How to Copy a Crosshair in Valorant: A Complete Guide

Valorant's crosshair system is one of the most flexible in any competitive shooter. Players spend serious time fine-tuning dot sizes, outline thickness, and color — and when you find a setup that works, sharing it (or borrowing someone else's) becomes a priority. Fortunately, Valorant has a built-in crosshair import and export system that makes copying a crosshair fast and precise.

What Is a Valorant Crosshair Code?

Every crosshair configuration in Valorant can be compressed into a crosshair profile code — a short alphanumeric string that encodes every setting: inner lines, outer lines, dot visibility, opacity, color, firing error, and movement error. When you paste this code into the game, it reconstructs every detail of that crosshair exactly.

This system was introduced to replace the old method of manually matching settings one by one from screenshots or videos. Today, copying a pro player's crosshair or a friend's setup takes under a minute.

How to Export Your Own Crosshair Code

Before copying someone else's crosshair, it helps to understand how to generate your own code — because the process works in both directions.

1. Launch Valorant and open Settings
2. Navigate to the Crosshair tab
3. Scroll down to the Crosshair Profile section at the top
4. Click the Export Profile Code button (the copy icon next to your profile name)
5. The code is now copied to your clipboard — paste it anywhere to share it

Your crosshair profile name and code are separate things. The name is just a local label; the code is what carries the actual configuration data.

How to Import and Copy Someone Else's Crosshair 🎯

This is the process most players are looking for — applying a crosshair code you've found online or received from another player.

1. Copy the crosshair code — from a website, a streamer's description, a Discord message, or directly from a friend
2. Open Valorant and go to Settings → Crosshair
3. At the top of the Crosshair tab, locate the Crosshair Profile row
4. Click the Import Profile Code button (the paste/download icon)
5. A text field will appear — paste the code using Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac)
6. Hit Import

The crosshair will apply immediately. You can rename the imported profile to keep things organized, especially if you maintain multiple crosshair setups.

Copying a Crosshair Directly From a Teammate In-Game

Valorant also lets you copy crosshairs during or after a match, directly from your ally panel.

1. Open the scoreboard during a match (default: Tab key)
2. Left-click on a teammate's name to open their player card
3. Select Copy Crosshair from the options

This copies their current crosshair code to your clipboard. You can then import it in settings immediately or save it to use later.

Where to Find Pro Player Crosshair Codes

Many professional Valorant players publicly share their crosshair settings — either through their social channels, team websites, or community databases. Common sources include:

• Pro player streams and YouTube videos — most show their settings on screen
• Community tracking sites — several sites compile pro settings and update them regularly
• Reddit communities — subreddits like r/VALORANT and r/ValorantCompetitive frequently post crosshair threads
• Content creator descriptions — many link crosshair codes directly in video descriptions

When sourcing codes, check the date. Valorant updates occasionally change how crosshair settings render, and a code from an older patch may look slightly different when imported today.

Managing Multiple Crosshair Profiles

Valorant supports saving multiple crosshair profiles under different names. This is useful if you want to:

• Keep a dot-only crosshair for rifles and a cross with outer lines for spray control practice
• Test pro crosshairs without overwriting your main setup
• Switch between setups depending on agent or map

Each profile stores its own full configuration. Switching between saved profiles takes two clicks from the Crosshair settings tab.

Variables That Affect How a Copied Crosshair Feels 🖥️

Copying a code transfers settings exactly, but how that crosshair feels and performs depends on factors specific to your own setup:

A pro player's crosshair code was tuned for their resolution, monitor, and sensitivity settings. The visual output on your system may differ meaningfully from what you saw on their stream.

Crosshair Style Categories Worth Understanding

When browsing imported crosshairs, you'll encounter distinct style types:

• Static crosshairs — fixed position, unaffected by movement or firing
• Dynamic crosshairs — expand when moving or shooting to reflect accuracy penalties visually
• Dot-only crosshairs — single center dot, popular in high-rank play for precise aiming
• Classic cross — traditional four-line crosshair, often with or without a center dot

Static crosshairs are generally preferred in competitive play because they don't shift during movement, keeping visual focus consistent. Whether static versus dynamic works better depends entirely on how you use visual feedback while playing.

The right crosshair isn't universal — it sits at the intersection of your resolution, your sensitivity, your visual preferences, and the way you personally process in-game feedback during fights.