Naturalist

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# General Description

**Naturalist**
is a relentless guardian of nature. Also a child of it. Naturalists see to the healing of nature and dedicate their life to uphold the balance of the ecosystem. Gifted by the forest of the old land, they can grant their enemies a swift death or cure even the deadliest of diseases and wounds with the help of the very soil beneath their feet.

## Main Class Passive

 Will of the Forest - You restore 1 Mana with every tick of your damage and healing over time effects.

## Baseline Abilities Info

 Liana - Grows and grips a liana to propel yourself forward. | Cooldown: 10 seconds

 Locust Swarm - Attacks enemies, dealing 10 Poison damage instantly and causing a disease that deals 30 additional damage over 20 sec, stacking up to 10 times. | Cooldown: 3 seconds

 Sleep Powder - Puts enemies to sleep for 4 sec. They will wake up if they take more than 50 damage from any source. | Cooldown: 20 seconds

 Immunotoxin Darts - Shoots a poisonous dart that deals 100 Poison damage and reduces healing taken by 50% for 3 sec. | Cooldown: 20 seconds

 Resuscitate - Restores 100 health instantly and additional 100 health over 3 sec, increasing all healing taken by 30% for the duration. | Cooldown: 20 seconds | Cast time: 1 second

 Venomous Armor - Reduces damage taken by 20% and deals 40 damage over 5 sec to attackers, stacking up to 10 times. | Cooldown: 30 seconds

 Living Breath - Makes your damage and healing over time effects on allies and enemies in front of you tick 100% faster. | Cooldown: 0 seconds

 Invigorate - Restores 100 health instantly, 200 health over 10 sec and 200 additional health when the effect expires. | Cooldown: 0 seconds

## Ultimate Ability

 Overgrowth - Creates an area of overgrowth that exists for 8 sec and deals 20 damage per second. Enemies entering it for the first time will also be rooted for 3 sec. | 100% Ultimate Charge Required

## Additional Cards

Every Class has a total of 5 Points which they can spend on the class specific cards as well as the common cards combined:

## Class Specific Cards

 Sleep Paralysis - Enemies coming out from your  Sleep Powder become Weakened for 1 sec per each second they slept. | Cost: 2 Points

 Tranquillising -  Living Breath slows down crowd control effects on the enemies. | Cost: 2 Points

 Agony - Enemies at or below 20% health receive critical damage from your poisons and deseases. | Cost: 1 Points

 Bloom - Increases  Invigorate last tick healing by an additional 100%. | Cost: 1 Points

 Fever - Once  Locust Swarm reaches 10 stacks, it causes a fever, which deals 100 Poison damage over 5 sec. | Cost: 1 Points

 Fortified Armor - Increases the damage reduction effect of  Venomous Armor by an additional 10%. | Cost: 1 Points

 Rampant Growth - Increases your instant and direct healing by 50%. | Cost: 1 Points

 Reviving Breath -  Living Breath speeds up crowd control effects on your allies. | Cost: 1 Points

 Wildchild - Adds an additional charge for  Liana. | Cost: 1 Points

## Common Cards (Maximum Points 5/5)

 Vitality: Increases health by 10%. |Cost: 1 Point

 Nimble: Increases movement speed by 10%. |Cost: 1 Point

 Preparation: Increases your upgrade points by 2. |Cost: 1 Point

 Fortune: Increases the chance of your procs by 50 percent. |Cost: 1 Point

## Upgrades (2 Points Per Round)

Short explanation: Upgrades can only be chosen in game. You start with 2 points and get 2 points each round. You're able to put 4 points max in each upgrade. (Stalker gets 4 points at the start of the arena match because of his passive Unfair Advantage)

 Clarity: Increases your class resource gain by 4% up to 16%.

 Resolution: Increases your ultimate energy gain by 4% up to 16%.

 Resilience: Reduces crowd control duration by 4% up to 16%.

 Adaptation: Reduces trinket cooldown by 8 seconds up to 32 seconds.

 Unbreakable: Reduces damage taken by 40 percent while below 100 health up to 400 health.

# Advanced Tips

This section dives deeper into each baseline ability and how to properly maximize their potential and presents different example builds for different matchups.

# Baseline abilities

#### What are they good for and with what should they be combined?

 Liana - Liana is your main mobility spell used to escape from melee attackers or to pull yourself near enemy healer to continue chain CC using  Sleep Powder ability.

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