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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 23 Sept 2026

Act 5 · Patch 13.06

Pearl

Three-lane · Mid push

Information before the water push is the round; after it, the round is decided.

2 sites · 26 published callouts · outside the pool. Rewards Controller · Duelist.

Both defaults, and the buy

Attacking
Take mid early and pick the site from it.
Defending
Contest mid with utility, then anchor.
First buy
Buy for mid: information before the water push is the round.
Utility
Two utilities on mid, none on the site — the site falls after mid does.

Say it in three

Way in
A Main
Plant zone
A Site
They arrive
A Link

All of A: Flowers · Secret · Dugout · Site · Main · Restaurant · Art · Link. Callout names are Riot’s own; the reduction to three is ours.

Pearl on video

Published by VALORANT on YouTube, 16 June 2022.

4 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 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.

Pearl balance history

Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change Pearl in 1 patch. The latest is patch 6.11, published 2023-06-06.

  1. Patch 6.112023-06-06

    • Adjusted the B Ramp Screen and removed the attacker cubby

    Adjusted B Site Screen

    • Added a new cubby in B Hall
    • The new cubby gives defenders another position to play from. This provides extra space for defenders to reposition against incoming utility, and it creates new angles to contest B Link or the common Long plant spot.
    • Widened the pillar on B Site
    Why, in Riot's words

    We've felt that Pearl's B Site has been problematic due to how difficult the site is to hold as a defender in conjunction with the amount of strong post-plant options available to attackers. With that in mind, we wanted to get a smaller scale update out before Champions to address those concerns.

    We’re adjusting B Site Screen to give more options to defenders. We’ve extended the screen to create a larger pocket to play from, added a non-pennable section, added a stack of crates to give defenders a new mixup option and moved everything closer to B Ramp to allow more utility to fit there (Smokes, Sage Wall, etc).

Every Pearl callout (26)

A
A Flowers · A Secret · A Dugout · A Site · A Main · A Restaurant · A Art · A Link
Attacker Side
Attacker Side Spawn
B
B Hall · B Tunnel · B Tower · B Link · B Club · B Ramp · B Main · B Site · B Screen
Defender Side
Defender Side Water · Defender Side Spawn · Defender Side Records
Mid
Mid Doors · Mid Connector · Mid Top · Mid Plaza · Mid Shops

Pearl in Riot's catalog

Riot's catalog places Pearl at 38°42'ED"N8 9°08'XS"W8. 5 languages print it under another name:

Arabic
بيرل
Japanese
パール
Korean
펄
Chinese (Simplified)
深海明珠
Chinese (Traditional)
深海遺珠

Written for Pearl

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

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