A 5-stack in Valorant is five players queuing together as one party. You will also hear it called a full stack or a full party. Because a Valorant team has five players, queuing as a 5-stack means everyone on your side is someone you know. It also means the big moments of a match don't all happen on one screen: while you take the entry and get the first kill, a friend shuts down a flank on the far side of the map, and in the next round someone else wins a clutch. Each recording only keeps one screen, though, so seeing everything the five of you pulled off in that match takes all five POVs. This guide is not about finding a 5-stack. It is for five people who already play together and want to turn one match into a single highlight with all five POVs. The short version: everyone records with DOR, and Party Clip gathers the POVs after the match. Below you'll find the Competitive party rules, the steps, ways to structure a five-person video, and 9:16 and music settings. Other recording and clipping guides are collected on the Valorant page.
Bottom line: all five record with DOR, then Party Clip gathers the POVs
A 5-stack is five players queuing as one party, and in Valorant that is your whole team. According to Riot's official Competitive FAQ, parties of two or three have to stay within set rank ranges, four-player groups can't queue for Competitive, and parties of five are not bound by any ranked restrictions. A 5-stack that includes players outside the normal party range can still receive an RR penalty, so check the official FAQ for the exact rules. Getting all five POVs into one video works like this. All five keep DOR running on their own PCs and play in the same party, and DOR records each player's full match. After the match, one player opens a Party Clip room, and each player trims one of their own clips from that match to between 3 and 30 seconds and uploads it. Once at least one clip is in, any participant who recorded the match can use Create in the desktop app to set the order, ratio and music and export a single mp4. Party Clip covers Valorant's Competitive, Unrated, Swiftplay and Custom matches; Premier matches are not included. A friend who didn't record the match with DOR can't add their POV, so if you want all five, the one thing to check before you queue is that all five have DOR running. If you would rather cut several clips from one player's recording and join them yourself, transitions and all, the steps in How to Merge Multiple Game Clips fit that job.
How to make a five-POV highlight
- 1Check that all five have DOR running before you queueAll five players keep DOR running on their own PCs and play the match in the same party. DOR detects supported games when they launch and records the full match automatically, so nobody has to press a record button. Only players who recorded the match with DOR can add their POV to a Party Clip, so if one person forgot to run DOR, their view will be missing. The supported queues are Competitive, Unrated, Swiftplay and Custom, and party members are grouped using the party information in the Valorant match. Other modes such as Premier and Deathmatch are not included.
- 2Open a Party Clip room after the matchWhen the match ends, open the Party Clips tab on the clips screen of the DOR app, pick the match you just played and press Create Party Clip. If you launch the app and there's a match you played with your party in the last four days, a suggestion pop-up may ask whether you want to bring together the moments from the players you played with, and you can start from there instead; it doesn't appear on PCs in Korean PC bangs. There is one room per match and party, so if one of the five already created it, the others just join that room. When a room is created, the other party members who use DOR get a notification.
- 3Invite the other fourPress Invite in the room. Party members who have linked their Riot account to DOR can be invited by DOR DM. For friends marked Not on DOR, press Copy invite link and paste it into Discord or your group chat. Anyone who opens the link in a PC browser can watch the clips already uploaded without installing DOR, but to add their own POV they need the DOR desktop app and a DOR recording of that match.
- 4Agree on a structure, then upload one clip eachEach player can upload only one clip, and it can't be changed after uploading, so settle the structure on voice or in your group chat first. For a round-by-round video, agree to pick different rounds; for a multi-angle video, agree on the same round. The scenes you can choose from are the three recommended scenes DOR picked from your clips by score, and before uploading you can switch between them with Change Scene; each option shows when it happened in the match. Trim your part to between 3 and 30 seconds, using the kill markers on the trim bar to line it up, then press Upload Mine.
- 5Line up rounds on the match timeline and set the orderIn the editor, hold Tab over the video to open the match timeline, which shows which round each uploaded clip comes from. If you agreed on the same round, players who haven't uploaded yet can check the round of the clips already in and see whether one of their own recommended scenes is from that round. On the Create screen, the video order follows match time by default, and you can drag clips to change it. Create is available once at least one person has uploaded, but only the clips uploaded at that point go in, so if you want all five POVs, make sure everyone has uploaded before you continue.
