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LINA MID
January 21, 2015 by apaz
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BATTLE-LINA
DOTA2 HERO: LINA
PURCHASE ORDER
STARTING ITEMS
Iron Branch
Iron Branch
Iron Branch
Tango
EARLY GAME
Bottle
Phase Boots
Magic Wand
Town Portal Scroll
PICK A MANA REGEN ITEM
Bloodstone
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
Orchid Malevolence
IT OPENS UP EVEN MORE
Aghanim's Scepter
Blink Dagger
Daedalus
Desolator
Ghost Scepter
Force Staff
Linken's Sphere
Monkey King Bar
Scythe of Vyse
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
Eye of Skadi
Black King Bar
Boots of Travel
Veil of Discord
Dagon 1
Ethereal Blade
HERO SKILLS
DRAGON SLAVE
1 3 5 7
LIGHT STRIKE ARRAY
2 8 9 10
FIERY SOUL
4 12 13 14
LAGUNA BLADE
6 11 16
TALENTS
15 17 18
LINA MID
apaz
January 21, 2015
1.Doom's Advocate Paragraph 2.Pros/Cons 3.Skills 4.6.83 Update: 5.How Lina Works
6.When to pick Slayer 7.Friends/Foes/Who Lina Counters 8.Items 9.Other Random
Important Lina Things 10.Math 11.Conclusion
Top
DOOM'S ADVOCATE PARAGRAPH
Q: What makes you qualified to write us a guide?
A: Nothing. I'm not. Like, at all. I do, however hope that by my writing this
guide, we can all learn something.
Q: What is this ****? Making a Carry out of a Support? -1
A: Take a good, hard, long look at Lina and her skills. Okay, not like that,
that's gross. Anyway, if you look at her and her skills, something seems a bit
off. I'll tell you: She's not a hard support. She has way too much offensive
potential to be another babysitter like Lich, Venomancer, or Keeper of the
Light. If played as such, you waste a lot of offensive potential, and completely
waste her passive, Fiery Soul. It really looks like a carry ability, but of
course you can't give it away, like Bloodlust. Therefore she is best played as a
position 4-2 as perhaps an offlane support, a semicarry, or in the midlane,
which I will be covering.
Q: Why are you not writing your guide like everyone else does? Heh, noob.
A: Because Dota is situational. You should know that. No item will be best 100%
of the time. In a game where mistakes are punished like this one punishes, and
because everything counters and synergises with SO MANY other things, you can't
afford to take those kinds of risks. For example, you should never even pick
Lifestealer or Alchemist when you see an Ancient Apparition on the opposing
team. I thought a different layout was necessary.
Here's a quote to prove my lina semicarry is good standpoint.
Starbucks 64 wrote:
So tired of people trying to turn supports in carries. You clearly don't know
much about dota if you think carry Lina is viable.
Show Me Your Boobs wrote:
Thank you for your opinion but I wholeheartedly disagree with your rationale. If
this was a carry necrolyte, dazzle, undying, crystal maiden, omniknight, keeper
of the light, disruptor, or lich carry build I would tend to agree that building
them carry fails to take advantage of the support potential of the character.
Lina, however, has no "support" abilities per se and all her support potential
is achieved through items. You can't define a hero as purely support just
because she has a disable and has mek in her recommended items. Lina is clearly
more of a nuker/ganker than a support and if you have ever tried playing her as
a babysitter then you must have noticed that fact. Perhaps I should re-label
this build as semi-carry/utility since the core items I put on her do give her a
lot of support potential if you are adept at using activateable items. The fact
remains that the items I build on Lina turn her into a semi carry with a ton of
teamfight presence while also synergizing phenomenally with her passive which is
also clearly not a support passive. I would encourage you to try the build
yourself before passing judgment and do not resort to shallow insults to support
your claim that a build is inadequate.
I Say:
This same argument has happened on 95% of the guides that play Lina as a core.
Don't start it again now. To clear things up, I'm not saying to play Lina as a
carry. That's a bad idea, mostly because you're so squishy with no escape. What
I'm actually saying is that if you feel your team is doing fine but that they'll
outcarry you, semicarry Lina is viable.
Here's another quote, but this time from the most respected member of the Dota
community. That's right, Purge. I you haven't read his guide, Welcome to Dota,
You Suck, do so by clicking on the link.
