Treant Protector/Counters

Bad against...

 * All of Treant Protector's abilities are worth stealing, and Rubick is able to cast them with no animation time.


 * will reveal Treant Protector if he tries to use.


 * Cutting down trees makes it much harder for Treant Protector to use his abilities.


 * Venomancer's damage over time poisons remove very quickly.


 * Storm Spirit's renders two of Treant Protector's abilities useless, as he can easily escape from  and prevent being damaged from  as he becomes invulnerable.

Others

 * In general, heroes with damage over time abilities will quickly remove :, , ,.

Items

 * reveals all trees buffed with, as well as Treant Protector himself.
 * is used to cut them down.
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Good against...

 * Spirit Breaker's slow attacks cannot harm a hero shielded by.


 * Anti-Mage relies on blinking and auto-attacking. prevents both.


 * Lycan has no kind of teleport, being only able to walk, and heavily relies on his auto-attacks. As roots and disarms the targets, Lycan can't do much in an overgrowth field.


 * Treant Protector can hide any ally under the trees created by and can cancel the Prophet's.


 * Reason

Others

 * Thought has a great duration, it only prevents enemies from attacking, moving and blinking. Pseudo-blinks and any other ability are still free to use, thought the enemies are kept stopped and disarmed till the end of the spell duration. Due to this, Units that relies heavily on auto attacks are the ones that suffers most with Treant Protector.

Works well with...

 * Pudge greatly benefits from, as he can sneakily cast a deadly . Victims don't even get to see what hit them.


 * Warlock can full stack an while the enemies are in  or while he is under  invisibility.
 * Warlock applies a good stun that can be used along with . Also, as the victims are unable to move, the Golems can do a real mess.


 * along with is a great source of infinite mana, health and damage.


 * Mirana can hit a long range while targets are slowed by  or targets paralyzed by.


 * Treant Protector solves Sven's problems with being kited, protecting him with, slowing, rooting and disarming enemies, as Sven deals huge damage to them all.

Others

 * Treant Protector works really well with heroes that have any AoE skill, such as, , , and others
 * Heroes with any mana regeneration abilities can help Treant to keep his manapool safe as he casts, healing his allies and himself.
 * Heroes that need enemies close to them or in one position for a long time, like, , , will have great advantage over the clash as Treant Protector has the longest AoE movement disabling skill of the game.

List of heroes that counter Treant Protector, and list of heroes that work well with Treant Protector.