Riot (2024)

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Riot is a very popular and an extremely skilled American player in Geometry Dash, known for beating several difficult levels such as Ice Carbon Diablo X,^[1] Crimson Clutter,^[2] and Cataclysm.^[3] However, he isn't much of a creator and doesn't have many rated levels. His most famous achievement to date is his verification of the legendary Extreme Demon mega-collaboration, Bloodbath.^[4]

History

Career Start

Riot started playing Geometry Dash on April 28, 2014, during Update 1.6, when he first uploaded a video of himself beating Ystep by Darnoc, one of the oldest Easy Demons.^[5] He then uploaded videos of himself beating the original 1-10 levels by the next day as well as Clutterfunk v2 by Neptune, rated a Medium Demon today.^[6] As you can see, he started off small, mainly beating Easy Demons at that time.

However, on May 10, 2014, Riot created his first level ever: Sparks.^[7] In terms of difficulty, it was Easy Demon-ish.

On May 21, 2014, when Update 1.7 came out, Riot beat Electrodynamix, which is somewhat important in his history due to his main icon being the Electrodynamix icon.^[8] Four days later, he reached 100 subscribers, a small but significant milestone for his Geometry Dash career. However, he did not make many significant achievements over the next five months, mainly beating Easy Demons and uploading them to YouTube.

On October 14, 2014, Riot beat Doomsday II by Neptune on mobile, one of the most significant achievements done on mobile.^[9] Even though Riot became a legend on the PC, this was still a significant achievement especially seeing as it was done on a phone.

On December 21, 2014, when Update 1.9 was released, Riot beat his last Demon on mobile - Speed Racer.^[10] Afterward, Riot switched to the Steam version of Geometry Dash, where he would begin the main part of his Geometry Dash career.

On December 24, 2014, Riot beat Valley of Dreams by Noobas, which was his first recorded Demon on stream.^[11] The video of him beating it on stream was also his first video with an intro.

On December 28, Riot beat his hardest Demon at this point - Deadly Clubstep by Neptune. It took him around 17,000 attempts.^[12] Whereas Andromeda and other players beat it much more quickly and in fewer attempts, this was a very impressive achievement at that time, significantly increasing Riot's fame.

Three days later, he beat Hexagon Force v2 by Neptune, a Hard Demon as of now.^[13] Over the span of the next five months, Riot mostly beat more Medium and Hard Demons.

Best Geometry Dash Player

On May 14, 2015, Riot beat Astronaut 13 by Minesap, the first Nine Circles level he ever beat. At that time, he also promised that he would beat all rated Circles levels.^[14] Even though people thought it was a hollow promise at that time, Riot surprised everyone even more by beating three very difficult demons in four days, starting off with Cataclysm, which he beat on May 20th after under 33,000 attempts.^[3] He was the third person to beat it after Sandstorm^[15] and Giron,^[16] who all beat it on the same day. On May 21, Riot beat Necropolis by Neptune after 20,690 attempts - another great achievement.^[17] On May 23, Riot beat Ice Carbon Diablo X by Roadbose, thus becoming the first person to legitimately complete it on stream.^[1]

Following this achievement, Riot was receiving more and more popularity as one of the best Geometry Dash players. On May 31, 2015, Riot released a preview of an upcoming mega-collaboration, which we now know as Bloodbath. A week later, Riot released a second preview, showing the intense straight fly gameplay.^[18][19] Riot promised to release this before Update 2.0, but in the meantime, Riot started beating more Hard Demons and continued to make his progress on the Nine Circles Levels.

