Dota 2 Timer: The Tormentor Timer Tool for spawn, respawn and side

The Tormentor Timer Tool

The Tormentor Timer Tool tells you when the Tormentor spawns, when it comes back after a kill and on which side of the map it waits for you. It follows your game clock, so it knows day from night. Axe does not. Axe just punches whatever glows.

1. Type the game clock you see in Dota, for example 17:45, and press Enter. The clock keeps running in the tool and the map shows where the Tormentor is.
2. Press “Tormentor killed” (or the T key) the moment it dies. You get the 10-minute countdown and the side where it respawns.
3. Copy the chat line and paste it to your team: Tormentor died 23:14 | back 33:14 (Radiant side, bottom right)

Turn on Sound for an alert 30 seconds before every spawn and one when it is up. Pick chimes or a voice and hit Test sound first. Pressed the button late? Use −10s. Playing Turbo? Switch to Turbo. The strength panel shows how tough the Tormentor is right now and how much of the pain each hero eats.

Axe explains

Tormentor in 10 seconds

1. 20:00first spawn. Turbo: 10:00.
2. 10 minto respawn. Turbo: 5.
3. 5 minthen it jumps sides with day and night.
4. Shardfree for a poor hero. Rest: 175 gold.

It never attacks. It hits back.

Tormentor spawn time: 20:00, or 10:00 in Turbo

The first Tormentor spawns at 20:00 on the game clock. In Turbo it comes at 10:00. Before that its pit is closed by a shutter gate. When the gate opens, you hear it, even through the fog.

Twenty minutes of waiting. Axe fills the time with fighting. Time flies when you are hitting people.

Tormentor respawn time: exactly 10 minutes

After a kill the Tormentor comes back 10 minutes later, or 5 minutes in Turbo. No random window like Roshan’s 8 to 11 minutes, no guessing. Killed at 23:14 means back at 33:14. Its respawn can not be blocked either, so standing in the pit does nothing. Axe checked.

The tricky part is where it comes back. The Tormentor always respawns on the side that matches the time of day at that moment. The tool does that math for you and shows it in the chat line.

Tormentor location: Radiant side by day, Dire side by night

Night: Dire sidenorth-west corner, top left of the minimap

Day: Radiant sidesouth-east corner, bottom right of the minimap

There is only one Tormentor, but it has two homes. During the day it sits in the south-east corner on the Radiant side. During the night it sits in the north-west corner on the Dire side. Day and night switch every 5 minutes, and every time they do, the Tormentor teleports to the other corner. Projectiles flying at it simply miss.

• Fake night does not count. Night Stalker, Luna, Phoenix and Dawnbreaker can change the time of day for a few seconds, but the Tormentor ignores them.
• Low ground with three ramps. Each spot is in a hole with ramps towards the Lotus Pool, the lane and the high ground near the Twin Gates. A Watcher stands at the middle ramp.
• The gate gives it away. The shutter gate over the pit is visible through the fog of war and only opens where the Tormentor is.

Day and night decide the side, so the Day/Night Cycle Timer tells you where it waits next. The Lotus Pools are close to both spots.

Tormentor reward: who gets the Aghanim’s Shard?

When your team kills the Tormentor, one of the two lowest net worth heroes on your team who has no Aghanim’s Shard yet gets one for free. It works instantly and does not take an inventory slot. Even the Spirit Bear can get it.

• 175 gold for every other hero on the team. The hero who gets the Shard does not get the gold.
• 415 gold for everyone once your whole team already has a Shard.
• No experience. The Tormentor gives none.
• The Shard is announced in all chat, so the enemy knows too.

That is the purpose of the Tormentor: a free 1,400-gold item for the hero who can least afford it. Want to know what the Shard does for your hero? The Aghanim’s Shard Lookup Tool shows the upgrade for every hero.

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How strong is the Tormentor? Shield, reflect and burn by minute

The Tormentor never attacks. Instead it protects itself and punishes everyone who hits it. And it grows stronger every minute of game time, not with every kill. So a late Tormentor is a much bigger fight than an early one.

Shield 3,000 +50 per minute, regen 20 +5 per minute, reflect 30% +1.5% per minute, burn 20 +2 damage per second per minute.

Unyielding Shield

A barrier that blocks all damage types and refills every second. On top of that the Tormentor has 20 armor, and its armor can not be reduced below 0.

Reflect

A share of all damage the Tormentor takes is sent back and split evenly between the enemy heroes within 1,200 range, including the one who hit it. Illusions take double. A summon that hits it with no hero nearby dies on the spot.

The Shining

Once it gets hit, the Tormentor burns all enemies within 1,000 range for 10 seconds. The burn is also split evenly between everyone in range, units included.

Alleviation

When it dies, it leaves a green healing aura for 15 seconds that heals every unit nearby based on their max health. Both teams, so do not let the enemy heal in your spot.

Can you solo the Tormentor? Axe’s Tormentor rules

Yes, you can solo it, but the whole reflect and the whole burn land on you. At 20:00 that is 60% of your own damage coming back. With five heroes each one eats 12%. Set the hero count in the tool and watch the numbers drop.

1. Bring the team. More heroes in range means less pain for each. Five is best.
2. Go early. It grows every minute. A Tormentor at 20:00 is much easier than one at 40:00.
3. Leave illusions at home. They take double reflect damage and do not help split it.
4. Watch the clock. Every 5 minutes it jumps corners. Walk to the right one, or wait for the jump.
5. Check the enemy. The fight at the Tormentor often decides the next one. Win that first.

Rules are nice. Knowing which of your own habits loses games is better. Axe's habit is hitting glowing things. He is keeping it.

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The in-game Tormentor icon and why a timer still helps

Dota 2 shows the Tormentor next to the minimap. The icon tells you if it is alive or dead, shows the respawn timer and the side it will spawn on. It is blue for the Radiant side and red for the Dire side. Ping the icon and the status goes to chat.

So why the Tormentor Timer Tool?

• Alerts: a sound 30 seconds before the spawn, even when your eyes are on the lane.
• Planning: it shows the next 20 minutes of day and night, so you know where the Tormentor will be before you walk there.
• Strength: it shows how tough the Tormentor is at this minute and how much reflect each hero takes.
• Chat line: exact game times your team can read. The Roshan Timer Tool does the same for Roshan.

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