Treant Protector

"Treant" redirects here. For the summon, see Nature's Prophet.

Treant Protector

The Radiant

25 + 3.3 15 + 2 17 + 1.8

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 625 1594 2506 Mana 221 598 1040 Damage 81-89 132-140 180-188 Armor 1.1 5.58 10.62 Attacks / Second 0.6 0.77 0.96

Movement Speed 300 Turn Rate 0.5 Sight Range 1800/1200 Attack Range Melee Missile Speed Instant Attack Duration 0.6+0.4 Cast Duration 0.5+0.51 Base Attack Time 1.9

Rooftrellen the Treant Protector is a melee strength hero who excels in supporting and strengthening his allies with his beneficial set of spells using the power of nature. He is a natural tank, offensively and defensively, having both the highest natural attack damage, and the second highest overall Strength in the game. Manipulating the power of the plants at his will, he can grant invisibility and stealth to himself and his allies with Nature's Guise and replenish their health with Leech Seed which also slows and damages his prey. His Living Armor blesses his allies with natural protection, giving them bonus health regeneration and damage block. His scariest feature is Overgrowth; though it doesn't deal damage, Rooftrellen summons vines, branches and roots to entangle his enemies, immobilizing them and leaving them unable to attack for a long time. With Treant Protector at your side, you gain powerful support that will greatly assist your team for victory.

Bio

Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector Play "I protect that which cannot protect itself. But what protects me?" Role: Durable / Initiator / Lane Support / Disabler Lore: Far to the west, in the mountains beyond the Vale of Augury, lie the remains of an ancient power, a fount of eldritch energy nestled deep in the high woods. It is said that the things that grow here, grow strangely. To the forces of nature this is a sacred place, made to stay hidden and unknown. Many are the traps and dangers of this land--all-consuming grasses and crossbred fauna and poisonous flowers--but none are so fierce as the mighty Treant Protectors. These ageless, titanic beings, charged with keeping the peace in this dangerous land, ensure that none within encroach without reason, and none without poach their secrets. For time untold they tended to their holy ground, uninterrupted, only dimly aware of the changing world beyond. Yet inevitably the wider world grew aware of this untamed land, and with each passing winter the outsiders grew bolder. Soon they arrived with tools to cut and with flames to burn, and often the Treants would ponder: who are these fragile, industrious creatures? What now had become of the wild, green world? There came and went an age of questions and of doubts, a thousand summers of long traditions set to scrutiny, while more and more the outsiders died and fed their earth. When all that bloomed had finally finished their stay, curiosity had overcome caution. It was decided: a lone Protector would be sent into the wider world, and instructed to wander until the glaciers arose once more, to observe the changing land and its creatures, and to discover what unknown dangers could threaten their sacred ground. Voice: Fred Tatasciore (Responses)

Abilities

Nature's Guise Q T Ability Affects Target Unit Allies Causes the targeted unit to blend in with the forest, becoming invisible to enemies and gaining a movement speed bonus when near a tree. If the unit moves away from a tree or the spell is cast on a unit with no nearby trees, Nature's Guise is lost. Treant Protector can cast spells and remain invisible under Nature's Guise. Range: 300 Duration: 15/30/45/60 Fade Time: 2 Tree Radius: 375 Bonus Movement Speed: 10% 10/8/6/4 90/80/70/60 The Protectors don't often come into vision; their natural state being nestled within their leafy brethren.

Notes: If the unit has a distance of more than 375 to the closest tree during 1 second, the invisibility will be removed. Can be used on units even if they aren't close to a tree, but the invisibility will be removed almost instantly. Treant Protector can cast spells and use items without losing invisibility from Nature's Guise.

Leech Seed W E Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Magical Treant plants a life-sapping seed in an enemy unit, draining its health, while simultaneously slowing it. The seed heals friendly units around it equal to the amount drained. Pulses 4 times. Range: 350 Radius: 500 Duration: 3 Slow: 24% Lifesteal per Pulse: 30/45/60/75 16/14/12/10 140 Rooftrellen nurtures the beings under his stewardship, sustained by the lifeforce of trespassers into his sacred ground.

Notes: Deal a total of 120/180/240/300 damage.

