Ascent

Ascent is the fourth map to be released in VALORANT.
==Features==
Ascent's features include mechanical doors leading into its spike sites. Each site has one door (A Link for A and Market for B) that is opened at the start of each round. Players can use a switch on the site side of the door (Next to the door on A and on a table in Toolshed on B) to close or open the door. These doors are impenetrable while closed but have 500 HP, allowing players to damage and eventually destroy them. Once destroyed, the doorway remains permanently open for the rest of the round.
The two walls separating Courtyard from Link also have a destructible panel each to cover them. Whilst intact, they absorb damage and cannot be penetrated by gunfire. The panels however have 400 HP each and can be damaged, with colored indicators on them implying how much health they have left (starts blue, then turns yellow and then red as they take more damage). They can eventually be destroyed to allow players to wallbang through these walls for the rest of the round.
A Window also has a destructible glass pane looking into A Garden. It will be immediately destroyed upon contact with any bullets, ability projectiles, or other abilities that an agent can guide through the glass (e.g. Phoenix's ). Any abilities that an agent has to possess to use (e.g. Sova's ) or mobile abilities deployed on the ground that the agent doesn't control further (e.g. Raze's ) will not break through on contact with the glass.
==Map==
==Cosmetics==
Player Cards
Image	Name 	Source
 	Ascent 	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 1
 	MMXX EP1 	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 1
 	Epoch Event	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 2
 	Ascent 	Battle Pass:EP 03 Act 2
 	Gelato 	Battle Pass:EP 07 Act 2
Buddies
Image	Name 	Source
 	Ascent Rising	Battle Pass:EP 01 Act 1
==Lore==
10 years after First Light in the Italian city of Venice, an agent of Omega made the journey across worlds to plant and detonate a spike. With the VALORANT Protocol failing to stop them, the resulting explosion triggered a cataclysmic event, ripping a huge chunk of the city out of the ground. Now permanently suspended hundreds of meters in the sky, this airborne island remains as a product of the most destructive radianite-related event known to Alpha.
==Update History==
==Trivia==
*Ascent contains landmarks from Venice such as St. Mark's Campanile and St. Mark's Basilica.
*The B site for Ascent appear to be similar to the Practice Map's Bomb Plant Practice.
*Ascent was the first map ever made. Its later release date than the Beta maps was likely due to the map going through a lot of iteration.Reddit Fracture AMA: VALORANT's first map
* At Mid Bottom, there is a park bench themed after Tahm Kench from League of Legends. It is most likely a reference to the "Unbench the Kench" meme.
*Ascent is a part of Venice that rose out of the ground after a spike detonation. The lead-up and fallout of this event have been shown in the cinematic DUELISTS and DUALITY, respectively
**It is presumed that Ω-Jett was able to plant and detonate a spike in Venice.
***Before the existence of Omega Earth was revealed, Jett had a scrapped quote talking about how people thought Venice was her fault, alluding to the fact that it wasn't α-Jett but Ω-Jett who had caused the disaster.
==Gallery==
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Ascent minimap development.png|A version of Ascent from Development
DUELISTS Official Launch Cinematic Trailer - VALORANT|Cinematic showing Ascent's origin
Duelists Ascent.png|A canon representation of Ascent
Duelists Venice.png|Venice before Ascent's creation
==References==
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