Lava Wave Timings

Lava Wave allows you to soak distant lanes while getting Experience from other lanes or while helping allied Heroes. What is the best moment to cast Lava Wave if you want to catch as many Minions as possible?

The answer is different for almost every lane across all Battlegrounds and changes as the Game Time goes on, based on the number of lanes involved, because Minions do not spawn exactly every 30 seconds.

After casting a lot of Lava Waves and doing some math, we have managed to extrapolate Lava Wave timings for each lane on each Battleground. You can use Lava Wave timings to cast it when the Game Time shows the corresponding amount of seconds.

This guide has been created with the help of Debug Mode, a special Sandbox for all Battlegrounds. Take a look at our Debug Mode Guide in the Gameplay Guides section if you want to test out our timings for Lava Wave on a specific Battleground.

To make it easier to learn, as the numbers were a bit less homogeneous across all lanes and Battlegrounds compared to what you see here, we have rounded the values a little. Our simplifications come at the cost of occasionally casting Lava Wave with a few seconds of unnecessary delay.

Being slightly late is not a bit deal because Lava Wave can collect Experience Globes on its path and because you will usually be able to normally soak enemy Minions that are already clashing with allied Minions and/or that are near allied Structures.

On the other hand, being too early is usually a big mistake because it could cause Lava Wave to miss the whole next wave of Minions, unless you need to cast Lava Wave defensively, to quickly kill enemy Minions near allied Structures and deter the enemy team from sieging.

All you need to remember is, for each Battleground, the yellow numbers in the images below and to add 1 second every 4 minutes, starting from when you reach Level 10, that usually happens shortly after 6 minutes of Game Time. You do not really need to learn the orange numbers because you can easily calculate them by adding 30 seconds to the yellow numbers. Considering that Lava Wave has 120 seconds of cooldown, make sure to delay each consecutive cast by 0.5 seconds.

If you do not want to learn all those numbers or if you cannot remember what is the current timing for a given lane while playing, bookmark this guide and click on the Maps name at the top to quickly find what you need. Alternatively, just cast Lava Wave when the Game Time shows 22 seconds or 52 seconds, except for Towers of Doom where the simplified values are 28 seconds and 58 seconds.

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	12	42	13	43	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48
Middle	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Bottom	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Bottom	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Bottom	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	24	54	25	55	26	56	27	57	28	58	29	59	30	00
Middle	24	54	25	55	26	56	27	57	28	58	29	59	30	00
Bottom	24	54	25	55	26	56	27	57	28	58	29	59	30	00

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52

Lane	Timing
	6:00		10:00		14:00		18:00		22:00		26:00		30:00
Top	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50
Middle	18	48	19	49	20	50	21	51	22	52	23	53	24	54
Bottom	14	44	15	45	16	46	17	47	18	48	19	49	20	50