Tips & Strategy

Habits that win games, from your first match to team fights. Each hero page has hero-specific tips too.

Your first matches

Pick an easy hero first: Kael, Gorr or Kaito up front, Ember or Lyra for damage, Sol or Miko to heal. Each hero page shows a difficulty rating.
Try your hero in the Practice dojo in the lobby before you queue. You start at level 25 with lots of souls, so you can try the whole kit.
Buy the ⭐ Recommended items in order. Don't worry about custom builds until you know the game.
Stay near your minions. Fighting alone in an enemy lane is how most deaths happen.
Read the ability tooltips (hover them). They show real damage and what each point adds.

Last-hit minions. Souls from last hits are most of your income in the first 10 minutes.
Don't stand under an enemy tower unless your minions are taking the hits. Tower damage ramps up the longer it shoots you.
Watch the minimap. If an enemy laner disappears, they may be coming to your lane: play safer for a bit.
Use your dash (Shift) to escape, not just to chase. It has a 7s cooldown.
Recall (H) when you're low or have enough souls for your next item. Walking back is slow; dying is slower.

Tanks go first. Damage heroes stay behind the tank and hit whatever is in range.
Focus the same target. Six people hitting six different enemies lose to six people hitting one.
Don't use your ultimate on a single low-HP enemy who's already dying. Save it for when it changes the fight.
Ping (G) before you engage so your team knows to follow.
Fight near your towers when you're behind, and near objectives when you're ahead.

After you win a fight, take an objective: a tower, the Mammoth or Rex, a Soul Vault. A kill is worth less than what it lets you take.
Soul Vaults open 4 minutes in and get more valuable every minute. Late in the game they're worth a lot to the whole team.
Killing a Moon Watcher reveals every enemy for 20 seconds: take it right before a fight or an objective.
Use the teleporters to switch between top and bottom fast, but remember the enemy can hear them.
Late in the game minions are much stronger. A lane nobody defends will reach your base on its own.

Tank: start fights, stand between the enemy and your carries, and buy health and resists. You're doing your job if the enemy wastes abilities on you.
Bruiser: fight up close and win long trades with lifesteal. Dive the enemy backline once their crowd control is used.
Assassin: wait. Let the fight start, then jump on a weakened carry and get out.
Mage: land your control (slows, stuns, pulls) first, then your damage. Stay at max range.
ADC: your damage wins late fights. Stay behind your tank, keep attacking, and never be the closest hero to the enemy.
Support: keep your carry alive, heal the fight, and place Ward Totems so your team can see.

Chasing a low enemy into their tower or into fog.
Sitting on lots of souls. Spend them: items are power.
Everyone farming different lanes when the enemy groups up. If the enemy is together, be together.
Using your dash to start a fight and then having nothing to escape with.
Leaving early. A bot takes your hero, and objectives only count if you finish the match.