Living Armor E V Ability Affects Target Unit Allies Infuses the target hero or structure with a protective coating which grants bonus regeneration. Also blocks some damage from all sources. Dispels when a number of damage instances are taken. Range: Global Damage Instances: 7 Block: 20/40/60/80 Regeneration: 4/7/10/13 Duration: 15 15 25 The roots and tendrils of the Treant Protectors are far-reaching, stimulating the growth and rejuvenation of all of nature.

Notes: The total amount of health gained while under the entire duration of Living Armor is 60/105/150/195

Overgrowth R R Ability Affects No Target Enemies Summons an overgrowth of vines and branches around Treant that prevent afflicted enemies from moving, blinking, going invisible, or attacking. Radius: 625 Duration: 3/3.75/4.5 70 150/175/200 Rooftrellen calls the ancestral spirit of nature, releasing its power through all of his kin.

Notes: Overgrowth entangles targets. (This means it affects magic immune targets but can be broken by magic immunity granted after the effect has been applied and interrupts channeled spells.) Overgrowth does not affect Phantom Strike. Overgrowth also disables metamorphosising. Unique Attack Modifier abilities can still be manually cast to auto-attack while Overgrowth is active. Units that turn invisible while Overgrowth is active are still revealed for Overgrowth's duration.

Recommended items

Explanation: Starting: Treant Protector often levels Leech Seed early for lane harassment; Clarities mitigate its mana cost. Stout Shield will partially abate any harassment he receives. Early game: Boots of Speed are essential, as always. Magic Stick helps with mana regeneration and Bracer provides cheap attribute bonuses. A Soul Ring is a good early pick-up for Rooftrellen, as it allows him to spam his Leech Seed as an effective harassment tool while also healing off the damage from the Soul Ring. It also helps solve his mana problems early to mid game. Core: Boots of Speed upgrade to Arcane Boots, to help with Treant's own mana pool as well as helping allies in his lane, since he is usually played as a lane support. Magic Stick upgrades to Magic Wand, naturally. Bracer upgrades to Drum of Endurance, which provides more cheap attribute bonuses as well as stacking with Nature's Guise to give him and his allies excellent movement speed. Situational: Treant Protector is usually played as a durable teamfight initiator who relies on his powerful disabling ultimate. To be most effective, he needs to live through most of the fight, extending bonus armor to his allies with Living Armor, healing them with Leach Seed, and helping them escape with Nature's Guise. He probably won't receive much farm, but if he does there are several ways he can be useful to the team. Blink Dagger allows him flexibility in positioning his ultimate; Refresher Orb allows him to cast it twice—as long as he has a sufficient mana pool. Shiva's Guard and Assault Cuirass provide protection against physical damage as well as auras that help in a team fight. Pipe of Insight provides him and his allies with protection against magical damage. Heart of Tarrasque gives him excellent durability against all sources of damage, but is not as useful to his allies. Heaven's Halberd provides the single-target disable he lacks, while providing both strength and evasion to increase his durability. Radiance provides excellent mid-game team fight damage if he can live through the fight. Necronomicon improves almost every aspect of Treant Protector: more movement speed for his allies, more damage and mana-burning during Overgrowth, more strength for his damage and durability, and more intelligence for his mana pool. The summons also gives the power to destroy an enemy's mana, and provides True Sight at level 3. Necronomicon's summons benefit from some auras Treant might carry, as well as Pipe's Barrier.

