
League of Legends HWID Ban: Signs, Length & Appeals
A League of Legends HWID ban locks your PC out of every Riot game with error VAN 152. It usually lasts four months. What won't lift it, and how to appeal.
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A League of Legends HWID ban locks your PC out of every Riot game with error VAN 152. It usually lasts four months. What won't lift it, and how to appeal.

VAN 152 is a Riot Vanguard hardware ID ban on your PC, not a bug. Reinstalling will not clear it. What it means, how long it lasts, and your two options.

Every reason Riot Vanguard bans players, sourced to Riot: cheats, tampering, ban evasion, third-party tools, abuse, boosting and League chargebacks.

A temp spoofer resets on restart; a perm spoofer rewrites stored IDs. Which do you need? How each works, the risks, and what Vanguard changes.

Before you buy an HWID spoofer: what it changes, what it can't fix, how to undo it, and the common test that gets a second account banned.

You get unbanned from Valorant when a timed ban runs out or Riot reverses a mistake. How each ban ends, from 7-day bans to VAN 152, and what never works.