[NEUTRAL-STR] Ashton Whisperwood

[sttomato]

Ashton Whisperwood, the Corrupted Treant


Background Story:
Once part of Nordrassil, the World Tree. It has fallen, it was tainted, it now awakes. It serves neither the living nor the death, as its only wish is to cleanse Azeroth for a new beginning. Some magical essence of Nordrassil remains on it, allowing it to destroy lives with the power of nature. At the same time with the tainted energy of Archimonde, it is able to plague anything it touched. Its figure and scream is horrifying, even to the Scourge. All lives shall cease when the seeds of Ashton spread to every single moving entities on the planet...

Learns Nature Blast, Growl of Terror, Wither, Seed of Corruption

Nature Blast - (Active skill able to cast on any tree or any enemy unit under the effect of "Tango" or "Seed of Corruption")



Notes:

• If cast on a tree, it deals 060/080/100/120 damage to all enemies in the area. Slows their attack speed and movement speed by 10/15/20/25% for 1.5 sec.
• If cast on an enemy who has Tango or Seed of Corruption effect, it deals 180/240/300/360 damage to that hero and slows it's attack and movement speed by 30/45/60/75% for 4.5 sec. Deals 060/080/100/120 damage to other enemies in the area, and slows them by 10/15/20/25% for 1.5 sec.
• A very strong skill which mostly will cause enemies to abandon Tango whenever this hero is in opposite side.
• Also a very useful skill to do lane control as it has global cast range.
• If target has both Tango and Seed of Corruption effects, this spell still only deals triple effect.

Growl of Terror - (Active AoE skill)



Notes:

• Shocked enemies are not able to attack or cast spell.
• Ashton has increase attack speed for the duration.

Wither - (Orb effect)



Notes:

• The duration of Infections are refreshed when target is affected by Infection again.
• The less healing or regenerating effects affect all fountain, hero, skill, lifesteal, and items healing effect. Meaning, if affected 5 times (100% lesser regen), your hero will not gain any regeneration when at fountain, nor get any healing from any items or spells!
• Infection's damage may kill the target.

Seed of Corruption - (Active single target skill)



Notes:

• Every time SoC's effect triggers, it deals 80 damage to the unit. (320/400/560 damage in total)
• Every time SoC's effect triggers, it reduces the unit attack and movement speed by 30% for 0.2 sec.
• When SoC triggers, it also shocks the target (causing it unable to attack or cast spell) for 0.2 sec.

Skills usage and combo:

Nature Blast
- anti-tango
- global lane control
- trees destroying (opening paths for allies)
- combo with ulti to deal great damage and slows the target

Growl of Terror
- allies saving, cause enemies harder to chase the dying ally, and unable to cause further damage to that ally.
- combo with Wither (able to attack more hits on the an enemy without being damaged, creating more stack of Infection effect)
- combo with SoC (effective slow effect)

Wither
- reliable dps
- good control of opponent when stop it's healing and regeneration
- combo with ulti (Wither's damage + SoC's damage + no heal or regen for the target, deadly dps)

Seed of Corruption
- great lane control skill
- combo with all other skills

[sttomato]

i could use some help on the icons! =D

[jvt619]

test map?

[Averrios]

Skill 1: 11/15
• Fitting to Theme: 1/2
• Balance: 5/7 (Global Casting range is unfair, but it will not work, because most parts of the map you cannot see, besides in Lategame Noone uses Tagos)
• Creativity: 2/3
• Originality: 3/3
Skill 2: 8.5/15
• Fitting to Theme: 1/2
• Balance: 4/7 (Effects are to less)
• Creativity: 1.5/3 (why do you call your hero plague, this skill has nothing to do with plague, more with terror)
• Originality: 2/3
Skill 3: 12/15
• Fitting to Theme: 2/2
• Balance: 5/7
• Creativity: 3/3
• Originality: 2/3
Ultimate: 13/15
• Fitting to Theme: 2/2
• Balance: 5/7 (Need higher DMG)
• Creativity: 3/3
• Originality: 3/3
Statgain: 4/5
Model: 5/6
Icon: 0/4 (Cause you have No)
Story: 2/3 (Nice Idea, but do not tell the same 3 sentences. Maybe cut the part with the new era a bit and give the corrupted aspect to your branch of Nordrassil)
Creativity: 3.5/5
Orginality: 4/5
Need for this Hero in DotA: 5/7
Personal Opinion: 3/5

Total: /100 =71%

Notes: First make Icons. Then define a clear theme ... you took 3, the maximum should be 2 I think(2 that are not to diffrent). Then make your skills fit to the theme. And work on your Orb Skill, this does so little dmg that you could reduce enemys bas hp reg to 0.

