Timbersaw

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Timbersaw

#95

26 + 3.5

16 + 1.6

23 + 2.7

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+77HP and +0.35HP regeneration +3.5 Main Attack Damage
	+0.27 armor and 1.6 attack speed
	+32.4MP and +0.135MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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692 +2.85

351 +1.65

2.67 Armor (802.86 EHP)

27.3% Magic Resist (951.86 EHP)

49 ‒ 53 ▶️ Damage (51 Avg)

Instant Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

150 Attack Range (600)

100 (116) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.36 + 0.64 Animation

280 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Motor Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_shredder

2012-12-13 Released

2011-12-24 (6.73)

Competitive Span 2013-03-21 — Present

Version Control This article has not been updated to the last version the hero was changed in yet (version 7.40b). Please help by updating it.

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Chops through the forest to face his foes.
Timbersaw had a good cause to be paranoid. Augury Bay fell to the walking trees, its inhabitants crushed under branch and bough. But that was the past. His new Saw-suit changed everything. Its long Timber Chain shot out, grasping the nearest trunk and pulling the suit towards it. In an instant, a dozen trees fell in a circle to the oversized saw. 'Whirling Death, I'll call it!' But that was not all. A press of the button, and the bladed Chakram flew into the forest, cutting down even the sturdiest of hardwoods. Delirious with success, Rizzrack pulled up a Second Chakram and a Flamethrower, spinning and spewing in all directions, cackling until all that remained was a field of naked burned stumps. Now, he was ready to face his fears.
Roles:	Nuker Durable Escape
Adjectives	BadTeeth, Steed, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

I'm not a lumberjack. This. This is personal.

▶️  Rizzrack, the Timbersaw

Aliases:

Rizzrack, Shredder

Lore:

Rizzrack could still hear the screams in his mind. He worked, frantically turning wrenches, twisting screws, building and carving and forging. Sleep eluded him; he only built. Months had passed since he had shut himself in his uncle's workshop, and his deliverance was nearly complete. He rubbed his back as his eyes drifted shut, and saw a blanket of flowers floating on the placid waves of Augury Bay before exploding into a cloud of pollen that silenced lives as it seized the lungs. He woke with a choking start. For hours the rhythmic sound of a whetstone filled the shop as he sharpened a set of massive blades, his mind filled with images of strangling vines garroting neighbors, enwrapping homes. The flooding of Augury Bay had been nothing compared to the violent horrors the waters left to take root beyond the city walls.

But the saw-suit would make him strong and safe he thought, allowing himself this sliver of hope before the full might of his fear crashed into his fading mind. Branches and bark and blood. When the city fell, Rizzrack fled trees that walked, and fought, and killed. Trees had shattered the gates and swarmed into the city. Trees had crushed and thrashed and stomped the last that Augury Bay could muster in defense, and stalked the few fleeing refugees. In addled silence Rizzrack unspooled the thick chain from the suit's arm, his hands quaking as he inspected each link and ran a trembling finger along the claw attached at its end. The saw-suit was ready.

With his hand trembling he sparked the bladed machine to life. Terror drove him, terror of what awaited him and of what he would have to face to have any hope of calming his mind. As the saw-suit shuddered to life he knew he must face this fear, and he knew he wouldn't like it one bit.

Voice:

TJ Ramini (Responses)

Facets

Shredder

The Timber Chain shatters the tree it latched upon Timbersaw reaching it.

The tree splinters in all directions, damaging and applying a movement speed slow to affected enemy units.

Twisted Chakram

Twisted Chakram is Timbersaw's       fourth ability with the selected facet.

Launches a secondary saw-blade that deals damage and applies movement speed slow on affected enemy units based on their current health it passes through, then returns to Timbersaw.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Grants Timbersaw max Reactive Armor stacks, and a replenishing all damage barrier that gets stronger the more the enemy heroes within the radius.

The damage barrier explodes when it expires, damaging nearby enemy units corrspondingly to its current barrier value.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Flamethrower ability.

Releases a destructive flame in the direction Timbersaw is facing.

Deals damage per second, applies a movement speed slow and destroys trees within an area.

