[MAP] The Volcano (finished) by matheod

The map will regullary be flooded with lava (not all the map but most of the map). Lava deal lots of damage, but there will be little "bunker" that prevent unit taking damage. But that's not all, randomly, in one of all the bunker, they will be a buff that grant all the team a buff which prevent taking damage from lava. But that's not all (I keep surprising you, isn't it ?), there is a way to know in which bunker the buff will be. You will regulary have to fight for an objective, getting the objective will give you one bunker where the buff will not be. The more objective you get, the better you will have an idea of where the buff will be. Also, even if you don't get all objective, you will be able to split between remaining bunker to try to get the buff :)

Gray area are elevated area, lava will not reach elevated area, so it's safe to stay. Lava will only go on normal area (in white). Black area are wall that block vision and where you can't go. You can't directly go from an elevated area to a normal area, there is "stairs" (gradiant gray to white) to allow you to move. You can still use spell to jump over black area or to move between elevated/normal area without stair.

Green are bush, exept on this map it's steam, not grass, because ... grass in volcano ? No way :D

Purple star are siege giants. Orange star are improved version of knight that can't take damage from lava.

At the middle you can see the volcano. You can't walk over, it's like a big wall. Purple octogone are objective where you can get hint about bunker (yellow octogone).

The middle part, where the volcano is, is special. Look at the figure below :
Red minion will always go under the volcan, and blue minion will always go above volcano. But they will meat enemy minion later, where blue and red line rejoin. The middle lane will send two wave of minion, with good timing to allow the first blue wave to meet and fight the second red wave (and to allow the firs tred wave to fight the second blue wave). You see how it's working ? This allow dynamic fight at the middle, because hero at the middle lane have multiple possibility. For exemple, a blue hero can go under the volcano to kill red minion, or he can go above volcano to defend his minion against enemy hero (for exemple). If you kill the first red wave, then the second blue wave will not have to fight and can continue (and maybe even join the first blue wave fighting second red wave). So you see, lots of possibility !

edit : I gorgot stair at the middle

When the volcan erupt, lava will slowly flow from the volcano through all the map. It take 30s for the lava to meet map border (lava move slow enough to allow hero to flee, but fast enough to stop them doing what they are doing).

Being in lava remove 1% of max life the first half second, then 2% of max life then second half second (so 1s), then 3% of max life the third half second, etc. So if we stay three second in lava we take 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21%. For 4s, it's 36% ! So it doesn't instant kill you, but you can't stay too long because the more you stay, the more damage the lava do. In 7s, you are dead. If you leave lava and then go back in lava, the damage reset to 1%.

Lava do damage to minion. Volcano erupt 2 minuts after objectives ended, and stay 2min after the whole map being flooded. There is then a 3min time until next objectives.

Bush does not protect from lava (but there is bush in elevated area).

Objectives give information on where the buff will not be. To get the objective you have to canalise 4s on it.

There is 3 waves of objective.

For the first wave, 1 of the 4 possible objective at the center will be choosen whith also it's symetrical. There is also one objective (and it's symetrical) that will be choose among all possible objective exept those at the center. All objectives spawn in the same time, so if you followed, there will be 4 objectives at the same times. The second wave is the same as the first, exept that it can't be objective that already have been choosen at the first wave (if you followed, you know exactly which will be choosen at the center for the second wave, because on 4 two have been used, so only 2 remains). The third wave is different. Again, one will be choosen at the center with also it's symetrical. And one (and only one !) will be choosen among the objective near top lane and the objective near bottom lane. For each wave, you will have 1min30 to get objective, if you don't get it, it dissapear. There is a delay of 1min30 after all objective got taken before the next wave. So if you counted, there should have been 11 objectives that spawned in a maximum of 9min. As there is 12 bunker, if you get all objective, you know where will be the buff. If you didn't get the 11 objectives, well, choose your strategy, you could split team over possible bunker (for exemple if you missed 5 objectives, 1 hero could go in each remaining bunker). Or you could choose to all go in one bunker and pray to be lucky :)

The buff prevent you from taking any damage from lava ! The whole team get it, and also minion !

While you have the buff, enemy minion will be killed, but not yours, so these help you for pushing. You are also safer because if you see enemy you can run back in lava and they will probably not be willing to follow you.