Riot Games Permanently Bans Brazilian Streamer From All Of Their Games

In a rare event, Riot has banned a streamer from all of its games.

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Publish Date: November 14, 2025

Riot Games has permanently banned Brazilian streamer Yiok from League of Legends and all other Riot games. The small streamer has a history of hate speech and threats of violence. Riot’s Director of Product Management, Drew Levin, has now finally come forward to ban all of his League of Legends accounts.

Recent events behind Yiok’s ban

Yiok is a small Brazilian streamer. He currently competes (or has competed) in Challenger-tier as a Kassadin one-trick in League of Legends. More importantly, though, he also has a history of unacceptable behaviour, both on Twitter/X and on his stream. Sexism, antisemitism, racism, slurs, showing nazi imagery, to name a few instances. Yiok collects forms of hate speech the same way better players collect trophies.

However, since most of this behavior occurred outside of League of Legends, nothing came from it.

That was it until November 2nd, when he insulted another player for her comments on Chovy’s build. This led to his own rank being brought up. Riot Drew then chimed in, commenting:

“Congratulations on your incredible improvement from gold to challenger in the past few months! What’s your secret to how you improved so much in such a small time frame?”

This was obviously accusing Yiok of playing on a shared account, something punishable by permaban in League of Legends. The streamer did not take the news of his account’s ban well. Yiok then said on his stream:

“Even your mom will be banned if you doubt it. If my main account gets banned, I’ll raid Riot’s office and r**e everyone.”

In response, Riot banned all of Yiok’s accounts. Drew explained to him that “[he was] banned from playing any Riot games because of misconduct that took place while [he was] streaming League of Legends.”

Riot brings the smites in and out of League of Legends. Image Source: Riot Games

Riot’s more active stance on toxic behaviour

In 2025, Riot has strongly increased its crackdown on non-chat toxicity. Vanguard has been installed to take care of cheating and bot accounts. Measures have been announced against smurfing, notably identifying accounts belonging to the same player and punishing them together. Lastly, Drew Levin has gone around on Twitter/X “smiting” famous players who were too obviously toxic.

In November 2024, Riot Games updated its terms of service for content creators to include the following:

“Off-Platform conduct” and behavior related to our IP is now subject to our Terms of Service. […] We’re starting to restrict access to all of a player’s Riot accounts for particularly serious violations of our Terms of Service.”

However, it has to be noted that this is the first (known) time that Riot Games has enforced this rule. Despite numerous League content creators being far from exemplary on air, the first ban happened only one year later.

The 5th permaban in League of Legends

Yiok’s blanket ban is the 5th major public ban in the history of League of Legends. Supposedly, he will not be allowed to create new ones either. Before him were:

XJ9, for extremely bad misconduct in-game, paired with illegal actions outside the game.
Darkwinjax, for similar levels of toxicity.
Jensen (then “incarnati0n”) for DDoS attacks.
Tyler1, the most famous case. T1 was the last such ban, in 2016.

Tyler1 was banned for consistent, awful behaviour in the game, and any new account he created would be banned on sight. Jensen was looking at starting his competitive career, and was also banned from joining pro play.

XJ9 and Darkwinjax faded away, and are now names that only the old heads in the community still remember. However, Tyler1 and Jensen’s fates were different.

Jensen was unbanned after one year and went on to become a pro player and Cloud9’s mid laner in 2015. As for Tyler1, his ban skyrocketed his popularity. One year later, Riot Games announced that they were giving him a second chance, and allowed him to create a new account under a zero-tolerance policy. Despite remaining far from clean, Tyler1 started behaving much better afterwards, and Riot fully waived his ban as well.

Riot Games has a policy of believing in reform, a policy also broadly endorsed by psychologists. In fact, most of the League players who get punished for their behaviour change course and never get banned again, so this does have merit. However, this makes people in the community wonder whether this fifth permaban will indeed stick, or will eventually be reverted.

As for Yiok, he is currently still complaining about his ban and repeating that he is being unfairly targeted!

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