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Treant Protector Tank/Semi-carry

September 11, 2012 by Walrus tickle dance pad
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Build 1

Build 1: Truck Build

DotA2 Hero: Treant Protector

Offense

Damage 81-89

Defense

Armor 1.1

Other

Movement Speed 300

Attributes

Strength 107.5
Agility 65
Intelligence 62

Basic Stats

Health 2278
Mana 1040

Purchase Order

Core Item Build

Starting Items

Early Items

Mid Game Items

Luxury



Hero Skills

Nature's Guise

4 20 21 22

Leech Seed

2 23 24 25

Living Armor

1 3 5 7

Overgrowth

6 11 16

Stats

8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19


Treant Protector Tank/Semi-carry

Walrus tickle dance pad
September 11, 2012


Read this for ultimate truck experience

Have you ever picked up Treant Protector, and wondered; "Why does everyone play Treant as support"? I know I have. Treant has 25 starting strength. Only Doom Bringer has higher starting strength than that! This guide will focus on Strength, and getting Treant the Truckiest Truck Tank possible


2. Item build/play style

Pick up a belt of strength and a gauntlet of strength as your first items. This will make you hit the hardest, and it gives you almost 800 hp at level one, which is a great amount! After that, go for Power threads. Because you already have the belt of strength, Yo will get the fastest power threads ever! As soon as you have them, you will hit even harder, tank even harder, and have a lot of mobility. This is the time to show your opponents who's the dominant one. If they try to harass you, you walk right up to them and beat the **** out of them! You will be able to hit harder than them, and their hits will be like little pokes. From here, you continue to turn you gauntlet into a Bracer, and the Bracer into a drum for more strength and mobility. After that get a Sange to turn into Heavens Halberd for MOAR STRENGHT (You may turn it into a Sange and Yasha, for more mobility and attack speed, if you feel that you need it more than health and damage). When you have Threads, Drum, and Halberd/Sange and Yasha, your next items depends on the game. If you get focused down a lot by Squishy heroes with low hp, get the Blade mail. If you get focused down by a lot of stuns, get Black King Bar. If no-one on your team buys a pipe, get the pipe. Also, Generally Build AC, and Hearth. If you expect to get a lot of harassment early on, buy a tango/salve and a branch, instead of the gauntlet.

As starting Items, you can Begin with a Bracer and a Iron Branch, instead of a belt and a gauntlet, This will help you stay on lane much easier. Big Thanks to Jaslam for the tip!

Added Vanguard to the Item build. It will give you more Regen in the early stage of the game. Aso, Tanky.

Added Daedalus to the luxury items because dem crits!

3. Skill build

Try to max out Living armor as fast as possible, so that you get armor and health regen that you will very much need. You can put one skill point in Leech Seed for the slow, and one skill point in Nature's Guise, and put as many skill points in stats as possible to become a huge truck. You don't need more skill points in Leech Seeds or Nature's Guise, as Nature's Guise only gives a longer invisible duration and Leach seeds only gives you a little more damage. Level ulti at 6, 11, and 16. If you want to become THE TRUCKEST, drop leech seeds and Nature's Guise and start to level stats at lvl 2. This gives you almost 900hp already at level 2!!


4. Laning

This guide works best at laning with a support with slow/stun, that allows you to hammer at your poor foes. This also works at middle lane against a ennemy melee hero, as he simply can't do anything to you. Also, you can use Nature's Guise to gank, and pop ulti out of nowhere.

I HAVE FINISHED GUIDING! THE GUIDE ENDS HERE!

Guide Discussion
Quote | PM | +Rep by Uberhenk » September 11, 2012 3:09pm | Report
I love it !

