Objectives

The siege chain

Every lane runs the same locked ladder: the Guardian (the outer tier-1 tower), then the Walker behind it (the big tier-2 robot), and once a lane is broken you push into the base, where a pair of Base Guardians shields two Shrines, with the Patron sitting in the central pit. That order is the win condition — there is no scoreboard victory, only structures.

Each rung gates the next. Since the 05-22-2026 update the Shrines are invulnerable until one pair of Base Guardians is destroyed, so you can't snipe a Shrine through the wall — you have to commit to the base first. The Patron then stays untouchable until both Shrines fall. Even exposed, it has two phases: you bleed off the first half of its health bar, it goes briefly invulnerable and collapses into a hovering "Weakened Patron" orb in the pit, and only when you finish that orb — from inside the pit, since it's immune to damage from outside — does the game end. The Patron also rains fire on anyone who enters its base, so a sloppy push gets chipped down before it ever reaches a Shrine.

Souls, flex slots & decaying armor

Objectives are the fattest soul payouts on the map. Cracking a Guardian drops about 1,500 souls, a Walker about 4,000, a Base Guardian about 1,000, and a Shrine about 2,000 — and that bounty is split across the nearby team, counting anyone who dealt damage to it in the last ~20 seconds, so you don't need the last hit, you just need to be there. The Patron pays nothing; killing it simply wins.

On top of souls, knocking down enemy Guardians and Walkers unlocks team-wide flex slots — extra item slots every teammate gets to fill — so taking objectives literally makes all six of you stronger (the Flex slots card has the exact thresholds). And objective armor decays over the match: a structure that shrugs off your damage in the first few minutes takes far more by the mid-to-late game. A Walker that felt unkillable at six minutes melts in seconds at twenty, so don't waste time chipping a full-resist Guardian early — group when a window opens and they fall fast.

How to play it

Objectives are how you cash a lead, not how you start one. The loop is simple: win a fight or catch someone out, then immediately spend that respawn window on the nearest structure instead of chasing or re-farming. A single Walker is worth more than two extra trooper waves and a chase that gets you nothing.

Group for Walkers — they have real HP and a defensive aura, so they're a team commit, not a solo project; bring the squad or a split-pusher who can escape. Manufacture windows with the map's pressure tools: a won Mid-Boss or Rejuvenator fight, a claimed Urn, or a fast neutral clear all buy the numbers advantage to force a structure while the enemy is dead or out of position (each has its own card).

Respect the gates. Don't throw bodies at a Shrine while its Base Guardians are still up — it's invulnerable anyway — and don't dive the Patron's pit without the HP and souls to survive its fire and a possible enemy collapse. The most common throw at every rank is winning a fight and then walking away from the objective it opened. When you're ahead, the answer to "what now?" is almost always "the next structure."