Purge:
Quoted:
If you didn't know yet, almost every person who plays DotA at any level in the
skill curve, thinks that they know best. The funny part is that 95% of dota
players base all of their item decisions on other players who do it first, and
are often very quick to reject new builds.
The best way to get good at DotA is to have good gameplay, but the second best
is to have extremely good efficiency in your item builds.
If you learn how to use YOUR brain to make YOUR OWN decisions about items, and
you are actually making good item decisions, you are already going to have a
huge advantage over your enemies.
Once you are able to think for yourself instead of copying pubs or pros, you can
rely on yourself for item builds and play any hero you desire with little or no
practice.
That should adequately prove the point.
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PROS/CONS
PROS
Has 3 nukes ---> Ludicrous burst
B.S. attack speed
Insane damage at all points of game
A very good pusher, can clear creep waves easily with her combo
"Smokin' hot"
Dragon Slave = Crypt Swarm, but better in all ways.
CONS
EXTREMELY SQUISHY
Mana-hungry
Not enough utility
Item-dependent, no matter what role you play
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SKILLS
Dragon Slave
Type:
Targets:
Active
Point/Enemy Unit
Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches
every enemy in it's path.
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Level
1
2
3
4
Mana
90
105
125
140
Cooldown
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
Range
800 (hits 1275 units away)
800 (hits 1275 units away)
800 (hits 1275 units away)
800 (hits 1275 units away)
AoE
width 275 ---> 200
width 275 ---> 200
width 275 ---> 200
width 275 ---> 200
Duration
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Effect
100 damage
170 damage
230 damage
280 damage
Notes:
* The damage dealt by Dragon Slave is considered Magical damage.
* Unit targeting is often an ineffective method.
Light Strike Array
Type:
Targets:
Active
Point
Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.
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Level
1
2
3
4
Mana
90
100
110
125
Cooldown
7
7
7
7
Range
625
625
625
625
AoE
225
225
225
225
Duration of Stun
1.6
1.8
2
2.2
Effect
90 damage
150 damage
210 damage
280 damage
Notes:
* A skillshot made easier by Eul's Scepter
* Personally, I can never land it due to lag, but honestly it's mostly that I'm
terrible at this skillshot. And yet, I can land Meat Hooks and Split Earths.
Fiery Soul
Type:
Targets:
Passive
N/A
Grants attack and movement speed whenever Lina casts a spell. Stacks with
itself.
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Level
1
2
3
4
Mana
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Cooldown
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Range
Self
Self
Self
Self
AoE
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Duration
7 sec, refreshed by itself
7 sec, refreshed by itself
7 sec, refreshed by itself
7 sec, refreshed by itself
Effect
40 AS, 5 MS
55 AS, 6 MS
70 AS, 7 MS
85 AS, 8 MS
Notes:
* Max sacks: 3
* Benifits given at 3 stacks: 120/165/210/255 AS, 15%/18%/21%/24% MS
* This is ridiculous, and why Battle- Lina is a thing. It also means she can
carry, but only sort of, because SQUISHY.
* Max stacks of Fiery Soul at level 4 is equivalent to 4.6 Hyperstones, rounded
down.
* The attack speed given by this skill at level 1 with one stack is equivalent
to level 3 Bloodlust.
Laguna Blade
Type:
Targets:
Active
Enemy Unit
Lina smites idiots and fools alike with lightning bolts. Nuff said.
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Level
1
2
3
Mana
280
420
680
Cooldown
70
60
50
Range
600 (900*)
600 (900*)
600 (900*)
AoE
None.
None.
None.
Duration
N/A
N/A
N/A
Effect
450 damage
675 damage
950 damage
Notes:
* Aghanim's Scepter increases cast range, and changes damage type to
"Universal." (Goes through magical immunity and ignores magic
immunity)(Universal damage type technically no longer exists, but Laguna
Blade behaves just like it.
* Best used to lasthit heroes during solo kills, and while the enemy is at
close to full during teamfights. If they're at 90%, and they consider
themselves safe in a certain position, how about standing there at 40% HP?
Feel safe now? The'll probably die because they're out of position at low
health. If their friends try and save them, they too are throwing themselves
into danger. This can lead to a rather one-sided teamfight.
