Warhead Junction Introduction

With Warhead Junction being quite big, despite the presence of the Sewage Tunnel connecting top lane and bottom lane together, we find that global Heroes (such as Brightwing) are helpful for managing lanes, contesting the Objective, or ganking isolated enemy Heroes.

Similarly to global Heroes, gankers are extremely good on Warhead Junction because the battlefield is so big that the enemy team will struggle to play grouped, so they will have an easy time to find isolated Heroes.

Being able to quickly clear Mercenary Camps (for example Raynor with Exterminator at Level 1) is important because you need them to constantly pressure the enemy team across all lanes and especially because you need to capture the Boss Camp at the top of the battlefield as fast as possible after getting a few kills.

Due to the constant action that characterizes Warhead Junction, we recommend picking a sustain Healer (such as Lucio). 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).

Point control tools are good to deter the enemy team to stop you from taking the Boss Camp or, alternatively, to steal the Boss Camp from the enemy team while they are trying to capture it. Some Time Stop effects (such as Ice Wall by Mei) which can make Heroes unable to contest the Capture Point and displacement effects which can knock enemy Heroes out of the Capture Point (for example Expulsion Zone by Zarya) are great for that.

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 Warhead Junction because they can siege with the Slime Boss rewarded by the Boss Camp in the top lane or, alternatively, with the Hellbats from the Siege Camps in the bottom lane.

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

We recommend picking a few Heroes who have access to self-sustain because it is easy to end up having no Healer nearby on a big Map like this, especially considering that the Objective is basically split across different locations active at the same time.

Warhead Junction features a lot of wide areas, therefore you will not be able to fully unleash the power of Heroes that need to fight near impassable terrain (such as Diablo with Shadow Charge) or that can create it (for example Hogger with Loot Hoard).

Considering that Warhead Junction is characterized by constant action and that the Slime Boss can easily be a win condition towards the mid game, we recommend avoiding Heroes that have Abilities with extremely long cooldowns (such as Dragonqueen by Alexstrasza).

Due to the Map being too big, on Warhead Junction 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 be in time when traveling from a lane to another.