The Dota 2 Competitive Hero Tier List for February 2020 includes only data from patch 7.24, for a total of 440 games. The heroes are split in five groups.

All heroes are arranged in five tiers based on their draft rate. The tiers are viewed as clusters of data, and each hero is placed in the one they are closer the most.
The requisites for each tier never change. The goal is offering a neutral comparison that shows how the meta evolves over time.
The win rate has no effect on the tiers, but is included for further info. The tiers depend only on drafts (picks + bans), and aren’t affected either by the win rate of a hero, or by their performance in pub matches.

This tier list contains all pro matches played from February 1st to 25th during version 7.24, including WePlay! Tug of War: Mad Moon.

Past Tier List: January 2020

More: Updated Dota 2 Hero Tier List

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Tier 1

Name	P+B	P+B%	Picks	Picks%	Bans	Bans%	Win%
Enchantress	394	89.6%	105	23.9%	289	65.7%	51.4%
Snapfire	374	85.0%	142	32.3%	232	52.7%	50.0%
Batrider	332	75.5%	107	24.3%	225	51.1%	59.8%
Slardar	322	73.2%	139	31.6%	183	41.6%	59.7%
Puck	298	67.7%	135	30.7%	163	37.1%	50.4%
Nyx Assassin	272	61.8%	85	19.3%	187	42.5%	61.2%
Timbersaw	263	59.8%	77	17.5%	186	42.3%	61.0%
Lifestealer	258	58.6%	93	21.1%	165	37.5%	49.5%
Void Spirit	257	58.4%	115	26.1%	142	32.3%	46.1%

The division in tiers is never perfect, and sometimes the heroes at the limit between the highest tiers have similar draft rates.

Learn more: Recently, I talked about the most popular offlaners at Immortal during patch 7.24. The analysis features Slardar, Mars, Underlord, Legion Commander, and Clockwerk.

Tier 2

Name	P+B	P+B%	Picks	Picks%	Bans	Bans%	Win%
Slark	217	49.3%	58	13.2%	159	36.1%	44.8%
Troll Warlord	213	48.4%	100	22.7%	113	25.7%	59.0%
Tiny	211	48.0%	96	21.8%	115	26.1%	46.9%
Io	207	47.1%	35	8.0%	172	39.1%	37.1%
Lich	205	46.6%	132	30.0%	73	16.6%	47.0%
Morphling	200	45.5%	78	17.7%	122	27.7%	44.9%
Templar Assassin	199	45.2%	74	16.8%	125	28.4%	50.0%
Rubick	195	44.3%	133	30.2%	62	14.1%	45.9%
Razor	195	44.3%	68	15.5%	127	28.9%	58.8%
Ancient Apparition	185	42.1%	91	20.7%	94	21.4%	59.3%
Oracle	182	41.4%	100	22.7%	82	18.6%	52.0%

Timbersaw

Timbersaw was one of the most popular and successful heroes at the recent WePlay! Tug of War: Mad Moon with 15 picks and a 73% win rate.

He received almost no changes in the recent patches, but the hero works very well in this meta with many right-clickers among the top picks.

How to deal with Timbersaw in the laning phase

Timbersaw is one of the most difficult offlaners to deal with, especially if you are an auto-attacker because he can regenerate endlessly via Reactive Armor. Here are a few tips to improve your laning phase against him:

Trilanes. Timbersaw can face almost any duo lane, so you need to devote extra resources and a third hero to suppress him. This isn’t always viable as your team must also get a competent solo offlaner.

Pick a hard counter. Even Timbersaw is weak against certain picks. In particular, I recommend Ursa or Huskar. Both of them are able to out-harass his health regeneration, and can win the lane with some help from the support.

Timbersaw requires some experience before being able to dominate the lane, so at early levels your goal is harassing and zoning him out of the experience range. Do not be afraid to use several consumables early on as gaining a level advantage will do wonders.

Burst magic damage. Heroes who can spam magic damage are a big nuisance. For example, Jakiro has a great skillset to damage and slow him, and Witch Doctor can annihilate Timbersaw with Maledict plus the help of another nuker.

Swap lanes. Often, this is the simplest solution to secure the farm of the carry, but in a pub environment it can be hard to achieve as most players refuse to change their lane after the game starts.

How to come back from a lost lane

Farming patterns. Even if you lose the lane, several carries can jungle at a decent speed from level 5-6 (for example Slark). If you are able to maximize your farm efficiency in the successive 10-15 minutes (jungle + lane creeps), you will able to catch up even after a difficult laning phase.

