How to use All Chat and Team Chat in VALORANT

Communicate better with these tips.

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VALORANT All Chat and Team Chat are vital if you don’t have a microphone. The ability to communicate accurate information to your team can be the difference between winning and losing the round.

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That’s why you should set up your VALORANT All Chat and, more importantly, Team Chat, first and foremost—right after you take care of your settings and keybinds. Fortunately, using the chat functions in VALORANT is easy.

How to Team Chat in VALORANT

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You can tweak settings for voice chat in VALORANT. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Accessing Team Chat in VALORANT is simple. It can help your teammates understand certain situations or allow for discussion while another teammate attempts to clutch a round. Just hit Enter on your keyboard to open the team chat function.

How to All Chat in VALORANT

All Chat is primarily used to trash-talk your opponents. But if you’re feeling nice, you can send over a quick compliment or congratulate them on the win. You can use All Chat by holding Shift before pressing Enter.

The chat functions are nice but ultimately unnecessary if you have a working mic. Knowing how to use the chat functions in VALORANT is worth it, but good voice comms beat text chat any day of the week. Either way, if you’re stuck with the chat feature, it’s important to know how to use it.

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Jerome Heath
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