Talents

×1.75% Timber Chain Range/Projectile Speed	25	+75 Whirling Death Tree Bonus Damage
+5% Chakram Slow +5% Twisted Chakram Slow	20	+10 Exposure Therapy Heal per Tree Destroyed
+6 Reactive Armor Max Stacks +1 Reactive Armor Stack per Hero Attack	15	+3% Whirling Death Attributes Reduction
+1.5 Mana Regen	10	+0.25 Reactive Armor Health Regen per Stack
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Innate

Exposure Therapy

Exposure Therapy

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Timbersaw restores a flat amount of mana per tree destroyed.

Mana Restore per Destroyed Tree: 4/6/8/10

Talent Upgrade
Now additionally restores a flat amount of health per tree destroyed.

Heal per Destroyed Tree: 10

This ability levels up with Chakram.

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• Does not consider planted tree sources as trees.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

The mana restore animations works for Timbersaw's created illusions for camouflaging purposes.

However, it is non-functional.

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Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_TREE_CUT_DOWN

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

The Shredder's hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

He may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling, excluding passive innate abilities.

Details

Hidden Innate Abilities

Tap on the innate abilities for more details.

Abilities

Whirling Death

Q

D

Whirling Death

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Ability

No Target

Affects

Enemy Units / Trees

Damage

Spell / Pure

Deals damage and bonus damage per destroyed tree within the radius centered around Timbersaw, while reducing the affected enemy hero's primary attribute for a brief duration.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Radius: 325

Base Damage: 75/120/165/210

Damage Bonus per Tree: 9/16/23/30 ( 84/91/98/105)

Attribute Reduction: 13% ( 16%)

Debuff Duration: 11/12/13/14

For Universal enemy heroes, the ability reduces a lesser portion of all of their attributes.

All Attributes Reduction: 5% ( 8%)

7.5/7/6.5/6

100

In the case that Rizzrack gets surrounded by the vines and plants of his nightmares, he has an immediate chainsaw defense.

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Whirling Death Strength Calculations

626 / 626

Sven has the aforementioned health values with 23, and is affected by Whirling Death.

Primary Attribute Reduction (Actual Value)

= 23 × ( 1 - 13% )
= 20.01

The aforementioned value is Sven's current strength value.

Subsequent Whirling Death debuff application utilizes this actual reduced value.

Health Bar Values (Truncated Value)

485 / 560

Although Sven's has an actual 20.01 strength, the health bar truncates the strength to health value for the health bar.

20 × 22_HP + 120_HP
= 560_HP

Hence, Sven now has the aforementioned max health, then Whirling Death applies the spell damage.

On the HUD

The HUD rounds up the actual strength value, and indicates Sven has 20 instead.

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  • Interrupts Timbersaw's channeling abilities upon cast.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. 
     • Trees within 325 radius centered around Timbersaw are destroyed.
  2. shredder_whirling_death_debuff
     • The attribute reduction component has the following properties:
       • The reduction value on the HUD is truncated, and does not update if the affected enemy heroes gain or lose additional primary attributes after debuff application.
       • Cannot reduce any attributes below 0.
     • Affects the following units:
       • The Double.
       • The Spirit Bear.
       • Illusions
       • Meepo Clones.
     • For strength and universal heroes:
       • Has a different calculations for reduced strength as mentioned in the example above.
     • For intelligence and universal heroes:
       • Does not affect the affected enemy units' current mana percentage.
     • Reapplying the debuff applies an independent debuff instance.
       • TALENT NOTES
         The attribute reduction increase talent does not update already applied debuffs.
  3. The current health and/or current mana loss.
  4. Applies the pure spell damage as one damage instance in the combat log. This is defined as:
     • EXPR
       SpellDmg = 75/120/165/210 + (9/16/23/30 OR 84/91/98/105 × DestroyedTree)
  5. Regains 22 health per strength utilizing setting health.
  6. Regains other corresponding attributes.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

The debuff affected enemy hero's created illusions do not copy the temporary attribute loss.

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Whirling Death: Losing a percentage of primary attribute.

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Whirling Death Strength Regain

Sven is no longer affected by the Whirling Death debuff and regains his strength.

Health Regain Formula

The total health regain value is the sum of two components:

The actual health regain value
= (ΣActual StrLoss × 22)

The truncated health regain value
= ((Current to Max HPRatio) × trunc(StrLoss) × 22)

Formula Properties

The actual health regain value is unaffected by heal sources and health freeze sources.

