Hagar The Horrible’s Guide To Lina Inverse The Slayer by Hagar The Horrible

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Writer’s Way Of Introducing Lina

Lina is a very good choice of hero to be picked on the battle field due to her ability to spam spells and bring down enemies easily. Although Lina might not be a good 1v1 hero, Lina will progress by farming and teamwork of

teammates. To find out more and how to play Lina more efficiently read my guide.

Heroes Bio

Lina Inverse - The SlayerRange: 600 | | Move Speed: 295 | Primary: INT

Str: 18 + 1.5 | Agi: 16 + 1.5 | Int: 19 + 3.2Damage: 37 - 55 | HP: 492 | Mana: 247

HP Regen: 0.79 | Mana Regen: 0.77Attack Speed: 1.43 (+ 16% IAS) | Armor: 1.2

Dragon Slave (D)

A wave of fire that ripples out from the Hero, causing damage to land units in a line of 900 range. 0.5 second casting time.

Level 1 - 100 damage. Level 2 - 170 damage. Level 3 - 230 damage.Level 4 - 280 damage.

Mana Cost: 90/ 105/ 125/ 140Cooldown: 10

Writers Review On Skill

Dragon Slave is an important skill for farming. Lina depend on DS (Dragon Slave) a lot through out the entire game. This is what makes her a great harasser, damage dealer and a spell spammer with a short cooldown of 10 seconds.

Light Strike Array (T)

Summons a column of flame that damages and stuns an area of 200 AoE for 1.6 seconds. 1 second cast time.

Level 1 - Deals 90 damage.Level 2 - Deals 150 damage.Level 3 - Deals 210 damage.Level 4 - Deals 280 damage.

Mana Cost: 90/ 100/ 110/ 125Cooldown: 10

Writers Review On Skill

This skill is also an important skill for Lina. She also depends on this skill a lot to stun enemies and farm also. This skill might be harder to use compare to DS because the casting time of the skill is 1 second and it might be a bit

hard to aim for those who are weak at aiming LSA (Light Strike Arrray)

Ultimate (E)

Increases Lina's attack speed. Level 1 - 10% increase for 20 seconds. Level 2 - 20% increase for 25 seconds. Level 3 - 30% increase for 30 seconds.Level 4 - 50% increase for 30 seconds.

Mana Cost: 60Cooldown: 30

Writers Review On Skill

Not so important skill during the early game as you will be nuking all the way till level 21. Ultimate increases your attack speed but remember she is a nuker and that means she don’t really depend much on her attack. This might

come in pretty handy during the late game when you have skadi to slow the opponent.

Laguna Blade (G)

Fires of bolt of lightning at a single target, dealing critical damage.Level 1 - Deals 450 (600 with Aghanim Scepter) damage.Level 2 - Deals 675 (875 with Aghanim Scepter) damage. Level 3 - Deals 950(1250 with Aghanim Scepter) damage.

Mana Cost: 280/ 420/ 640Cooldown: 150/ 95/ 55

Writers Review On Skill

This skill is a very powerful skill and useful for finishing off the opponent. A very important skill indeed and will get more powerful when you have a Refresher to cast double LB (Laguna Blade) to the opponent. The cooldown is also

quite fast at the level 16 so is worth playing Lina.

Pros & Cons Section

Pros

-Nuking abilities-Spell spammer-Good harasser

-High Damage Dealer

Cons

-No escape mechanism-Depend on teammates and teamwork a lot

-Easily die if gang banged

Skill Build

1 - LSA2 - DS3 - LSA4 – DS5 – DS6 – LB7 – DS8 – LSA9 – LSA

10 – Stats11 – LB

12 Until 15 – Stats16 – LB

17 Until 21 – Stats22 Until 25 – Ultimate

Writers Explanation On Skill Build

This brief explanation should explain it all. DS and LSA are maxed to have a high damage to nuke, kill and farm. Just DS and LSA combined can deal 560 damage combined alone. That would be able to injure your opponent badly

sending him back to the fountain. Also DS and LSA combined can blast off creeps in one shot giving you the last hit and gold. The reason I din’t add ultimate first is that it would be useless to attack with ultimate during early and

mid game so stats is replace instead of ultimate so that Lina would be a bit more buffed and won’t get killed easily.

