Stormgate Creep Camps Explained

What Are Creep Camps?

Creep camps are simply towers protected by environmental enemies that give benefits such as resources or map vision. Every competitive 1v1 map has creep camps that players can take try to take to gain an advantage on their opponent. The enemies located at these camps are not particularly difficult, but getting caught out by your opponent while attempting to take camps can spell defeat. Continue reading to learn more about creep camps to determine if the risk is worth the reward!

How Do You Take Camps?

Once you have enough units to safely clear out the enemies of a camp, all you need to do is keep a unit in there for ~10 seconds to capture the tower. If you are capturing a tower already held by your opponent, taking the the tower will take twice as long. Each time a camp is killed, it levels up and gets a little bit more difficult to take the next time.

General Creep Camp Rewards

We will get into the specific tower benefits later, but in general killing units at towers will provide you with luminite, all depending on the type and level of the unit killed.

The Speed Tower

This first tower is surrounded by Shadow Mastiffs. They are easy to defeat, but be wary of their charge attack that damages all units it hits. The tower itself provides increased movement speed of nearby units for a short period of time, and grants a small speed boost to all units.

The Health Tower

Protected by 2-5 slime, this tower will provide your units with small health generation while standing within the confines of the tower. This tower is great for pushing or attacking creep camps. Players often take this tower first to ensure their units are always healthy and ready to go.

The Vision Tower

Protected by Shadow Demons, the vision tower provides the controller vision of the area and slightly increases the vision of all units. This tower will typically be located in a more central position of map to allow you to see key movements by the enemy opponent. These towers are a must to ensure you can move out safely.

Luminite or Therium Tower

These towers are protected by 1 bruiser & 2 cleavers and provides the controller with periodic Luminite or Therium generation. The resource you will receive can be identified by looking at the top of the tower itself. As you can see in the image above, the tower will generate Luiminite.

Conclusion

Stormgate creep camps are an integral part of the competitive gameplay. They provide significant advantages that hopefully you now understand better and can take advantage of to improve your rank. Even with the risk of getting caught out, the reward in the current state of the game is just too high. In many situations, taking creep camps is more beneficial than taking an expansion itself.