Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI sustain fights with pure damage and use trees to move safely.
Elusive and unpredictable, Timbersaw chops through the forest to face his foes. Unleashing an arsenal of saw blades to cut enemies to pieces, he rides his chain into nearby trees and batters foes along the way.
My recommendation is a starting point. We choose another position together with the team and for its needs.
My resource is the team's space: I hold the lane and build for initiation or team protection.
Levels, lane control and joining the team at the right moment matter.
This is an editorial starting plan based on hero mechanics. It is not presented as a match I have already tested or a popularity ranking.
Here is my initial plan: I do my role's job first, then choose the items the team needs. I adapt the order and expensive purchases to the opponent.
Provide mana for laning and regular ability use.
Strengthens a magic damage build and adds survivability for longer engagements.
Sustains prolonged fights by restoring health from spell damage.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Adds armor and pressure in an area, helping limit the enemy’s health restoration.
Pipe of Insight ↗Provides team protection against substantial magical damage.
Lotus Orb ↗Lets me remove an eligible negative effect and complicates the opponent's targeted focus.
Aghanim's Scepter ↗Unlocks or upgrades Reactive Armor. The exact effects are shown below in the abilities section.
I do not assign one ‘correct’ minute to every purchase. I look at my gold, the next fight and the problem: am I missing mana, target access, control or protection? If an expensive slot will arrive too late, I get a useful answer earlier.
Original Valve icons and descriptions. Cooldowns and mana are shown by level from the data snapshot; talents and upgrades can change the values.
Timbersaw whirls extremely sharp edges, damaging enemies and destroying trees around him in an area. If an enemy hero is affected, it loses some of its primary attribute for a short duration. Whirling Death will deal bonus damage per tree destroyed.
Timbersaw fires a chain that embeds itself in the first tree it hits, pulling him towards it. Any enemy in the path takes damage.
Each time someone attacks this hero, he gains a stack that increases his armor and health regeneration. Hero attacks grant 4 stacks each.
Each time someone attacks this hero, he gains a stack that increases his armor and health regeneration. Hero attacks grant 4 stacks each.
Allows this ability to be activated to gain its maximum stacks and a barrier that absorbs 150 damage. Each second, the barrier’s health increases by 100 + 75 for each enemy hero within a radius of 450 around the owner, up to a maximum of 800. After 8 sec., the barrier explodes, dealing damage equal to its current health + 200 to all enemy heroes within a radius of 450.
Launches a saw at the selected location that spins, damages enemies, and slows their movement. The slow increases for every 5% of the victim’s missing health. The saw deals pure damage and cuts down all trees in its path.
Fires Timbersaw's main saw blade at the target location where it will spin in place, dealing damage in an area around it. Enemies caught in the saw blade will move more slowly for every 5% of health missing. The blade deals damage and cuts down trees in its path when fired and retracted. While active the ability costs mana, and Timbersaw loses the ability to attack.
These abilities are not necessarily available at the same time. I check the condition beside the name: innate ability, another form or an Aghanim purchase.
Releases a flame in the direction Timbersaw is facing. Applies a debuff that deals damage per second and slows enemy movement speed. Affects buildings for reduced damage.
Releases a flame in the direction Timbersaw is facing. Applies a debuff that deals damage per second and slows enemy movement speed. Affects buildings for reduced damage.
Whenever Timbersaw destroys a tree, he gains mana.
Whenever Timbersaw destroys a tree, he gains mana.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
Items, slang and real episodes help connect abilities with what happens in a match.