Tips

• Using Nature's Guise on allies during a gank gives them the element of surprise, and owing to the extremely variable nature of this mechanic the enemy team will struggle to use Sentry Wards to prevent this.
• Your autoattack animation and rate are slow, but pack a huge punch. With a little practice, you can put that power to use and greatly assist your lane partner by denying units.
• Living Armor can heal buildings. If you have time, and no one else requires it, cast Living Armor on damaged towers. Granted, the ratio of health gained to total health of buildings may be small, but it's duration is as long as it's cooldown, so you can keep it constantly regenerating health, provided you have enough mana.
• Although he is quite tanky, his offensive output is very minimal and once he has initiated with Overgrowth he should conceal himself, firing Leech Seeds from nearby trees (keep in mind at all times that Roof can use abilities without breaking his invisibility).
• In a gank, use Nature's Guise to sneak around behind the enemies, as if Leech Seed is used on an enemy running towards you instead of away from you escape will be almost impossible; to say nothing of Overgrowth.
• In most circumstances Rooftrellen is most wisely built to maximise his abilities' usage, his lack of mobility and damaging spells mean he is best suited to securing kills for his allies via his slowing and disabling abilities.
• A Soul Ring is a good early pick-up for Rooftrellen, as it allows him to spam his Leech Seed as an effective harassment tool while also healing off the damage from the Soul Ring. It also helps solve his mana problems early to mid game.
• You can cast spells when you're invisible with Nature's Guise. If you are equipped with items with powerful active abilities, like Necronomicon, Shiva's Guard, and Scythe of Vyse, you can use this to surprise and play tricks on your opponents, as long as you stay near the trees
• Your high Strength and attack damage is great. You can purchase attack boosting items like Assault Cuirass, Battle Fury, Armlet of Mordiggian, Satanic, Mjollnir, Abyssal Blade or Mask of Madness to improve your damage output, if your team is deprived of powerful attackers.
• Altough he's not the best, Treant can be a good jungler because of his high base attack damage and Living Armor damage block, Leech Seed in case of his hp dropping low and Nature's Guise to initiate ganks. It will give the team another solo lane, more gold for him than playing in a dual lane and the ability to keep healing towers with the global living armor when don't needed while in the jungle.

Trivia

• Rooftrellen has "Riki was 'ere" carved into his side (near the right handed runes on his belt).
• Treant Protector's appearance, name, and voice are based heavily on Treebeard, the eldest of the Ent race, who appears in the Lord of the Rings books and movies.
• Treant Protector is known to have the most skill revisions in the game.
• Treant Protector has the highest base attack damage in the game at 85; however, he also has the lowest Base Attack Time in the game at 1.9.

Update history

October 29, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Treant Protector 's strength growth.

June 11, 2012 Patch

• Fixed the following spells being castable on magic immune allies: Nightmare, Frost Armor, Nature's Guise, Holy Persuasion, Decrepify, Astral Imprisonment, Shadow Word and X Marks The Spot.

May 24, 2012 Patch

• Enabled Treant Protector in Captain's Mode.

May 17, 2012 Patch

• Added Treant Protector!

Balance changelog

6.77c

• Living Armor damage reduction is now done for all instances of damage that reduce its charges.

6.77

• Damage increased by 10
• Leech Seed cooldown decreased from 18/16/14/12 to 16/14/12/10
• Overgrowth cooldown decreased from 80 to 70
• Living Armor
  • damage instances increased from 6 to 7
  • can be cast through the minimap (only considers heroes and towers/rax in this mode)

6.76c

• Living Armor
  • Cooldown and duration decreased from 20 to 15.
  • Manacost decreased from 30/35/40/45 to 25.

6.76

• Strength growth increased from 2.8 to 3.3.
• Living Armor HP regen increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13.

6.75

• Damage increased by 14.
• Base attack time increased from 1.7 to 1.9.
• Living Armor aura replaced with a new active ability:

Target an allied unit or structure. Grants bonus regeneration and physical damage block. Dispels when more than 6 damage instances are taken.

HP Regeneration: 4/6/8/10

Physical Damage Block: 20/40/60/80 (hero only)

Threshold: 6 damage instances

Duration: 20

Cooldown: 20

Manacost: 30/35/40/45

Cast Range: Global

• Overgrowth
  • No longer does damage.
  • Duration increased from 3 to 3/3.75/4.5.
  • Cooldown decreased from 115/105/95 to 80.

6.73

• Leech Seed manacost increased from 110/120/130/140 to 140.
• Overgrowth damage per second decreased from 70/100/130 to 50/75/100.

6.72d

• Strength decreased from 27 + 3.4 to 25 + 2.8
• Overgrowth cooldown increased from 100/95/90 to 115/105/95.

6.72c

• Added a 2 second fade time to Nature's Guise.
• Living Armor regeneration reduced from 2/3/4/5 to 1/2/3/4.
• Overgrowth AoE reduced from 725 to 625.