The truncated health regain value is unaffected by heal sources, but affected by health freeze sources.

Timber Chain

W

T

Timber Chain

▶️ ▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Self / Enemy Units / Trees

Damage

Spell / Pure

Fires a chain that embeds itself in the first tree it hits, pulling Timbersaw towards it.

Deals damage to enemy units within Timbersaw's travel path.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Cast Range:  750/900/1050/1200 ( 1313/1575/1838/2100)

Max Travel Distance: 750/900/1050/1200 ( 1313/1575/1838/2100)

Travel Speed: 2200/2400/2600/2800 ( 3850/4200/4550/4900)

Tree Search Radius: 90

Damage Radius: 225

Damage: 45/100/155/210

The Keen is disarmed while traveling.

Max Self Disarm Duration: 0.34/0.38/0.4/0.43 ( 0.34/0.38/0.4/0.43)

4

60/70/80/90

You never know when you might need to escape from malevolent saplings.

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Shredder

The Timber Chain shatters the tree it latched upon Timbersaw reaching it.

The tree splinters in all directions, damaging and applying a movement speed slow to affected enemy units.

Splinter Radius: 700
Number of Splinters: 10
Splinter Width: 100
Damage: 20/40/60/80
Move Speed Slow: 30%/40%/50%/60%
Slow Duration: 1

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  • Has 2200/2400/2600/2800 ( 3850/4200/4550/4900)- projectile speed.
  • Despite its visual effects, the Timber Chain effective area-of-effect is half of a sphere and not a flat circle.
    • Hence, it may latch onto trees on higher elevation as well.

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  • The chain travels either to the max travel distance, point , or until connecting with a tree.
    • Both leveling up the ability and learning the travel distance and speed talent do not update the current instance.
    • 
      • Grants a non-lingering 100-radius vision around the chain projectile tip while traveling forward marked in red.
    • 
      • Can latch trees 840/990/1140/1290 ( 1403/1665/1928/2190)-distance away with the max travel distance and the tree search radius.
    • 
      • Can affect enemy units at max 975/1125/1275/1425 ( 1538/1800/2063/2325)-distance away with the max travel distance and the damage radius .
      • FACET NOTES
        • Can affect enemy units at max 1450/1600/1750/1900 ( 2013/2275/2538/2800)-distance away with the max travel distance and the splinter radius .

• The ability effects are applied as follows upon latching onto a tree:
  • 
    1. Applies a non-disabling forced movement toward the latched tree over 0.34/0.38/0.4/0.43 seconds.
       • Can pull Timbersaw over impassable terrain and through trees.
         • However, certain trees may prevent Timbersaw from going uphill, pushing him back down and does not destroy the tree.
       • Stops the forced movement component upon being affected by the following sources while traveling:
         • Cyclone sources.
         • Other forced movement sources.
         • When interrupted by the aformentioned disable sources, the chain still moves Timbersaw for a very short distance, and applies its damage radius, but does not destroy the latched tree.
           • Considered bonus tree by Whirling Death.
         • Hence, the latched tree is destroyed once the chain projectile stops pulling.
    2. Disarm
    3. 
       • Grants a non-lingering 400-radius vision centered around the end location of the max travel distance, Circle , or upon latching on a tree.
    4. FACET NOTES
       • Upon Timbersaw reaching the tree's location, the tree shatters into projectiles centered around the tree.
       • 
         • Has 1600- projectile speed.
         • 
           • Each projectile is spaced 36° evenly within radius , with the first line heading east and west outward, and the other 4 lines adapting accordingly.
           • Each line has 100-width.
       • 
         • The tree splinter component's ability effects are visible to enemy units in the Fog of War.
  • 
    1. Affects all enemy units within damage radius , including the following units:
       • Invisible units.
       • Untargetable units.
    2. FACET NOTES
       The projectile stops traveling forward upon projectile impact on the 1st enemy unit.
       • 
         • The pure spell damage.
         • shredder_timberchain_splinter_slow
         • 
           • Does not grant vision upon projectile impact.
       • Affects the following units:
         • Fogged units.
         • Invisible units.
       • Does not affect the following units:
         • Hidden units.
         • Invulnerable units.
         • Untargetable units.

