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Legion Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Legion Pond builds its bot lab by 3:45, boosts front and tidals, then adds a shipyard around 8:25 and an advanced metal extractor by 9:11, transitioning into seaplane gunships and other bots to keep helping the front hold until team T2.

#eco #team support · 17 distinct matches · 9 players · 26% of Legion Pond games · team won 65% of 17 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Legion Bot Lab by 3:23

  1. Open with a wall of tidals, planning to boost front hard.
  2. Add mex and wind, then build Legion Bot Lab for units.
  3. Keep stacking wind to pay the front's boost needs.
  4. Eat the Legion Bot Lab around 5:12 to fund more units.
  5. Build shipyard and Advanced Metal Extractor, transition into gunships and bots.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 17 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
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 Legion Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator2Tidal
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Order
    1. Legion Bot LabLegion Bot Lab after 4 mex, 2 tidal, 1 winddone ~3:20, middle half 3:03–3:29

    Some games also: energy storage (47%)

    By 3:03 in all: 4 mex · 2 tidal · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 11 steps
    1. Tidal ×5for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Tidalfor Front
    4. Tidal
    5. Energy storage
    6. Tidal
    7. Wind
    8. Mex ×2
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. Mex
    11. Legion Bot LabLegion Bot Labdone 2:58 · typical 3:20
  2. 2

    Legion Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Bot4 Legion Construction Bot

    Some games also: Zagreus (41%) · energy storage (35%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 9 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 13 steps
    1. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot ×3
    2. Mex
    3. BrambleBramble
    4. Converter
    5. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    6. Converter
    7. ZagreusZagreus
    8. Con turret
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. ZagreusZagreus
    12. Wind ×7
    13. ZagreusZagreus
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine49Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Bot LabEat Legion Bot Lab in 53% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Bot3 Legion Construction Bot

    Some games also: Pharos (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 51 wind · 2 tidal · 9 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 57 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. Legion Bot LabEat Legion Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    3. Con turret
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    6. PharosPharos
    7. Wind
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×2
    10. BrambleBramble
    11. Converter
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Con turret
    14. Wind
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×8
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×6
    19. Converter
    20. Wind ×4
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:58 · typical 9:32
    22. Wind ×3
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Converter
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×3
    29. Converter
    30. Wind ×2
    31. Converter
    32. Wind ×2
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Converter
    35. Wind ×3
    36. Converter
    37. Wind ×3
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×4
    40. Converter
    41. Wind ×4
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×3
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Wind ×2
    46. Converter
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. Wind ×2
    49. Con turret
    50. Converter
    51. Wind
    52. Con turret
    53. Wind ×2
    54. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hokusai's (32 OS, 13/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:11 · in 94% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Tech or Geofirst at 7:53 · in 88% 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

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

17 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027400
3:0078100
4:00145300
5:00212500
6:00313300
7:00423200
8:005327400
9:00666119030
10:008115378140
11:0010062648200
12:00123531015720
13:001508617201260
14:001732229281815
15:001949742432740
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard pond play with the best win rate shown, built on heavy tidal boosting for front.

  • + Team won 71% of games, highest win rate among all standard builds shown.
  • − Produces the least metal of any role's standard build by 10:00 (7958).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Hokusai

31.9 OS · 13/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
192 metal received · 29324 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Bot Lab3:20Middle 50%: 3:03–3:29 · n=16
Advanced Metal Extractor9:32Middle 50%: 8:06–9:44 · n=14

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