Strategy
Gameplay[]
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| Treant Protector is a tough support hero who is able to protect and regenerate allies and friendly buildings with his trademark ability, Living Armor. Forming barriers with Nature's Grasp and packing a huge punch, he is one of few supports that can sneak past enemy lines to set up ganks and/or initiate a fight by rooting the opposing team in an Overgrowth. Alone, Treant Protector does little damage and requires good teamwork to be effective. | |
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Ability Builds[]
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Talents[]
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| 450 AoE Living Armor | 25 | -35s Overgrowth Cooldown |
| +45 Leech Seed Damage/Heal | 20 | +8 Living Armor Bonus Armor |
| +25 Nature's Grasp Damage | 15 | +18% Leech Seed Movement Slow |
| -5s Nature's Grasp Cooldown | 10 | +2 Living Armor Heal Per Second |
Tips & Tactics[]
General[]
- Treant Protector's attack animation and rate are slow, but pack a huge punch. With a little practice, he can put that power to use and greatly assist his lane partner by denying creeps or harass the enemies.
- Keep running at the enemies in the early game with Orb of Venom as few heroes can deal with your absurd physical attack damage. You can always heal up and go back again to keep them away from the creep waves. You should consider leveling Leech Seed if you want to increase the chance of obtaining early kills.
- Because of his high damage and strength, Treant Protector can sometimes jungle weaker creep camps.
- Treant Protector is not very mobile and requires careful positioning, especially before a teamfight.
- Keep your eyes on the minimap the entire game. Treant Protector can keep allies longer in lane, save them from ganks, and heal damaged towers with Living Armor.
Abilities[]
Nature's Grasp[]
- Always try to cast Nature's Grasp with a tree on the path for increased damage. The tree's position on the path does not matter.
- Cast Nature's Grasp on chokepoints to discourage enemies from entering the area.
- Cast on a path surrounded by trees to effectively block off the entire area for enemies.
- Nature's Grasp's long range allows Treant Protector to farm more than one jungle camp at the same time.
Leech Seed[]
- Use Leech Seed as an early harassment tool by slowing down the target for you to keep hitting them with your powerful physical attacks.
- Take note that the healing element of the ability is performed over 7 pulses and that the healing projectiles have a fairly slow travel speed. You will need to pre-emptively use it early during a battle to ensure you will benefit from the healing, as quick and successive bursts of damage may kill you before you gain any life back.
- Leech Seed ignores invisibility and fog of war, and can be used to reveal the position of enemies hiding nearby. This is useful for chasing down enemies escaping through trees, as you have no way of obtaining flying vision even though you can path through trees.
- Casting Leech Seed allows you to stack multiple creep camps at once.
Living Armor[]
- Living Armor costs little mana, and should be used as often as possible.
- Keep an eye on the minimap, as a well-timed Living Armor may make the difference between a farmed teammate or a farmed enemy. This is especially important during the early game, when heroes are more vulnerable.
- You can target Living Armor through the minimap as it automatically selects the nearest target to your click.
- When pushing, try using Living Armor on the tanking hero, allowing them to tank even better and heal back lost health.
- Always use Living Armor to heal buildings if no teammate needs it, which makes pushing much harder for the enemy team as they need to fully commit for a tower kill instead of slowly chipping away.
- Avoid using Living Armor at the same time as Glyph of Fortification, as the the gylph already makes them immune to damage, which wastes the armor bonus of Living Armor.
- Whenever there is a siege creep in the wave, casting Living Armor on your towers can be very effective, as the melee and ranged creeps will actively be engaging with one another before turning their sights onto the tower. With the ability at higher levels, coupled with the innate slow attack speed of siege units, Living Armor may outlast the wave and allow the tower to survive without a single scratch.
- Use Living Armor on allied units to tank tower damage, keeping your pushes going, analogous to using Solar Crest.
Overgrowth[]
- Overgrowth's root prevents blinking and certain mobility abilities, useful for locking down slippery heroes.
- Overgrowth is dispellable, so be aware of enemies with items such as Manta Style, or abilities such as Aphotic Shield.
- Overgrowth also applies disarm to shut down enemy carries from dealing damage with physical attacks.
Eyes In The Forest[]
- An Aghanim's Scepter gives Treant Protector a free permanent mini Observer Ward with much lower cooldown. He can use it to gain vision in critical spots. This could be an enormous advantage for the whole team especially when covering the whole jungle and lanes with it. This also reduces the necessity for diving in to initiate teamfights as it enables Treant Protector to use Overgrowth globally.
- Use enchanted trees to farm up the enemy neutral creep camps, by enchanting trees near their camps and using Overgrowth. Not only does this boost Treant Protector's gold income, it also denies the enemy team their jungle, effectively taking away gold from them.
