New Map Analysis based on Fade’s Phone

Posted by Steve

Friday, January 6, 2023 4:36 PM

Based on the brief image of the map from fades phone, we were able to see that the map has 3 sites, as well as the basic wall structure. Obviously it’s hard to know everything since we can’t see the actual map yet, but here are some observations and predictions I’ve made from what I can see.

  1. The big circle on the left might be the special feature, and I highly doubt it’s one giant pillar. Maybe it’s a teleporter, or I’ve heard some people saying it might be a water feature. There’s also a faint semicircle in front on B, it might just be an artifact of the box on fades phone, might be something else, who knows.
  2. Mid control is going to be really really important. Control of that hallway like area going across seems like it will be huge.
  3. Harbors probably going to be pretty meta on this map. This was already more than likely considering harbor doesn’t really have any good maps right now, not even pearl, but if you assume the area at the back of C site might be like a heaven or some other raised, which it makes sense to be, Harbors wall will get tons of value on all 3 sites. Especially on C, it seems like there are 3 areas that need to be smoked in an L shape, kind of like a site pearl, and harbors wall does it perfectly, and it seems like it will be pretty good on B and A aswell, especially if you split A from the left side too. The cove will be pretty impactful aswell since it doesn’t seem like there’s much room or cover on site. In a way it kind of reminds me of icebox where you don’t take the full site.

Oh and on the topic of smokes I cannot make too much sense but it seems as if the right side and back need to be smoked, though I’m not really sure what the back is going to look like, it seems kind of weird the way it looks on the map, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

  1. It seems like chamber(with his nerfed tp) will be pretty good. There are lots of walls where he can set up his tp on the other side and push up to get a pick. Pushing up and taking space seems like it will be valuable(depending on where defender barriers are), and this might be one map where the new chamber isn’t shit on, especially considering how easy it looks like retaking the sites will be. It also initially seems like a raze map so teams are gonna need an awper.

Again this is all just speculation this might all be wrong.

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/10489f9/new_map_analysis_based_on_fades_phone/
  • https://reddit.com/10489f9

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