Riot Games has banned the account behind a widely circulated Valorant cheating clip, the studio's anti-cheat director Phillip Koskinas confirmed. Footage of a player using an “Evil” version of the Tung Tung Tung Sahur model to wipe entire enemy teams spread across social media on September 9 and drew renewed criticism of Riot's kernel-level anti-cheat system, Vanguard.
The clip, shared by the account Valorant Tactic, appears to have been recorded from the cheater's own perspective, with a dark Tung Tung model replacing the standard first-person weapon display. Enemy silhouettes are visible through walls and multicoloured targeting lines extend across the map; the player eliminates all five opponents for an ace, then repeats it on a second map. IGN and Dexerto both reported that the footage appears to show wallhacks and automated targeting. Dexerto noted that the exact software used is unknown, and that it is unclear whether the Tung Tung model was visible to anyone other than the cheater.
Koskinas responded publicly with the account's details, listing the Riot ID as FaeL o Anacondo#br1, a ban date of September 3, three games played, and a cheat named “Sysinfo” that he dismissed as “lowskill vibeslop.” He said withholding the Riot ID would have been “pointless.”
“We can detect anything with time, but VAL is a free to play game,” Koskinas wrote. “Agree that we have to improve pre-emptive posture for open qualifiers.”
The clip landed in an anti-cheat argument already under way
The footage gained considerably more attention when Valorant analyst vladk0r reposted it with the caption “kernel level anticheat vs tung tung tung cheat-hur.” According to Dexerto, that post was a direct reply to Valorant Esports President Leo Faria, who had been addressing competitive integrity concerns as more VCT play moves online in 2027. “All the same protections still apply, including our kernel-level anti-cheat,” Faria said, adding that players caught cheating in online qualifiers could be barred from competing in the VCT.
Imagine losing to a team with this s*** only for them being banned later after few rounds of the bracket, and not being able to do anything with this, 'cause they got DQ'd much later after your match, so Riot can't revert the results.
Other players used the clip to argue against kernel-level anti-cheat outright, with one writing that it was “proof that kernel-level anti-cheat compromises user privacy and security for nothing” and calling instead for server-side detection and behavioural analysis.
Riot has added an optional on-demand mode for Vanguard, and has acknowledged that it is seeing “more cheating assets than ever before” as AI coding tools lower the barrier to writing cheats. The studio maintains that Vanguard keeps pace by detecting the methods used to inject cheats into a machine rather than trying to identify each individual program. Dexerto noted that Tung Tung Tung Sahur is an AI-generated wooden character that became one of the internet's most recognisable brainrot memes in 2025, and has previously appeared in Fortnite and Roblox.