Soul Urn

The Soul Urn is a soul prize you grab off the bridge and run to a drop-off. Slamming it down opens a king-of-the-hill capture circle both teams can contest, and whoever is left alone in it banks a huge lump of souls — usually the single biggest swing on the map.

The capture circle

Forget the old melee flip. As of the 06-2026 rework, carrying the Urn to its drop-off (now on the lower side-lane bridge) starts a king-of-the-hill capture: a 20m circle that both teams can stand in and fill at the same time. The Urn only locks in when exactly one team is left standing inside it. Capture speed depends on which team the Urn favors — the trailing team is favored and fills it in 6s, an even game is neutral at 12s, and the leading team is unfavored and needs 18s. Cramming more than one ally into the circle does nothing; one body is enough, so spread out and fight instead of stacking. While a team holds the circle they get the comeback aura: +35% Bullet, +35% Spirit and +35% Debuff Resist inside the 20m zone. The carrier is no longer a tank on legs — carrying only grants mobility (roughly +2m sprint, +1 stamina, +10% dash distance, +15% stamina regen, plus an extra +4m sprint if your team is behind), and to stop hoarding, holding the Urn for 35 seconds of total time starts ticking 5% of your max HP per second. Drop it (on death or by hand) and it sits on the ground for anyone to grab; leave it untouched for about 13 seconds and it walks itself back to its spawn. The new safety valve: if the circle stays contested for 75 seconds total, the Urn gives up and hurls its entire soul payload into the sky as orbs that hang there for a long time — turning a stalemate into a free-for-all scramble everyone can grab a piece of.

Spawn timing & the comeback math

The first Urn appears around the 12-minute mark and then returns roughly every 6 minutes (12 / 18 / 24 / 30…), so it lands squarely in the mid-game when lanes are cracking and teams are grouping. Its reward scales with match time — there's no fixed number, but a banked Urn is the largest single soul swing on the map, routinely worth a full item tier shared across the runner and nearby allies. The economy is tuned for comebacks: the standard bounty was cut 20%, but the favored (trailing-team) Urn keeps its full value, so it pays the losing side far more than the winning side. The runner now collects their 35% bonus bounty and stats the instant they slam it down on the initial deposit — you no longer have to survive the whole capture to get paid, which makes even a risky run worth attempting.

How to play it

Pick the runner before the Urn spawns. You want mobility and survivability, not your glass-cannon carry — a frontliner or a hero with a dash/leap (Majestic Leap, Sprint Boots, Extra Stamina and Enduring Speed all help) who can reach the drop-off and live inside the circle. Treat the deposit like a teamfight on a timer, not a footrace: get the Urn to the circle, then your real job is to be the last team standing in it, which usually means winning the fight or forcing the enemy out — not just touching the objective. If you're ahead (unfavored, 18s), think twice before sinking five people into a slow capture you might lose; often the cleaner play is to deny it, kill the carrier, and let it reset rather than bleed a fight. If you're behind (favored, 6s), the Urn is your best comeback button: force the fight on it, abuse the +35% resist aura, and remember the runner banks the bounty the moment it's deposited even if you lose the hold afterwards. When you can't win the circle outright, stall: keep one body in it to keep it contested, drag it toward 75 seconds, and the give-up scatter turns a clean loss into a coin-flip scramble your team can still profit from. And the drop-and-grab trick still works — if your carrier is about to die, drop the Urn for a healthier teammate or onto high ground to buy the ~13-second reset window.