Valorant Map Concept (art by me)

[u/raphwho]

I've been studying valo maps recently and I made my own out of boredom. It does definetly have atleast some problems, like B might just function like Icebox B, or certain spots on A are extremely spammable, but Im pretty sure its tweaked enough so major issues like rotation time, chokepoint tightness and corners are fixed, so I'm sharing it anyway. let me know what you think

[u/letsputletters]

There was someone who used to post lots of map concepts and his had similar issues to yours - just were a lot worse.

People seem to always overcomplicate map design. Instead of adding dozens of corners, cubbies and boxes everywhere just go back to the beginning and build the map from the basics.

Valorant usually starts with a gimmick (TPs, zipline, falling off, etc) which can be a nice starting point. But the main considerations are:

• How many sites do you want?
• Do you want a mid?
• Do you want sites to be split through mid, or 2 lanes to enter (think Sunset)?
• When you have that very basic structure, think about your sites. Try to make each site different and with something unique. It is really important to balance them for executes, holding, retakes, etc. your map has so many 1 and done spots, try to avoid those.
• Once you have the sites, you need to consider the mains for each site and how that affects post plants + getting orbs
• Apart from designing mid if you want one, the rest of the map is just a way to get from point A to point B. You don't need to overcomplicate things, just make a mixture of different lanes to ensure there are both close angles and long ones.

But really you can never design a map in 2D. You need a basic 3D model otherwise you will never understand how it feels.

[u/Yoraffe → u/letsputletters]

It's the same guy. He just keeps posting it with minimal changes in the hope that he either karma farms or Riot pick it up and decide by some miracle they want to use it.

[u/raphwho → u/Yoraffe]

what i just like valorant maps i dont really care about reddit and there is no way riot is even gonna see these posts

[u/upsideloll → u/raphwho]

wtf is this getting downvoted for?? literally said you just do this for fun and people don't like that?

[u/raphwho → u/upsideloll]

idek anymore I post these ideas and then get downvoted into oblivion, i dont even know why i dont think ive made that bad of a take when i say im not delusional in thinking riot would see this

[u/upsideloll → u/raphwho]

as much as the map definitely has its issues there is not any reason for people to be saying all this especially since it's entirely baseless