BAR / BUILD ATLAS
← All builds
Pond / Armada / Economy first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard pond

Standard Pond play: fast Bot Lab and early boosting into Advanced Metal Extractor, sending Tick/Pawn/Blitz to front while tidal-boosting allies throughout.

#eco #team support · 448 distinct matches · 96 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 510 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 5:42

  1. Open tidal, then wind to start boosting front's economy.
  2. Take mex and keep boosting wind or tidal depending on front's needs.
  3. Get a Bot Lab up, start sending Tick and Pawn to front.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to scale up team's economy.
  5. Switch to tick spam if enemy reaches T2 front before you do.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 448 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 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 Turbine10Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 10 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~5:40, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (44%)

    By 5:10 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 9 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Wind ×4
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind ×6
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind ×6
    8. Converter ×7
    9. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:21 · typical 5:40
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: tick (49%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (43%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 31 wind · 1 tidal · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 103 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×9
    2. Wind ×8
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×7
    5. Converter
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind ×3
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Con turret
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Converter
    17. LazarusLazarus
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Converter
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Converter
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:44
    26. Wind ×3
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×3
    29. Con turret
    30. Converter
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Converter
    35. Con turret
    36. Wind ×3
    37. Converter
    38. Wind ×5
    39. Converter
    40. Wind
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Wind ×3
    43. Converter
    44. Wind ×4
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Converter
    47. Wind ×3
    48. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:10
    49. Wind
    50. Converter
    51. Wind ×3
    52. Converter
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. Wind ×3
    58. Converter
    59. Wind ×3
    60. Converter
    61. Wind ×3
    62. Converter
    63. Wind ×3
    64. Converter
    65. Wind ×3
    66. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:50
    67. Converter
    68. Wind ×3
    69. Converter
    70. Wind ×3
    71. Converter
    72. Wind ×3
    73. Converter
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Converter
    76. FiendFiend
    77. Wind ×3
    78. FiendFiend
    79. Converter
    80. Wind
    81. BeamerBeamer
    82. FiendFiend
    83. Wind ×2
    84. FiendFiend
    85. Wind
    86. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    87. Converter
    88. FiendFiend
    89. Wind
    90. FiendFiend
    91. BeamerBeamer
    92. FiendFiend
    93. Wind
    94. BeamerBeamer
    95. Converter
    96. FiendFiend ×2
    97. Wind
    98. SumoSumodone 14:47
    99. Converter
    100. ScorpionScorpion
    101. SheldonSheldonnot finished by 15:00
    102. Wind ×2
    103. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (48 OS, 23/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:10 · in 90% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:26 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:41 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 4:59 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:17 · in 92% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

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

510 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038414800
8:0047421276148
9:0056932025379
10:0068722865720
11:00833433171188
12:001029036841616
13:001259342621966
14:001491447802454
15:001745653243030
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's standard support job, winning slightly under half its games while contributing modest kills for modest losses.

  • + Keeps own losses fairly low relative to kills (2827 destroyed vs 756 lost by 10:00).
  • + Reaches T2 constructor reliably (89% of games) by 8:10.
  • − Metal production trails other roles at 6855 by 10:00.
  • − No kills registered by 5:00, slow to impact the fight.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Erilium

47.6 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
226 metal received · 69249 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:40Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=459
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:38 · n=460

Played most by

Viltrum41games of this buildTeaner35games of this buildUsurpeR24games of this buildzeus_on_god24games of this buildRogShotz20games of this build