Early Game & Objective Guide for Hanamura Temple (Patreon)

The most important thing on hanamura are the camps, specifically the samurai camp. These camps give very powerful bonuses in addition to a lot of experience when you cap them, so the best way to generally play hanamura is to immediately do the camps at 1 minute mark.

Since the samurai is the most important, you will normally want to do that camp as soon as it spawns. Be very watchful for the invade on the first camp, this is a very easy thing to do since you will take a lot of damage fighting samurai, so do not start it if you see enemy team following you. Alternatively, if you think you have a stronger early game fight, you can ping for your team to invade the enemy samurai at 1 minute.

Normal order for camp clearing on this map is samurai->turret->vision if you have  time-> defending the enemy samurai or pushing with your own.

If you ever get a talent advantage on this map, you should be getting your team to invade enemy camps as often as possible. The invade forces enemies to either give up their best way to come back into the game(with camps giving tons of exp) or fight you outside of their forts/keeps while being down a talent. The camps are the real objective of hanamura.

The actual objective, the cart, is far weaker than the samurai most of the time.The more people are in the cart range, the faster it moves, but not by much. If there is full wall alive the cart will kill only the wall and 1/3rd of the fort/keep. If there is no wall then the objective will kill the fort/keep. It targets the lane with more buildings first.