Top
6.83 UPDATE:
In the middle of writing this guide, our favorite pyromancer was substantially
buffed in the 6.83 update. Pasting Changelog:
[*]Attack projectile speed from 900 to 1000
[*] Dragon Slave damage increased from 100/170/230/280 to 110/180/250/320
[*] Dragon Slave mana cost increased from 90/105/125/140 to 100/115/130/145
[*] Light Strike Array damage rescaled from 90/150/210/280 to 120/160/200/240
[*] Light Strike Array mana cost increased from 90/100/110/125 to
100/110/120/130
[*] Light Strike Array stun duration increased from 1.6/1.8/2/2.2 to
1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5
[*] Fiery Soul duration increased from 9 to 10
Looks like Lina just got a whole lot more Lina-Esque. She's now more mana
hungry, but that shouldn't matter too much. Mana regen does become even more
important, though. Don't worry too much about the Light Strike Array damage
nerf, the Dragon Slave buff more than made up for it, especially because we're
maxing it by seven. Her damage actually remains the same. What does not is mana
and stun duration.
What I'm actually more exited about is the projectile speed buff. That means
that Lina will be better at last hitting, meaning a buff to playing as a mid
rather than a support.
Top
HOW LINA WORKS
As seen in her Pros and Cons, Lina has crazy damage output, in all stages of the
game. There are four reasons for that.
Dragon Slave
Light Strike Array
Fiery Soul
Laguna Blade
Yeah. All her skills.
First off, you'll notice that she has 3 nukes. Offensive potential through the
roof. At max level she has, overall, 1510 magical damage. That's a lot.
Second, you'll notice her passive. So that, as late game rolls around, she can
continue to do ******** amounts of damage if you build the tiniest bit of it.
Lina also has the highest attack range in the game, only trumped by skills that
give it. ( Impetus with Aghanim's Scepter and Take Aim)
It has it's own section, but let's talk a little about items.
Lina buys items according to what you want her damage type to be:
* Physical- ( Monkey King Bar + Desolator + Daedalus)
* Magical/Pure- ( Aghanim's Scepter + Veil of Discord)
* Mix- ( Orchid Malevolence + Extensions as needed)
Top
WHEN TO PICK SLAYER
GOOD
[1]You can have mid
[2]You're against a melee hero mid, like Pudge, Juggernaut, or Nyx Assassin
[3]Your opponent has heroes without escape mechanisms
[4]You, you know, already have a support and a hard carry
[5]They have no mana burn or silences
BAD
[1]They have lots of burst, like Zeus or something
[2]They have a Queen of Pain. Your worst enemy. EVER. Buys an Orchid
Malevolence, so silence, crazy burst, and has an escape mechanism. You hate her,
especially in the wake of her recent buffs.
[3]You have 4 carries already. Just pick Vengeful Spirit and hard support.
Synergises well with carries, because of her Vengeance Aura.
[4]You don't like Doom or Silencer either
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FRIENDS/FOES/WHO LINA COUNTERS
FRIENDS
[*] Crystal Maiden somewhat solves your early mana problems with her global
happiness aura.
[*] Vengeful Spirit can give you ***loads of extra dps if you go physical damage
build.
[*] Omniknight can give you a free BKB until you get one up. That used to
hard-counter QoP, but now Sonic Wave is pure and ignores magical immunity.
Almost Universal damage, just like your ult with Aghanim's Scepter.
[*] Treant Protector gives great stuff all around. The Living Armor is really
good to keep you alive, and you can just stay back and use your range when it's
active with low stacks of the block. It also keeps your towers around, which
means you can farm much easier with your stacks. Other than that, his ultimate,
Overgrowth makes it easier to leverage your DPS, and to land multi-man spells in
a teamfight.
[*] Shadow Demon can Disruption someone, and then you can land an easy combo.
Same with Brewmaster's Primal Split Cyclone.
[*]You and a Lion can go around blowing the **** out of people. Lina and Lion
are the "Rovin', Rollin' Gankin' Spainkin' Nukers."
[*]I'm kind of proud of that one.
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FOES
[*]Outworld Devourer screws over your last-hitting and makes your spells
stupidly expensive.
[*] Doom and Silencer.
[*]SILENCES.
[*]People with lots of burst damage, like Zeus.
[*] Queen of Pain lays down the hurt on you. I kind of already talked about it,
but she buys a silence, and has crazy burst, is very ganking-oriented, and has a
50% slow. She can also blink when you try to land a Light Strike Array or harass
with Dragon Slave. You also have a mediocre laning stage, whereas she will
dominate the laning stage. You'll be reduced to one of these things:
1:Feeding uncontrollably.
2:Sniping lasthits with Dragon Slave, which you can't even harass with.