On June 8, 2015, Riot beat Stalemate by Nox, a 1.9 Insane Demon featuring very difficult timings and memorization.^[20] He then later beat Fire Temple^[21] and Shadow Temple,^[22] two of the first installments in the Temple series by Michigun. On June 14th, Riot beat Windy Landscape by Woogi1411, a challenging 1.9 Insane Demon as well as one of the most famous demons of all time.^[23]

Shortly after beating Windy Landscape,^[23] Riot started making progress on the Nine Circles levels, firstly beating Figures^[24] and then Poltergeist - a very difficult Nine Circles level by Andromeda that was one of the hardest Nine Circles level at that time.^[25]

Riot then later beat Supersonic,^[26] Fairydust,^[27] Nine Circles,^[28] and other easy Nine Circles Levels as well as more difficult ones. However, when he took a break from the Nine Circles levels in June 2015, he focused his attention on Bloodbath. On June 25th, 2015, Riot got a record of 48% on Bloodbath - an excellent run considering he only recently started practicing.^[29] On July 6th, 2015, Riot released a cinematic preview of Bloodbath and achieved a new best of 58% seven days later.^[30] Riot continued to progress, getting a record of 65% on August 3.^[31] Afterward, on August 6th, he fluked from 65% to 90% (citation needed). On August 8, he got a record of 94%, his biggest Bloodbath fail ever.^[32] However, four days later, on August 12, Riot finally verified Bloodbath - the hardest 1.9 Demon of all time.^[4]

After this achievement, Riot became known as one of the best players in Geometry Dash history - a legend. His achievements didn't stop there, as on August 18th, Riot beat Crimson Clutter by RedUniverse - completing his goal to beat all rated Nine Circles Levels (note that this was during Update 1.9).^[2]

Shortly after Riot completed Crimson Clutter,^[2] Update 2.0 was released, so Riot maintained his position as the Number 1 player by beating the most recent featured levels and other hard levels such as Old Down Bass^[33] and Galatic Fragility.^[34] With Cyclic leaving and Andromeda confessing to hacking on August 19th,^[35] Riot was the best player for a while. However, Riot officially quit Geometry Dash on September 12th due to him being accused of hacking. Surprisingly, this quit only last five hours long. Not many people believe this was an entire quit-and-come-back, because of how short it was.

Once Riot returned, he once again started slaying demons, starting with Ultrasonic by ZenthicAlpha and more on October 2nd.^[36] Also, on November 5, Riot beat Creeper Force by CreeperMLK, an extremely difficult remake of Hexagon Force.^[37] For the rest of 2015, Riot generally didn't beat many more harder demons, but when 2016 came, Riot buffed and reverified Cataclysm by Ggb0y, adding three user coins in the process.^[38] However, several users did not like the new update due to the buffs making the gameplay more inconsistent and bad placements for the coins. However, many other users liked it too.

Riot started to develop RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) on his finger from playing so many demons, so Riot started to play with his other finger. He started making progress on Sonic Wave, the hardest Nine Circles level at the time, and after 5 years, it is still in the top 70 at the time of editing. People had been asking him to do this ever since he beat all the rated 1.9 Nine Circles Levels and Cyclic, a cheater who had returned to Geometry Dash, fully supported Riot on practicing Sonic Wave.

Riot continued to practice Sonic Wave, but he noted that he might play Geometry Dash less occasionally because he was starting to get bored of the game. However, Riot still beat Hard Demons every now and then, firstly beating Theory of Xoanon by Noobas, rated an Insane or Very Hard Demon back then.^[39]

A big shock came to the community when Cyclic quit the game for the second time, confessing to having hacked Sonic Wave and The Hell Zone.^[40] On Skype, when Riot questioned Cyclic, he claimed that he had hacked every single one of his demons. This was a big deal to Riot, because as he had said on his Skype, "That means I've been competing with a hacker this whole time". This basically confirmed Riot as the "Best GD Player" for a while.

Sonic Wave and 2.0

Riot started to drop progress on Sonic Wave, which led the community to believe that Riot had officially quit Sonic Wave. However, it turned out he had been working on something else.

After beating Labnity by Jo2000 on March 5th,^[41] Riot announced that he would be showcasing a new level soon. A little while later, Riot started uploading parts of the 2.0 mega-collaboration Yatagarasu.^[42] It was conceived as one of the hardest levels ever. Many believed Riot wouldn't beat this, but that's what they also thought with Bloodbath.

