How To Fully Uninstall Valorant From Your PC? Uninstall Both Vanguard And Valorant

Sometimes playing Valorant can get you malding or you want to save space on your PC to download GTA. You cannot uninstall the game directly, it takes a few extra steps. Here’s how to fully uninstall Valorant from your PC. We’ll look at how you can uninstall Vanguard first and then the game.

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How To Fully Uninstall Valorant And Vanguard From Your PC Completely

There are two simple steps you will need to follow to uninstall the game from your PC. These two steps have a more steps ingrained in them but they are easy to follow along.

Step 1: Disabling Riot’s Anti-Cheat; Vanguard

The first step to uninstalling Valorant is to disable Riot’s custom-made anti-cheat called Vanguard. Here’s how you can do that.

Click on the Windows System Tray and click on the Vanguard icon. Hover over it with your mouse pointer and it should read ‘Riot Vanguard.‘
Right click on it and click on Uninstall Riot Vanguard. This will completely uninstall the anti-cheat from your system.
If you want to do it the old fashioned way, click on Exit Vanguard instead, then navigate over to Settings and click on Apps.
From there, locate Riot Vanguard, click on the three dots and Uninstall.

Step 2: Uninstalling Valorant And Removing Additional Files

After you uninstall the Riot Vanguard, ensure that you stay in the Apps Section because we will need it to uninstall the game.

Search for Valorant in the Search Bar of the Apps Section in Settings.
Once you find the Valorant icon, click on the three dots right beside it and Uninstall. This will uninstall the game from your PC. Follow the steps for the installer.
After the game is uninstalled. Restart your computer and go over to C:\Riot Games. Remove any additional files and folders that remain.

FAQs

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Will My Progress Be Lost If I Uninstall Valorant?

No, your progress won’t be lost after you uninstall Valorant because it is saved in your Riot Games account. Your Riot Games account is a cloud based account which is stored in the Riot Games servers. That is why, deleting the game is not a big issue.

You can delete the game to take a break and reinstall it no matter how many times you want without losing progress. Whenever you do decide to play the game again, you can log in through your Riot Games account and you will have all of your progress in the game preloaded.

Can You Uninstall Valorant Through Riot Client?

No, it is not possible to uninstall the game through Riot Client as of now. Maybe Riot will add an option in the future but following the steps above should help you uninstall the game. There are a lot of quality of life changes that Riot needs to make including this one.

If one can directly uninstall the game through the ever present Riot Games Client where other games like League of Legends and Runeterra can be accessed, it would be highly convenient for players.

That is all you need to know about the steps to uninstall the game. You can always download it back if you miss the grind. Enjoy the peace! For more Valorant, click here.