Timbersaw

Timbersaw 22 + 2.1 16 + 1.3 21 + 2.4
	Grants the following bonuses per point of attribute:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration; +1 main attack damage
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration; +0.1% base magic resistance ;
L0	Base Hero Values
L1	⤷ + Base Attributes
L15	⤷ + Attribute Gain
L25	⤷ + 6 levels of Attribute Bonus
L30	⤷ + 7 levels of Attribute Bonus
	All values shown are without talent bonuses.
Attack Animation	0.36 + 0.64
Gib Type	Default
Internal	Not Provided

Rizzrack the Timbersaw is a melee Strength hero that excels in dealing damage and causing destruction in large areas. His effectiveness is improved by having trees around him, as they can amplify the damage of his spells and allow him to escape easily. He is not naturally very durable, but can be surprisingly resilient when he is attacked due to Reactive Armor, and when surrounded by favorable terrain he can be extremely hard to pin down and kill. He can cause chaos in the early game because he has a low cost ultimate that can wreak havoc. In addition to this, most of his spells deal pure damage, unreduced by magic resistance or armor. With proper positioning and timing, he can cause massive damage to multiple enemies while also decreasing their movement speed and attributes.

Bio

Rizzrack, the Timbersaw

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

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 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:

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Gameplay

Abilities

Whirling Death

▶️QD

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

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 Pure damage if a tree is cut down in the process.

Cast Animation: +

Radius: 300

Damage: 100/150/200/250

Main Attribute Reduction: 15%

Attribute Reduction Duration: 7

8

70/80/90/100

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

Interrupts Timbersaw's channeling spells upon cast.

Stats reduction is applied before damage.

Stats reduction debuff stacks with itself.

Also reduces stats on hit illusions.

Timber Chain

▶️WT

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Trees

Damage
Pure

Timbersaw fires a chain that embeds itself in the first tree it hits, pulling him towards it. Any enemy in the path takes damage.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 800/1000/1200/1400

Max Travel Distance: 800/1000/1200/1400

Tree Search Radius: 50

Damage Radius: 225

Damage: 100/140/180/220

4

60/70/80/90

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

The chain travels at a speed of 1600/2000/2400/2800 and always travels either the full distance, or until connecting with a tree.

Can connect to trees up to 850/1050/1250/1450 range away (800/1000/1200/1400 max travel distance + 50 tree search radius)

The hooked tree is destroyed once the chain stops pulling.

Can be used to pull Timbersaw across impassable terrain.

Timbersaw will stop being pulled if he is disabled at any point during Timber Chain.

If Timbersaw is disabled before the chain starts pulling, the chain will pull him for a very short distance, enough to still cause damage around him to nearby units.

Timbersaw can cast spells and items during the pull, but cannot attack.

The chain briefly provides 100 radius ground vision around itself while traveling, and 400 radius Ground vision once reaching max distance or connecting with a tree.

When Timbersaw get's cycloned before the hook starts pulling him, the cyclone gets canceled once the hook starts pulling. However, if he gets cycloned during the pull, the hook gets canceled instead.

Reactive Armor

EE

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Self

Each time Timbersaw is attacked, he gains increased health regen and armor.

Max Stacks: 5/10/15/20

Armor Bonus per Stack: 1

Health Regen Bonus per Stack: 1

Stack Duration: 16

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

Triggers on attacks from any unit, including allies trying to deny you.

Attacks from Exorcism, Moment of Courage, Sleight of Fist and The Swarm do not give a stack.

Each successful attack on Timbersaw grants him 1 stack. The stack is added right before the attack's damage is applied.

Each stack duration has its own duration and is independant from other stacks.

Amount of stacks are shown on the status buff icon.

Restores health in form of health regeneration, so it regenerates 0.1 health in 0.1 second intervals per stack.

The amount of stacks are also visually indicated by a dome which closes over on Timbersaw. Every 4 stacks cause 1 fragment of the dome to appear.
- 1-4 stacks 1 fragment, 5-8 stacks 2 fragments, 9-13 stacks 3 fragments, 14-16 stacks the dome is fully closed and at 17-20 stacks fire comes out of the suit's chimney.

Chakram

RC

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Pure

Fires your 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 you lose the ability to attack.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1200

Effect Radius: 200

Pass Damage: 100/140/180

Damage per Second: 50/75/100

Move Speed Slow: 5%

Mana cost per Second: 20/25/30

8

100/150/200

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Grants a second Chakram.

The ultimate in anti-flora weaponry.

The Chakram travels at a speed of 900.

The Chakram automatically returns to Timbersaw if it gets more than 2000 range away.

The slow is provided by an aura. Its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

The first 5% movement speed slow are applied at 100%-96% hp.

Starts draining mana once the Chakram stops moving and stops draining as soon as it starts flying back.

Drains 10/12.5/15 mana in 0.5 second intervals, starting 0.5 seconds after it reaches the target area.

Deals 25/37.5/50 damage (before reductions) in 0.5 second intervals, starting 0.5 seconds after it reaches the target area.

Disarms Timbersaw as soon as the Chakram is launched. He regains his ability to attack once the Chakram returns.

Pass damage may only damage the same unit once when flying towards the targeted point, and once again when returning to Timbersaw.

Timbersaw cannot drop the Aghanim's Scepter he purchased.

Return Chakram

▶️RC

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Ability
N/A

Returns the Chakram to Timbersaw.

Cast Animation: +

This ability replaces Chakram until the orange chakram fully returned to Timbersaw.