After a little while, nearly all of the 23 creators participating had uploaded their parts and Riot occasionally streamed the level for practice, showing the community pretty much all of the level. However, Riot was working on another level - Sonic Wave Infinity by Cyclic, Viprin, and Riot himself. It was a redesign of Sonic Wave that Riot asked Viprin to make due to him not liking the original level's decorations. When Riot focused his attention to this, Riot started dropping progress on Yatagarasu.

Riot started making some progress on Sonic Wave Infinity, getting a record of 39-100% on March 30th,^[43] then 72% on April 23rd.^[44] However, Riot started to fall off the Top 100 Leaderboards when he started investing more time in Yatagarasu and Sonic Wave Infinity. Not only that, but Surv also started eclipsing him as the "Best GD Player" when he started dominating the Top 10 Demons. But still, Riot occasionally beat Hard Demons that came out recently, beating Retention by Woogi1411^[45] and A Bizarre Phantasm by Team N2.^[46]

Riot also had two more projects besides Sonic Wave Infinity and Yatagarasu - Quantum Processing and Red World Rebirth. Riot originally tried to beat Quantum Processing first, but eventually quit from getting too annoyed at that level and decided to try Red World Rebirth instead. After just below 5,000 attempts, he verified it on May 22nd, 2016.^[47]

After Red World Rebirth, Riot started practicing the original Sonic Wave once again. He got a record of 73% on October 12, 2016, and he then practiced Audio Excursion, a very hard demon mega-collaboration, which he beat on November 14, 2016. He then continued practicing the original Sonic Wave, getting a record of 76% then 96%- his worst fail on Sonic Wave.^[48] After the 96% fail, Riot kind of quit Sonic Wave and also quit Quantum Processing and decided that Artificial Ideology would be his last frontier before he officially quit. So he passed on Yatagarasu to Surv, the (next?) best player after Riot. Having beaten all Top 10 hardest demons, Surv seemed like the appropriate choice.

After the 96% fail on Sonic Wave, Riot decided to practice Artificial Ideology, getting a record of 26-88% and 44-100%. On December 2, 2016, Riot beat Dem Travel by Serponge, a Medium Demon as of now. Riot then beat FusionX, but he then became inactive from Geometry Dash for a few months after that.

On March 15, 2017, Riot released Buffbath, a buffed version of Bloodbath with a secret way. A week later, he beat Curse Calling by Minesap, a very hard 1.9 Demon. Two weeks later, Riot released a full preview of the original Quantum Processing, which had far different gameplay than the final version and was somewhat easier than the current version now.^[49] On July 15, Riot uploaded his part for an upcoming level that would turn out to Night Rider a year later.^[50]

End of Career

Riot officially quit Geometry Dash after that, but he returned to the game three months later to beat Quest for Perfection by LazerBlitz, Hate War by Stormfly, and The Ultimate Phase by Andromeda and more, all of which are Extreme Demons.

Three days later, Riot beat Heartbeat by KrmaL, a difficult Extreme Demon currently placed on the Extended List.^[51] He also re-beat Cataclysm for the stars, which showed that he was becoming more active in Geometry Dash to get a higher leaderboard position. Shortly afterward, he beat Allegiance by NikroPlays, a well-known 2.0 Insane Demon.

After Allegiance, Riot beat Event Horizon and Warhead, but he didn't beat many more levels after that. About one month later, Riot uploaded a video called "Major Announcements and Updates!", which showed that firstly, Riot would be bringing his Discord server back so friends could communicate together on there and socialize online. Secondly, Riot explained why he has been quitting Geometry Dash and coming back out of nowhere due to his finger pains, which would hurt more if he played too much Geometry Dash. So he noted that he wouldn't be recording any more extreme demons. He said that he would pass on the rest of his projects to Rampage and Sunix, Quantum Processing and Descent into Exile for Rampage, and Necromancer/Sonic Wave Infinity for Sunix. After these four were uploaded, Riot stated that he would likely officially quit Geometry Dash and delete his account. But he's still planning what to do with his channel once he quits, as Sonic Wave Infinity is still not verified by Sunix.

