Streamer Mode in League of Legends hides your Riot ID from opponents, teammates, and third-party trackers like op.gg and u.gg for the duration of a match. Enable it in the client at Settings > Client > General > Streamer Mode. There are three toggles, each scoped to a different layer of anonymity.
One catch worth knowing up front: Streamer Mode does not hide you from your own friends list, and it does not hide your matches from your post-game profile or op.gg history. If you're trying to play without your friends knowing, that's a different problem (see how to appear offline).
How to Enable Streamer Mode
- Open the League client and click the gear icon in the top-right.
- Make sure you're on the Client tab on the left, then select General.
- Scroll down to the Streamer Mode section and tick the options you want.
The same setting covers Teamfight Tactics. VALORANT has a similar feature but with different scope (party-only, no progression hiding) under Settings > General > Privacy.
The Three Toggles, Compared
| Toggle | What it hides | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Hide All Names (Only For Me) | Replaces every other player's Riot ID with their champion name in your scoreboard, chat, announcements, and health bars. | Your client only. Other players still see your name unless they're using Streamer Mode themselves. |
| Hide My Name From Everyone | Hides your Riot ID from all other players during active games (champion select, loading screen, in-game). | Outbound only. Hides your name from others. |
| Hide My Identifying Info From Everyone | Hides your name plus mastery score, challenges, title, profile picture, and ranked border from others. Also hides their info from you. | Both directions. Overrides "Hide My Name From Everyone" when both are on. The strongest option. |
All three options only apply to active games. Match History and Replays are not affected by any toggle, so anyone can still look up your post-game profile and see exactly what you played. Streamer Mode is a live-game shield, not a permanent one.
Party members are excluded. Even with "Hide My Identifying Info From Everyone" on, anyone you queued with as a premade can still see your full Riot ID and identifying information. The toggles only blur you from non-party teammates and opponents. The likely reason: you already chose to queue with these players, so anonymity inside the party would break coordination with no privacy gain.
One practical consequence: Streamer Mode does almost nothing in Clash, where your entire 5-person team is your party. Your Clash teammates see your real Riot ID regardless of which toggle you tick. The opposing 5-stack is still hidden, but that's a niche win.
Does Op.gg Respect Streamer Mode?
Yes, but only during the live game. Since Patch 25.20 (October 2025), Riot's API stopped serving player identity data to third-party apps for anyone using Streamer Mode while a match is in progress. Op.gg, u.gg, Porofessor, Blitz, and the rest cannot pull your name, rank, or recent matches mid-game. They show the player as "missing from in-game info."
The moment the game ends, your match appears in your op.gg profile like any other. Streamer Mode does not retroactively hide post-game data. If you need full profile concealment on op.gg specifically, that's a separate feature: op.gg's profile privacy setting requires you to link your Riot account on op.gg and toggle the profile to private. The two systems are independent and you can use both.
Premade Detection Breaks
The biggest practical effect of Streamer Mode is one Riot doesn't advertise. When even one player on either team has Streamer Mode on, third-party apps lose the ability to detect premades for the entire lobby. Riot confirmed this on Reddit: the API doesn't expose enough information for op.gg or Porofessor to tell who's queued together. If you've used these tools to scout enemy duo bot lanes, expect that intel to disappear in Streamer Mode lobbies.
Who Can Still See You
Streamer Mode is not invisibility. The following always remain visible:
- Your friends list. Riot's support article spells this out directly. Anyone on your friends list still sees your Riot ID and your "In Game" status the entire match.
- Your own match history and replays. The toggles affect what other players see. You can still pull up your own profile, op.gg, and replay folder normally.
- Reports. The report system still resolves your Riot ID server-side, so getting flagged for griefing or AFK works as usual.
- Post-game match data. Once the loading screen clears and the post-game lobby loads, third-party trackers can pull the match like any other.
If you also want the friends list silent, layer Streamer Mode with a tool like Deceive. Streamer Mode handles opponents and trackers; Deceive handles your social graph.
When Streamer Mode Actually Helps
- Streaming or recording content where viewers can stream-snipe by typing your Riot ID into a tracker.
- Smurfing when you don't want opponents identifying you mid-game and dodging or focus-firing.
- Climbing on a known account if you have a follower base that recognizes you in champ select.
- Scrim privacy against opposing scouts for amateur and semi-pro teams. Your own teammates always see you, but the opposing party is hidden from third-party trackers during the match.
For casual play it's mostly noise. The "Hide All Names (Only For Me)" toggle is occasionally useful on its own as a focus mode, but the privacy gain from the other two doesn't matter if nobody was looking you up to begin with.
FAQ
When was Streamer Mode added? Patch 25.S1.3 (February 2025) shipped a single combined toggle. Patch 25.20 (October 2025) split it into the current three options and added the API-level protection that breaks third-party live tracking.
Does Streamer Mode work in ranked? Yes. All toggles are queue-agnostic. There's no penalty for using it in Solo Queue, Flex, or any other mode.
Can I still see my own rank and stats? Yes. Streamer Mode hides information from others; your own client shows everything as it always does.
Will my friends know I played a Streamer Mode game? Yes. The friends list shows you in-game throughout. Match History on your profile is also visible to anyone who looks it up after the game.
Can my premades still see me with the strongest toggle on? Yes. Riot's tooltip is explicit: party members are excluded from Streamer Mode. Anyone you queued with sees your full Riot ID and identifying info as normal.
If a stream-sniper adds me as a friend, can they bypass Streamer Mode? No. Friends list and party membership are different things. Friends can see your "In Game" status in their sidebar, but they can't see your Riot ID inside the match unless they queued with you as a party. Solo-queueing the same time as a stream-sniper friend doesn't put them in your party.
Does in-client spectate respect Streamer Mode? Yes. A friend or stranger spectating your live game sees champion names instead of your Riot ID, the same as any in-game opponent. Spectators are never classified as party members, so the exclusion rule doesn't apply.
Does Streamer Mode hide me on op.gg permanently? No. It only blocks the live-game lookup. Post-game match data appears on your op.gg profile as normal. For permanent op.gg hiding, link your Riot account on op.gg and use their separate profile privacy toggle.
Does it work in custom games? The toggles are scoped to matchmade games. In custom lobbies players invite each other directly, so Streamer Mode behavior there is less consistent and less useful.
What about Tournament Realm or pro play? Tournament Realm and competitive matches use separate broadcast and spectator infrastructure. Streamer Mode is a public-server consumer feature.
