Dealing With Lina – DOTABUFF

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Lina is the primary carry of the patch and it isn’t even shut. Nice laning stage, excessive farming pace, spectacular scaling and versatile builds make her a bit of bit too sturdy within the present patch. Sturdy, however not unbeatable and as we speak we want to speak about cope with Lina.

One doubtlessly exploitable quirk of the hero is that she is normally picked within the second section and generally even the primary one. There may be time to adapt to her decide.

In lane, she is commonly paired with midgame melee helps like Riki or Nyx Assassin, who are sometimes picked within the first section. They usually have a poor laning stage in terms of trades and in conditions like this Axe is wonderful. He will get to disregard the lane come degree two or three, and simply go behind the tower and pull creeps in the direction of the impartial camps. This accelerates his farm immensely.

Comparable ideas may be utilized to Centaur Warrunner and Dark Seer, although they normally want barely extra ranges to go for such performs. The latter can be not essentially the very best hero to have in opposition to Lina within the later phases of the sport, however the farming pace can nonetheless be utilized to nice success.

By going this route, you don’t “counter” Lina’s laning stage: she’s going to get an absolute free farm in lane. However you should have a well timed response with a really sturdy, aggressive hero who will get to farm greater than Lina and may have a lot greater tempo.

In opposition to weak lanes and when performed nicely each Axe and Centaur can get very early Blink Dagger and have an absolute subject day throughout the map. Once more, not essentially countering Lina instantly, however fairly ensuring that she doesn’t get to play round her teammates.

Upon getting an additional merchandise, akin to Blade Mail on Axe, you may go for Lina kills, however it isn’t essentially the very best plan of action. When you’ve got tempo within the early recreation, going for goals, limiting the map for the opponent and ensuring you progress in the direction of victory is normally the extra dependable play.

Lina is a glass cannon. She begins off fairly squishy and continues to be squishy till the very late phases of the sport, the place Satanic is normally her sturdiness merchandise of selection. A number of heroes can exploit that squishiness very nicely.

Most notably, there’s Phantom Assassin. The dynamic between her and Lina is a bit bizarre, since Lina can go for an early Silver Edge or late midgame Monkey King Bar, however it’s nonetheless very a lot initiation-favored till the top of the sport.

If Lina will get to open up on PA, with appropriate gadgets she will completely soften her over the period of her stun. If PA will get to leap Lina with BKB, she’s going to normally want a crit or two to seal the deal. With entry to Blur on PA, although, getting the soar ought to be a lot simpler and it’s mirrored in Lina winrate: she solely wins 47% of her video games in opposition to Phantom Murderer.

Extra dependable burst heroes embrace Sven, Ursa and Chaos Knight. All three are excessive bodily burst heroes preferring to leap in on a goal, deleting them within the course of.

Of the three Ursa is certainly essentially the most meta-friendly, being one of many higher carries for the laning stage with built-in goal taking. Don’t sleep on Chaos Knight, although: most professional gamers simply spam Illusion off cooldown, fixing the farming pace downside the hero used to have.

Sven might be essentially the most area of interest hero of the bunch, however we really feel like he’s criminally underrated. His farming pace may be very excessive, he can deal a very good quantity of injury all through the sport and his laning stage is fairly spectacular: the extent one stats on the hero are among the many finest within the recreation.

Extra importantly, although, with Shard and Warcy, he can present his staff with an insane quantity of additional Armor. With the present meta revolving round heroes like Death Prophet, Drow Ranger, Lycan, Tusk and Shadow Fiend, being additional protecting of your helps makes absolute sense. We really feel like a well-played Sven can mitigate an amazing quantity of injury in teamfights, turning “one-shot” kills into extended fights the place his helps get to make use of their spells a number of instances.

There are a number of gadgets to contemplate in opposition to Lina. First is a forgotten Wraith Pact. The merchandise is a far cry from what it was once, however it’s nonetheless an important Armor aura and a powerful Bodily injury mitigation instrument. We perceive why gamers are hesitant to make use of it, however we really feel like it’s nonetheless being undervalued.

Another choice is a not too long ago buffed Crimson Guard. Lina hits very quick: she will get +385 AS from Fiery Soul, mainly making her a greater Troll Warlord. Nonetheless, she doesn’t actually hit arduous earlier than getting Crits, be it Silver Edge or Daedalus. 75 Injury Block can go a good distance in stopping allies from going full to zero over the period of a stun.

The common save gadgets in Glimmer Cape and Force Staff additionally go a good distance, however we want to spotlight Guardian Greaves, which is at present among the many hottest gadgets within the meta and for a very good motive. It has an insanely good Aura that now prompts a lot earlier. It gives the bearer with a dispel and the clutch heal can generally enable teammates to make use of their precedence spells for a turn-around.

What are your ideas on coping with Lina? Do you are feeling like there are different choices to contemplate when coping with her? Share your ideas within the remark part under.