Counters to Timbersaw?

[Pyrrhic]

So in the past few days, I've seen a lot of Timbersaw and he's been quite OP.
He is able to deal insane damage, and take loads in return. Add an already high HP pool, and his reactive armor skill and it's pretty hard to kill him.

Also, he usually buys a bloodstone, so when he finally does die, he's respawned and back in the fight in under 10 seconds.

How do you counter this? Obviously killing him in early game so he doesn't get farmed is an option, but that's not always easy to do, especially with his hook skill. So, my question is this - is there any hero who's abilities counter Timbersaw?

[kev10102]

invoker is good against him with his anal penetrating spells.

[Potato Marshal]

Silencer works wonders against him, have one level of glaives to harass him, and throw curse and last word when he tries to jump on you or an ally.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Pyrrhic:

So in the past few days, I've seen a lot of Timbersaw and he's been quite OP.
He is able to deal insane damage, and take loads in return. Add an already high HP pool, and his reactive armor skill and it's pretty hard to kill him.

Also, he usually buys a bloodstone, so when he finally does die, he's respawned and back in the fight in under 10 seconds.

How do you counter this? Obviously killing him in early game so he doesn't get farmed is an option, but that's not always easy to do, especially with his hook skill. So, my question is this - is there any hero who's abilities counter Timbersaw?

Magic damage and True damage. Desolator can also work.

[Jason Wang Dang ✅]

Slarder amplify.

[Duchess Minty]

Pure and magic damage counters reasonably

[sadge]

Timbersaw is easily countered by very mobile heroes, heroes with silences, heroes with mana drain/mana burn, heroes that can dish out a lot of pure or magic damage. These heroes absolutely s*** on timbersaw:

-Queen of Pain (Orchid + nukes+ pure damage ult + blink every time he tries to timberchain combo you)
-Doom
-Silencer
-Bloodseeker
-Faceless Void (basically every time timbersaw tries to nuke combo you, you can just backtrack it all, plus his bashes deal magic damage)
-Skywrath Mage
-Storm Spirit
-Lifestealer (none of timbersaw's pure damage goes through bkb or magic immunity)
-Legion commander
-Juggernaut (magic damage Q + ultimate that stays on timbersaw even through timberchain)
-Nyx Assassin
-Antimage
-Lina
-Puck
-Invoker

As you can see, a lot of these folks either prevent timbersaw's extreme mobility (bloodseeker, legion, puck, doom) or just dish out a bunch of magic damage (Nyx, Lina, Skywrath, QoP).

[Pyrrhic]

Originally posted by >Game is hard:

Timbersaw is easily countered by very mobile heroes, heroes with silences, heroes with mana drain/mana burn, heroes that can dish out a lot of pure or magic damage. These heroes absolutely s*** on timbersaw:

-Queen of Pain (Orchid + nukes+ pure damage ult + blink every time he tries to timberchain combo you)
-Doom
-Silencer
-Bloodseeker
-Faceless Void (basically every time timbersaw tries to nuke combo you, you can just backtrack it all, plus his bashes deal magic damage)
-Skywrath Mage
-Storm Spirit
-Lifestealer (none of timbersaw's pure damage goes through bkb or magic immunity)
-Legion commander
-Juggernaut (magic damage Q + ultimate that stays on timbersaw even through timberchain)
-Nyx Assassin
-Antimage
-Lina
-Puck
-Invoker

As you can see, a lot of these folks either prevent timbersaw's extreme mobility (bloodseeker, legion, puck, doom) or just dish out a bunch of magic damage (Nyx, Lina, Skywrath, QoP).

So basically he's weak to magic damage...makes sense. Thanks!

Would zeus be a good counter? I'm a decent zeus player.