Timbersaw — hero grid for mains

Timbersaw is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Тимберсо” (or “тимбер”, “пила” and “шредер”). Short names for Timbersaw you will see in chat: “timber”. The game files call the hero “shredder”, and the site's search knows that name too.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Chops through the forest to face his foes”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Timbersaw”, “Тимберсо”, “timber”, “shredder” — each of them lands on Timbersaw.

A melee Strength hero — one of 36 — Timbersaw gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Role dots from Valve: Nuker ●●●, Durable ●●○, Escape ●●○; full marks for Nuker.

In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (25th of 36) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (50th of 59) band of By complexity.

Timbersaw is offlane (3) first of all, with soft support at 0.39 and mid at 0.31 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.07 · mid 0.31 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.39 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Timbersaw in the “3 · OFFLANE” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 1,282 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 4%, mid 18%, off 79%. Median GPM 511, XPM 720 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.25 by the site's formula.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Timbersaw is already there, 15th of 18 in “3 · OFFLANE”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Timbersaw: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Timbersaw, then Centaur Warrunner, Bristleback and Lycan, because all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute and melee attack.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Timbersaw shows up in 195,514 games (84th most played of 127) and wins 45.8% of them (115th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 45.7% at Herald–Crusader and 46.0% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Timbersaw more than usual at Divine (+28%) and less at Guardian (−11%).

Timbersaw in the snapshot's pro matches: 19 picks, 14 wins, 21 bans. Turbo: 76,410 games at 46.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Timbersaw portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as offlane, the closest to Timbersaw are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.