Interactions: Root Sources

Root sources do not interrupt the self- forced movement component.

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modifier_shredder_timber_chain

Timber Chain: Damaging any enemy in your path.

MODIFIER_STATE_DISARMED

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Shredder: Movement speed decreased by x%.

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Reactive Armor

E

E

Reactive Armor

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Passive / No

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical

Grants bonus armor and bonus health regeneration whenever an enemy hero attacks Timbersaw.

Max Stacks: 10/20/30/40 ( 16/26/36/46)

Stack per Incoming Attack: 4 ( 5)

Armor Bonus per Stack: 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7

Health Regen Bonus per Stack: 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7 ( 0.65/0.75/0.85/0.95)

Stack Duration: 10/12/14/16

The armor does not react much from creeps' attacks.

Stack per Creep Attack: 1

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Grants Timbersaw max Reactive Armor stacks, and a replenishing all damage barrier that gets stronger the more the enemy heroes within the radius.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Effect Radius: ( 450)

Base Barrier: ( 150)

Barrier Regen per Second: ( 100)

Barrier Regen Bonus per Enemy: ( 75)

Max Barrier: ( 800)

Duration: ( 8)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
The damage barrier explodes when it expires, damaging nearby enemy units corrspondingly to its current barrier value.

Base Damage: ( 200)

Barrier to Spell Damage Bonus Factor: ( 1)

( 45)

( 200)

The saw-suit is equipped to react to the slightest touch with fortified defenses.

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  • The passive ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. shredder_reactive_armor_stack
       • 
         • Considers attacks from clones, illusions and creep-heroes as heroes, other units' attacks as creeps.
       • 
         • Instant attack sources that cannot proc attack modifiers neither grant nor increase the stack count:
           • Split Shot (without the ability upgrade).
           • Flak Cannon
       • Grants 1 stack per successful incoming attack damage instance, regardless of distance.
       • Each stack has its own buff duration, with each stack buff duration independent of the other.
    2. Applies the incoming attack damage instance (after reductions).

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  Adds an active component to Reactive Armor.
  • 
    • Interrupts Timbersaw's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • The active ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. Set Reactive Armor to max stacks.
    2. shredder_reactive_armor_bomb has two main components:
       • 
         • Grants a 150 all damage barrier upon cast.
         • Checks for enemy heroes within the radius in 0.1-second intervals, within 450 radius, centered around Timbersaw.
           • Considers clones and creep-heroes as heroes, illusions as creeps.
         • The barrier then regenerates its barrier capacity per check correspondingly.
         • EXPR
           • ΣBarrier = 150 + (100 + 75 × f(EnemyHero)) , MAX = 800
           • BarrierRegen / Int = 10 + 7.5 × f(EnemyHero)
         • 
           • A countdown timer appears indicating the remaining Reactive Armor duration prior to its explosion. This is visible to everyone.
           • Recasting the ability refreshes the max stack duration, and resets the countdown timer.
    3. 
       • Applies the current damage barrier value as magical spell damage within the radius.
       • Dispelling the buff removes the damage barrier, and applies all ability effects prematurely.
         • When Timbersaw dies while the countdown is active, Reactive Armor immediately explodes, dealing the spell damage within the radius to enemy heroes centered around Timbersaw based on the current capacity value.
         • This ability component considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
         • The radius damage is defined as:
           • EXPR
             SpellDmg = 200 + ΣCurrentBarrier

Interactions: Self-Illusions

Functional.

However, illusions cannot utilize the the bonus armor component by design.

Interactions: Break Sources

Disables the buff stack gain.

However, existing stacks are not removed.

If the break source is applied by an attack, Reactive Armor precedes the attack prior getting disabled.

modifier_shredder_reactive_armor

Reactive Armor: Gaining bonus armor and HP regen per stack.

MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ATTACK_LANDED
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Hidden Modifier

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_PHYSICAL_ARMOR_BONUS
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_HEALTH_REGEN_CONSTANT

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Reactive Armor Bomb: Absorbing damage. At the end of the duration, will explode and damage nearby enemies.

