The Top 10 Weirdest Cheating Attempts in Esports

Unfortunately, cheating has been a part of gaming for as long as we can remember.

Whether it’s screen peeking or blatant wallhacks, some cheeky players are always looking for ways to gain an advantage on the server. And over the years, players have tried some pretty strange things while trying to beat their opponents. So this week, we wanted to look at some of the most ridiculous cheating attempts in esports history.

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[HorseCritter]

For anyone who doesn’t know, riolu was an extremely well respected player in the trackmania community and it was actually quite shocking to learn that he was hacking

[tommiweck]

riolu used to say on his streams that his consistancy brings good placements in competitions. He proved himself right getting the first place here too with a decade of consistant cheating.

[perrybb]

The fact that all the players on that team freaking *HID* once they got a 1 kill lead was absolutely hilarious. The other team must've been so confused when they all started jumping through walls

[chinesesparrows]

Forsaken is such an apt nickname. His story may exist as long as the internet goes on... scary stuff

[princesol]

"Cheat"
Forsaken: *ah here we go again*

[misaal]

Team Mei Seng actually got to game 5 of semis without cheating in any game. They were really good players without even trolling.

[jabaited]

"You're a wizard, Forsaken" - WallBang360NoScopeHagrid

[plant_pot]

Man I remember watching Team Mi Seng, that shit was so fucking funny

[MagicVD]

Riolu still writing his apology in slowmotion

[flurble]

My absolute favourite thing about that XQC clip is that you can see his heartrate spiking when Tyler1 is grilling him. Absolute gold.

[supeskor]

Surprised that story about Daniel Abt didn't make it. Dude was a Formula E driver who during the lockdown last year had a professional simracer drive for him in rFactor or iRacing simrace. Funniest thing is that because everyone had to be present in Zoom call, he simply blocked face of the driver by a mic stand. After this he got sacked and took a break from motorsports.

[sword]

What's even more weird was that Riolu was actually very skilled at the game, picking WR up livestreaming when he wasn't cheating

[prateekmisra]

You know what? Im glad Forsaken's name has forever been tarnished, and i do hope it prevents others from cheating at that stage.

[Enmaphy]

I recommend watching the full video about that Celeste bit. That run was a rather clever way to get the mods to enlist better rules for future speedruns and it worked

[Starryeyeddreamer]

I don't really get how stream sniping at fall guys helps

[HiddenReach]

That's us at 5:40 haha. Slight correction, we started in 2009 not 2011!

[RedditUppriser]

Forsaken be like: WHY STOP NOW I FRICKINT GETING IT

[Vorusen]

Imagine trying to stream snipe in a hearthstone tourny and still being so shit you ended up in dead last

[henrystartt]

#2 was just a cheat to acquire the tron bike that all the other competitors were using as well. Just meant he didn't spend ~150 hours cycling uphill. He didn't use the cheat in competition

[Ninjakiw]

I'm honestly quite sad about the whole situation with Riolu, I started watching him about half a year before this happened and he was genuinely a fun guy and great streamer and i just wish that he had just come clean and admitted it and maybe then he could've continued streaming in some way rather than straight-up just disappearing as he did I still hope that we could see him again sometime