Taking a high-ranking player’s replay data and re-uploading it as your own. Detection Risks and the osu! Anti-Cheat

Cheat clients in the osu! ecosystem typically offer a suite of tools intended to mimic high-level human performance while bypassing automated detection.

The client scans for known malicious processes or injectors like Cheat Engine.

Players setting suspiciously high Performance Point (pp) scores far above their rank are often manually flagged for review by the osu! support team. Consequences of Cheating Osu! maintains a "one-strike" policy regarding cheating.

Unlike some games with temporary suspensions, osu! bans for cheating are often indefinite, requiring a lengthy appeal process to even consider a second chance.