Garden of Terror Introduction

Garden of Terror features numerous narrow spaces where Heroes can get value from effects that rely on impassable terrain (such as Detainment Strike by Auriel). Due to the multitude of angles at disposal of those Heroes, enemy Heroes will have a hard time to position themselves in a safe way.

Considering that Garden of Terror is relatively big and does not have quick and safe paths to travel from a lane to another, we find that global Heroes (such as Brightwing) are helpful for managing lanes, contesting the Objective, or ganking isolated enemy Heroes.

Being able to quickly clear Mercenary Camps (for example Artanis with Amateur Opponent at Level 1) is important because you need them to constantly pressure the enemy team across all lanes, otherwise they will overwhelm your team with a bunch of Mercenaries that you will struggle to defend them.

Due to the constant action that characterizes Garden of Terror, we recommend picking a sustain Healer (such as Malfurion). Combined with a smart use of the Healing Fountain, they will help you stay on the battlefield as much as possible without needing to Hearthstone too much. When your team does not have enough sustain healing coming from your Healer, prefer Heroes with good self-sustain instead (for example Blaze).

Heroes who can help their team to take down enemy Structures (notably Sylvanas) and/or can deal a lot of damage to enemy Structures on their own are good on Garden of Terror because they can siege together with Garden Terrors and can act as a win condition in the late game, compensating for the lack of Boss Camps.

Considering that the Objective requires to be channeled for a while, we recommend picking Heroes who are specialized in poke damage to easily deny the enemy team opportunities to collect Seeds while your team gets value somewhere else.

As on most Maps, having a good amount of waveclear will give you more time to do other things across the battlefield and will also help you to defend your Structures from enemy Heroes. Quickly killing enemy Minions will drastically reduce the enemy team's siege power and sometimes they will even be forced to retreat.

Due to the Objective not being particularly strong and the lack of Boss Camps, it is recommended to pick Heroes who become stronger in the late game (for example Zul'jin) as they can help you win team fights and end the game.

Considering that the Objective found on Garden of Terror spawns quite often, we recommend avoiding Heroes that have Abilities with extremely long cooldowns (such as Dragonqueen by Alexstrasza).

Due to the Map being too big, you should avoid playing Heroes who have a custom Mount that is slower than the normal one (+30% Movement Speed), otherwise you will struggle to arrive in time when traveling from a lane to another.