Hagar The Horrible’s Guide To Lina Inverse The

Slayer
by Hagar The Horrible

As of 6.59
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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 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.

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 + LB

2) LSA + DS + LB
3) DS all the way until low life + LB + DS
4) 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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