Item Build

Item Order

Ring Of BasiliusTango

Energy BoosterDisassemble Ring Of Basilius

Arcane RingBoots Of SpeedOblivion Staff

Void StoneUltimate OrbMystic Staff

GuinsooPeseverance

Refresher Orb Boots Of Travel

Item Build Explanation

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These 4 Core Items [Arcane Ring, Refresher Orb, Skadi, Guinsoo and Boots Of Travel] will assure your victory, if you have been playing properly. Boots Of Travel is obviously to increase your movement speed. Arcane Ring is to die

for during the early game! This item keeps you nuking and farming in your lane with mana, it refills 135 mana and with a short cooldown of 33 seconds. Lina usually gets fat by farming with Arcane Ring so don’t leave out this item

in your item build, this item is the decider in the game. Refresher Orb is to cast double LB and to give you mana regeneration. Guinsoo grants you hex to disable the enemy! It grants you 200% mana regeneration also meaning that you can keep spamming your DS and LSA and won’t run out of mana (this means you don’t have to fill your

mana with arcane ring so constantly unless needed too). By the way, if you were wondering why I din’t finish Refresher Orb first and get to Guinsoo that’s because after when you get Guinsoo your mana pool expand which

allows you to LB+Refresh+LB again. Right after, you finish the 4 core items you have 2 free space for other possible items.

Writers Conclusion On Item Build

This is a nuker, spell spammer and semi-attacker (her Int gained up increases her attack) build. Although she wouldn’t be able to tank much with this build, she will have to depend on teammates to do tanking and Lina to do

massive amount of damage.

Ps: This item build has been tested 2 days straight and I manage to win 4 out of 5 times using this skill build. I manage to get Lina to wicked sick although it was ended later on.

Other Possible Items Later

Sentry Ward/Gem Of True Sight

An optional for every hero in Dota! When invisible heroes can be quite annoying and theres no warders!

Shiva's Guard

Chunk loads of armor for an Int hero is a must! Try and get this as it will benefit you a lot! Attack speed reduction and movement speed reduction plus the Int you gain! An Item you should get!

Skadi

Skadi can work out for slowing enemies and giving you a more precise hit using LSA although this item might be for luxury. Leading to a good streak might help you obtain Skadi.

Agahnim Scepter

Agahnim helps max out the damage of Lina’s LB. Besides that, Agahnim will also toughen up Lina in the end. Not recommended to buy Agahnim before Refresher because Refresher can allow you to cast LB twice.

Lothar Edge

A great item for Lina to run in harsh situations. This item may come in handy. But I don’t recommend this item during early and mid games as it will effect Lina’s item build a lot but some people do so I am leaving it here.

Dagon OR Necronomicon

This I haven’t tried but what I can say it will definetly help Lina’s nuking a lot. Dagon would be my choice if I were to pick between these two items as I am not good in controlling Necronomicon. It would be much easier

to zap the opponent in one shot.

Liken Sphere

This item is good for negating spells and 15 to all stats. This item negates away stuns, purge and etc. So is pretty handy when you want to escape without getting stunned and being gang banged. Lina wouldn’t survive an attack

against gang bangers.

Kelen’s Dagger

I don’t have to explain much about this item. This item blinks Lina away from the scene of danger, a good escape mechanism but once Lina is hit she will not be able to use Kelen’s Dagger for 3 seconds. Besides that, Kelen's

Dagger can help you gank more easily.

Empty Bottle

As a healing aid empty bottle is very useful most of the time. But I hardly acquire empty bottle because I will be changing lanes trying to farm so I hardly get in to fights unless the situation demands it or unless I have a chance to

get a free kill.

Rejected Items

Writers Reminder

I want you to know that, buying attacking items or trying to do a DPS build during early or mid game is not a good idea. Using DPS or attacker items like Buriza, Cuirass, Monkey King Bar or Battle Fury is plain stupid. The reason I mention this is because I found a few guides that had these kind of DPS or attacker build which is just stupid and ridiculous. Lina can’t tank much nor can she attack much with her primary attacks during early to mid game. To

farm with a attacker Lina is just disgusting might as well use Magnus or Dragon Knight if you want to play attacker and semi-nuker.

Heart Of Tarrasque

A definite “NO” for this item because Lina has no chance to tank against enemies due to her armorless and fragile appearance. Don’t be fooled by this item on a nuker it will never work. Also it is a total distraction and waste to our

item build.

Cuirass

“NO” for this too because it would be a waste to buy this and takes you a long time to get this. Lina is a nuker therefore she needs lots of mana to spam and shes not a DPS attacker! So get the point and never buy Buriz ,

Monkey King Bar or other attack items.

GameplayWalkthrough

Tips On Using LSA

Some of you might be curious on ways to aim LSA. I added this section to show you a few ways to aim LSA on your enemies.

