The actual process, not the marketing page version
Riot Games lets you permanently delete your account through their support portal. The process is straightforward on paper, but there are a few details most people miss until they are already stuck in the queue. I went through this twice in the last two years. Once with Valorant, once with League. The second time was faster because I knew what would get rejected. Here is how the deletion flow actually works from the user side. You start at the Riot Games support site and log into the account you want to remove. Navigate to the account section and look for the option to close or delete. They ask you to confirm via email. After you verify, there is a 14-day waiting period where the account sits in suspended state before it becomes fully unrecoverable. That window is intentional. Riot wants to give you time to change your mind without making it easy. Before you start the process, take care of the things that cause ticket rejections. Remove any active subscriptions or linked payment methods first. If you have Valorant Points or League Points sitting in your balance, they disappear on deletion and Riot will not refund them. Unlink any third-party accounts like Facebook, Google, or console IDs. The deletion can fail silently if those connections are still active. I learned this the hard way. I submitted a deletion request while my account was still linked to a console ID. It went nowhere for three weeks. When I finally got a human on support, they told me the linked ID was blocking the queue. I had to unlink it manually through the account settings and resubmit. Total delay was about 21 days because of that one oversight.
Another thing that trips people up is region locking. If your account was created under a European IP and you are trying to delete it from a US-based server, the verification step can flag for review. This is not a bug. It is how their fraud detection works. The fix is simple: log in from the region you normally use and submit the request there. If that is impossible, include a screenshot of your account activity from that region in the support ticket to speed things up. The 14-day waiting period is non-negotiable. During that time, your account data is retained on Riot's servers in a compressed form. This includes match history, friend lists, and transaction records. Some players assume the data vanishes immediately and then panic when they realize they cannot access old screenshots or stats. It does not vanish until day 15. After that, the data is deleted from active systems and moved to an archived backup that Riot says is wiped within 30 days of final deletion. They do not publish the exact retention schedule for those backups, and no amount of emailing support will make them disclose it. If you are deleting a shared account, like a couple or family pool, be aware that both players lose everything. Riot does not offer partial account deletion. There is no way to keep your cosmetics and discard your match history. The account is either intact or gone. I once tried to argue this point with support because my roommate and I had built a shared Valorant account over two years. They were not interested in exceptions. The account was deleted and both of us were locked out permanently. That was the most frustrating part of the whole process, not the technical steps.
For the actual mechanics, here is what you need to do in order. Go to support.riotgames.com. Sign in with the account credentials. Click on Account and Security. Select the delete account option. Confirm your identity through the email that arrives. Wait the full 14 days. Check your inbox again on day 15 for the final confirmation. If you do not receive it, check your spam folder. Sometimes it lands there instead of the main inbox. The entire manual effort is maybe five minutes. The waiting is the rest of it. There is a workaround some people use if they want to delete an account but keep the email address clean for future registration. Riot does not fully wipe the email during account deletion. It is marked as unused but can theoretically be reactivated if you contact support within a certain window. If you plan to create a new account with the same email later, request an account closure rather than permanent deletion. Closure preserves the email mapping without the 14-day hard wait. Your stats and items still go away, but the email remains reusable. This is not documented anywhere on their help pages. I found out by asking a support agent directly, and then verifying it with my own account three months later when I recreated the same email. It worked exactly as described. One more limitation worth noting: Riot does not support batch deletion. If you have multiple accounts under the same email or payment method, each one must be deleted individually through its own ticket. There is no master switch. If you have three accounts and want all of them gone, prepare to submit three separate requests and wait 14 days per account. That is four2 days of total waiting spread across separate queues, though they usually process them in parallel if the emails are identical.
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The process itself is reliable. The main friction points are the forgotten steps before submission and the waiting period. If you handle those two things, you will be done in about two weeks from start to final confirmation. Beyond that, there is nothing to optimize. The system is what it is.
