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Fatboy buy

Cortex Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond pays Tech heavily from before 5 minutes to buy a Fatboy which Tech builds and hands over around 5:15, bringing it to the middle as an early push while still running its own eco.

#push #team support · 68 distinct matches · 20 players · 20% of Cortex Pond games · team won 46% of 68 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • FatboyFatboy from Tech arrives 5:15 · 19% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HephaestusHeavy transport from an ally in 79%16% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 1,200 metal and 12,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 450 metal and 13,000 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 64 games with kill data: in the middle 88%, on their own side 13%.

Those units destroy a typical 2,392 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into grunt (31% of army), tick (10% of army), incisor (9% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Fatboy by 5:15

  1. Open tidals plus mex and wind for your own standard Pond eco.
  2. Receive a heavy transport from an ally to help move it.
  3. Send Tech heavy metal and energy to fund the Fatboy buy.
  4. Take delivery of the Fatboy from Tech and send it to middle as a push.
  5. Get your lab going and keep boosting front through the T2 transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 68 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:15 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Converter2Converter+2 vs standard
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 11 wind, 4 converterdone ~6:02, middle half 3:46–6:54

    By 5:38 in all: 4 mex · 9 wind · 1 tidal · 2 converter (standard 0) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 9 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind ×12
    6. Converter ×2
    7. Wind
    8. Converter ×2
    9. Wind ×4
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine1Wind−6 vs standard

    Some games also: con turret (47%) · con bot (43%) · grunt (43%) · converter (37%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 converter

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 16 wind · 1 tidal · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 103 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 6:28
    3. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    4. LasherLasher ×2
    5. Mexfor Front
    6. LasherLasher ×3
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:27 · typical 10:04
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    9. Mexfor Front
    10. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    11. BruteBrute
    12. Con turret
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. BruteBrute
    15. Con turret
    16. Mexfor Suicide front
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×3
    19. BruteBrute
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. Converter
    22. Wind ×3
    23. BruteBrute
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. Wind ×3
    27. BruteBrute
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. Wind
    31. BruteBrute
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. Wind
    35. BruteBrute
    36. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    37. Wind
    38. BruteBrute
    39. Wind
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. BruteBrute
    43. Converter
    44. Wind
    45. BruteBrute
    46. Converter
    47. BruteBrute
    48. Converter
    49. Con turret ×2
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. BruteBrute
    52. IncisorIncisor
    53. Con turret ×2
    54. IncisorIncisor
    55. GuardGuard
    56. Converter
    57. IncisorIncisor
    58. Converter
    59. IncisorIncisor
    60. Wind
    61. IncisorIncisor
    62. Wind
    63. IncisorIncisor
    64. Wind
    65. Converter
    66. IncisorIncisor
    67. Wind
    68. IncisorIncisor
    69. Wind
    70. IncisorIncisor ×2
    71. Wind
    72. IncisorIncisor ×2
    73. Wind
    74. IncisorIncisor
    75. Wind
    76. IncisorIncisor
    77. Wind
    78. IncisorIncisor
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. IncisorIncisor
    82. Wind
    83. IncisorIncisor
    84. Wind
    85. IncisorIncisor
    86. Wind ×2
    87. IncisorIncisor ×2
    88. Wind
    89. IncisorIncisor
    90. Wind
    91. IncisorIncisor
    92. Wind
    93. IncisorIncisor
    94. Wind ×2
    95. IncisorIncisor
    96. Converter
    97. Wind
    98. IncisorIncisor ×2
    99. Wind
    100. IncisorIncisor
    101. Wind
    102. IncisorIncisor
    103. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PongoPygmaeus's (36 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:09 · in 100% of games

You get

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:40 · in 79% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:14 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:16 · in 93% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build against the role’s standard build, running totals by minute

  • This build
  • Standard pond

Metal produced

010k20k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Metal sent to allies

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Energy sent to allies

020k40k60k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

68 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard pondEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard pondOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard pondMetal sent to allies: This buildMetal sent to allies: Standard pondEnergy sent to allies: This buildEnergy sent to allies: Standard pond
1:0011511500000010371052
2:0027528500000023402848
3:0083382200000040174945
4:001522149400004554363618188
5:0022712257000011794481241613143
6:0030803137000014347301772117257
7:0039574016115007015539761980320608
8:00467548501071249161161168510272155228447
9:00550763231768555618511170410272371429716
10:0064528183256712401140859171010272371430120
11:00771697922974154616691231172810272561831305
12:009083120743424169722581405174910272753134728
13:0010539140323947188627781586175210272852442543
14:0012629163914381246332282530175610272976045040
15:0014880186524862301038583482180710273015349057
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won slightly less than the standard build despite the Fatboy destroying a similar amount of metal by 15:00.

  • + Enemy metal destroyed at 10:00 is roughly double the standard build (2567 vs 1240).
  • + Early heavy transport arrives by 4:40 in 79% of games, far above the 16% role norm.
  • − Own metal production falls well behind standard by 10:00 (6452 vs 8183).
  • − Own losses by 15:00 run higher than standard (3858 vs 3482).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

PongoPygmaeus

35.6 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
152 metal received · 27058 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab6:02Middle 50%: 3:46–6:54 · n=41
Advanced Metal Extractor10:04Middle 50%: 9:22–10:47 · n=64

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