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 Support
Riot Games Support (no dedicated deceased-account team; use general ticket submission)
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
4 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 the Terms of Service ("You can't share your account or Login Credentials with anyone"). Riot's "Don't Buy Accounts" guidance warns that buying or selling accounts violates the Terms and leads to suspension, and that sharing login details makes it impossible for Riot to verify the original owner, which can result in the account being banned. Virtual Content and virtual currency stay tied to the single account on which they were unlocked and cannot be gifted, pooled, or moved to another account.
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
Because a Riot account and its content cannot be inherited, sold, or transferred, plan around use rather than inheritance: spend virtual currency you have already purchased instead of leaving an unused balance that has no monetary value, avoid prepaying large Riot Points or VALORANT Points balances you do not intend to use, and leave instructions for your executor to contact Riot Support to close the account if you want it shut down.
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 (5 pages reviewed). How we research.
Riot Games Support
Riot Games Support (no dedicated deceased-account team; use general ticket submission)
