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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 23 Sept 2026

Act 5 · Patch 13.06

Icebox

Vertical · Ziplines and tube

Height wins the fight, so utility has to clear levels rather than corners.

2 sites · 25 published callouts · outside the pool. Rewards Duelist · Sentinel.

Both defaults, and the buy

Attacking
Clear the high angle first; the ground one is a trap.
Defending
Hold the elevation and force them to look up.
First buy
Buy for levels rather than corners; height wins the fight before the aim does.
Utility
Clear the level above before the angle in front.

Say it in three

Way in
A Belt
Plant zone
A Site

All of A: Belt · Nest · Pipes · Rafters · Screen · Site. Callout names are Riot’s own; the reduction to three is ours.

Icebox on video

Published by VALORANT on YouTube, 6 October 2020.

6 years old. VALORANT has been patched since, so watch it for how the kit plays, not for numbers — the rest of this page is written for the current patch.

It plays in YouTube’s own player once you press play. Nothing is downloaded or re-hosted here, and nothing loads from YouTube until then.

Five minutes in a custom game

  1. 1Walk in through A Belt and B Hall.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 B Back — 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.

Icebox balance history

Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change nothing about Icebox.

Every Icebox callout (25)

A
A Belt · A Nest · A Pipes · A Rafters · A Screen · A Site
Attacker Side
Attacker Side Spawn
B
B Garage · B Yellow · B Back · B Cubby · B Green · B Hall · B Hut · B Kitchen · B Orange · B Site · B Snowman · B Snow Pile · B Tube · B Fence
Defender Side
Defender Side Spawn
Mid
Mid Blue · Mid Boiler · Mid Pallet

Icebox in Riot's catalog

Riot's catalog places Icebox at 76°44' A"N 149°30' Z"E. 5 languages print it under another name:

Arabic
آيس بوكس
Japanese
アイスボックス
Korean
아이스박스
Chinese (Simplified)
森寒冬港
Chinese (Traditional)
極地寒港

Written for Icebox

No agent row names this map yet. That is a gap in our own research, drawn rather than filled.

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