Valorant Patch 8.0: All Lotus Changes Side By Side

Riot Games is starting the year off with a bang, with Valorant's Episode 8 launching in just a few days. The new 8.0 update promises to bring a ton of new content, including Agent changes, a brand new weapon, and a ton of adjustments to the Maps entering the pool for the season. Two maps, in particular, Icebox and Lotus, have had a ton of changes made to them to keep them fresh and more balanced to play. In this article, we are going to go over all of the changes happening to Lotus in patch 8.0, with some side-by-side comparison gifs and information.

• A Site Changes
• B Site Changes
• C Site Changes

Valorant Episode 8: All Lotus Changes Side By Side

Episode 8 brings a host of new changes to the Lotus map, mainly targeting the disbalance felt when playing as a defender. These changes aim to make it easier to hold the sites, with more positional options available on different parts of the map. Here is what the developers had to say about these changes:

Attackers have felt fairly overwhelming to Defenders on Lotus. Because of this, we’re adding more options by adjusting neutral spaces and making some quality-of-life updates across the map so that Defenders can better hold sites.

Lotus A Site Changes

Here are all of the A Site changes coming to Lotus with Patch 8.0:

• A Hut has been closed to help give some more readability to the plant site, making it easier to retake. A cubby has also been added to the back of A Hut for more defender options to hold the site.
• More room has been added near the breakable door. It was always a little awkward to fight out of the broken door, but now it should be easier to fight out from inside the connector room.

• More room has been added to A Main along with a set of boxes to give Defenders some more options to fight for A Rubble control.
• The double stack of boxes outside A Stairs has been changed to non-penetrable to reduce the likelihood of being spammed.

Lotus B Site Changes

Here are all of the B Site changes coming to Lotus with Patch 8.0:

• More room and boxes have been added to B Site to add some defensibility closer to the choke on site.

• Rotating doors now take 10 seconds to fully complete their spin, up from 8 previously. 8 seconds was not enough time to use utility through the doors or fight, and make it through the doors on the same rotation. The extra time should allow for more fights to happen through the doors, and most everyone to get through the door on time.
• Increased the time it takes for rotating doors to complete their rotation 8s >>>10s

Lotus C Site Changes

Here are all of the B Site changes coming to Lotus with Patch 8.0:

• The Spike plant zone and the stairs in C Bend have been adjusted to allow for more diversity of Spike plant locations in C Site.
• Boxes on the back of site have been adjusted.

• More room and boxes have been added in C Main to also add some defensibility closer to the front of Main.
• Boxes have been added to C Bend along with some extra room to fight from.

That covers the full list of changes coming to Lotus with Valorant's Episode 8. Many of these adjustments are intended to create more opportunities for Defenders to hold the sites, reducing the significant win-rate imbalance plaguing the map. All of these changes will be live on January 8th, alongside the launch of Episode 8. For more Valorant news and guides, check out the rest of our website!