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WHO LINA COUNTERS
[*]Any hero that is squishy without an escape mechanism.
[*]Therefore, Pugna
[*] Phantom Assassin HATES magic damage, and you have 1000+ burst. And a stun.
And you can buy an MKB.
[*]Melee Mid heroes, like the ones I mentioned here.
[*]Heroes that have a problem with being kited. They'll die before they reach
you. Even the tanky ones, like Ursa. You may even turn them back with just your
sheer burst. If they don't they risk going too far out of position to survive
when your friends help out.
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ITEMS
It first is important that everybody realizes that one item will almost never be
inherently better than another. Therefore, technically, almost all items can be
situational to most heroes. That being said, there are items that are better in
more games than others, and there are items that synergise with the hero better
than others. Keep that in mind while buying and choosing items.
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Starting Items:
Usually you'll want to do the standard Bottle rush. That is, unless you know
you'll be buying a Veil of Discord or a Dagon. You'll basically have to buy one
of those if you're going mostly magical damage. So, Null Talisman and a Tango
will also suffice if going magical damage.
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Early Game:
Bottle: You're playing mid and have early game mana problems, so yeah.
Phase Boots: Usually bought on Lina mid instead of Arcane Boots, because of it's
synergy with Fiery Soul. With that kind of attack speed, once you add damage, It
gets a bit crazy. Another thing is that arcane boots are not actually that
efficient as far as mana regen goes. It's better for burst regen, and for
helping the team. You don't need to buy it, though. You're a core.
Magic Wand: Burst mana and health regen is good, and it slightly solves your
squishiness. Wand is just really good in general, too.
Town Portal Scroll: Always carry a TP scroll either to TP support, to defend
split pushes, farm lanes, or to TP onto someone and blow them up.
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Mana Regen Item:
Depending on the game, your choices are:
Orchid Malevolence- Good for when you have a mix of both physical and magical
damage, as soul burn amplifies both physical and magical damage. It also does so
as magical damage. Remember also that soul burn lasts 5 seconds to the MAGICAL
amplification of Veil of Discord's 25, meaning that these two Items are awesome
together.
Bloodstone- Good if you want to accelerate your farm, you're looking to
snowball, if you can rush it quickly and if you can delay the rest of your core.
Eul's Scepter of Divinity- Good if your team already has enough carries, and
your team needs the utility. From this item, you can transition into more of a
support role. It also makes Light Strike Array more reliable.
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I don't want to say that after this you should buy whatever strikes your fancy,
but after this it's largely situational. I'll just make a list of items and when
they're good.
Aghanim's Scepter- When you're going mixed damage, have an Orchid Malevolence,
and want the extra burst. Also good with Veil of Discord, and if you have a
Veil, then Dagon is good with that. This is, actually a good build.
Blink Dagger- With Lina, positioning is key. Being able to jump into a fight or
away from a gank is powerful.
Daedalus- Damage items are insane on Lina. The crit becomes amazing, as well,
when you have more damage items. Buy it as your last damage item, probably after
Desolator and Monkey King Bar if they have evasion. Or a Phantom Assassin, the
most played hero in Dota 2(currently). Hate that lady.
Desolator Good if going for the Physical damage build. Damage remains crazy on
Lina.
Ghost Scepter- Buy it when you need to. For example, if they have a Juggernaut.
It completely counters Omnislash. If you can get a Juggernaut to jump on you
solo, they're going to be awfully disappointed. Then you kill them.
Force Staff- Really good on Lina, especially when behind. Don't forget that it
gives you +10 damage. Good also for when you don't want to buy an entire Blink
Dagger.
Linken's Sphere- Good on her in general. Stats are survivability, something you
painfully lack. Spell Block is great, and mana regen is also. It actually
increases your farming speed, and may be viable if jungling a bit.
Monkey King Bar- It's a really big damage item. It may even be worth it even if
the opponents don't have evasion. When you have 4.6 Hyperstones wrapped up in a
passive, Damage items become ludicrous. With all your attack speed and attack
range, minibash also becomes useful. If you see a Crystal Maiden trying to get
an ulti off, well, you know. Or a Bane without an Aghanim's Scepter. Or a
Warlock trying to get a good cloud, or anything else that is a long channeling
ability. Get it when going for physical damage, especially when there's evasion.
That is, with the exception of Backtrack. You can be just like Sniper used to be
with the old Headshot.
