Dota 2 Timer: The Lotus Pool Timer Tool for Dota 2

The Lotus Pool Timer Tool

The Lotus Pool Timer Tool runs with your game and rings at every new lotus. Stop it and it turns into a planner: move the slider and see what grows in a Lotus Pool at any minute, which kind and how much health and mana waits there. Axe once sat in a Lotus Pool for ten minutes. The lotuses grew around him. He ate them all.

1. Press Start when the horn sounds, or type your game clock. Turn on Sound for a chime or a voice at every new lotus (3:00, 6:00 …), or 10 seconds before. Switch on Turbo for Turbo games.
2. Took the lotuses? Press We took them all and the pool counts again from that moment.
3. Plan without a game: stop the clock and move the slider. You see the lotuses in each pool, the health and mana they are worth, when the next one grows and when the pool is full again if you take everything.

Axe explains

Lotus pools in 10 seconds

1. 3:00one new lotus in each pool.
2. 6lotuses at most per pool.
3. 35:00Great Lotuses, 400 HP + mana.
4. 60:00Greater Lotuses, 900 HP + mana.

Flowers heal. Axe did not believe it. Then he ate one.

Dota 2 lotus pool spawn time

Every Lotus Pool grows 1 Healing Lotus every 3 minutes, on the game clock: 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 and so on. It stops at 6 lotuses: a full pool skips the spawn until someone picks one, and the next lotus grows at the next 3-minute mark. If nobody picks, both pools are full at 18:00.

In Turbo a lotus grows every 90 seconds, Great Healing Lotuses come at 17:30 and Greater ones at 30:00.

Healing Lotus, Great and Greater Healing Lotus

Healing Lotus125health and manafrom the start

Great Healing Lotus400health and managrows from 35:00 · 3 Healing = 1 Great

Greater Healing Lotus900health and managrows from 60:00 · 2 Great = 1 Greater

• Instant: a lotus restores health and mana at once. Hold Control to use it on an ally within 400 range. Cooldown 5 seconds.
• Merging in the pool: at 35:00, the Healing Lotuses left in a pool merge into Great ones, 3 into 1, rounded up. At 60:00 the Great ones merge into Greater ones, 2 into 1, rounded up. So 6 lotuses become 2 Great, then 6 Great become 3 Greater.
• Merging in your bag: 3 Healing Lotuses combine into a Great one, 2 Great ones into a Greater one.

900 health in one flower. Axe tried to find a bigger flower. There is none. Axe was sad for one second.

Great and Greater Lotuses start with the Tier 4 and Tier 5 neutral items: the Neutral Item Timer counts down to both.

How to gather lotuses

Stand within 350 range of the center of the pool with a free inventory slot and your hero picks the lotuses one by one. The first one takes 1.5 seconds, every next one in a row 30% less, but never under 0.3 seconds:

• Enemies in the pool turn the countdown backwards until they leave or die. Fight first, pick later.
• Several allies in the pool do not pick faster: each lotus goes to a random one of them.
• No clones: Meepo's clones, Arc Warden's Tempest Double and Dazzle's Nothl Projection cannot pick lotuses.

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Where are the Lotus Pools?

There are two Lotus Pools, on the edges of the map near the river: one by the top lane and one by the bottom lane, each close to that side's offlane tower. The Tormentor spawns close to them, so a fight at the Tormentor often ends in the pool. Both teams can always see what is in both pools, so the enemy knows when a pool is full too.

The Game Timer and the Tormentor Timer keep the other timings next to your lotus trips.

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