About one month after his "Important Announcements" video, Riot uploaded the video of Rampage verifying Quantum Processing, which meant one of his projects was finished, after 2 long years.^[52] He then released a preview of his upcoming Extreme Demon level Tartarus, which was similar to Ice Carbon Diablo X and other pre 1.9 Hell-themed levels.

On November 14, 2017, Riot uploaded a video of him attempting to expose NoctaFly, the former #1 player in Geometry Dash, who had hacked tons of his levels. He was also the second player in Geometry Dash history to complete 1000 demons and the only player in Geometry Dash History to reach the star limit in Update 2.1. However, Riot showed several pieces of evidence that NoctaFly had hacked some of his most notable achievements - such as Devil Vortex, Sonic Wave, and Sakupen Hell.

Eventually, NoctaFly confessed to hacking all his major achievements, including Bausha Vortex, Zaphkiel, Black Blizzard, and Deception Dive, making this the first successful exposal Riot has done so far. About a week after NoctaFly's confession, Riot released a preview of Cosmic Cyclone - the supposed sequel to the legendary level Sonic Wave.

On November 29, Riot verified Galactic Machine, a Clubstep-styled level in comparison to Extreme Demon difficulty.^[53] Riot released his second preview of Tartarus the next day, which was more of a teaser due to the preview being more cinematic instead of showing the actual gameplay by an auto/NoClip run. On December 6, a week later after the Tartarus teaser, Riot started a new series called Looking Back - which basically was kind of a documentary about what Riot and the following __Player(?)__ has been up to recently, how they met, talking about random stuff, etc. However, there has not been another video of that series so far.

On December 9th, 2017, Riot beat Clubstep Nightmares by Zobros - a somewhat difficult Clubstep-styled Hard Demon. About a month and a half later on January 26, 2018, Riot released the highly anticipated level Tartarus, which he used NoClip to verify. Mullsy beat Tartarus on Feburary 8, 2020.

After that, Riot was extremely inactive for several months until June 17, when Riot explained that he had completely lost interest in Geometry Dash and was ready to move on, likely to other games such as Fortnite due to other games interesting him. In any case, he has now clearly completely quit Geometry Dash, seen by all his unlisted videos.^[54]

Meanwhile, Riot was getting hate comments on his videos (as his fanbase doesn’t really like Fortnite), several of them attempting to force him to go back playing Geometry Dash, despite Riot gaining several more fans from the Fortnite community. This was solved by an unknown person around July 21-23 when his YouTube channel got taken down due to “multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations.” The termination also destroyed all his then-unlisted videos of him playing Geometry Dash in the process. However, it is unknown whether Riot's videos will be uploaded back onto YouTube again.

Achievements

This is Riot's notable achievements by date order. Keep in mind that this list will mostly be composed of Insane and Extreme Demons.