Does not interrupt Timbersaw's channeling spells upon cast.

Chakram (Aghanim's Scepter)

DF

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Ability
N/A

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Pure

Fires your main saw blade at the target location where it will spin at place, dealing damage in an area around it. Additionally, for each 5% of health missing, enemies caught in the saw blade will move more slowly. The blade deals damage and cuts down trees in its path when fired and retracted. While active the ability costs mana, and you lose the ability to attack.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 1200

Effect Radius: 200

Pass Damage: 100/140/180

Damage per Second: 50/75/100

Move Speed Slow: 5%

Mana cost per Second: 20/25/30

8

100/150/200

Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut!

Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

If Aghanim's Scepter is acquired before Chakram was learned, this Chakram will be at level 1.

Level of this Chakram scales with the level of main Chakram.

This Chakram is fully equivalent to the main Chakram, including disarming Timbersaw. Two Chakrams acts independently.

Return Chakram (Aghanim's Scepter)

▶️DF

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Ability
N/A

Returns the Chakram to Timbersaw.

Cast Animation: +

This ability replaces File:Chakram 2 icon.png Chakram until the blue chakram fully returned to Timbersaw.

Does not interrupt Timbersaw's channeling spells upon cast.

Recommended items

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Equipment

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Tips

Arcane Boots can be disassembled into Boots of Speed and an Energy Booster. This booster can then be used to build a Bloodstone.
- You may want to build the Boots of Speed into Boots of Travel once you've done this.
- It's not always the best idea to disassemble the Arcane Boots. If any of the heroes on your team have mana problems, but have to build other items to be successful, it can sometimes be a good idea to keep the Arcane Boots just to support your allies.
- Having the Bloodstone early is almost always more critical than having the Arcane Boots. If your team has mana problems, you can always buy another Energy Booster to build new Arcane Boots.
If you are ready to gank in a side lane and are behind trees, use your Chakram to destroy the trees in front of you, then use your Timber Chain on the other side of the lane; after this, a well placed Whirling Death can almost ensure a kill in many situations.
One of Timbersaw's weaknesses is his lack of disabling spells; he suffers against heroes who excel at channeling spells to harm their opponents. In this case, equip him with an item that has a quick disable, like Eul's Scepter of Divinity.
When a hero is escaping through only one potential exit, use Chakram to block that path; if successful, the enemy hero will either be forced to run through the blade, losing health immensely and get slowed, or the enemy has to take another route. To further slow the hero down, cast Whirling Death while the hero is in the middle of the Chakram.
The Chakram travels somewhat slow, so make sure to predict your target's path and cast it ahead of time.
Chakram synergizes well with multi-target abilities that disable free movement, such as Black Hole, Overgrowth, or even Kinetic Field.
Aside for tanking damage in team fights, Reactive Armor can also be used as a quick health regeneration boost. You can either visit the small creep camps since they do little damage and come in groups, or tank lane creeps when no enemy hero is present. As long as there are multiple targets attacking you in quick succession, the spell will stack faster, and you will be able to heal faster. Make sure you're receiving damage that is lesser than what you are able to regenerate.
Aside from escape, Timbersaw's skill set also makes for good chasing. Cut down trees that get in your way to widen your path and even prevent juking.
The trees summoned by Nature's Prophet through Sprout are still standard trees. As an enemy, you can easily cut them down to escape, or free allies who are trapped within it. As an ally, this can be used to your advantage when escaping (as Nature's Prophet can summon trees in a convenient location for you to use Timber Chain) or when fighting (Nature's Prophet can summon trees closer to you when no other tree is present, so that you can deal pure damage when casting Whirling Death).
Blink Dagger can give Rizzrack incredible engagement ability or even more escape potential. With this setup, he can blink on top of an enemy out of position, use Whirling Death, drop his Chakram, and Timber Chain to safety. It also allows him to easily position himself to hit multiple enemies with his Whirling Death and Chakram. This item is only really recommended if your team lacks a better initiator, or you are very far ahead.
Orchid Malevolence can be a good pickup if you are having issues with an enemy disabling, silencing, or blinking away from you. On top of the silence the item brings, it gives Timbersaw even more mana regen and bigger mana pool, as well as extra damage output with the burst at the end of the silence. In combination with a Blink Dagger, Timbersaw becomes incredibly fearsome and can punish anyone out of position with ease.
Chakram works very well against heroes with long channeling abilities,such as Shadow Shaman or Warlock. By casting Chakram while they are channeling, they either have to move and cancel their ´channeling, or stay and take damage.
Rod of Atos synergizes very well with Timbersaw, since the increased intelligence will allow him to cast more spells and the health will increase his survivability. The slow from Atos will assist in landing Timbersaw's spells, and the combined with Chakram's slow, it almost always reduces an enemy's movement speed to minimum.
Cloak can be an underrated early game item on Timbersaw, since his biggest weakness before he gets big items are disables and magical damage. With a casual Cloak and Reactive Armor, Timbersaw is very difficult to kill in the early and mid game.

Trivia

In DotA, Rizzrack's hero title was Goblin Shredder. Unlike his Dota 2 counterpart, he cut trees for profit and was not afraid of them.
His response 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?".
His response ▶️ "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".
His response ▶️ "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?" ^[1]
Timbersaw's first and secondary Chakram colors may be a reference to the colors of portals of the games Portal and Portal 2, another series from Valve.
Timbersaw's ultimate, 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.
Timbersaw's line when bottling a rune, ▶️ "This is my scheming face." may be a reference to the character Myron Reducto from "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law".