Idea on how to adjust troll warlord to become a ton of complex fun to play

[kyhmr]

I’m a huge fan of troll warlords concept, being a glass cannon berserker that requires precise timing and a character who can change his battleplan on a whim.
However, currently he gets easily stun locked, slowed or enemies ghost to prevent him from hitting things.
So, I wrote this post to suggest reworking some of the more boring parts of his kit into something very thematic and extremely fun.

His shard is currently a sort of skeleton from his old ultimate, mostly buffing his team which seems very unthematic. Instead, I suggest reworking it into a super fun and dynamic ability, I love it when characters are complex.

His shard could be replaced with a passive that is toggled. Meaning troll now has two different toggle abilities.
His first ability revolves around him choosing his plan of attack between ranged and melee, but his shard could make him choose his plan of defence.

New shard, toggle:
Shard stance 1: 25% status resistance
Shard stance 2: 15% evasion

This means the troll warlord player is not only sweating to manage his ranged/melee stance, but also paying mind to the enemy attack plans, toggling his defence stance to counter theirs. This concept sounds like a lot of fun to me personally.

But I’m not done, I think his aghs could also be expanded in the very same manner, yes call me mad, but I think a character with 3 toggleable abilities that makes the player break his mind on managing all the different stances is the concept that makes dota 2 so amazing. You can play dota for thousands of hours and then try a character like meepo and feel like you’re playing an entirely new game.
So here I go, his aghs becomes another toggle ability that focusses on receiving enemy damage types.

New aghanims: toggle:
Aghs stance 1: gain 40% magic resistance
Aghs stance 2: gain 15 armour

Naturally this would also mean slightly reworking this level 20 talent so it doesn’t do almost the same things as the aghs. Tweaking it from +10 armour on melee stance to +40% lifesteal on battle trance.

As you can tell I’m a huge fan of troll warlords theme and I hope you guys like my suggestions as much as I do. I’d love to see troll warlord become a completely unique character with a heavy focus on toggling his stances to adapt to the current battle situation on the fly. It also matches perfectly with his artistic theme, being very fast paced with no delays.

[kyhmr]

The values obviously might need to be adjusted by 5, as I can't playtest this concept and don't exactly know how valuable these stats are relative to gold and item value.