Mid-Boss & Rejuvenator

Mid-Boss is the neutral super-boss in the central pit. Kill it and it drops the Rejuvenator: a 4-minute team buff that super-charges your troopers, slashes your respawn timers and lets you revive fallen allies — the classic setup to push base and end the game.

The boss, the crystal, the buff

Mid-Boss is a neutral super-creep that lives in the central pit in the middle of the map. Since the 05-22-2026 map rework it sits there from the start of the match (the old rope entrances are gone — you now drop in through a stairway and the widened bridge), but it has a huge health pool that climbs with game time, so it isn't realistically killable until mid-game. Once killed it respawns roughly every 7 minutes. On death it drops one big green Rejuvenator crystal into the pit; the crystal takes about 6 seconds to fall, and that fall is the contest window. Heavy-melee (punch) the crystal — each heavy hit banks one Rejuvenation Credit for your whole team, up to 3, and EITHER team can claim them no matter who landed the killing blow on the boss. The buff then runs for 4 minutes and does three things at once: super-troopers (your lane troopers gain 1.7x–2.3x health and shove hard), faster respawns (your death timers are cut to between 50% and 30% of normal) and ally rebirth (when a teammate dies, a credit is spent to revive them in place after about 3 seconds). Each Rejuvenator your team takes over a game is stronger than the last — trooper health scales 1.7x → 2x → 2.3x and respawn time drops to 50% → 40% → 30%.

How to play it

Mid-Boss is a commitment, not a snack — it eats most of your team and a chunk of time, and a contested pit is where games get thrown. Only start it when you can finish uncontested: after you pick off one or two enemies, when you hold a clear soul and item lead, or when the enemy is dead-side and can't rotate. Ward or smoke the pit first so you aren't face-checked mid-cast, and have your tankiest hero hold aggro while the team burns it. Then cash the buff immediately — it's a closing tool, not a trophy. March your super-troopers into a lane with the team behind them and push Guardians, Walkers and ultimately the Patron while your respawn timers are gutted and your credits make a death barely matter. Don't take it just because it's up: if you can't convert it into objectives or a base push inside the 4 minutes, you spent your entire team on a buff that expired doing nothing.

Stealing it & the contest

The crystal belongs to whoever punches it, not to whoever killed the boss — so a smoke or one diving hero can erase an enemy's whole Mid-Boss attempt. If the enemy is low on the boss, you don't need to win the boss, you need to win the crystal: hold an ability that clears the pit or knocks people off it, survive the roughly 6-second drop, and heavy-melee the crystal for as many of the 3 credits as you can grab — even one stolen credit denies them a rebirth and flips the buff your way. Defensively, keep eyes on the pit; the new stairway and bridge give clean angles to peek without dropping in, so you can spot them starting it and contest the instant their health bar on the boss gets dangerous. Never blind-walk into the pit in the late game — a team that already holds the Rejuvenator has live rebirths and will trade your life for nothing while their timer advantage snowballs.