Level	Difficulty	Date Achieved	Total Attempts	Notable Fails	Video
Beat Deadly ClubStep	Hard Demon	December 28, 2014	16,569	N/A	Link
Beat Astronaut 13	Hard Demon	May 14, 2015	2,118	N/A	Link
Beat Old Cataclysm	Extreme Demon	May 20, 2015	32,870	80%	Link
Beat Necropolis	Insane Demon	May 21, 2015	20,690	N/A	Link
Beat Ice Carbon Diablo X	Extreme Demon	May 23, 2015	6,552	95%	Link
Beat Stalemate	Hard Demon	June 8, 2015	1,138	~80%	Link
Beat Windy Landscape	Insane Demon	June 14, 2015	2,802	N/A	Link
Beat Poltergeist	Insane Demon	June 18, 2015	2,874	N/A	Link
Beat Supersonic	Insane Demon	June 19, 2015	5,971	98%	Link
Beat Fairydust	Hard Demon	June 19, 2015	4,315	N/A	Link
Beat Jawbreaker	Hard Demon	June 20, 2015	728	N/A	Link
Beat Nine Circles	Hard Demon	June 22, 2015	2,428	N/A	Link
Beat Silhouette	Hard Demon	June 24, 2015	1,436	N/A	Link
Beat The JanuS Miracle	Insane Demon	June 25, 2015	1,487	N/A	Link
Bloodbath Progress (48%)	Extreme Demon	June 25, 2015	N/A	N/A	Link
Bloodbath Progress (58%)	Extreme Demon	July 13, 2015	N/A	48%	Link
Beat Acropolis	Insane Demon	July 26, 2015	4,336	N/A	Link
Bloodbath Progress (65%)	Extreme Demon	August 3, 2015	N/A	58%	Link
Beat Paracosm Circles	Medium Demon	August 3, 2015	215	N/A	Link
Bloodbath Progress (90%)	Extreme Demon	August 6, 2015	N/A	65%	Link
Bloodbath Progress (94%)	Extreme Demon	August 8, 2015	N/A	90%	Link
Bloodbath Verified	Extreme Demon	August 12, 2015	25,000+	94%	Link
Beat Sine Wavs	Insane Demon	August 16, 2015	610	N/A	Link
Beat Crimson Clutter	Insane Demon	August 18, 2015	3,007	N/A	Link
Beat Ultrasonic	Insane Demon	October 2, 2015	2,584	N/A	Link
Beat Ultra Fairydust	Hard Demon	October 28, 2015	106	N/A	Link
Beat Ultra Paracosm	Easy Demon	November 3, 2015	51	N/A	Link
Beat Creeper Force	Insane Demon	November 5, 2015	3,701	~80%	Link
Beat Rupture	Insane Demon	November 12, 2015	654	N/A	Link
Beat Updated Old Down Bass	Insane Demon	November 24, 2015	3,205	N/A	Link
Beat Ultimate Circles	Easy Demon	December 7, 2015	81	N/A	Link
Beat Galatic Fragility	Insane Demon	December 9, 2015	4,631	87%	Link
Beat Alphabet X	Insane Demon	December 16, 2015	1,891	96%	Link
Beat Rearmed	Insane Demon	January 9, 2016	1,711	93%	Link
Verified Updated Cataclysm	Extreme Demon	January 14, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Sonic Wave Progress (28-82%)	Extreme Demon	January 16, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat Night Terrors	Insane Demon	February 7, 2016	886	N/A	Link
Beat Theory of XoanoN	Insane Demon	February 15, 2016	1,441	97%	Link
Beat Labnity	Hard Demon	March 5, 2016	575	N/A	Link
Sonic Wave Infinity Progress (39-100%)	Extreme Demon	March 30, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat Lunatic Doom Machine	Insane Demon	April 3, 2016	992	N/A	Link
Beat Retention	Extreme Demon	April 10, 2016	4,711	N/A	Link
Sonic Wave Infinity Progress (72%)	Extreme Demon	April 23, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat A Bizzare Phantasm	Extreme Demon	May 13, 2016	6,495	~70%	Link
Verified Red World Rebirth	Extreme Demon	May 22, 2016	4,640	N/A	Link
Beat Audio Excursion	Insane Demon	November, 14, 2016	1,038	N/A	Link
Sonic Wave Progress (96%)	Extreme Demon	November 18, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat Dem Travel	Medium Demon	December 2, 2016	179 (on copyable)	N/A	Link
Beat FusionX	Hard Demon	December, 11, 2016	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat High Life	Insane	July 18, 2017	130	N/A	Link
Beat Quest for Perfection	Extreme Demon	July, 19, 2017	2,136	N/A	Link
Beat Hate War	Extreme Demon	July, 20, 2017	1,649	N/A	Link
Beat The Ultimate Phase	Extreme Demon	July, 20, 2017	8,499	N/A	Link
Beat Heartbeat	Extreme Demon	July 23, 2017	4,317	N/A	Link
Rebeat Updated Cataclysm	Extreme Demon	July 23, 2017	300	N/A	Link
Beat Allegiance	Extreme Demon	July 27, 2017	7,008	94%	Link
Verified Galactic Machine	Extreme Demon?	November 27, 2017	2,835	N/A	Link
Beat Clubstep Nightmares	Insane Demon	December 9, 2017	1,168	N/A	Link
Verified Project Reunion	Insane Demon	November 11, 2020	2,168	N/A	Link
Beat Sakupen Hell	Extreme Demon	April 7, 2021	N/A	87%	Link
Beat Aftermath	Extreme Demon	April 14, 2021	N/A	95%	Link
Beat Phobos	Extreme Demon	April 17, 2021	N/A	N/A	Link
Beat Athanatos	Extreme Demon	April 22, 2021	N/A	90%	Link
Beat Auditory Breaker	Extreme Demon	May 2, 2021	26	94%	:Link