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• Grants the following amount of ability bonuses at max stacks per level:
  • 4/10/18/28 ( 6.4/13/21.6/32.2) bonus armor.
  • 4/10/18/28 bonus health regeneration
    • 6.5/15/25.5/38
    • 6.4/13/21.6/32.2
    • 10.4/19.5/30.6/43.7

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  • The hero model visually indicates the amount of stacks with a dome that closes over Timbersaw.
    • 1 – 4
    • 5 – 8
    • 9 - 12
    • 13 - 16+
  • The dome reopens upon dropping below the aforementioned stacks.
    • The exhaust on the hero model also starts emitting fire once the dome is fully closed.

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Damage Barrier Type Priority

Has the following priorities among damage barrier sources.

• This ability grants a damage barrier that absorbs damage instances (after reductions).
• Does not proc on-damage effects until the barrier is depleted.
• Stacks additively with the same damage-type barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources.
• With other higher-priority damage-negation sources, the barrier does not function until the other damage-negation sources expire.

Twisted Chakram

D

F

  Twisted Chakram

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Area / Point

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Pure

Launches a secondary saw-blade that deals damage and applies movement speed slow on affected enemy units based on their current health it passes through, then returns to Timbersaw.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0

Cast Range:  1200

Effect Radius: 125

Contact Damage: 100/150/200

Min Move Speed Slow Health Threshold: 5%

Min Move Speed Slow: 5% ( 10%)

Max Move Speed Slow: 100%

Contact Slow Duration: 2

Both the launch and return trajectory travels in a fixed parabola path.

Min Target Distance: 600

Max Travel Distance: 1200

Peak-to-peak Amplitude: 350

20/16/12

100/140/180

This ability levels up with Chakram.

A happy little accident in the lab turned wild new weapon in the forest.

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• This is Timbersaw's       fourth ability with the Twisted Chakram   facet selected.

• Other Chakram notes apply.

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  • The ability's default projectile trajectory is a fixed parabola curve akin to the infinity symbol, with a 350-height peak-to-peak vertex.
    • 
    • Timbersaw's location Point-targeted location as the ability's centerpoint Max Distance
      • PO = OQ = 600
      • PQ = 1200
  • Has the following projectile return properties:
    • Returns to Timbersaw's current coordinates after the ability cast.
    • Hence, the greater the distance between Timbersaw and the projectile, the greater the projectile's return speed.

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  • The movement speed slow debuff of the following abilities are independent of each other, but do not stack with multiple of themselves:
    • Chakram
    • Twisted Chakram

Interactions: Ability Draft

Unavailable.

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Hidden Modifier

modifier_shredder_chakram_debuff_2 (passing)

Chakram: Taking damage over time and being slowed by the Chakram.

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• Directly use Chakram's ability values, it does nothing if Chakram is not learned upon cast.

• 
  • Has 900- projectile speed.
  • 
    • The projectile immediately disappears and does not return upon Timbersaw's death.

Flamethrower

F

R

Flamethrower

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Enemy Units / Trees

Damage

Spell / Magical

Releases a destructive flame in the direction Timbersaw is facing.

Deals damage per second, applies a movement speed slow and destroys trees within an area.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

First Radius: 0

Flame Length: 400

End Radius: 275

Damage per Second: 70

Move Speed Slow: 30%

Debuff Duration: 2

Flamethrower Duration: 8

Trees are only destroyed after being set ablaze after a certain duration.

Tree Destruction Delay: 5

Affects buildings, albeit being less effective.

Damage Factor: 0.5

20

100

A single saw can only cut so much. A single spark can burn forever.

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• Acquiring Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the       fifth ability slot.

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  • 
    • Interrupts Timbersaw's channeling abilities upon cast.
    • 
      • Grants a non-lingering 175-radius vision, Circle , 400-distance in front of Timbersaw's facing angle for the entire duration.
  • 
    • Affects enemy units up to 675 range away with the flame length and end radius starting from Timbersaw's current position, point .
    • The total ability area-of-effect is cone-shaped.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. shredder_flamethrower_damage
     • Applies the following ability effects immediately to affected enemy units within the area-of-effect upon debuff application:
       • The movement speed slow in 0.1-second intervals.
       • Deals 35 ( 17.5) magical spell damage in 0.5-second intervals:
     • Reapplying the debuff refreshes its duration.
  2. 
     • Applies shredder_flamethrower_treefire_thinker to trees within the area-of-effect, setting them ablaze visible to everyone.
     • 5 seconds after buff application, the affected trees are destroyed.
• shredder_flamethrower_damage
  • One debuff instance deals 175 ( 87.5) min damage (before reductions), over 5 damage instances.

