Dealing With Lina – DOTABUFF

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Lina is the primary carry of the patch and it’s not even shut. Nice laning stage, excessive farming velocity, spectacular scaling and versatile builds make her slightly bit too sturdy within the present patch. Robust, however not unbeatable and right now we want to speak about how you can cope with Lina.

One probably exploitable quirk of the hero is that she is normally picked within the second part and typically even the primary one. There’s time to adapt to her decide.

In lane, she is usually paired with midgame melee helps like Riki or Nyx Murderer, who are sometimes picked within the first part. They sometimes have a poor laning stage relating to 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 direction of the impartial camps. This accelerates his farm immensely.

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

By going this route, you don’t “counter” Lina’s laning stage: she is 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 could have a lot greater tempo.

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

After you have an additional merchandise, equivalent to Blade Mail on Axe, you’ll be able to go for Lina kills, however it’s not essentially one of the best plan of action. When you will have tempo within the early sport, going for targets, proscribing the map for the opponent and ensuring you progress in 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 levels of the sport, the place Satanic is normally her sturdiness merchandise of selection. A number of heroes can exploit that squishiness very effectively.

Most notably, there’s Phantom Murderer. 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 right gadgets she will be able to completely soften her over the length of her stun. If PA will get to leap Lina with BKB, she is going to normally want a crit or two to seal the deal. With entry to Blur on PA, although, getting the soar needs 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 embody 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 unquestionably 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 velocity drawback 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 velocity could be very excessive, he can deal a great quantity of harm 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 sport.

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 Demise 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 harm 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 think about 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 incredible Armor aura and a powerful Bodily injury mitigation device. 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 lately 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 Harm Block can go a good distance in stopping allies from going full to zero over the length of a stun.

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

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