Scythe of Vyse- Sheepstick is good in two situations. When you're going physical
damage for the extra damage, survivability and disable, or for when you really
want to shut down a carry to disrupt a teamfight, especially if they don't have
a Black King Bar.
Eul's Scepter of Divinity- Obviously don't get it if you've already bought it as
a mana regen item. You wouldn't believe how many people forget that. (at my
trench MMR (FML)) Anyway, It remains good for setting up stuns and stuff, but it
can also take their carry out of the action for 2.5 seconds, then let you set up
a stun on them. Dat 50 damage tho. Then, your entire team should jump on them.
It's also good for the extra regen, because then you have enough mana regen
(With Orchid Malevolence or Bloodstone) to spam your spells whenever they're off
cooldown to keep yourself at 3 stacks of Fiery Soul. That can be good in some
games. Many people forget about this, but it also makes it exceptionally
difficult for the enemy team to go high ground for fear of being blown up.
Eye of Skadi- Many people forget, but this item gives the 2nd most HP of all
items, topped by only Heart of Terrasque. The slow is also really good for
chasing with your attack range, but if you even attack the carry once, the 35%
attack speed slow can be devastating. Good in late game for physical damage Lina
when you don't have Desolator.
Black King Bar- Really good if you don't want to throw the game.
Boots of Travel- Good, on any hero, for the very late game.
Veil of Discord- You have LOTS of magic damage already, and it synergises well
with orchid, because instead of amplifying once, the amplification is amplified
too. Also, have you seen the uptime? 83%. Lasts 25 seconds, 30 second cooldown.
At this point, just spam the thing.
Dagon- Controversial. Adding burst isn't as efficient as multiplying the load
you already have with a Veil of Discord. But, If you already have that and an
Orchid Malevolence, and you don't need a Blink Dagger, it's a viable option.
Ethereal Blade- If you've already gone full ****** into Magical damage, then who
am I to stop you? It's surprisingly efficient, multiplying all of your damage by
1.4.
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Keep in mind that almost any item can be justified on almost any hero in
specific situations, and that if there's something that I haven't mentioned,
feel free to comment. Diffusal Blade is a perfect example.
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OTHER RANDOM IMPORTANT LINA THINGS
Gonna be a lot of random stuff coming fast:
[*]When running away, feel free to run up high ground and send a Light Strike
Array behind you. They basically have to run through it, and it'll slow them
down. Also, obviously spam Phase Boots whenever off CD. Realize also that Fiery
Soul gives Movement Speed. Therefore, it's also good with Phase Boots, because
it's boost is percentage-based and not flat.
[*]If you get Meat Hooked, buy out immediately, because you're 100% going to
die. The hook pulls you so far out of position, and you're so squishy, that
unless miracles happen, you're going to die.
[*]My god, don't buy back the moment you die. It puts you so far behind. Not
only that, but when you do, you cannot gain unreliable gold, meaning that you
miss out on the gold per second, you gain nothing but XP from killing creeps,
and you have to fight to get gold. Also, If you die again, then you'll be sorry,
because now you're dead for an eternity or two.
[*]Play passive-aggressively. Positioning is key. When you see an opening, try
and exploit it, but don't die. Diving towers is okay if you understand tower
aggro and you can kill them in less than 5 seconds. Remember that Dragon Slave
has very large range, far larger than that of it's cast range. You can snipe an
enemy running away with it, just like with Meat Hook, Crypt Swarm, and
Powershot.
[*]You hard-counter the most played hero in Dota 2, Phantom Assassin. Take
pride. You can just blow them up, and it's an excuse to buy a Monkey King Bar.
I'm not quite sure if 6-Slotted Lina can win against a 6-Slotted Phantom
Assassin, but it would be close. In any case, Lina farms WAY faster than Phantom
Assassin, even with a Battle Fury, so you do rather well in a 1v1 against a PA.
[*]You'll notice that in the "Items" section, I did not mention the king of all
damage items, the Divine Rapier. The answer is: MY GOD, NO! AAAAUGH! The thing
is, you're WAY too squishy. It would be amazing, insane, and even overpowered,
but you'll probably end up throwing the game. Therefore, please don't.
[*]The crit from Buriza-Do Kyanon ( Daedalus) is crazy with other damage items
in the late game, because crits give you damage as a percentage
extra(multiplicatively), rather than additively. That's why you should never put
a Crystalys in core items, on any hero. Not even Kunkka.