Selective team fighting. You are the carry, so you must be selfish: only take part in team fights where you can make the difference or get a few kills. Gaining as much gold as possible is your priority, so sometimes you must prefer farming over fighting.

The main issue with this tactic is that if the mid lane loses as well, you will have several cores jungling and farming for most of the game, but in this case, Timbersaw was not the only problem ;).

The Maniacal Machinist loading screen for Timbersaw - Valve

When to play Timbersaw

Generally, you should pick Timbersaw in the following situations:

If there are many right-clickers because you can survive against them thanks to the armor and health regeneration provided by Reactive Armor.
If there are several strength-based heroes as Whirling Death is very effective against them.
When the enemy team has almost no heroes with silences, stuns, and lockdowns.
When your team has heroes with silences, stuns, and lockdowns. Timbersaw is an offlaner without hard disables, so his team must make up for this weakness in order to win the match.
When facing illusions-based heroes as you have lots of magic and pure AoE damage to deal with them.
When the enemy team has no magic burst damage heroes who can mess your laning phase - such as Skywrath or Pugna.

Skill build

All the popular Timbersaw’s skill builds used by pro players in February maxed out Reactive Armor in the laning stage: this is fundamental for your own survivability.

A point into Whirling Death is sufficient as this ability is used to reduce the primary attribute of the enemy core, which will impair their last-hitting capabilities and harassing power.

Finally, a level into Timber Chain is also adequate for escaping or ganking purposes.

Most popular Timbersaw’s skill builds in February - DatDota

Most bought items by pros

These are the most bought items on Timbersaw by pro players during February:

Arcane Boots: 84
Soul Ring: 66
Pipe of Insight: 49
Lotus Orb: 37
Eul’s Scepter of Divinity: 33
Kaya: 24
Guardian Graves: 20
Heaven’s Halberd: 17
Bloodstone: 17
Boots of Travel: 13

The list doesn’t include consumables and basic items.

Soul Ring and Arcane Boots are an obvious choice as the hero is heavy mana-consuming. In the late game, you want Boots of Travel for the increased mobility.

Timbersaw must be very active on the map to create space, harass the opponent team, and eventually snowball.

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity is the cheapest item to achieve his goals as it grants bonus movement speed and lots of mana regeneration (Timber Chain is spammed to move quickly, and it has a 4-second cooldown with a 90 mana cost). Eul also counters silences and slows as it applies a basic dispel on the target upon cast.

Guardian Graves increases the survivability of the whole team, and the active ability Mend also removes most negative effects.

Pipe of Insight is a must pick if there is even a single magic nuker in the enemy team, while Lotus Orb provides armor, useful stats, a shield that can actually outplay many heroes, and a dispel on the target.

In total, three among the top items bought by pro players have a dispel effect to counter disables such as silence and slow: similarly to a caster, Timber is completely helpless if he can’t cast his spells during a team fight!

Finally, Bloodstone is a big boost to mana and survivability, and Heaven’s Halberd is a specific pick when dealing with troublesome auto-attackers, like Troll Warlord, who is currently a top pick in this meta: he can literally melt anything while using his ultimate (Eul’s Scepter counters Troll’s Battle Trance as well).

The Stumpgrinder loading screen for Timbersaw - Valve

How to play Timbersaw in the laning phase

Many players in pub games try to get kills early on with Timbersaw, but this is a huge mistake because the hero is quite weak at early levels.

You want a solo lane to acquire experience as fast as possible, as you will become a real menace only after level 5.

The opponents are threatened by your presence, and they will try to harass and zone you out, but in most cases they won’t succeed because of your innate defense. After you gain a level advantage over the duo lane, they won’t be able to deal with you anymore.

From that moment onwards, you can disrupt the enemy carry’s farm with Whirling Death and be a constant nuisance by standing in the middle of the creep wave; all while remaining basically at full health as you have already invested three points into Reactive Armor.

After level 6-7, the opponent team may be forced to group up to gank you, in a desperate attempt to help their carry, thus leaving your main cores in free lanes. Timbersaw excels at creating space for his cores as only a few heroes can deal with him, and if you play safe enough, you will also survive most gank attempts.

Timbersaw as a mid laner

Timbersaw is also a strong pick in the mid lane, especially when fighting heroes with only physical damage and poor disables.

The following video shows OG’s Topias Miikka “Topson” Taavitsainen as Timbersaw facing Templar Assassin played by Rasmus Johan “Chessie” Blomdin, who is currently the mid laner of OG Seed.

