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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 23 Sept 2026

Act 5 · Patch 13.06

Sunset

Long lanes · Mid door

Long sightlines favour ranged damage and utility over pure entry.

2 sites · 17 published callouts · in the Competitive pool. Rewards Duelist · Initiator.

Both defaults, and the buy

Attacking
Clear the long angle with utility before anyone crosses it.
Defending
Hold long, give the short, and trade with the rotation.
First buy
Buy rifles before armour while the long angle is uncleared — the first shot there is the round.
Utility
Utility goes down the long lane, not onto the site.

Say it in three

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

All of A: Lobby · Main · Link · Site · Elbow · Alley. Callout names are Riot’s own; the reduction to three is ours.

Sunset on video

Published by VALORANT on YouTube, 26 August 2023.

3 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 — the route the defence uses.1 min

What the library can do here

  • A · Deny plant DefenceA Elbow → A Site
  • Mid · Block vision AttackMid Bottom → Mid Courtyard
  • B · Retake DefenceB Market → B Site
Open the whole library

A tested starting point

Clear the long lane with utility before anyone crosses it.

  • Omen
  • Fade
  • Skye
  • Cypher
  • Raze
What it covers, and what it cannot do

Sunset balance history

Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change Sunset in 1 patch. The latest is patch 7.05, published 2023-09-06.

  1. Patch 7.052023-09-06

    • Sunset will now be in the map rotation for Competitive mode.
    • Competitive map rotation includes: Sunset, Breeze, Ascent, Haven, Bind, Split, and Lotus

Every Sunset callout (17)

A
A Lobby · A Main · A Link · A Site · A Elbow · A Alley
Attacker Side
Attacker Side Spawn
B
B Boba · B Market · B Site · B Main · B Lobby
Defender Side
Defender Side Spawn
Mid
Mid Tiles · Mid Bottom · Mid Courtyard · Mid Top

Sunset in Riot's catalog

Riot's catalog places Sunset at 34° 2′ C″ N, 118° 12′ YT″ W. 5 languages print it under another name:

Arabic
سَنسِت
Japanese
サンセット
Korean
선셋
Chinese (Simplified)
日落之城
Chinese (Traditional)
日落之城

Written for Sunset

All maps