Breeze will finally be making a return to the VALORANT competitive map pool with the patch 12.00, a year and a half after its removal in the 8.11 update.
The tropical map will replace Sunset, as revealed by Riot Games alongside the announcement of Season 26 Act 1 Premier schedule.
Since its release back in August 2023, Sunset has been removed from competitive play only once, making it one of the obvious choices to rotate out this time.
The next competitive map rotation is expected to take place around January 7th, based on the in-game countdown and will feature the following maps:
According to an update shared by the VALORANT Gameplay Product Lead Coleman ‘Altombre’ Palm in October 2025, the team has been ‘investigating some updates for the map;’ however, these changes are yet to be revealed.