Levels

Unrated Levels

• blood bathtub hard v - A buffed version of Bloodbath with a secret way, nicknamed Buffbath.
• EVW Challenge - A short challenge level for EricVanWilderman.
• Sparks - A 1.6 level made by Riot himself. It is considered the first and only "official" level Riot made.
• Tartarus - A silent level megacollab hosted by Riot composed of constant vehicle transitions. Formerly known as Project Silent Akbar, Riot uploaded it with Noclip as a challenge to see who could beat it first.

Demon Levels

Extreme Demons

• Bloodbath (featured) - A 1.9 hell themed mega-collaboration by ASonicMen, Hinds, Vermillion, and many others. It was the hardest level in Geometry Dash for several months.
• Quantum Processing (featured) - A remake of Blast Processing with several buffs and harder gameplay. It was started over two years ago and finally verified by Rampage in Update 2.1.
• Red World Rebirth (featured) - A slightly buffed remake of the original Red World by Neptune and SaRy. It was decorated by Findexi, Viprin, and Hinds, and verified by Riot.

Cancelled/Deleted Levels

• Dab reto xdddd - A short level with 346 objects with easy UFO, Ship, Wave and Robot gameplay. It was removed a few hours after it was released.
• GS One Space Fly v2 - An Insane Tiny level by Riot. The level includes no more than an extremely difficult and very tight (1 block between floor spikes and overhead spikes) ship sequence. However, this level had been ruined due to Anaban hacking his account (thus leaking Sonic Wave Infinity, Quantum Processing and Riot's version of Yatagarasu without Manix's part), so Riot deleted the level.
• Retention 144Hz Ver - A simple copy ofRetention, it was made for 144Hz monitor users due to bugs, but it was later removed after he retired fromGeometry Dash.
• Riot Madness - The first level in the Riot Level Series, his first level ever created.
• Riot on Track - The second level in the Riot Level Series.
• Riotgeist - The third level in the Riot Level Series.

Videos

• Bloodbath Verification

• Riot Documentary

• Red World Rebirth Verification

• New Cataclysm Verification

• Galactic Machine Verification

Trivia

• Riot was the first person to beat all rated Nine Circles Levels from Update 1.9. However, several more Circles levels were rated and released in Update 2.0 and Temporum was the first to beat all of the 2.0 and 1.9 Nine Circles levels.^[55]
• Riot suprisingly used to play on mobile, but after he started playing on a PC Monitor, he became very skilled at straight flying.
• Even though Sparks was deleted from Riot's account at one point when Riot quit the game, he liked the level so much that he reverifed and uploaded it in his new account.
• He was formerly a list editor in the Geometry Dash Forum, but was demoted due to inactivity.
• After Riot completely quit Geometry Dash, he unlisted all of his previous videos.^[56]
• Riot's YouTube channel was recently completely terminated.^[57]
• Riot was confessed by some players to be a hacker due to his ship trail and small attempts on levels. This was before it was discovered he was playing on 144hz.

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