Sky Temple

The standard formation is 1-4: your offlaner holds the top lane while the other four rotate between middle and bottom, which keeps them close to the siege camps and to two of the three temples. The alternative is 1-3-1, with the offlaner top, three heroes in middle roaming as soon as they can, and an anchor holding bottom. Give the lane farthest from the next temple to a global hero if you have one, so they soak and still arrive on time. Positions are not rigid: the point is that top is always covered by one hero while the rest stay grouped enough to win a two-temple phase.

• 1-4: offlaner top; four heroes rotate middle and bottom.
• 1-3-1: offlaner top; three in middle roaming early; one anchor bottom.
• Global heroes take the lane farthest from the next temple and teleport in.

Use your fountain before 1:00 so it is back for the 3:00 temples. At 0:30 start clearing your Bruiser camp in the top lane and capture it around 1:05 (5 seconds after a minion wave spawns) so the knights arrive ahead of your minions and push into the top fort. Any damage on top-lane structures before 3:00 helps the top temple finish the fort during the first phase. At about 2:20 start the Siege camp on your bottom side and capture it around 2:50 (20 seconds after a wave) so the giants join behind your minions right as the temples wake. At 3:00 you want at least one hero on each active temple; prioritize the top temple with four heroes while the offlaner keeps soaking.

• 0:30: clear the top Bruiser camp; capture at 1:05 to lead the wave.
• 2:20: clear the bottom Siege camp; capture at 2:50 to trail the wave into the 3:00 phase.
• Chip the top fort before 3:00 so the first top temple can finish it.
• Take the watchtower between top and middle only if you're already there; it neutralizes after 45 seconds empty.

Two active temples mean two decisions, not one. Contest the temple you can win and let the other go if the enemy commits five there; a temple fires while it's uncontested, so one hero standing on the ignored temple gets full value while the enemy wastes numbers. In the first phase it is fine to take only one of the two, especially with a weak early-game composition; the second phase is bottom only, and that single temple is worth winning outright. When you are ahead in structures, keep trading temples and avoid team fights; when behind, gank or force a fight before the enemy's structure lead snowballs. Losing a temple isn't a disaster: rotate to the other one, take the camp the enemy left up, or set up the boss after 10:00 while they are busy on the top temple.

• A contested temple doesn't fire: one body on the circle stalls the enemy's damage.
• Kill your side's Defenders first; the Guardian's cone knockback comes every 12 seconds.
• Leave at 2 shots left: the temple still fires those plus the 5 bonus shots for you.
• Ahead in structures? Trade temples. Behind? Gank or fight before the gap widens.

Sky Temple has five camps: two Bruiser camps in the top lane, two Siege camps in the bottom lane and one Boss camp on the bottom side. All of them stay active during temple phases, so camps are part of every objective plan, not something you do in between. The Wizard in a Bruiser camp puts a Spell Armor field around allied units in lane, so don't fight into a wave that still has one alive. Siege Giants throw dodgeable stones and outrange towers, making them the safest capture and the best lane pusher for the bottom temple phases. The Sand Golem stuns in melee range with Mega Smash and knocks back with Whirling Sands; it is worth taking from about 10:00 when the enemy is committed to the top temple.

• Siege camp (2 Siege Giants): 0:30, respawns 3:00 after capture. Dodge the stones to take it for free; 100% bonus damage to structures.
• Bruiser camp (3 Knights + 1 Wizard): 0:30, respawns 4:00 after capture. The Wizard's Spell Armor field protects your wave; don't fight into an enemy Wizard.
• Boss camp (Sand Golem): 5:00, respawns 5:00 after capture. Mega Smash stuns in melee every 10 seconds; Whirling Sands knock back every 15. Immune to Bribe.
• Camps never shut off during temples: time a Bruiser capture for right before a phase without the top temple, and a Siege capture for one without the bottom temple.

Temple shots scale with time, so late phases take down keeps that early ones would only scratch; the team that keeps its structure lead can end through temples alone. From about 10:00, keep vision on the Boss camp with a hard-to-kill hero or a vision tool so the enemy can't take the Sand Golem uncontested, and capture it yourself whenever you have an advantage and no temple to contest. Split-push is a real win condition here: a solo hero on the far top temple or pushing with a Bruiser camp forces the enemy to send someone away from the main fight. When you go for the core, remember it spawns two rings of six tornadoes every 23 seconds that deal 25 damage and knock heroes back, so commit with minions or a boss rather than trickling in.

• Win conditions: temple damage, the Sand Golem from 10:00, and split-push on the far top side.
• Bait Whirling Sands onto the enemy side of the Boss pit before it spawns so invaders walk through tornadoes.
• Core tornadoes: two sets of six every 23 seconds, 25 damage plus knockback. Don't trickle in.