- Iron Branch can create a tree; enchant it to use Overgrowth in the middle of battle. Whether the one second delay is worth the damage is up to player to decide.
- Experienced teams will usually purchase a Gem of True Sight to counter Eyes in the Forest, so do not depend too heavily on the vision.
- In late game scenarios, the enemy cannot be everywhere or have detection all over the map. There should eventually be some enchanted trees that go unnoticed, perhaps around the Roshan area, and you will get some valuable information out of it. Also, as inventories get filled up, perhaps no one will want to carry a Quelling Blade to chop down your trees. Not every hero has an ability at their disposal to cut trees, or wants to carry Battle Fury.
- Purchase Octarine Core to use Overgrowth more often, keeping all the lanes pushed for even more map control. You can then organize ganks and pick off lone targets with teammates with your superior vision.
Items[]
Starting items:
- Tango heals a little at a time in the laning stage.
- Healing Salve restores large amount of health.
- Clarity sustains mana for using early Leech Seed to harass enemies.
- Orb of Venom applies a slow to keep enemies in range of your powerful physical attacks in the early game.
- Observer Ward grants map vision.
Early game:
- Boots of Speed give movement speed boost.
- Regular Stick helps not.
- Infused Raindrops provides mana regeneration and magical damage absorption.
- Wind Lace grants movement speed bonus for cheap.
- Arcane Boots restores mana to Treant Protector and allies.
Mid game:
- Magic Wand provides some attributes, as well as restoring health and mana in bursts.
- Urn of Shadows gives miscellaneous bonuses and charges to heal or hurt heroes.
- Solar Crest sustains mana, as well as granting or removing armor of units.
- Radiance will give Treant Protector much needed waveclear that can apply excellent area damage during fights, even while invisible.
- Aghanim's Scepter will give Treant Protector access to the ability Eyes In The Forest that will allow him to enchant a tree, allowing it to serve as an Observer Ward that will grant his team vision over the map and will also allow Treant Protector to deal some damage in the late game with a semi-global Overgrowth that will affect enemy units within the 800 radius the tree affected by Eyes In The Forest.
Late game:
- Guardian Greaves, an upgrade of Arcane Boots and Mekansm, restores health and mana in an area; it also carries an aura of health regeneration and armor that works better on heroes at low HP.
- Aghanim's Shard will allow Nature's Guise to turn Treant Protector invisible, to move faster while invisible and to have his next attack root a target. Effects of Aghanim's Shard upgraded Nature's Guise will be stronger if the target is near the tree.
- Lotus Orb wiil give Treant Protector health and mana regeneration and armor, as well as the ability to apply a basic dispel and reflect single-targeted spells.
- Blink Dagger allows for more powerful initiaions with Overgrowth, as well as letting Treant Protector dart around the forest while remaining invisible through Nature's Grasp.
- Dagon will give Treant Protector spell lifesteal that will allow him to heal himself with his abilities, and a strong magical damage burst that will allow him to finish off enemy heroes faster.
- Refresher Orb will allow Treant Protector to use Overgrowth twice in quick succession.
- Gleipnir will give Treant Protector more health, more intelligence, more attack damage and it will also allow his attacks from Aghanim's Shard upgraded Nature's Guise to release a chain lightning that can bounce between enemies, damaging them. And the Gleipnir's ability to root enemy heroes in an area can be treated as an reserve Overgrowth that can help landing Nature's Grasp easier or which can also extend the duration of Overgrowth's root if Treant Protector hasn't used it yet.
Situational items:
- Tranquil Boots provides health regeneration and movement speed to roam the map. Consider it when teammates do not need extra mana from Arcane Boots.
- Soul Ring solves Treant Protector's mana problems in the early to mid game so he can use Leech Seed more frequently to gank and Living Armor to heal. Consider this item with Tranquil Boots to offset its health cost.
- Drum of Endurance provides cheap attribute bonuses, and movement speed for allies and Treant Protector, which stacks with Nature's Grasp.
- Meteor Hammer gives Treant Protector strength, intelligence, regeneration, and area stun. Overgrowth's root will help him use this item reliably as an initiation tool.
- Vladmir's Offering provides Treant Protector and his team with a useful aura, most notably the attack damage bonus that scales well in the late game.
- Pipe of Insight provides team with protection against magical damage.
- Heaven's Halberd disarms an enemy hero, while providing strength, status resistance, and evasion to increase durability.
- Shiva's Guard provides protection against physical damage with armor and slow aura that also helps in teamfights.
- Octarine Core lowers cooldowns of items and abilities, especially the upgraded Overgrowth to increase farm and apply constant pressure on all lanes..