Topson got 82 CS in 10 minutes, but honestly he had a better matchup because TA can’t harass or trade hits against him. As soon as Timbersaw hits level 6, TA is pretty much forced to give up on the lane to not be killed.

During most of the early game, the enemy heroes were visible on the map, so Topson could farm aggressively without risking sudden ganks.

Tier 3

Name	P+B	P+B%	Picks	Picks%	Bans	Bans%	Win%
Phantom Lancer	175	39.8%	61	13.9%	114	25.9%	47.5%
Disruptor	174	39.6%	101	23.0%	73	16.6%	40.6%
Omniknight	173	39.3%	54	12.3%	119	27.1%	44.4%
Earthshaker	167	38.0%	105	23.9%	62	14.1%	56.2%
Clockwerk	160	36.4%	81	18.4%	79	18.0%	54.3%
Winter Wyvern	127	28.9%	60	13.6%	67	15.2%	46.7%
Ember Spirit	127	28.9%	71	16.1%	56	12.7%	35.2%
Faceless Void	124	28.2%	59	13.4%	65	14.8%	50.9%
Bloodseeker	123	28.0%	42	9.6%	81	18.4%	50.0%
Outworld Devourer	122	27.7%	44	10.0%	78	17.7%	50.0%
Huskar	121	27.5%	19	4.3%	102	23.2%	47.4%
Naga Siren	116	26.4%	23	5.2%	93	21.1%	39.1%
Mars	114	25.9%	66	15.0%	48	10.9%	54.6%
Pangolier	101	23.0%	58	13.2%	43	9.8%	55.2%
Leshrac	100	22.7%	54	12.3%	46	10.5%	48.2%
Beastmaster	96	21.8%	51	11.6%	45	10.2%	49.0%
Legion Commander	94	21.4%	58	13.2%	36	8.2%	41.4%
Abaddon	93	21.1%	50	11.4%	43	9.8%	36.0%
Magnus	93	21.1%	41	9.3%	52	11.8%	46.3%
Chen	93	21.1%	44	10.0%	49	11.1%	63.6%
Monkey King	92	20.9%	55	12.5%	37	8.4%	60.0%
Shadow Fiend	91	20.7%	50	11.4%	41	9.3%	46.0%
Kunkka	90	20.5%	46	10.5%	44	10.0%	52.2%

Tier 4

Name	P+B	P+B%	Picks	Picks%	Bans	Bans%	Win%
Storm Spirit	84	19.1%	54	12.3%	30	6.8%	57.4%
Centaur Warrunner	81	18.4%	56	12.7%	25	5.7%	44.6%
Dark Seer	80	18.2%	48	10.9%	32	7.3%	58.3%
Lone Druid	73	16.6%	23	5.2%	50	11.4%	56.5%
Meepo	71	16.1%	14	3.2%	57	13.0%	85.7%
Viper	70	15.9%	16	3.6%	54	12.3%	31.3%
Medusa	66	15.0%	34	7.7%	32	7.3%	52.9%
Lina	65	14.8%	36	8.2%	29	6.6%	47.2%
Doom	63	14.3%	36	8.2%	27	6.1%	41.7%
Riki	61	13.9%	30	6.8%	31	7.1%	56.7%
Shadow Demon	56	12.7%	30	6.8%	26	5.9%	46.7%
Treant Protector	54	12.3%	27	6.1%	27	6.1%	40.7%
Nature's Prophet	52	11.8%	37	8.4%	15	3.4%	46.0%
Anti-Mage	44	10.0%	20	4.6%	24	5.5%	70.0%
Invoker	43	9.8%	18	4.1%	25	5.7%	50.0%
Broodmother	43	9.8%	8	1.8%	35	8.0%	25.0%
Death Prophet	40	9.1%	23	5.2%	17	3.9%	60.9%
Pugna	39	8.9%	24	5.5%	15	3.4%	54.2%
Arc Warden	37	8.4%	17	3.9%	20	4.6%	35.3%
Gyrocopter	36	8.2%	25	5.7%	11	2.5%	48.0%
Earth Spirit	35	8.0%	26	5.9%	9	2.1%	46.2%
Underlord	29	6.6%	24	5.5%	5	1.1%	45.8%
Skywrath Mage	27	6.1%	22	5.0%	5	1.1%	63.6%
Grimstroke	26	5.9%	24	5.5%	2	0.5%	25.0%
Spectre	26	5.9%	23	5.2%	3	0.7%	52.2%
Venomancer	26	5.9%	12	2.7%	14	3.2%	50.0%
Queen of Pain	26	5.9%	13	3.0%	13	3.0%	61.5%
Silencer	25	5.7%	15	3.4%	10	2.3%	40.0%
Dragon Knight	25	5.7%	14	3.2%	11	2.5%	35.7%
Drow Ranger	25	5.7%	13	3.0%	12	2.7%	15.4%
Sven	24	5.5%	18	4.1%	6	1.4%	50.0%
Necrophos	23	5.2%	15	3.4%	8	1.8%	60.0%
Tidehunter	23	5.2%	14	3.2%	9	2.1%	50.0%
Vengeful Spirit	23	5.2%	21	4.8%	2	0.5%	42.9%
Dark Willow	22	5.0%	19	4.3%	3	0.7%	57.9%
Elder Titan	22	5.0%	17	3.9%	5	1.1%	47.1%
Juggernaut	22	5.0%	17	3.9%	5	1.1%	52.9%

