To get straight to it, the surest way to save Valorant ace clips is to leave it to a recording tool that automatically detects kills and aces. Valorant rounds are short, making ace moments easy to miss, but DOR records the match automatically, saves every kill as its own clip, and tags ace rounds. Even when your hands are too busy to hit a hotkey, the decisive scenes pile up in My Clips on their own.
This article lays out, step by step, how to gather ace clips with auto-detection and how to use manual backup to complement it. This flow applies as is to other tactical shooters like Counter-Strike, not just Valorant, so learn it once and you can use it the same way even if you switch games.
Why ace clips keep disappearing
A Valorant round is at most around 100 seconds, and the moment an ace happens is usually crammed into the last few seconds. As the fifth kill goes in, you're caught up in the excitement and moving on to prep for the next round, and you just blow right past the moment to hit the record hotkey. And that's how the day's best play vanishes without a record.
There's also the option of leaving full recording on, but hunting back through a two- or three-hour video to cut out just the ace segment is more of a hassle than it sounds. That's why auto-detection, which saves the decisive moments as separate clips from the start, is more efficient.
What counts as an ace in Valorant, and when DOR tags one
In Valorant, an ace means one player eliminates all five enemies in a single round. Two similar terms work differently: a team ace is when your five players each take down one of the five enemies, and a clutch is when the last player left alive on a team wins the round. DOR tags only aces and clutches on clips, and labels clips that contain several kills by how many kills they hold.
| Term | What it means in the game | What DOR shows on the clip |
|---|---|---|
| Ace | One player eliminates all five enemies in a round | If your team won the round, an Ace tag on your last kill clip of that round |
| Clutch | The last player alive on a team wins the round | If your team won the clutch round, a Clutch tag on your last kill clip of that round |
| Double Kill to Quadra Kill | One player gets two to four kills in a single round | A Double Kill, Triple Kill or Quadra Kill label, based on the kills inside one clip (a clip holding all five kills is labeled Ace) |
| Team ace | Your five players each eliminate one of the five enemies | No separate tag (your kill is saved as a regular kill clip) |
Because an ace's five kills are spread across a round, one clip won't hold them all if the first and last kill are further apart than your Highlight Length (30 seconds by default).
In that case, open the full match video, jump to that round using the round sections on the progress bar, and use Trim Section to cut all five kills into one video. If you save aces often, you can also raise Highlight Length to 45 or 60 seconds before the match starts.
How to check your Valorant ace count and find your ace clips
- In the game: the Career page shows your Match History and Rank, and the Accolades page in the Competitive Hub collects your standout Competitive performances. Riot's patch notes don't say whether aces are counted separately, though.
- Stat sites: some stat sites you search by Riot ID count aces separately. Each site counts over different periods and rules, and your stats may not show if your match history is set to private. If you were trying to save highlights with the tracker app and it failed, see Valorant Tracker highlights not working.
- DOR: for matches DOR recorded, open the match in My Clips to find the clips tagged Ace right away, so you can see how many aces you got in that match and watch each one. Everything DOR does automatically for Valorant is collected on the Valorant game page.
Method 1: Gather ace clips with auto-detection
Auto-detection saves the moments right before your kills and deaths as short, separate clips while you play. DOR cuts each clip to your Highlight Length (30 seconds by default), ending 3 seconds after the event, and keeps the full match video as well. The key is that the decisive scenes are saved automatically without you pressing a hotkey yourself.
Here's the setup order based on DOR.
- Install and launch DOR. You don't need to add Valorant yourself; DOR detects it automatically when the game starts.
- Under Settings > Game > Valorant, check that Highlight Auto Analysis and Kill are on (they are by default). Pick the clip length under Settings > Highlight > Highlight Length: 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds, with 30 as the default.
- Start with the default 1080p 30fps. If you want smoother footage, raise it to 60fps, but resolution, frame rate and clip length can't be changed while recording, so set them before the match starts.
- Play the game as usual. Each kill is saved as a clip, and if your team wins an ace round, the last kill clip of that round gets an Ace tag.
- After the game, open the match in My Clips to review the clips tagged Ace, and use Trim Section to tidy up the start and end if needed.
Method 2: Back up manually with a hotkey
Auto-detection won't catch 100% of every moment. For scenes only you know are special, like a slick Operator flick or a team fight where the vibe was just right, it's safer to back them up yourself. Manual backup saves the segment just before with a single hotkey, so it fits well as a safety net to complement auto-detection.
- In your recording tool, assign the instant-save hotkey to a key that's easy to reach.
- Set the save length to about the previous 15-30 seconds so the start doesn't get cut even if you press it right after an ace ends.
- Press the hotkey within a beat right after an ace or impressive play.
- After the round ends, open the saved clip and check that the segment was captured properly.
How to use auto and manual together
The most efficient combination is to leave auto-detection on as the default and use the manual hotkey as a backup. Auto-detection gathers most of the kills and aces on its own, and you press once more by hand to save your own highlight scenes that auto might miss. This way you capture every clip without your folder bloating unnecessarily.
Once you've learned this far, you can carry the same flow over to games other than Valorant. In round-based games like Counter-Strike, DOR also auto-clips kills, deaths and assists, so the same approach works. Ace and Clutch tags, however, only appear on Valorant clips.
Summary
Valorant ace clips are hard to capture by hand given how short the rounds are. Use DOR's auto-detection to gather kill and ace segments by default, and complement only the scenes auto might miss with a manual hotkey, and you can reliably save the day's best plays.
Start with the defaults of 1080p 30fps and 30-second clips, and adjust the frame rate and clip length before a match as your play style needs.
