my customers that expect their data to be secure? Don't tell me to buy another PC just to play League lol. Also lmao @ all this effort to stop cheaters when ranked games are unplayable due to every game having a player throwing a hissy fit and keeping their team hostage/inting/flaming because they dont get their way. Yeah, done playing this game. There's much more fun ways to spend my time.

Vanguard is honestly the only reason why i can’t run valorant fluidly, hopefully this doesnt happen to league now

"We're adjusting LP gains to make climbing more consistent" - meanwhile people with -36 / +14 right after placements

Been playing since 2013 and with the current anti-cheat, I have not encountered any cheater or "big cheater". Any capable cheating software or hacker themselves already know how to bypass any anti-cheat, including Vanguard. The only ones that get hit are "obvious cheaters", which can be easily detected. In another words, anti-cheats hide actual severe offenders better and make the normal players (majority) suffer for it. Addtionally, it is clear with the original deadline that has been cancled and moved and the extra hesitance after the moved release date, where you will still only test it on only one region, that this new software is not compatible with this game or client. You are struggling too hard. All of that just does not leave me with confidence.

"A more exciting time to play League." Well that's one way of putting it.

3:10 literally said *nothing* of value about Vanguard. Next time just say nothing at all. You keep it planned for league. It *will* still be system intrusive, hardware hungry and overall a detriment to all players. League stays uninstalled.

You had a security breach just in 2023, and now you want COMPLETE access to out pcs? Yea, not happening

I play actively since Season 1. Vanguard scares me :( I dont even understand what it does, but I understand that it can see basically everything on my PC and that Riot is owned by tencent... I play in Master and I would rather play vs cheaters than have Vanguard on my PC. Maybe I buy a cheap pc to play LoL on...

Please remove vanguard changes. I wont play with it enabled

Kernel level anticheat aside, requiring TPM 2.0 is a middle finger to anyone with a PC older than a few years. This game became successful in the first place because it could be played on older PCs and now it's being gated to newer ones. But hey, you guys already got all your money and success, so who cares about the little people, right?

Vanguard literally prevents some of us honest players from running games just because our systems don't allow its level of invasiveness. Please do not punish us because of dishonest players.

It's important to understand that with this coming to LoL, one of the biggest games in the world, the interest for breaching and exploiting it is likely to grow. Also, no matter how much we enjoy League it is important to keep in mind that this is just a computer game. Is this level of intrusion really warranted for something like that? Riot games may not have other intentions, but someone else might in the future. I think steps like these lead to a dangerous philosophy where companies can arbitrairly decide on intrusive actions. Yes, I know a lot of data is being stored already but that does not mean that we should not be careful about how far we allow that to go. This is for sure a step in the wrong direction and laws should be made for this kind of stuff. Children are allowed to install LoL on their home computers, leaving the adults in the house completely unaware that there is a rootkit running in the background that in theory could be used to turn on your microphone, camera, read your keystrokes etc... While many games do use kernel level AC, at lest they run only when the game is on. And there have been incidents with these, such as the one with Genshin Impact. We need to draw a line for where the importance of fair play in video games comes in conflict with more important rights. Use it in tournaments and stuff, sure. But for everyone at all times? No thanks.

Not only is Vanguard actively killing its Linux playerbase, its also killing off anyone who simply DUAL BOOTS on their system, even if they have League on Windows. Dual booting requires that Secure boot is disabled in the bios so it doesnt block non-windows OSs from running, and Vanguard requires Secure boot to be enabled to run. Learned this the hard way with Valorant. On top of the massive security and privacy concerns, I'll most definitely be uninstalling and never looking back once Vanguard is released. And i hope that enough people also do so to the point that riot has to respond.