Planning ahead for your Riot Games account
Riot Games, Inc. account cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
Riot Games Player Support
Riot Games Support (no dedicated deceased-account team; use the general ticket route under request type "Account Management, Data Requests, or Deletion")
Riot Games, Inc., Attn: Legal Department, 12333 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064, United States
Because Riot Games account are forfeited at death under Riot Games, Inc.'s terms, the only way to preserve their value is through action taken while the account is active.
How to protect your Riot Games account
6 steps for managing your Riot Games account during your lifetime:
Family sharing
Riot does not offer a family-sharing or account-pooling program, and account sharing is prohibited by Section 1.5 of the Terms of Service ("You can't share your account or Login Credentials with anyone"). The "Shared Accounts" support article states that "accounts are personal, non-transferable and free" and that sharing login details means "it will be impossible for us to verify who the original owner was," in which case Riot says it will "have no choice but to ban the account in order to prevent further fraud." The "Don't Buy Accounts!" article adds that "account trading is against our Terms of Use and will get your account permabanned." Virtual Content and virtual currency stay tied to the single account on which they were unlocked. Riot does document one narrow in-game gifting path: Section 4.2 of the Terms lists "receiving it (e.g., from another player as a gift or using crafting functionality like Hextech)" as a way to acquire a Virtual Content license, and the Global Refund Policy lists "Gifts (whether sent or received)" as non-refundable. Gifting is a purchase made for another player during the buyer's lifetime; it does not move an existing library or an existing currency balance between accounts. The separate Riot Games Parent Portal lets an age-checked parent or legal guardian oversee a minor's account (game access, social interactions, and related settings), but that is parental oversight, not shared ownership of the content.
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
Plan around use rather than inheritance, because the account and its content cannot be left to anyone. Spend virtual currency you have already bought instead of leaving a balance that has no monetary value outside the 14-day refund window, avoid prepaying large Riot Points or VALORANT Points balances, and buy content as a gift for the people you want to have it rather than planning to pass yours on. Leave your executor the account-identification details Riot asks for on a ticket -- the Riot Client username, the Riot ID, the server, the creation date, the city and country of registration, and the registration email -- rather than your password, and say whether you want the account left alone, deactivated, or deleted.
Riot's support article on prepaid cards, cash codes, and content codes states that a code must be used in full on one game and one account ("You must use the whole code on one game only"), that cash codes are region locked and "can only be redeemed in the region where they were purchased," and that "cash codes never expire." An unredeemed card therefore keeps its value indefinitely, which makes it one of the few Riot-related items that is still physically present in an estate. Note too that Riot's refund policy says it can issue a cash refund to a credit card, debit card, or PayPal "but not for gift cards and prepaid cards," in which case it may instead refund an equivalent amount of Game Currency.
Listing the Riot Games account in an estate inventory identifies it for a fiduciary, who works through the operator's official channels to manage or close it.
Riot Games does not offer beneficiary designations, so there is no program-level mechanism for directing account to a specific person at death.
Sources
Data sourced from Riot Games, Inc. primary sources (15 pages reviewed). How we research.
Riot Games Player Support
Riot Games Support (no dedicated deceased-account team; use the general ticket route under request type "Account Management, Data Requests, or Deletion")
Riot Games, Inc., Attn: Legal Department, 12333 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064, United States
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