VALORANT finally gets the Replays feature
While VALORANT Champions Paris is still going strong, there’s a nice little update for regular gamers, esports fans, pros, and everyone in between to sink their teeth into. After a VERY long wait, developer Riot Games has finally unleashed the Replay feature, allowing you to watch your past matches, and the matches of anyone else, for that matter.
VALORANT Replays feature
The Replays feature was released with the VALORANT update 11.06, initially available only for PC. The Replays feature allows you to watch your old matches with ease, and will definitely help teams sort out any issues in their strategies. It is available in Competitive, Unrated, Swiftplay, and Premier.
In the announcement, Riot Games explained:
“Replays were designed as a tool to show a complete view of your recent matches so that you can better understand what happened during a moment, round, or game. We hope that the Replay system allows you to analyze your own play with that of your teammates and opponents to better understand what went right or what went wrong throughout a game.”
So what precisely can you do with the VALORANT Replays features? Well, Riot Games notes you can do the following, and I tested it myself this week:
- Observe the game from all 10 players’ first-person perspectives.
- Enable/disable friendly/enemy player outlines, AKA “wall hacks”
- Enable/disable the ability to follow projectiles like Sova Recon Dart.
- Observe the game with a third-person free observer cam
- Fast-forward, slow down, and pause the game. (Speeds: .1x, .25x, .5x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x)
- Skip to each round of the game.
- Time-jump to anywhere in the game.
- You’ll also see small icons on the timeline to signify where kills, deaths, and ultimate ability usage took place.
- Show/hide the minimap and HUD.
- Open the combat report at any time
Console players will have to wait a little bit longer for the Replays system to get released in their version of VALORANT. To be precise, VALORANT’s Replay system should release on consoles on 11 November 2025 with patch 11.10. Now that’s some pinpoint planning!
Header image via Riot Games.
