In an update video regarding Valorant's most immediate future, Riot Games has announced that a Ranked Rollback system is in the works.
The idea behind the Ranked Rollback system is to reward those players affected by cheaters with the Ranked Rating (RR) lost in the process. For instance, if a player loses 26 RR in a match that includes a cheater, the player would get those back after the cheater has been detected and banned.
The decision to do so was explained in Riot Games' report regarding Vanguard's performance since its introduction to the game four years ago. According to Riot Games, although banning cheaters straight away is a possibility, this idea would be like shooting themselves in the foot: cheat developers would learn how to build better cheating systems that would make the game's state worse.
Therefore, Riot Games takes a handful of matches before banning a cheater. According to Riot Games, it takes from 10 to 15 games to ban a cheater from the game. Additionally, the report revealed that 3.6 million cheaters have been banned since the release of Vanguard, which is roughly one ban every 37 seconds.
While Ranked Rollback would be a great step in the right direction, this is nothing new in the FPS world. For example, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege has had a similar system for a few years now as players get back (or lose) their Ranked Points every time a cheater who played with or against them is banned from the game.
Unfortunately, the video didn't include any information regarding the release of Ranked Rollback to Valorant. Therefore, it would be delusional if fans expected it to be implemented in the game with Patch 9.06, which is just around the corner.