Lane Guardian

Guardian
Stats
Health
Base Health:	5500
Damage Resist:	50% to -50 Time Resistance 0:00 50% 3:00 25% 6:00 0% 9:00 -25% 12:00+ -50% %
Spirit Resist:	0%
Damage
DPS:	116
Range:	34m
Souls
Total Souls:	1250

See also: Base Guardian

Lane Guardians, also referred to as just Guardians, are Structures in the first line of defense protecting the Patron.

Overview

Lane Guardians are large metal automatons with a fiery brazier as a head. They fight by dealing continuous damage with a laser emitted from their torch, targeting all Troopers and Heroes that enter its radius. There are 3 Lane Guardians per team, one for each lane.

When there are no enemy troopers or players within 24m, the Guardian enters an invulnerable state, where it cannot be damaged by any means. When a trooper or enemy player enters the guardian's range, it will become vulnerable, targeting its laser onto the closest nearby enemy and dealing constant damage over time. However, the Guardian will not take any damage from the player if the player is outside the Guardian's range, even if it is vulnerable to troopers. Guardians take headshot damage to their "head," the brazier on top of their body.

The Guardian's beam deals Weapon Damage and can be mitigated by Bullet Resist.

Guardians will target an enemy player if that enemy damages an allied player and is within 15 meters of the Guardian.

When a player or a melee trooper enters close range (5m) of a Guardian, the Guardian will repeatedly use melee attacks until the player/trooper is either killed or leaves melee range. The melee attacks can be parried by the player. If the Guardian is parried, it will be stunned for 2s, then it will switch to the laser attack and be unable to use melee again for 5s.

When a Guardian is destroyed, its soul bounty is granted to every alive hero on the team that destroyed it.

Lane Guardians don't have backdoor protection, allowing a player to deal normal damage to a Guardian even if the enemy zipline is pushed.

Resistances

Guardians mitigate incoming damage from players using multiple different modifiers that stack together multiplicatively:

• Time Scaling Damage Resist: Lane Guardians have a scaling Damage Resist that applies to all damage types, except Pure Damage. Starts at 50% and decays linearly down to -50% (taking increased damage) over the first 12 minutes of the match (-0.14% resist per second).
• Player Vulnerability: A modifier that gives -25% Bullet Resist against players (taking increased damage).
• Bullet Resist: Lane Guardians have 10% Bullet Resist.

Because these modifiers stack multiplicatively, players will deal significantly less damage than their base weapon damage in the early game, and significantly more in the late game.

The resists are stacked together in the following formulas:

• For bullet damage:

$Damage=BulletDamage\ast [(1-BaseDamageResist)+(time/720)]\ast (1-PlayerResist)\ast (1-BulletResist)$

• For spirit damage:

$Damage=SpiritDamage\ast [(1-BaseDamageResist)+(time/720)]$

In which "time" is the match time in seconds.

Applying the bullet damage values, we get:

Damage = BD * [0.5 + (t / 720)] * 1.25 * 0.9

Ability Damage Reduction

The following abilities deal reduced damage to Guardians:

Hero	Ability	Damage Reduction (%)
Bebop	Hyper Beam	-50
Haze	Fixation	-20
Infernus	Flame Dash	-50
McGinnis	Heavy Barrage	-50
Mina	Nox Nostra	-50
Paradox	Pulse Grenade	-50
Pocket	Affliction	-50
Seven	Storm Cloud	-50
Victor	Aura of Suffering	-50
Warden	Last Stand	-50

Update history

View the full update history: Lane Guardian/Update history

Update	Changes
June 30, 2026	Guardian bounty reduced from 1500 to 1250
May 22, 2026	Guardians scaling resistance from +75%->-50% over 12 minutes to +50%->-50% (takes more damage early)
March 30, 2026	Guardians and Base Guardians now have 10% Bullet Resistance

3D model

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Guardian

Gallery

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  Old version of a Lane Guardian fighting a Trooper.