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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

  1. 1Walk in through A Main and B Main.1 min
  2. 2Stand in A Site and B Site and find two pieces of cover you can plant behind in each.2 min
  3. 3Hold A alone and time how long the rotation takes to reach you.1 min
  4. 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.

  1. 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

  2. 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.

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