The Valorant player Solista ranked 65th in the North America leaderboard of Valorant . He was banned live on Twitch during a stream. He is alleged to have cheated. The shooter pro Shroud has already played against Solista and even indirectly predicted the ban.
What happened? Solista was a player with the rank Radiant, the highest rank you can achieve in Valorant. He frequently showed his matches on the streaming platform Twitch, under the name Solista_TV. However, he had only an average of 12 viewers over the last 30 days.
On Twitch, he was also active on April 14. During a match, he received a notification that the game was being canceled because a cheater had been discovered. Shortly thereafter, it became clear who the cheater in the match was: Solista himself.
After the match was over, he received another notification stating: “You have been banned from Valorant.”
What does this mean for the streamer? The notification contained no indication that the ban could be temporary. Everything suggests that the account has been permanently banned.
At the same time, Solista’s Twitch channel has also been affected. The ToS of Twitch state that cheating in live streams is not allowed. However, it is uncertain how long the ban will last.
Players criticize that the ban took so long
Surprise, or not? The streamer reacted to the ban with surprise, at least in terms of his wording. Solista said: “What? Oh man, really?”, before ending his stream.
However, his ban made it through quite a few subreddits, where some users criticized that while there was surprise in his words, his body language and expression conveyed a completely different impression:
He speaks as if he is surprised, but his body language and expression tell a completely different story. For what has just happened, he closed the [first] message quite quickly. Most people would cheer that a cheater was caught.
yensama (via reddit)
For other users, the ban was not surprising at all. They even criticized that Riot Games took so long to catch him:
I’m glad these clowns are getting banned, but he was already in Radiant. How long did it take to discover him? That’s a lot of matches he has already ruined.
grumpykittykat (via reddit)
What did the player actually do? There has been no official statement from Riot Games or Solista regarding the ban. However, users on reddit claim to have figured out how exactly the streamer cheated.
In focus is a so-called triggerbot:
- Triggerbots shoot automatically as soon as an enemy enters the crosshairs. This bypasses human reaction time.
- They offer various settings, such as a desired delay when shooting or the number of shots fired, making them harder to detect.
- They differ from aim-bots in that they only shoot when the crosshairs are aimed at the opponent. Aim-bots, on the other hand, take over aiming for the player, who still has to shoot.
Players point out how abnormally fast Solista was able to shoot. Furthermore, he does not use his mouse to shoot, as can be seen in this video (via YouTube).
However, Solista explained this in a stream a few weeks ago, stating that he shoots with the space bar. The community in the Valorant subreddit is not convinced of that.
Shooter pro Shroud already predicted the ban
What is curious about the story? Some time ago, Solista played against the well-known shooter streamer Michael “Shroud” Grzeciek. Although Shroud won the match, Solista had the highest combat score in the game overall.
After that, Shroud made a clear statement: “Solista, he is going to land in the pro scene … or get banned”. The last part of the statement seems to have come true.
However, not only cheating can have negative consequences on Twitch. The Twitch streamer xQc was for a long time the most viewed streamer on the platform. But now he is losing that place because he behaves too toxically:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is even too toxic for GTA 5
