No new agent to discover in this episode 5, but Riot Games maintains its lore with a nice cinematic featuring three Angels, Neon, Killjoy and Reyna, as part of a special operation that will take them to a parallel dimension, Omega Earth. It is precisely in this alternate world that Pearl, the new map of the game, is located. A technological feat, this city with Portuguese accents was saved from a climatic catastrophe thanks to its special protection and now lives peacefully under the waves, which the can be admired by looking up.
As Riot Games explains on the game’s site, Pearl will replace Split in the Unranked and Competitive games, the reasoning being to keep a maximum of seven cards in the rotation so as not to ask players to have too many cards to play. to memorize. According to Riot Games, a selection of seven cards allows “keep a good balance between diversity and mastery for new and old players“. Split will therefore no longer be part of eSport competitions but will remain playable in Spike Rush, Custom Games and other game modes. For the rest, the 5.0 patch notes are available here.