6.72b

• Base armor reduced by 1.
• Leech Seed cooldown rescaled from 12 to 18/16/14/12.
• Living Armor now regenerates buildings only in a 900 aoe.

6.72

• Armor reduced by 1.
• Nature's Guise
  • Now gives the unit a 10% movement speed bonus.
  • Keeps the target invisible for up to 1 second after leaving the proximity of a tree, except during the initial cast.
  • Cooldown increased from 3 seconds to 10/8/6/4 seconds.
• Forest Sentinel replaced with Leech Seed:

Rooftrellen plants a life-sapping seed in his enemy, causing it to be slowed by 24% and have its life force drained over the next 3 seconds. Nearby allied units are healed by the same amount.

Slow: 24%

Damage: 30/45/60/75 per pulse (Magical damage type)

Allied Heal: 30/45/60/75 per pulse

Pulses: 4

AoE: 500

Manacost: 110/120/130/140

Cast Range: 350

Cooldown: 12

• Living Armor reworked:

Rooftrellen's presence infuses allied heroes and structures with a protective healing aura, increasing armor and regeneration. During the daytime, his power of nature is increased, causing the aura to extend globally.

AoE: 900 (Global during the day)

HP Regeneration: 2/3/4/5

Armor: 1/2/3/4

• Overgrowth
  • Duration reduced from 3/4/5 to 3.
  • Cooldown reduced from 160 to 100/95/90.
  • Damage per second rebalanced from 85 to 70/100/130.

6.70

• Living Armor regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5.

Replaced abilities

Living Armor (Old, pre-6.75) E V Ability Affects Aura Allies Infuses allied heroes and structures with a protective healing aura, increasing armor and regeneration. During the day, the aura that affects heroes extends globally, and structures within a shortened radius. At night, the effect on heroes is applied only at the shortened radius. Radius for Buildings: 900 Radius for Heroes(Day/Night): Global/900 Bonus Armor: 1/2/3/4 Bonus Health Regeneration: 1/2/3/4 The roots and tendrils of the Treant Protectors are far-reaching, stimulating the growth and rejuvenation of all of nature.

Living Armor (Old, pre-6.72) E V Ability Affects Target Unit Allies Magically creates an armor of vines around a friendly unit, protecting it from harm and healing wounds. Range: 500 Duration: 40 Bonus Armor: 3/6/9/12 Bonus Health Regeneration: 2/3/4/5 7 30/35/40/40

Notes: The total amount of health gained while under the entire duration of Living Armor is 80/120/160/200 Can target structures.

Sentinel W Ability Target point Summons a Sentinel unit from the forests to the targeted point. The Sentinel is invisible to enemy units. Sentinels have a small vision radius and can be instructed to defend the nearby area. When they are in Defense mode, their vision and invisibility cloak are removed and they automatically attack the nearest enemy unit that comes into their range. Once a Sentinel attacks at an enemy unit, it returns to Watcher mode. Cast Range: 900 Duration: 8 minutes Vision Range: 500 Sentinel HP: 300 Sentinel Bounty: 40 Defense Damage: 125/150/175/200 Defense Stun Duration: 1.5/1.75/2/2.25 85/70/55/40 50

Notes: This ability dates from 6.67 Sentinels can be killed by either attacks or spells. They can get hurt by AoE spells while they are invisible. The Sentinel is visible for a brief period as it is getting summoned. You can see your Sentinels on the minimap. Nature's Guise works with your Sentinels.

Transform Sentinel D Ability Target point Toggles a target Sentinel between Watcher and Defense modes. Cast Range: Global 10 20

Notes: Learnt with Sentinel This ability is on your hero. As such, you can only toggle/activate Sentinels once every 10 seconds. You can target a specific Sentinel or click at any point and it will find the closest one.

Eyes in the Forest W E Ability Target point Creates an enchanted tree at a target point, allowing Rooftrellen to see the tree's surrounding area at all times. Vision improves slightly per level. Cast Range: 125 300/225/150/75 100/75/50/25

Notes: This ability dates from 6.60 Summoned trees have True Sight and can see invisible units. The enchanted tree counts as a tree for Nature's Guise.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

See also

• Treant Protector responses