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MAP GUIDE // Domination

Yggsgard: Royal Palace

A Yggsgard Domination map with royal halls, Bifrost pressure, and quick punishment for solo touches.

Standard queue mapQuick Match, Competitive, and Custom when in rotationReleased 2024-05-12
  1. 01 StartRead the win rule
  2. 02 CheckPick playable space
  3. 03 LeaveLeave with the team

Route

How to enter

Take the lane that keeps the team connected through the palace door or garden turn.

Contest

How to touch

Touch after a cooldown trade, not before the fight is ready.

Reset

How to leave

If point is lost, leave as a group and re-enter with a simple target call.

Mode briefing

Domination

Teams fight over control rounds where first entry, mid-fight trades, and regroup discipline decide the capture.

Vanguard

Take the point-side lane that gives your supports a line to you, then stop overextending once control flips.

Duelist

Win a short angle before touching. Solo touches work only when they buy a real teammate return.

Strategist

Pick the safest sightline that can still see the point, and rotate as soon as the enemy starts wrapping you.

Domination punishes trickle deaths harder than almost anything. Reset fast and re-enter together.

Watch points

What to notice before you blame the pick

  1. 01Palace doors
  2. 02Bifrost garden routes
  3. 03Solo touch traps

Map review loop

Turn Yggsgard: Royal Palace into three simple calls

A good map read should change a decision you can actually make in match. For Domination, start by naming the first playable route, then decide what a useful contest looks like, and finally call the reset before the team drifts into stagger deaths. Use these prompts after a loss to separate a map problem from a hero-pick problem.

First fight

Name the route

Before hero select ends, decide which lane or cover piece lets your team enter without spending every defensive cooldown at once.

Objective fight

Define the touch

A useful contest buys overtime, forces resources, or starts a real trade. If it only creates one isolated death, leave and rebuild.

After loss

Review the pattern

If Yggsgard: Royal Palace keeps feeling impossible, check the watch points first, then adjust route timing before blaming the whole comp.

Keep going

Patch archivePatch notesCheck recent official notes before treating map context as current.Objective habitPlay objective modesTurn map pressure into better touch, rotate, and reset decisions.Team shapeBuild around the lanePick a comp job that can actually cross this map's pressure.

Same mode

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Team handoff

Turn the comp idea into a first-fight job.

Use the next route to fix the missing role, angle, or timing.

Current fileMap briefing

Read the mode rule, choose one safer route, and decide how your team should touch or reset.

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