Valorant Auto Clicker — What Vanguard Detects

Does Vanguard detect auto clickers in Valorant?

Riot Vanguard is a kernel-level anti-cheat system that runs at Windows ring 0 — the highest privilege level, with full visibility into hardware input, running processes, and memory. It is active whenever Valorant is running, including in the practice range, custom games, and the main menu. Vanguard’s input analysis looks for patterns that are statistically impossible for human fingers: perfectly consistent click intervals with zero timing variation, click rates above realistic human ceilings, and synchronisation between input events and game frames that no human could produce. An auto clicker running at even a moderate fixed interval — say 100 ms between each click — produces a signature that is immediately distinguishable from natural human input, which has inherent jitter of ±20–50 ms per click. The result of detection is a permanent hardware ban. OP Auto Clicker is not designed to evade anti-cheat and should never be used in Valorant or any Riot game session.

Riot Games issues permanent hardware bans for confirmed anti-cheat violations. A hardware ban ties to device identifiers, meaning the banned machine cannot create new accounts to re-enter ranked. Hardware bans are not appealed successfully in the vast majority of cases. Riot does not distinguish between auto clickers and aimbots in terms of consequence — both are treated as cheating software under Riot ToS Section 2.1.