By GamGem ResearchLast updated 23 Sept 2026
Act 5 · Patch 13.06
Fracture
Two-sided attack · Drop zones
Attackers arrive from both ends, so a slow clear is punished from behind.
2 sites · 22 published callouts · outside the pool. Rewards Initiator · Sentinel.
Both defaults, and the buy
- Attacking
- Squeeze from both sides on the same count or not at all.
- Defending
- Never hold alone — every angle has a back.
- First buy
- Buy for two directions; a slow clear on Fracture is punished from behind.
- Utility
- Utility covers the back half first — the entry is the cheaper problem.
Say it in three
- Way in
- A Main
- Plant zone
- A Site
- They arrive
- A Link
All of A: Link · Hall · Door · Rope · Main · Site · Drop · Dish · Gate. Callout names are Riot’s own; the reduction to three is ours.
Five minutes in a custom game
- 1Walk in through A Main and B Main.1 min
- 2Stand in A Site and B Site and find two pieces of cover you can plant behind in each.2 min
- 3Hold A alone and time how long the rotation takes to reach you.1 min
- 4Retake through A Link and B Link — the route the defence uses.1 min
What the library can do here
The library holds no setup on this map yet — a gap, drawn rather than filled.
A tested starting point
No composition is written for this map — the seven in the Competitive pool have one each, and this is not one of them.
Fracture balance history
Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change Fracture in 2 patches. The latest is patch 3.09, published 2021-11-02.
Patch 3.092021-11-02
- Defender barrier at A Rope moved up to the top of ropes to make it easier for Sentinels to prepare.
- A Hall orb shifted into more neutral space, making it less favorable for attackers
- New piece of cover in Attacker spawn added to break the long sightline from Hall entrance to B Main, which should relieve some pressure from attackers when defenders fast flank
Why, in Riot's words
The B Arcade attacker barrier is shifted back towards Attacker Side Bridge, to allow defenders to more easily contest the area
Patch 3.062021-09-21
- Tunnel to Generator/Canteen areas can no longer be bullet penned (a.k.a. wallbang)
- One crate on B site is no longer pennable
Every Fracture callout (22)
- A
- A Link · A Hall · A Door · A Rope · A Main · A Site · A Drop · A Dish · A Gate
- Attacker Side
- Attacker Side Bridge · Attacker Side Spawn
- B
- B Bench · B Arcade · B Tower · B Site · B Generator · B Link · B Canteen · B Main · B Tree · B Tunnel
- Defender Side
- Defender Side Spawn
Fracture in Riot's catalog
Riot's catalog places Fracture at 35°48'BI"N 106°08'YQ"W. 5 languages print it under another name:
- Arabic
- فراكتشر
- Japanese
- フラクチャー
- Korean
- 프랙처
- Chinese (Simplified)
- 裂变峡谷
- Chinese (Traditional)
- 天漠之峽
Written for Fracture
No agent row names this map yet. That is a gap in our own research, drawn rather than filled.