In tier 4 and 5 we find all the situational heroes. They are strong when paired with others, or against specific lineups. These heroes aren't bad, they just don't work in every game, so the pick and ban rates aren't outstanding.

Tier 5

Name	P+B	P+B%	Picks	Picks%	Bans	Bans%	Win%
Tusk	19	4.3%	16	3.6%	3	0.7%	50.0%
Bane	18	4.1%	16	3.6%	2	0.5%	50.0%
Keeper of the Light	17	3.9%	12	2.7%	5	1.1%	58.3%
Visage	16	3.6%	4	0.9%	12	2.7%	25.0%
Sand King	16	3.6%	12	2.7%	4	0.9%	33.3%
Undying	15	3.4%	10	2.3%	5	1.1%	20.0%
Ursa	15	3.4%	10	2.3%	5	1.1%	60.0%
Shadow Shaman	15	3.4%	15	3.4%	0	0.0%	40.0%
Lycan	14	3.2%	8	1.8%	6	1.4%	37.5%
Phantom Assassin	14	3.2%	10	2.3%	4	0.9%	30.0%
Terrorblade	12	2.7%	9	2.1%	3	0.7%	33.3%
Jakiro	12	2.7%	11	2.5%	1	0.2%	63.6%
Wraith King	12	2.7%	10	2.3%	2	0.5%	40.0%
Windranger	12	2.7%	10	2.3%	2	0.5%	30.0%
Bristleback	11	2.5%	10	2.3%	1	0.2%	60.0%
Enigma	11	2.5%	6	1.4%	5	1.1%	50.0%
Crystal Maiden	11	2.5%	7	1.6%	4	0.9%	57.1%
Bounty Hunter	9	2.1%	6	1.4%	3	0.7%	16.7%
Brewmaster	8	1.8%	6	1.4%	2	0.5%	16.7%
Witch Doctor	8	1.8%	8	1.8%	0	0.0%	50.0%
Alchemist	7	1.6%	4	0.9%	3	0.7%	25.0%
Night Stalker	7	1.6%	6	1.4%	1	0.2%	16.7%
Lion	7	1.6%	7	1.6%	0	0.0%	42.9%
Phoenix	6	1.4%	6	1.4%	0	0.0%	50.0%
Weaver	6	1.4%	6	1.4%	0	0.0%	33.3%
Zeus	6	1.4%	4	0.9%	2	0.5%	75.0%
Axe	6	1.4%	6	1.4%	0	0.0%	66.7%
Techies	5	1.1%	2	0.5%	3	0.7%	0.0%
Ogre Magi	5	1.1%	5	1.1%	0	0.0%	20.0%
Spirit Breaker	5	1.1%	4	0.9%	1	0.2%	50.0%
Tinker	5	1.1%	3	0.7%	2	0.5%	66.7%
Clinkz	4	0.9%	1	0.2%	3	0.7%	100%
Sniper	4	0.9%	2	0.5%	2	0.5%	0.0%
Pudge	3	0.7%	3	0.7%	0	0.0%	66.7%
Dazzle	2	0.5%	2	0.5%	0	0.0%	100%
Luna	2	0.5%	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	0.0%
Chaos Knight	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0.0%
Warlock	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	100%
Mirana	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0.0%

Heroes not drafted

All heroes were picked or banned!

Next Tier List: March 2020

Header image (The Punisher loading screen for Timbersaw) and hero icons: Valve - Statistics: DatDota