Interactions: Ability Draft

Requires drafting Chakram to unlock this ability.

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Flamethrower: Setting things ablaze.

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On hidden entity

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On hidden entity

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Flamethrower: Movement speed reduced by x% and ticking for x damage per second.

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Chakram

R

C

Chakram

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Pure

Launches a saw-blade that deals damage, applies a movement speed slow, and cuts down trees in its path when launched and retracted.

Cast Animation: 0.15 + 0

Cast Range:  1200

Effect Radius: 200

Max Distance: 2000

Contact Damage: 100/150/200

Contact Slow Duration: 0.5

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

The saw-blade spins in place, deals damage over time, and applies a movement speed slow to enemy units based on their current health within its proximity once it reaches its area-targeted location.

Damage per Second: 50/75/100

Min Move Speed Slow Health Threshold: 5%

Min Move Speed Slow: 5% ( 10%)

Max Move Speed Slow: 100%

Self-disarms until the Chakram starts returning.

Max Disarm Duration:

8

100/140/180

The current mana loss per second is affected by mana loss manipulation sources.

14/22/30 s^-1

The ultimate in anti-flora weaponry.

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• The ability has the following properties:
  • 
    • Does not grant vision while traveling to the area-targeted location.
    • Trees are destroyed within the projectile's effect radius as it launches toward and when it returns to Timbersaw.
    • While coming in contact with enemy units, the ability effects are applied by the projectile as follows:
      1. The contact pure spell damage.
      2. The movement speed slow debuff.
  • Grants 300-radius flying vision with a 0.5-second linger duration at the area-targeted location.
  • Applies the following ability effects in 0.5-second intervals, starting 0.5 seconds after the projectile reaching the area-targeted location:
    • 
      • Creates a negative aura at the area-targeted location that deals 25/37.5/50 pure spell damage.
      • The movement speed slow applied has the following properties:
        • The slow value corresponds to the affected enemy's current to max health ratio per interval within the effect radius.
        • Increases linearly with the first 5% ( 10%) movement speed slow applied at < 95% of the affected enemy's max health.
        • The lower the affected enemy's max health, the greater the movement speed slow, up to 100% movement speed slow when the affected enemy's max health is 5% ( 50%) max health.
    • 
      • Loses 7/11/15 current mana per interval.
      • Applies a disarm until the projectile returns to Timbersaw.

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  • Returns in the following conditions:
    • Upon the Return Chakram sub-ability cast.
    • When the projectile exceeds the max distance.
      • The effective area for the max distance is a half-sphere and not a flat circle. Hence, the link can be broken with upward movement sources as well.
  • The projectile returning has the following properties:
    • 
      • Applies all projectile contact ability effects once again while returning.
      • Each Chakram cast can affect the same enemy units twice, once per launching to the area-targeted location, once per returning.

• FACET NOTES
  The movement speed slow debuff of the following abilities are independent of each other, but do not stack with multiple of themselves:
  • Chakram
  • Twisted Chakram

modifier_shredder_chakram_disarm

Chakram Disarm: You cannot attack while Chakram is in the air.

MODIFIER_STATE_DISARMED
MODIFIER_PROPERTY_TRANSLATE_ACTIVITY_MODIFIERS

modifier_projectile_vision

On hidden entity

modifier_shredder_chakram_thinker

On hidden entity

modifier_shredder_chakram_debuff (passing)

Chakram: Taking damage over time and being slowed by the Chakram.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE

modifier_shredder_chakram_debuff (stationary)

Chakram: Taking damage over time and being slowed by the Chakram.

MODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE

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  • Has 900- projectile speed.
  • 
    • The projectile immediately disappears and does not return upon Timbersaw's death.

Return Chakram

R

C

Return Chakram

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Returns the Chakram to Timbersaw.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

0

Sub-ability of Chakram.

Details

• Replaces Chakram until the projectile fully returns to Timbersaw.
  • Timbersaw is unable to level Chakram up while this sub-ability is active.

