How to protect your Riot Games account while you are alive
There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Riot Games account. Riot Games allows no transfer of the account while the holder is alive.
Because Riot Games' terms close a Riot Games account at death, anything kept from it is exported, moved or handed over while the holder is alive. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Riot Games account. Riot Games allows no transfer of the account while the holder is alive.
How to protect your Riot Games account
- •The Riot Client username and the Riot ID
- •The server and the account creation date
- •The city and country of registration, and the registration email
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no way to leave a Riot account or its content to anyone: the account and all Virtual Content are a non-transferable license that cannot be inherited, sold or moved to another account.1
What Riot Games, Inc.'s terms say about sharing and transfers5
- Pooling with family
Riot offers no family-sharing or account-pooling program, and Section 1.5 of the Terms prohibits sharing an account or its login credentials with anyone.1
- Transferring the account or registration
Virtual Content and virtual currency stay tied to the single account on which they were unlocked.1
Riot states that accounts are personal, non-transferable and free, and that if login details are shared it cannot verify the original owner and will ban the account to prevent further fraud.2
Account trading is against Riot's Terms and gets the account permanently banned.3
- Gifting and purchases for others
Section 4.2 recognizes receiving Virtual Content from another player as a gift. A gift is a purchase made for another player during the buyer's lifetime and does not move an existing library or currency balance between accounts.1
The Global Refund Policy makes gifts, whether sent or received, non-refundable.4
- Expiry and activity requirements
Section 2.2 of the Terms lets Riot suspend or terminate an account after a prolonged period of inactivity, on notice.1
Cash codes and prepaid cards never expire, are region locked, and are redeemed in full to one game and one account.5
- Authorized users and delegates
The Riot Games Parent Portal lets an age-checked parent or legal guardian oversee a minor's account, including game access and social interactions; it is parental oversight, not shared ownership of the content.6
Riot requires a parent or guardian to be age checked as 18 or older to hold parent privileges.6
Sources6
- 1.Riot Games Terms of Service, Last Modified December 1, 2024
- 2.Shared Accounts
- 3.Don't Buy Accounts!
- 4.Global Refund Policy
- 5.Prepaid cards, cash codes and content codes
- 6.Riot Games Parent Portal
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).
Sources
Data sourced from Riot Games, Inc. primary sources (12 pages reviewed). How we research.
Riot Games customer support
Riot Games Player Support
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