Exactly how i feel when playing Treant. He is a huge tree with massive fists, stomp those squishy noobs screw that support stuff.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by jaslam » September 12, 2012 4:09am | Report
what a pub/troll build :S worth doing if you're bored I guess.. haha
FYI - you can build the entire treads at the side shop, but not the bracer - y not just get a bracer and a tango from base and get the rest from the side shop? lost 3 stats in str, but gain 3 elsewhere + dmg, and (in theory) you won't need to return to base. (and have tangos)
or get 4 gauntlets, and turn them in bracer/urn and sell 1.. hood/chainmail (depending on the enemy line up) will go a long way in tanking - medallion will go a long way for hitting like tank. It will delay the sange/halberd/sny - but worth considering..

epic troll build.. :D

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Starbucks 64 » September 12, 2012 5:57am | Report
Yeah regardless of what you say, treant Protector is a support, therefore this guide is worthless. It's a nice idea, but It's ineffective

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Walrus tickle dance pad » September 14, 2012 4:31pm | Report

Yeah regardless of what you say, treant Protector is a support, therefore this guide is worthless. It's a nice idea, but It's ineffective


I will have to disagree with you. You say that "Treant protector is a support". Well, Yes. He can be played as a support. That does not mean you HAVE to play him as a support. Earthshaker, Sven, Enchantress, Silencer, and many others are listed as supports. Still, they can also be played as Semi-carrys. Treant Protector can also be played as a semi-carry.

"It's a nice idea, but It's ineffective"
Well, I have tried this build several times in-game, and I have ended up with Really good results.
It is very effective. Both on side-lane, and on middle-lane.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by wilddeonpwn » September 14, 2012 4:36pm | Report
Yes, Treant is not a carry, only support. He can't deal enough damage by himself and will fall easily to a number of heroes.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Walrus tickle dance pad » September 14, 2012 6:05pm | Report

Yes, Treant is not a carry, only support. He can't deal enough damage by himself and will fall easily to a number of heroes.


This is a guide for Treant in a last-hitting role, where you have another support on your team that will get the support items. It's about becoming a hard-tank quickly, while being able to do damage, and have some great team-fight potential. Treant is great at last-hitting, and as you don't really need to level up Leech seeds or Nature's Guise too much, you will get a lot of last-hitting power and tankabillity from stats early on, while also Develop into a great tank late-game.
Maybe I Should have Called the Guide "Treant Protector Pure Tank", instead of Tank/semi-carry.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by Sarcy » September 14, 2012 7:05pm | Report

Yes, Treant is not a carry, only support. He can't deal enough damage by himself and will fall easily to a number of heroes.


Wrong


Yeah regardless of what you say, treant Protector is a support, therefore this guide is worthless. It's a nice idea, but It's ineffective


Wrong again.

Granted Treant isn't as strong as he used to be after his str gain nerfs he can still be played as a semi-carry fairly successfully. His skillset caters to both being able to sustain himself and teammates in a fight while given enough farm early game can give him enough damage to fill that role.

You won't see this in competitive games, because you don't see Treant in competitive games at all. However I have played similarly to this and win with ease, there is a reason Treant has a 59% winrate (because he is a flexible hero itemwise and brings a lot to the team).

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Quote | PM | +Rep by JohnyTwobone » December 24, 2012 9:06pm | Report
Quoted:



Wrong



Wrong again.

Granted Treant isn't as strong as he used to be after his str gain nerfs he can still be played as a semi-carry fairly successfully. His skillset caters to both being able to sustain himself and teammates in a fight while given enough farm early game can give him enough damage to fill that role.

You won't see this in competitive games, because you don't see Treant in competitive games at all. However I have played similarly to this and win with ease, there is a reason Treant has a 59% winrate (because he is a flexible hero itemwise and brings a lot to the team).


Treant protector:
6th lowest winrate
2nd worst KDA ratio
4th least played

Sorry man, sometimes these stats are brought down by noobs playing him, but I honestly see little if any potential in "carry treant". Hes not even that tanky, and his ult does jack **** if his victim knows how to deal with it. Maybe if he gets buffed hard, but at this point he is very incapable to put it softly.

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Quote | PM | +Rep by The Watcher » April 3, 2013 5:15am | Report
He's not a carry, he has way too slow an attack damage for him to function as a carry, sure when I play treant I don't get many kills, but then I rarely get deaths as well. I also have a 100% win ratio and can quite happily say that many of the games I've played as him have been won because of him, but not as a carry, at which he would probably suck but as a support, where in non-competitive matches no one can match him and his 25 mana, across the map heal

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