- 6Pick the ratio and music, then save the mp4Choose 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16. Use 16:9 for regular YouTube videos or a team archive, and 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. 9:16 uses the center of the landscape frame, so the minimap and kill feed near the edges may be cut off; with 1:1, a square crop sits in the middle of a vertical frame. Pick a track from DOR's music list and choose the section to use; it is mixed with the game audio. Each clip gets the player's name card automatically, so viewers can tell whose POV they are watching. The finished video is saved as an mp4 in that match's folder inside the creator's DOR save folder, and a DOR feed post window opens so you can share it and mention your party. Creating has to be done in the DOR desktop app by a signed-in participant who recorded the match.
How to structure a 5-stack highlight, by situation
| Situation | How to structure it | Ratio and music |
|---|---|---|
| Keeping a Competitive win as a record | Round by round: each of the five picks a scene from a different round, and you keep the default match-time order. The match plays out from the early rounds to the last one in a single video. | 16:9 fits best. Pick a calmer section of the track so the game audio isn't buried. |
| Showing one round from several angles | Same round, multiple POVs: everyone picks a recommended scene from the same round. Anyone whose recommended scenes don't include that round uploads a different round or sits this one out. | 16:9 keeps the information at the edges of the screen. A track with a steady beat helps when the same round plays several times. |
| Posting to Shorts, Reels or TikTok | Build to the big play: drag the biggest moment, such as an ace or a clutch, to the end, and trim the other four players' scenes short to lead up to it. | Choose 9:16 and set the music section so it lifts on the final scene. The minimap at the edge may be cropped out. |
| Introducing your regular five-player team | Member intro: from their three recommended scenes, each player picks the one that best shows their agent and role, and you drag them into the order you want. Name cards are added automatically, so viewers know who is who. | 16:9 or 1:1. With 1:1, a square frame sits in the middle of a vertical video. |
| Only some of the five recorded with DOR | Only players who recorded can upload, so make it with two to four POVs. You can open a room if you recorded the match with DOR and at least two people, you included, were in the same party. | Fewer players means a shorter video, which suits a 9:16 short. From the next match on, have all five run DOR. |
| Five friends practicing in a custom game | Custom games are supported. If your party was split across two teams, team tabs appear in the editor so you can view each side separately. | Use 16:9 for a practice record, or 9:16 if you are collecting funny moments. |
Check before you queue and before you create
- All five have DOR installed and running, and you are in the same party.
- You are playing Competitive, Unrated, Swiftplay or Custom (Premier, Deathmatch and other modes are not included).
- Each player's current DOR save folder still has at least one clip from that match.
- Anyone who will upload or create is signed in to the DOR desktop app.
- You agreed on a structure (round by round, same round from multiple POVs, or building to the big play), and each player compared their three recommended scenes before uploading (clips can't be changed after uploading).
- You chose the ratio and music section for where the video is going (16:9 for landscape videos, 9:16 for Shorts and Reels).
Keeping a 5-stack match with DOR
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. It detects supported games when you launch them and records the full match as an mp4, using NVENC hardware encoding by default on NVIDIA GPUs, and it records game audio and your mic together. In Valorant it automatically makes kill and death clips and round recordings, and in Competitive, Unrated and Swiftplay, kill clips are labeled double kill, triple kill and so on by the number of kills in a row. When your team wins a round with an ace or a clutch, the last kill clip of that round gets an ace or clutch tag, and a POTG, that match's featured clip, is picked every match. You can also save any moment yourself with a hotkey. For how clips are saved in Valorant, see How to Clip Valorant. Party Clip works on top of the clips that build up on each player's PC: everyone who played a match together uploads one clip from their own POV, and the clips are joined into a single highlight video. It works in Valorant and League of Legends and has been in the desktop app since v1.4.0. Invites, what friends can see from the web link and the rest of the feature are covered in the DOR Party Clip guide. If you want to work more on the vertical framing for Shorts, see How to Make a Vertical (9:16) Game Video. Uploading, changing scenes and creating all happen in the DOR desktop app; on a phone you only see a notice that Party Clips are made on PC.
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