[sttomato]

Originally Posted by jvt619

test map?

i would like to have one but i have no such skill to make one... =/

Originally Posted by Averrios

Skill 1: 11/15
• Fitting to Theme: 1/2
• Balance: 5/7 (Global Casting range is unfair, but it will not work, because most parts of the map you cannot see, besides in Lategame Noone uses Tagos)
• Creativity: 2/3
• Originality: 3/3
Skill 2: 8.5/15
• Fitting to Theme: 1/2
• Balance: 4/7 (Effects are to less)
• Creativity: 1.5/3 (why do you call your hero plague, this skill has nothing to do with plague, more with terror)
• Originality: 2/3
Skill 3: 12/15
• Fitting to Theme: 2/2
• Balance: 5/7
• Creativity: 3/3
• Originality: 2/3
Ultimate: 13/15
• Fitting to Theme: 2/2
• Balance: 5/7 (Need higher DMG)
• Creativity: 3/3
• Originality: 3/3
Statgain: 4/5
Model: 5/6
Icon: 0/4 (Cause you have No)
Story: 2/3 (Nice Idea, but do not tell the same 3 sentences. Maybe cut the part with the new era a bit and give the corrupted aspect to your branch of Nordrassil)
Creativity: 3.5/5
Orginality: 4/5
Need for this Hero in DotA: 5/7
Personal Opinion: 3/5

Total: /100 =71%

Notes: First make Icons. Then define a clear theme ... you took 3, the maximum should be 2 I think(2 that are not to diffrent). Then make your skills fit to the theme. And work on your Orb Skill, this does so little dmg that you could reduce enemys bas hp reg to 0.

thanks a lot on the full review.

i will try to get some icons after i come back from holiday trip.

reduced the theme to tree + corruption.

improved skill #2 (Growl of Terror) - from 1.50/1.75/2.00/2.25 sec 060/080/100/120% IAS, increased to 1.75/2.00/2.25/2.50 sec 060/090/120/150% IAS.

improved ulti (SoC) - from 30 dmg per tick to 45 dmg per tick.

[Megasoma]

some icons

[sttomato]

updated the icons! thanks to Dudley! =D

[sttomato]

bump!

[condorzai]

treant protector have a fren now his base damage and armor are just ridiculous. Fix that please. At least 30-45dmg and 2 armor considering DPS from 3rd is not that powerful during early game and he is a melee.

[sttomato]

updated:

Damage from 2-18 increased to 12-18
Armor from -2 increased to +1
Skill 1 - fixed AoE of 450 instead of 400/425/450/475
Skill 4 - increased damage from 45 to 50 per tick

Do I need to increase Skill 3 DPS to 4 (from 3)?

[condorzai]

12-18 T.T how is he gonna farm without any low cooldown / low mana cost nuke (at least techies can blast off creeps with 300damage mine )

[One.More.Game.]

gotta agree with condorzai, this guy will have a hard time farming

Review:

First skill is too weak, 3x the effects per minute and only until you get your SS? Like Averrios said, nobody uses tango lategame.
Second skill: Okay, nice concept
Third Skill: Duration is too long
Ultimate: Lower duration and reduce cooldown, to synergize with 1st skill

Request: This guy needs a lot of mana to fuel his game, can you add a little bit more to his Intelligence?

Overall: Nice concept, numbers need a few balances, but T-null for now

[Logicmite]

You might need icon and animated model. Here is it. Got it from the forum (redirect here) itself.




Hope you like it.

[sttomato]

UPDATED

Skill 1 now:
- cost fixed 100 mana instead of 90/100/110/120 mana
- has 20 sec cd instead of 22 sec

Skill 2 now:
- cost fixed 100 mana instead of 90/100/110/120 mana

Skill 3 now:
- deals 4 DPS instead of 3 DPS
- duration shorten to 10/15/20/25 from 15/20/25/30 sec
- deals 20 DPS to non-hero units, it is one of his skill to do the farming
- the damage may kill the infected units

Ulti skill now:
- has 40 sec cd instead of 60 sec
- shorten duration from 24 sec to 12 sec
- damage per tick increased from 50 to 80
- overall damage reduced from 350/450/650 to 320/400/560
- mana cost from 120/150/180 to fixed 150

Explanation:
The 12-18 damage is base damage. If added with starting strength, his damage will be 37-43.

Query:
Will you guys prefer Skill 3 also gives 10/15/20/25% chance to instant kill creeps (below level 3), instead of dealing 20 stackable DPS (which will be 80 DPS if stacked 5 times, but hardly doable when laned with ranged hero and hard to predict the DPS tick). The chance on hit to instant kill creep is similar to Drow Ranger's old ulti, which is less original but easier to use. Opinion?