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Start with a Clarity or two, a set of Tangos, and some Iron Branches, and head to lane. Make sure you use your nice, long attack range and good base stats to harass and last hit safely. If the enemy pulls, spawn Nature's Call and send them to cut off the creep wave and bring them back to you, to last hit safely.

Firstly there are many different ways to play Nature's Prophet, including different item progressions and lane choices, for now ill explain to you jungle  Nature's Prophet.

Play with friends who know the game, and use Teamspeak if at all possible

Not only is it fun to do, but your friends will mentor you in a way you won't get in public matchmaking. And Teamspeak will allow you to communicate with the game in the event of a client crash.

Introduction

I've seen a dozen posts asking how to play  Nature's Prophet, so as my personal contribution to this, I will explain, in depth, how to play Nature's Prophet.

Nature's Prophet is very easy to gank while he is jungling

Spirit Breaker, Bounty Hunter, Clinkz, there are countless heroes that love eating that big fat creep.

Nature's Prophet can't really do much besides split push

His teamfight contribution never really becomes that much. You will thus have an upper hand in any team fight that occurs.

Which one is better? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one?

Offlane >>> Jungle

Jungle is done when you cannot lane him in the offlane / you'll get (and need) more farm from the jungle. (NOTE: he can be run as a "carry" or even mid in this patch, due to how lineups are structured -- carry is often more utility and more early aggression, which Nature's Prophet can build for).

Jungling him is very slow, compared to top tier junglers like Enigma, Chen and Enchantress. He's a decent jungler, but not great at early levels.

Also, he provides many of the same benefits as an offlane that you can get out of jungling him, making the jungle less useful. A lot of junglers will roam (e.g. Enchantress, Chen) or push. Nature's Prophet can always port into fights and help gank. In addition, his abilities fit a "core" role moreso than a 2nd support/jungler (in the event you run him as a jungler and pick up another offlane). He does not provide as much to ganks as a better jungler.

Basically, it is just very inefficient to jungle him, unless the laning situation is so bad that you need to.
Later on, he is fine to jungle. It's really the early levels that he's a bad jungler in.

Comparison

Offlane

• More farm, in certain scenarios
• A lot more XP, depending on scenario
• Kill potential, in some 1v1 matchups
• Ability to creep kite with Treants, which can really fuck up enemy supports or the carry
  • i.e. using the treants to pull the creep wave from the lane and to somewhere where you can farm it
• Ability to rotate to ancients if needed (on Dire lane)
• Ability to block neutral spawns (with treants) and force supports to roam instead of farm --> turn lane into 1v1 or gimp support

Jungle

• Consistent farm & XP
• Low skill cap (i.e. basic micro and aggro juggling)
• You're MIA all the time, so ganks may be less readable
• Potential to rotate another hero to offlane to mooch XP (e.g. a support to just play super safe and hit lvl 6)
• Ability to stack multiple camps while jungling, can be good for some carries to help them farm

Primeval Prophet

I've been playing a lot of Nature's Prophet for my daily hero challenge lately. However, I can't seem to buy a win. I always get blamed when my team loses. I either Teleportation in to help them in teamfights, but they get wiped and they yell at me for not split pushing instead. If i try split pushing they get wiped without me there then one of the enemy heroes rotates in to clear my wave. I can't really split push if my whole team is dead can i? and if im not farmed enough I cant 1v1 or escape any of the enemy heroes either - it's extremely dangerous for me to split push if any of the enemy heroes, say Storm Spirit, Slark, Chaos Knight, ... come in to gank me when i dont have Blink Dagger or Shadow Blade. It can't be just me right? I dunno if im just in bad teams or playing incorrectly somehow. No matter what decisions i make it seems to be the wrong one.