Best Killjoy Lockdown Spots for Split, Icebox, Breeze, and Fracture in Valorant

Killjoy’s Lockdown is one of the more powerful crowd-control abilities in VALORANT.

Not much has changed around Killjoy’s Ultimate Ability in the recent patches. It remains a powerful area of effect ability that can cover entire bombsites (except for Breeze, where the bombsites are as big as some maps in VALORANT)

Kidding aside, Killjoy’s Lockdown is a free-round-win pass when used correctly. Its ability to drive away enemy team players from entire bombsites allows for easy site access on Attacking and Defending.

Killjoy’s Ultimate Ability can be placed just about anywhere on the map the player wishes to place it. However, certain spots within maps can maximize the Lockdown radius.

Let’s take a look at some of the Best Killjoy Lockdown spots on Split, Icebox, Breeze, and Fracture.

Killjoy Lockdown

Killjoy’s Ultimate Ability, Lockdown, is a powerful CC (crowd-control) ability that allows Killjoy to secure a large amount of space on any map.

Killjoy needs seven Ultimate Points to be able to cast Lockdown. Killing opponents will give one Ultimate Point per kill. Defusing the bomb also gives out one Ultimate Point. When enough Ultimate Points are collected, Killjoy can cast and deploy her Lockdown ability to cover a large area, in this case, entire bomb sites. Killjoy also has the option of securing Ultimate Orbs around the map.

When deployed, Killjoy’s Lockdown creates a large 32-meter dome-like area of effect. The Lockdown device will immediately start winding up for a total of 13 seconds after it is deployed. After the brief wind-up, any enemy caught within the dome will be detained for 8 seconds.

While in a detained state, enemy players cannot equip weapons or abilities, and their movement speed is reduced significantly.

However, keep in mind that Lockdown can be destroyed by enemy fire and utility such as Brimstone’s Ultimate and Breach’s Aftershock Ability.

Split A-site Lockdown (Attacking/Retake)

The left corner of this A-Main Cubby will give Killjoy’s Ultimate the most area coverage when Attacking. This Lockdown placement covers the entire Split A-site, including the entire Elbow area and most of A-Tower, making it a great option for Attacking and retakes as well.

Since the Lockdown device will be hidden inside a cubby at A-Main, it will be out of immediate reach of the Defenders holding Split’s A-site. They will have to push your team out at A-Main to destroy the Lockdown device, making this spot is a nice and quick option that provides decent coverage.

However, do remember that abilities such as Breach’s Aftershock can destroy Killjoy’s Lockdown from this cubby.

Split A-site Lockdown (Retake/Defense)

As for Split A-site retakes and defense, placing the Lockdown device at the spot in A-Tower as shown in the picture above sacrifices a little bit of coverage when compared to this Lockdown placement:

However, the small coverage difference at the left and right corner of A-Backsite (negligible at best) is a small tradeoff to secure the Lockdown device from enemy fire, as the spot shown in the picture above might be susceptible to enemy wall bang from weapons such as the Odin.

Split B-site Lockdown (Attacking)

For Split B-site on the Attacker side, the corner between the wall and the stacked pallets inside B-Main provides the best Lockdown coverage for Split B-site. Take note, though, that Lockdown will not be able to cover B-Back, which can easily be mollied off by yourself or your teammates anyway.

This particular Lockdown placement easily covers all of Split B-site and most of B-Tower. Your teammates can take advantage of this coverage and assume aggressive positions at B-Tower if you wish.

Once again, be mindful of Breach’s Aftershock Ability since Killjoy’s Lockdown can easily be destroyed from the other side of the B-Main wall. It might be best to use Killjoy’s Lockdown just after your duelist takes position on-site, which forces Breach (if the enemy team has a Breach at all) to fall back into cover.

Icebox A-site Lockdown (Attacking/Retake)

This corner on A-Pipes provides decent A-site coverage that includes all but a small corner at A-Backsite, which can easily be covered with some molly utility. The Lockdown device will be completely safe from enemy fire since the wall surrounding this corner is thick enough.

However, be mindful of some Jett or Omen players who can easily access the other side of A-Pipes before the round starts.

This Lockdown placement covers areas outside of Screens, which forces the enemy team to weather the storm from Boiler and outside A-Rafters.

Icebox A-site Lockdown (Retake)

As for Icebox A-site retakes, this corner behind A-Screen covers most of the A-site and forces the Attackers to fall back to A-Belt.

Since this particular Lockdown placement is located deep within the corner behind A-Screen, post-plant Attackers who want to try to destroy the Lockdown device themselves will be forced to swing wide and commit to their peek. You can easily take advantage of this opportunity to punish them for their mistake.

As you can see, the Lockdown placement covers the whole A-site up to the A-Belt area. Your team’s Controller Agent can easily smoke off A-Belt while your other teammates attempt to defuse the bomb.

Icebox B-site Lockdown (Attack/Retake)

On the Attacking Side, B-site post-plant is best played from B-Green and B-Yellow as the enemy team will be forced to push into your team’s heavily contested territory to eliminate you and your teammates.

With this in mind, the best Lockdown placement for Icebox B-site will be placed in the corner of the tall box in B-Green. Here your team can easily defend the Lockdown while it completes its wind-up cycle.

This Lockdown placement offers a decent coverage of Icebox’s B-site, covering all of B-site itself, B-Hall, and most of B-Blue.

Overall, this Lockdown placement is a quick, easy, and effective choice when Attacking B-site on Icebox.

It is also worth noting that, depending on where the enemy team is positioned on post-plant, this Lockdown placement can also be used for Retake situations.

Icebox B-site Lockdown (Defense/Retake)

On defense, if you think that the enemy team will commit to a B-Green push, then this quick and easy Lockdown placement just behind the Default boxes covers the most area in B-site, which includes B-Garage’s entrance as well.