[*]If the rest of your team won't, buy Observer Wards. Buy Dust of Appearance as
well, if someone has a Shadow Blade, or they have one or more invis heroes.
Place a Ward.
Prevent a gank.
Save a life.
(By the way, that dust thing above is a bug. It's actually formatted correctly.)
[*]If you're really behind consider warding up your jungle and just jungling for
a while. As you farm really fast, you can get back in the game. Also, try and
finish a Force Staff as fast as you can. Perhaps spring for a Drum of Endurance
as well.
[*]If you see an enemy hero TPing in, Land a Light Strike Array as they appear.
As long as you have mana regen, It's just harass. If you do that, then around 5
sec later feel free to throw a Dragon Slave Their way as well, to get more
stacks of Fiery Soul, and do MOAR harass. After this, remember how squishy you
are, and just how much damage output you have. You can play fiercely
aggressively and strike fear into the hearts of your enemies, but just don't
die.
[*]In the laning stage, if you can snipe one or two last hits with Dragon Slave,
and also harass them with it, It's worth the mana.
[*]A dual lane with Lina and Lion is actually quite terrifying. Here's the
combos:
Levels 2-5:
Earth Spike
Light Strike Array
Hex
Dragon Slave
Level 6:
Finger of Death
Laguna Blade
Is that terrifying, or what? "Yeah, let's just nuke this guy for 1050 damage at
level 6." Almost no hero in the game can survive that. It's kind of ludicrous.
Following standard skill builds to level 6, this is, in all, 1660 damage and
6.42 seconds of disable. **** bricks now.
Those skill builds, by the way:
Lina: 3/2/0/1
Lion: 3/1/1/1
[*]A big decision is what you want your damage to be. I already explained it,
but it WILL affect the course of the game.
[*]If you stack and pull, you can greatly accelerate your farm. you already have
crazy AoE, so why not? You can rather easily take stacks. Still though, don't
get a Helm of the Dominator unless you don't want to build a Desolator. Also, if
you are, build a Satanic and an Eye of Skadi. It's a tankier build, but it kind
of hurts your damage output. Not that damage output is really a problem. I've
tried the build. It's exiting and boring at the same time. It's hard to explain.
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MATH
There's a lot of complicated math involving Lina, and in fact most bursty
heroes. It gets really complicated as far as math goes as well, because of the
amplification from Orchid Malevolence. The thing is, the active from orchid gets
crazy. It takes 25% of the damage after amplification from Veil of Discord, and
re-deals it as MAGICAL damage, which can be reduced by a hero's natural magical
resistance, and also amplified again by veil. That's what you have to calculate.
For every spell and item. Also note that with Aghanim's Scepter, your ultimate
does pure damage, in the style that Universal damage used to have.
Let's assume that you have these items and all of your skills maxed out. This is
maximum burst, save for Ethereal Blade, because I don't even want to deal with
that.
Aghanim's Scepter
Orchid Malevolence
Dagon 5
Here's the combo too:
Veil of Discord---> Orchid Malevolence---> Light Strike Array---> Laguna
Blade---> Dragon Slave---> Dagon
I'm not going to show all the math, but this is 3,031.875 damage after magic
resistance, veil, and orchid. Damage with [Ethereal Blade]] would be, actually,
around 40% more, because Laguna Blade with Aghanim's Scepter is pure, and
because you're level 25 and Ethereal Blade amplifies itself. You're also getting
the stats from the Dagon too.
So, yeah. Math.
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CONCLUSION
Lina Is a viable semicarry, no matter what anybody says. At this point, if you
think differintly, you're deluding yourself. It's a well known strategy, and has
peen played in numerous pro games. If the pro scene was a little less ganking
oriented as far as using Smoke of Deceit to kill their mid, you would see this
stuff all the time, in fact. She's actually frankly terrifying. Her DPS melts
everybody, and she has the highest attack range in the game. She also
hard-counters the most played hero in Dota 2, Phantom Assassin. The late-game
support build is good, and these are equally as good, but for a differint role.
It's just like playing Lion as a mid. So, if you see a Phantom Assassin picked
on the other team, feel free to insta-pick Lina and punish them for their folly.
Have fun destroying people with the Slayer.
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No guide should ever be finished, so if there are things you want to see
changed, please PM me about them. I'll be happy to fix them. There are probably
a lot of spelling errors. I've spent like, the equivalent of 20 hours straight
making this guide. I'll be updating this guide after every update with balance
changes.
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apaz
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