Legion TD is a complex tower defense game where your towers transform into units that fight on a battlefield. Unlike traditional TDs, your success depends on balancing your own defense with aggressive sends to leak your opponent. Core Fundamentals
Everything in Legion TD revolves around the relationship between three main resources. Gold: Used to build towers and upgrade your King. Mythium: Used to send mercenaries to attack your opponent.
Income: Generated by spending Mythium, giving you more gold every round. Early Game Strategy
The first 10 waves define your economy. If you overbuild defense, you lose income. If you underbuild, you leak and lose gold. The Value of Pushing Workers
You should always aim to have the minimum amount of defense required to clear a wave. Any leftover gold should go into workers. Waves 1-3: Focus on getting 2-4 workers early. Wave 5: A common "boss" wave where many players leak.
Wave 10: The first major boss. Ensure you have high single-target damage. Positioning Basics
Placement matters because units have different ranges and behaviors.
Tanks in Front: Place high-HP units at the very front of the lane. legion td guide
Splitters: Use units to pull half the wave away to reduce incoming DPS.
Aura Units: Place buffing units in the center of your formation. Understanding Damage and Armor Types
To climb the ranks, you must memorize the rock-paper-scissors mechanic of damage types.
Impact Damage: Strong against Fortified armor (good for Wave 10).
Pierce Damage: Strong against Light armor (good for Wave 5). Magic Damage: Strong against Swift armor. Pure Damage: Effective against all types but rare. How to Send Mercenaries
Sending is just as important as building. You send mercenaries during the "Build" phase to attack the enemy on the next wave. Pressure Sends
Small sends like Snail or Lizard are used to boost your income early on. They don't often cause a leak but keep your economy growing. Power Sends Legion TD is a complex tower defense game
Saving Mythium for several rounds to send a massive wave is called "Saving." Common power send rounds include: Wave 14: High magic damage waves. Wave 17: High pierce damage waves. Wave 20: The final boss push. Advanced Tips for Winning The "King Up" Strategy
If your defense is solid but you can't break the opponent, upgrade the King’s attack or health. This provides a safety net for your team and earns you income. Scouting the Opponent
Check your opponent's board frequently. If you see they lack Impact damage, send them a Mole or Ogre on a wave with Fortified armor. Master the "Shift"
Shift-building allows you to see the power level of your board before the wave starts. Use the "Recommended Value" tool in the UI as a baseline, but try to stay slightly under it to maximize workers.
The key to mastering Legion TD 2 is balancing your Fighter Value (defense) with your Economy (workers and income) while exploiting your opponent's weaknesses. 1. Master the Economy (Workers & Mythium)
Your economy is driven by Mythium, which is gathered by Workers.
Worker Benchmarks: A safe early game aim is 4-6 workers by Wave 3 and 10+ workers by Wave 10. Summary Checklist for Improvement The key to mastering
When to Push: It is often better to leak slightly in the early game (Waves 1-10) to push more workers, as the gold penalty for early leaks is much lower than in the mid-game (Waves 11-19).
Income Sends: Sending mercenaries like Snails or Lizards on early waves provides a permanent income boost, which is the primary way you scale into the late game. 2. Advanced Unit Positioning Placement is just as important as which units you buy.
The "Split": Never place all units in a single clump. Creating a split (placing some units on the left and some on the right) forces creeps to divide, allowing multiple tanks to share the damage and keeping your high-DPS units alive longer.
Hexagonal Aura Stacking: Most auras (like the Butcher or APS) affect up to 6 adjacent units. To maximize this, arrange your units in a hexagon around the aura provider by offsetting every second column by half a square.
Targeting Priority: Place your high-HP tanks closer to the center of the lane than your DPS units. This ensures the creeps target the tank first, even if a small mercenary (like a Snail) briefly distracts your units. 3. Critical Wave Matchups
Knowing when to save Mythium to "break" your opponent is the difference between winning and losing. [Updated 2.10] The Legion TD 2 Guide by LForward
In addition to towers, players can deploy units to support their defense. Units can provide additional firepower, heal towers, or offer other benefits. Learning when to deploy units and which ones to use is crucial:
Legion TD is a 2v2 tower defense (or 4v4 in some versions) where you and a partner defend a lane against waves of creeps. Each round, you earn gold to build units (fighters) and send mercenaries (creeps) to attack the opposing team. The goal: leak more creeps into your opponents’ king than they leak into yours.