Riot Finally Started Taking Action

Riot is one of the few games out there that take cheating extremely seriously. It is not easy to cheat, and it probably never will be in a game like Valorant. 

However, aside from cheating a lot of people tend to manipulate the ranked leaderboard by queuing 5 stacks. As you know, 5 stacks allow 5 players of any rank to queue together, and some high ranked players use that to queue with very low rank accounts to get easier matchmaking and win games eventually ranking up. 

Riot Started Banning

So today is a good day, because Riot decided that enough is enough. And today, is the day they start handing out bans including HWID bans to those who abuse that.

This has been an issue for a very long time and it handed high ranks like immortal and radiant to many of those who didn't earn it but rather abused the system. Well now, this is over, as bans will start taking place. 

In regards to those who want to play with friends, you're going to be fine. As long as you leveled the account yourself and you don't plan to abuse the system so you get a higher rank, you will not be caught in the crossfire.