Three sources at a gaming company who are involved in anti-cheat efforts, and who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said that GamerDoc has been very effective at hunting cheats and cheaters, leading to the cheats getting patched and the cheaters banned. “The information people like GamerDoc provides helps us accelerate our anti-cheat development and ultimately gets cheaters out of the game faster.” “We're always happy to receive information from people, especially if they have insight into cheating communities,” Paul Chamberlain, the anti-cheat lead for Riot’s Valorant, said in an emailed statement. I think it's selfish to have all the fun for yourself.” How and where depends on circumstances, but GamerDoc is often involved. No cheat is undetectable,” GamerDoc said in a phone interview. The company banned more than 8,000 of them when the game was still in beta. But even a game with an advanced system like Vanguard has cheaters. Riot has drawn criticism for Vanguard for this reason, with security experts saying it's too intrusive. It should be one of the most highly secure parts of any computer system, and which could completely compromise a user if accessed by a hacker. This is an integral part of the operating system that manages almost every single thing a system does. For Valorant, Riot Games developed the Vanguard system, which runs at the kernel level. All online games today employ advanced anti-cheat systems that monitor gamers’ computers to see if they’re running any cheats. This 24-year-old from London is becoming an important player in the seemingly never-ending and ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game between gaming companies against hackers and cheat developers. His name is Mohamed Al-Sharifi but he’s best known as GamerDoc. He's not employed by any game developer, nor does he get paid for his work, but he does devote a great deal of his time and energy to stopping cheaters, and when he finds something, game developers listen. While Riot continues to fight cheaters across its games, that particular cheat is no longer available thanks to a vigilante who works around the clock to catch cheaters and their tools, reporting them to companies like Riot or Blizzard, the makers of Overwatch, another popular online shooter. The cheat was essentially a program that hacked the video game and subverted its rules by exploiting flaws in the game’s code. In some way, these players did have superpowers: they were using one of the most advanced cheats for Valorant, the five-on-five tactical first-person shooter made by Riot Games. Every time they fired their guns, they hit their opponents right in the head, killing them quickly. In May, some players in the popular competitive shooter Valorant seemed to have super powers.