Lina

Lina Inverse The Slayer
A renowned pyromancer roaming the lands, Lina Inverse originally joined the Sentinel for monetary purposes. However, weeks turned into months, and fighting alongside the many holy warriors with fearless souls inspired her with the responsibility of protecting the sanctity of the World Tree. With her devastating abilities to summon vaporizing flames, she wreaks havoc among the enemy ranks. In dire situations, she would imbue herself with an ultimate fervor, or even call forth a massive beam of lightning which is said to instantly slay any single foe. A most feared enemy of the Scourge, a most unswerving defender of the Sentinel.



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 Slayer
Range: 600 | | Move Speed: 295 | Primary: INT
Str: 18 + 1.5 | Agi: 16 + 1.5 | Int: 19 + 3.2
Damage: 37 - 55 | HP: 492 | Mana: 247
HP Regen: 0.79 | Mana Regen: 0.77
Attack 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/ 140
Cooldown: 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/ 125
Cooldown: 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: 60
Cooldown: 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/ 640
Cooldown: 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 - LSA
2 - DS
3 - LSA
4 – DS
5 – DS
6 – LB
7 – DS
8 – LSA
9 – LSA
10 – Stats
11 – LB
12 Until 15 – Stats
16 – LB
17 Until 21 – Stats
22 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 Basilius
Tango
Energy Booster
Disassemble Ring Of Basilius
Arcane Ring
Boots Of Speed
Oblivion Staff
Void Stone
Ultimate Orb
Mystic Staff
Guinsoo
Peseverance
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.

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