Since January 1, 2026, an invalid character name or avatar in Liên Quân Mobile is corrected by the system automatically, and your rename feature is locked for anywhere from 1 day to 3 years. The 12-character name limit has not moved. What it costs to get a name wrong has.
This update is about the penalty, not the name field. Nothing about what you are allowed to type has changed.
| Rule | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Name length limit | Unchanged | 12 characters, no plain spaces |
| Allowed decorative symbols | Unchanged | Symbols count normally, not double |
| Consequence for an invalid name or avatar | 🆕 New, Jan 1, 2026 | Auto-corrected by the system; rename locked 1 day to 3 years by severity and repeat offences |
Garena's Liên Quân Mobile council published the change on December 31, 2025 as "Cập nhật các hành vi bị xử phạt và thời hạn khóa" (Update to Penalized Behaviors and Lock Durations), effective January 1, 2026.
Before it, an account using an invalid name or avatar mostly sat untouched until somebody reported it. Now the system corrects the name or avatar itself and locks the rename and profile-info-change feature.
The lock runs from 1 day to 3 years, scaled by how serious the violation is and whether the account has offended before. Garena states that range and has not published which behaviours land in which tier.
People keep confusing this with Garena's March 2024 enforcement notice. They are different events.
| March 2024 notice | January 2026 update | |
|---|---|---|
| What it was | A one-off enforcement wave | A change to the standing penalty rules |
| Who it hit | Accounts already carrying invalid names at that moment | Any account whose name or avatar is flagged from now on |
| What happened | Renamed to a random name, plus an account ban scaled to the violation | Auto-correction plus a rename lock of 1 day to 3 years |
Decorative Unicode is not the target here. You can still build a name from symbols inside the existing rules: 12 characters, no plain spaces, symbols counted at their normal weight. The update goes after names and avatars that breach Garena's content policy.
The group with something real to lose is anyone whose symbol combination could be misread by the filter as something it flags. Under the old enforcement that cost you a correction. Now it can cost you the rename button for up to three years, which is worth a check before you spend Quân Huy on a change.
Test a name against the 12-character rule on our Vietnamese Kí Tự Đặc Biệt Liên Quân page, which carries a live checker calibrated to it. For the same question across Free Fire, PUBG Mobile and Mobile Legends, see why was my game name rejected.
Garena gives the 1-day-to-3-year range and stops there. As of September 25, 2026, no public breakdown maps a specific behaviour to a specific lock length, so nobody outside Garena can tell you what a given name would cost. We add the tiers here if Garena publishes them.
A live 12-character checker calibrated to Liên Quân's own weighting, on our Vietnamese page.
Open Kí Tự Đặc Biệt Liên Quân →Garena's official Liên Quân Mobile announcement, "Cập nhật các hành vi bị xử phạt và thời hạn khóa từ 1/1/2026" (Vietnamese-language), dated December 31, 2025, is the source for the automatic correction of invalid names and avatars and the 1-day-to-3-year lock on changing profile information. Garena's earlier notice, "Thông báo xử lý tài khoản đặt tên sai quy định", is the source for the March 2024 wave: it names colour codes, over-length names and banned words, and says accounts still using an invalid name from 00:00 on March 26, 2024 would be renamed to a random name and banned according to the violation.