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Troll Warlord

Popularity: #98

Leaderboard: #60

Ban Rank: #56

KDA Rank: #115

Swaps between ranged and melee attacks at will

Instantly able to swap between ranged and melee attacks, Troll Warlord is a formidable force at any distance. Axes in hand, he can strike in a storm of spinning blades. He takes down enemies with increasingly swift attacks, and can speed his allies' assaults wherever they are.

Win Rate 49.9%
Pick Rate 3.6%
Attributes
Troll Warlord Image

582 +55.0/lvl

231 +12.0/lvl

Strength Image

21 +2.5/lvl

Agility Image

23 +3.3/lvl

Intelligence Image

13 +1.0/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

50 - 58 + 3.3/level (159.7 - 167.7 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

500

Attack

Armor:

2.8 + 0.5/level (21.1 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

290

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

Insensitive

Win Rate: 50.3%

Pick Rate: 87.6%

Fervor grants armor per stack while in melee form.


Fervor

Fervor grants armor per stack while in melee form.

Bad Influence

Win Rate: 46.8%

Pick Rate: 12.4%

Battle Trance grants allied heroes {s:bonus_attack_speed_share_percent}% of the attack speed bonus.


Battle Trance

Battle Trance grants allied heroes 40% of the attack speed bonus.

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Battle Stance

Troll Warlord swaps from using ranged to melee attacks. Melee attacks have decreased base attack time.


PATCH 7.37
  • New Innate ability. Toggle-able, can't be leveled up

  • Allows Troll Warlord to swap between melee attacks with a 1.4 BAT or ranged attacks


W

Whirling Axes (Ranged)

Troll hurls a fistful of five axes in a cone shape over 950 range, slowing and damaging enemy units.


AXE DAMAGE: 60 / 80 / 100 / 120

SLOW DURATION: 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4

MOVEMENT SLOW: 40%

COOLDOWN: 9

MANA COST: 60

Cooldown

9

Cast Range

950


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Causes Whirling Axes (Ranged) to dispel enemies. Reduces cooldown and mana cost.

DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


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  • +2s Whirling Axes Debuff Duration
  • +100 Whirling Axes Damage
  • Whirling Axes Pierce Magic Immunity

Only axes fueled by hate whirl with such a deadly spin.
E

Whirling Axes (Melee)

Troll hurls two axes around him in a close range area of effect, damaging enemy units and causing them to miss some attacks.


DAMAGE: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200

RADIUS: 450

BLIND DURATION: 5

MISS CHANCE: 60%

WHIRL DURATION: 3

COOLDOWN: 9

MANA COST: 50

Cooldown

9


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Causes Whirling Axes (Melee) to dispel Troll Warlord. Reduces cooldown and mana cost.

DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


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  • +2s Whirling Axes Debuff Duration
  • +100 Whirling Axes Damage
  • Whirling Axes Pierce Magic Immunity

Keep your enemies close.

Fervor

With each continuous blow on the same target, Troll gains increased attack speed. If Troll changes targets, the stacks drop to zero.


ATTACK SPEED PER STACK: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30

MAX STACKS: 10


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Increases max Fervor stacks by undefined and grants Troll 16% + 3% chance per Fervor stack of firing an additional ranged attack to any unit within its ranged attack range plus undefined.


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  • +5 Fervor Attack Speed

If at first you don't succeed, strike, strike again.

Berserker's Rage

While in melee form, Troll Warlord's attacks have a chance to ensnare, preventing the target from moving or using mobility spells and has additional movement speed and armor.

When in ranged form, Troll Warlord's attacks have a chance to Maim the target, dealing bonus damage, and slowing the target's movement and attack speed.


BONUS MOVE SPEED: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45

BONUS ARMOR: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

ENSNARE CHANCE: 20%

MAIM CHANCE: 20%

MAIM DAMAGE: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20


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  • +25 Berserker's Rage Movement Speed
  • +8 Berserker's Rage Armor

Like his anger, Troll Warlord's supply of axes is infinite.
R

Battle Trance

Troll unleashes a powerful battle trance, that forces you to continuously attack the closest enemy unit within 900 range, prioritizing heroes. Damage does not kill you during this mode. Grants you bonus lifesteal, attack speed and movement speed. Applies a Basic Dispel. DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


TRANCE DURATION: 6.5

MOVEMENT SPEED: 25% / 30% / 35%

Cooldown

90 / 80 / 70

Mana Cost

150

Cast Range

525


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  • +1.5s Battle Trance Duration

An adrenaline rush of pure hatred quickens your blades.

Talents

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Battle Trance Strong Dispels

+ 1.0 %

Whirling Axes Pierce Magic Immunity

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+8 Berserker's Rage Armor

+1.5s Battle Trance Duration

+ 0.0 %

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+100 Whirling Axes Damage

+5 Fervor Attack Speed

+ 0.6 %

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+25 Berserker's Rage Movement Speed

+ 2.1 %

+2s Whirling Axes Debuff Duration

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Use Whirling Axes to secure ranged creep lasthits and harass the opponents at the same time.

Avoid switching targets in engagements as you'll lose Fervor stacks.

Avoid popping Battle Trance too early in fights as you might get kited. Use it later, on disabled unit or defensively.

Troll can take Roshan early on even by himself. Use Battle Trance if necessary to heal up.

Consider Aghanim's Scepter in the mid-late game phase to keep yourself unkillable with dispels.

Consider Aghanim's Scepter in the mid-late game phase to keep yourself unkillable with dispels.

Counter Strategy

Troll Warlord is a strong laner. Buy extra healing items and take good trades.

Avoid Troll when Battle Trance is on. Don't allow him to heal by hitting you.

Battle Trance applies basic dispel on Troll. Use dispellable spells and items afterwards.

Item's like euls and ghost scepter are really good at kiting Troll Warlord and battle trance.

Troll Warlord takes down buildings fast with Fervor. Organize defense quickly.

Items that pierce evasion are good against Troll's Whirling Axes (relevant for Melee heroes).

Troll Warlord is able to take Roshan early on. Ward and check Roshan.

Aghanim's Scepter makes Troll's Whirling Axes apply basic dispel on him and opponents.

Lore

It's an easy thing to offend a troll. A prickly and contentious race, trolls thrive on argument and strife, missing no excuse to raise their voices in dispute. Males grow to maturity in subterranean chambers beneath their matriarch's domicile, feeding and amusing themselves while contributing nothing. Often they stay for years beyond the age of maturity, while the matriarch provides them with sustenance. When young trolls are finally pushed from their sub-chamber, they gather with others of their kind, forming roving gangs of malcontents who complain loudly about all manner of vexation.

As much as trolls love to argue, imagine how rare it is for a troll to be driven from his own kind for being too difficult to get along with. Such was Jah'rakal's fate, a monger troll from deep in the Hoven. So deluded was he, so bitter and abrasive, that even other trolls found his company intolerable. After one particularly vitriolic outburst in which he claimed the lion's share of loot from their latest raid, his cohorts finally snapped. They turned on him, beat him with clubs, and drove him from the encampment. Enraged at his banishment, he returned the next day, armed with steel, and slew them all, one by one. He then swore a blood oath: he would ever after be a fighting force unto himself. Now he roams the world as the Troll Warlord, bitter and angry, the Imperial high commander of an army of one.

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