By GamGem ResearchLast updated 3 Sept 2026 · 00:00
Act 5 · Patch 13.05
Lotus
Three sites · Rotating doors
Doors change the route mid-round, so a rotation read can be wrong twice.
3 sites · 28 published callouts · in the Competitive pool. Rewards Initiator · Sentinel.
Both defaults, and the buy
- Attacking
- Use the door as the fake, not as the entry.
- Defending
- Close a door early and make the map two sites instead of three.
- First buy
- Buy for the door you intend to open, and keep one player watching the one you did not.
- Utility
- One utility on the door, one on the site — the rotation read can be wrong twice.
Say it in three
- Way in
- A Main
- Plant zone
- A Site
- They arrive
- A Link
All of A: Top · Drop · Site · Hut · Tree · Door · Main · Rubble · Root · Lobby · Link · Stairs. Callout names are Riot’s own; the reduction to three is ours.
Lotus on video
Five minutes in a custom game
- 1Walk in through A Main, B Main and C Main.1 min
- 2Stand in A Site, B Site and C 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 C Link — the route the defence uses.1 min
What the library can do here
- A · Delay DefenceA Link → A Main
- C · Block vision AttackC Lobby → C Main
- B · Deny plant DefenceB Upper → B Site
A tested starting point
Use the door as the fake and the second site as the answer.
- Omen
- Fade
- Skye
- Killjoy
- Raze