• Does not interrupt Timbersaw's channeling abilities upon cast.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Timbersaw/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
January 12, 2026 - 18:40 CET	Qualifier		WEU OQ1 ESL One Birmingham			0 : 1			+ Add details
January 12, 2026 - 18:20 EET	Qualifier		EEU OQ1 ESL One Birmingham			0 : 1			+ Add details
January 12, 2026 - 17:00 EET	Qualifier		EEU OQ1 ESL One Birmingham			0 : 1			+ Add details
January 12, 2026 - 16:00 CET	Qualifier		WEU OQ1 ESL One Birmingham			1 : 0			+ Add details
January 12, 2026 - 16:00 CET	Qualifier		WEU OQ1 ESL One Birmingham			0 : 1			+ Add details

The International

• Timbersaw has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
  • 2019

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.40b
(2025-12-23)

• Whirling Death
  • Reduced base damage from 85/130/175/220 to 75/120/165/210.
  • Reduced debuff duration from 12/13/14/15 to 11/12/13/14.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Reactive Armor effect radius from 600 to 450.

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• Reduced Whirling Death damage bonus per tree from 11/18/25/32 to 9/16/23/30.
• Reduced Reactive Armor max stacks from 12/22/32/42 to 10/20/30/40.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Reactive Armor base barrier from 200 to 150.

7.39e
(2025-10-02)

• Increased Reactive Armor stack gain per hero attack from 3 to 4.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Timbersaw's Relics	Voice Lines
Trees Exterminated Timber Chain & Whirling Death Combos Timber Chain Kills Chakram Damage Teleports Leading To Kills Pure Damage Shiva's Guard Slow Duration Blade Mail Damage Slows Leading To Kills Pipe of Insight Magic Damage Blocked Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ He he he he he! ▶️ I almost trust you.
	Silver	▶️ You mad? Cuz I am! Hahah! ▶️ Oh yeah ha ha.
	Gold	▶️ Oh! Oh! Oh-oh-you see this? You see? Oh this is what I've always wanted! Oh I'm so happy! ▶️ Oh God I think I'm going to be sick.
	Platinum	▶️ Saw that coming. Ha! Get it?
	Master	▶️ Run run run runrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrun!
	Grandmaster	▶️ De-li-cious.

Trivia

• Upon killing Treant Protector ▶️ "If you fall in the woods, and I laugh, will anyone hear me?" is a reference to the popular philosophical question "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?".

• ▶️ "I'm not a lumberjack, and no, I'm not okay. I thank you." is a reference to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in which they sing a song called "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay".

• ▶️ "Trees? Why did it have to be trees?" is a reference to the ""Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark"" line "Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?"

• Chakram and Twisted Chakram colors may be a reference to the colors of portals of the games "Portal" and "Portal 2", another series from "Valve".

• Chakram is most likely a reference to the mythological disc-weapon of the "Hindu deity Viṣṇu". The weapon's full name is "Sudarśana Cakra" (the transliterated "c" makes a "ch" sound) and it is considered one of the most powerful weapons in Hindu mythology.

• While Storing Rune ▶️ "This is my scheming face." may be a reference to the character Myron Reducto from "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law".

• Timbersaw is probably modeled after a type of goblin named "kallikantzaroi" who, according to folklore, stay underground sawing the world tree, so that it will collapse, along with the Earth. However, when they are about to saw the final part, Christmas dawns and they are able to come to the surface. They forget the tree and come to bring trouble to mortals. This very well explains Timbersaw's hatred towards trees.

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • In DotA, Timbersaw uses the model of the Goblin Shredders, a big non-combat unit that can be hired from the Goblin Laboratories.
    • The Goblin Shredders are known for their insanely fast wood-gathering skills, which was the ispiration for Timbersaw being themed around cutting trees.
    • In DotA, Timbersaw's title was Goblin Shredder as well. The name was likely changed in Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with "Blizzard Entertainment", since Goblin Shredders are a significant part of the Goblins in the Warcraft universe.
    • In Dota 2, Timbersaw is part of the Keen folk, along with other heroes that used to be Goblin and Dwarves in DotA.
    • Unlike in Dota 2, Goblin Shredder in DotA cut trees for profit, and was not afraid of them.
  • Timbersaw has a 1/6 chance to spawn in with the name "Oroku Saki", a reference to the villain in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles known as Shredder, whose real name is Oroku Saki.

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