Battlefield of Eternity

The standard formation is 1-4: your offlaner holds the top lane alone while the other four play bottom together. Bottom is where the four-man Siege Camp and your Bruiser Camp sit, so the group can rotate between wave, camps and the center without losing experience. The offlaner should be someone who survives a 1v2 and can sneak the top Siege Camp with a helper; when nothing is left to soak, they join the group. With only two lanes and a central objective, rotations are short, so nobody should be more than a few seconds late to 3:00.

• Top (1): a durable offlaner who can double as a Siege Camp thief when a teammate drops by.
• Bottom (4): tank, healer and both damage dealers; they own the bottom Siege Camp and the team's Bruiser Camp.
• If the enemy sends two top, do not match them blindly: use the numbers advantage at bottom to take the Siege Camp instead.

Use the Healing Fountain before 1:00 so it is available again at 3:00. From 0:30, whenever your four-man has the upper hand in bottom, clear the Siege Camp there and capture it right away; the Impalers outrange towers and will chip a Fort while you rotate. If bottom is going badly, send a second hero top instead and sneak the top Siege Camp, but do not try for both. Around 2:20 start your Bruiser Camp and capture it at about 2:45, 15 seconds after a minion wave spawns, so the Fallen Shaman and hounds walk in with your minions just as the Immortals appear. Then move: at 3:00 you must already be in the center.

• 0:30: bottom Siege Camp if you have the advantage; otherwise a two-man sneak of the top one.
• 2:20: start your Bruiser Camp; capture at 2:45 so it joins the wave that hits during the race.
• 2:50: everyone walks to the center; check the minimap icons (crossed axes = enemy Immortal, shield = yours) to know where to stand.

Read the positions before committing. The bushes tell you the mode: when each Immortal stands near bushes of its own color the layout favors defending; when the colors are crossed it favors racing. From there pick a split: full defense (5 on yours), defend and race (4-1), defend and soak (3-4 on yours, 1-2 in lane), harass and race (1-4) or full race (5 on theirs). The default when even is to play around your own Immortal and use displacements to shove enemies into its rain of blades for a 2-second stun and heavy damage. Watch both health bars, not the kill feed: a hero arriving 10 seconds late can let the enemy drop your Immortal to 50% unopposed. If you win, push with the Immortal while the offlaner soaks, unless you are going for a Keep or the core, in which case stay five; if you lose, defend with four and soak with one under the same rule.

• Offensive layouts (easier to race): Ilarian south / Beleth north, or Ilarian east / Beleth west.
• Defensive layouts (easier to defend): Ilarian north / Beleth south, or Ilarian west / Beleth east.
• Use the 10-second swap at half health to reset: heal, reposition and re-read which layout you get after the swap.
• Against a laning Immortal, stack on it as a group and break the shield fast; dodge its indicators, since a 2-second stun under a Fort is lethal.

There are four camps: an Impaler Siege Camp in each lane, a Bruiser Camp that feeds the top lane for the right team and one that feeds the bottom lane for the left team. They disappear when an Immortal enters a lane (unless already in combat) and return when that Immortal dies, so the window right after a laning Immortal falls is the safest time to clear them. Since each Bruiser Camp goes into a different lane depending on the side, know which lane yours pushes before you plan a capture.

• Siege camp (3 Impalers): 0:30, respawns 3:00 after capture. Ranged units that hit structures from outside tower range but clear minions slowly.
• Bruiser camp (1 Fallen Shaman + 2 Fallen Hounds): 0:30, respawns 4:00 after capture. The Shaman resummons two hounds whenever they die, and all of them deal double damage to minions, structures and summons.
• Clearing an enemy Fallen Shaman camp in lane: kill the Shaman first or the hounds keep coming back.
• Capture your Bruiser Camp 15 seconds after a wave spawns (for example at 2:45) so it walks in with your minions.

The objective is the only win condition on this map: there is no Boss and split-pushing two lanes is hard against a grouped enemy, so every late race is a potential game end. Later Immortals have far more health, which means a decisive race win produces a shield that alone can take a Keep and threaten the core. The core fires two volleys of Frozen Orbs every 12 seconds that deal 5% max health and root for 1.5 seconds, so a final push should come with the Immortal tanking and heroes finishing. When you lose a late race by a big gap, all five defend the Keep and the offlaner soaks only if the enemy is not committing to the core.

• Win condition: the objective. Plan every late fight as a race, not as a skirmish.
• Before a late race, use the fountain and clear both lanes so the Immortal that wins walks into empty lanes.
• Do not chase after a won race: escort the Immortal so the enemy cannot burst its shield unopposed.