Garden of Terror

Two formations work. 1-1-3: three heroes take the side lane with your bruiser camp (or the side lane closest to the next Seed), one hero holds the middle, and the offlaner takes the side lane far from the next Seed. 1-3-1: one ranged hero covers the lane with the enemy siege camp so they can spot and punish captures, three sit in the middle, and the offlaner takes the other side. Either way, give global heroes the lane farthest from the next Seed: they soak it and still arrive in time. Because Seed locations are predictable, re-assign lanes after every capture rather than sticking to the opening layout.

• 1-1-3 when you want to bully a side lane and take its bruiser camp early.
• 1-3-1 when you need waveclear in the middle and eyes on the enemy siege camp.
• Globals (or your most mobile hero) always take the lane opposite the next Seed.

Send a mobile hero to peek at the enemy bruiser camp early. If they are clearing it, start your own siege camp in that lane and capture it about 15 seconds after their knights are taken, so your giants arrive to help defend the Fort. Otherwise, at 0:30 clear the siege camp in the middle lane and capture it at 0:42 so the giants join behind your minions. Move to your side-lane bruiser camp at 0:45 and capture it at 1:12, again 12 seconds after a wave spawns. Around 1:45, if your side-lane siege camp is not in the lane of the first Seed and you have not used it yet, clear it and capture at 2:12. Arrive at the first Seed (bottom-left or bottom-right) with four heroes; the offlaner keeps soaking on the first one.

• 0:30 - middle-lane siege camp; capture at 0:42.
• 0:45 - side-lane bruiser camp; capture at 1:12.
• 1:45 - side-lane siege camp if it is not in the first Seed's lane; capture at 2:12.
• 2:30 - four heroes at the Seed, one still soaking.

Seeds on your half of the map are yours to contest; Seeds deep on the enemy side are usually better given. To contest, arrive with four heroes while the fifth handles enemy mercenaries and then joins. To capture fast, one hero pulls the Shamblers' attention while another clicks the Seed. If you are not ready to fight, leave the Shamblers alive: they slow the enemy down while you set up. To give a Seed, poke with two heroes so the channel is never comfortable and push the opposite lane with the other three. Once you hit three Seeds, split and push the side lanes behind the Terrors, and keep someone soaking. When you lose the Terrors, save what you can, but if the enemy team is grouped behind one Terror, retreat from that lane and take value elsewhere instead of dying under disabled structures.

• Attacking: push with the Terror once it reaches structures and dive while the Overgrowth is up.
• Defending: kill the Overgrowth first, then peel the Terror off your Fort.
• Before the third Seed, pre-push the lane your team will follow so the Terror hits a Fort, not a full wave.

Six camps: a siege camp top-left, a bruiser camp top-right, two siege camps in the middle lane, a bruiser camp bottom-left and a siege camp bottom-right. All of them vanish when the Terrors start spawning (unless already in combat) and only return once every Terror is dead, so plan your clears between Seed phases. Siege giants are the cheap, safe pressure here, and a bruiser camp timed into the lane you will follow with a Terror doubles the push.

• Siege camp (2 giants): 0:30, respawns 3:00 after capture. Dodge the thrown rocks to clear it damage-free; the giants outrange structures and deal 100% bonus damage to them.
• Bruiser camp (3 knights + 1 wizard): 0:30, respawns 4:00 after capture. The wizard's Spell Armor field protects everything nearby; kill it first when defending and never fight into it.
• Capture a siege camp 12 seconds after a wave spawns so it walks in behind your minions; capture a bruiser camp right as a wave spawns so it leads.
• Camps are gone while Terrors live: clear them before the third Seed, not after.

There is no boss, so late games are won by Terrors and by split-pushing. Late Terrors are tanky, their Overgrowth switches off Keep Towers long enough for a full dive, and a team with two Bruiser-type heroes can push two lanes at once behind them. Seeds keep coming every 50 to 80 seconds, so a single lost fight near a Seed often costs the next two as well: play for vision and pick-offs in the bushes before each phase rather than face-checking into them. The Core shoots a Seed under a nearby enemy hero every 5 seconds that Polymorphs everyone inside for 3 seconds when it bursts, so finish under the Core with spread positioning and a Terror soaking the shots. If the enemy is ahead, give Seeds on their side, defend the lane with their grouped team and trade structures elsewhere.