About the aiming tool

The aiming tool of LSA is a circumference with a midpoint in the middle of the circumference.

A Precise Hit

I cast LSA on Rylai by aiming my circumference aiming tool and center it to the middle of the circumference. Right above, Rylai's head and click on my left mouse button.

Right after she tries to run, she was hit by the flames and got stunned. She was a few inches close to escaping but her attempt to run from the flames was an epic fail due to my precise hit.

The Less Precise Hit

This less precise hit is only for a splash damage to every creep and hero around the circumference aiming tool. If it misses the enemy hero it hits the creeps and BONUS if it hits the enemy hero and hit the creeps as well. I can

conclude that this less precise hit is usually for harassing or farming and will pretty much stun a hero, giving you a chance to kill if it hits the hero quickly before the enemy hero notices your LSA.

Proper Ways Of Casting DS

Casting DS, making proper use of the spell range.

Damaging every enemies in its path!

Combos to apply on enemies

1) LSA + LB + Guinsoo + Refresher + LB2) LSA + DS + LB

3) DS all the way until low life + LB + DS4) DS all the way until low life + LB

Farming combos to apply on enemies

1) LSA + DS

Ps: Remember these few tricks as I have been using this for 2 days straight and it works like a charm.

How To Play Lina In The Game

First few items when you start the game you need to get Ring Of Basilius and Tangos to keep you in the game. Right after that, pick a solo lane (could be a bit hard to handle) or pick a partner lane (easy kill if work together).

Before level 6, you should be able to get energy booster or arcane ring done. Right after you get arcane ring, you don’t need to go back to the fountain unless you are injured badly. When you get arcane, you are now able to farm

without wasting much mana and also remember to replenish your mana every 33 seconds with arcane. Keep on casting LSA+DS on the wave of creeps. Keep changing lanes and farm so that your opponents have a hard time

coping up with you. You can also farm at the forest too. Farming also increases your level very fast. Right after you get Void Stone, you will notice that your mana regenerates faster and after Guinsoo, your mana regenerates

incredibly fast that you hardly have to replenish mana. By level 16 or so, you should be able to finish Guinsoo if you have been playing properly and farming properly. By level 20 and should have finished Refresher and start making other possible items. Remember now that you have Guinsoo, start disabling your enemies and help supporting a major ownage for your team. By the time you can even finish other possible items, I am sure your teammates will

already infiltrated you enemies base and aiming for the throne. If not, continue the game and help your opponents to victory.

Best Allies

Stunners

Earthshaker, Skeleton King, Sven and etc are stunners that can make your work easier for killing. These teammates can help a lot in the game so work with them.

Tankers

Sven, Pudge, Magnus and etc are tankers that can help you a lot through the whole game. Stay behind them and spam skills while they do all the melee attacking. You are a damage dealer and spell spammer so don’t tank unless

necessary.

Mana Replenishers

Ezalor and Obsidian Destroyer are mana replenishers which means during the early game they will replenish mana for you to make it easier for you to spam skills without worrying much about mana.

Healers

Warlock, Omniknight, Chen and etc are healers. They help you through the whole game and supporting you.

Worst Kind Of Enemies

Mana Burners

Nerubian Assassin, Anti Mage and etc are mana burners that can be pretty annoying. Their mana burn can cause severe pain and also loss of mana making you unable to spam your skills.

Assassins

Stealth Assassin, Phantom Assassin, Bloodseeker, Pudge and etc are assassins. Assassins can deal very high damage to a fragile nuker like Lina. Assassins will often depend on nukers like Lina for food.

Counter Your Worst Enemies!

Mana Burners

1) Stay away from them/Change lanes.2) Go for a kill before he burns any more mana/Call for a gank.

3) Get some instant regeneration so that you'll have some mana/hp when you need it (eg. Bottle, Arcane Ring).4) Gank mana burners more often, so as to deter them from being too aggresive.

Assassins

1) Avoid feeding Assassins too much.2) Stop them from leveling too much and getting late game items to own.

Note: Assassins are much more easier to kill since their quite fragile during the early game

Replays

http://www.dota-allstars.com/replay/75581/index.html << download replay from this link.

A very nice game, although I totally lost. But overall I manage to cope up with the rest of the enemies level and manage to get a few kills before the end. Totally lost in the end and all of my teammate lost. Notice that we did quite well although we had a feeder and leaver Rikimaru in the game. Could have been more worth watching if

Rikimaru didn't leave and played nicely.

Watch this video and see how i really played Lina in this game. You might learn something from this. Take note of all the lane changing and see how I farmed. Very important to show the effectiveness of this guide.

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