Dota 2 Advanced Hero Guide:Lina

An advanced guide for Lina.
Contains complete information on Lina, her abilities, combinations, stats, skill build etc.
Providing usefull facts about Lina's conditions,item builds and strats in early, mid and late game.

Bio

The sibling rivalries between Lina the Slayer, and her younger sister Rylai, the Crystal Maiden, were the stuff of legend in the temperate region where they spent their quarrelsome childhoods together. Lina always had the advantage, however, for while Crystal was guileless and naive, Lina's fiery ardor was tempered by cleverness and conniving. The exasperated parents of these incompatible offspring went through half a dozen homesteads, losing one to fire, the next to ice, before they realized life would be simpler if the children were separated. As the oldest, Lina was sent far south to live with a patient aunt in the blazing Desert of Misrule, a climate that proved more than comfortable for the fiery Slayer. Her arrival made quite an impression on the somnolent locals, and more than one would-be suitor scorched his fingers or went away with singed eyebrows, his advances spurned. Lina is proud and confident, and nothing can dampen her flame.

Overview

Faction: The Radiant
Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Attack Type: Ranged

Because of lina's high damage spells with decent cool downs lina is a heavy nuker who can also play the role of a semi-carry because of her third skill the attack speed boost.
With the combination of lina's 1st and 2nd skill lina can easily farm waves of creeps, harm enemies and make high damage nukes.
Her spells makes her a great pusher too.
Her 2nd skill is an AoE nuke which can stun enemies making her a disabler.
Lina has the highest single-target spell damage in dota 2.
A great range to control early staged game.
She can be very usefull in team fights/ganks due to her AeE and AoE skills.
Lina also has high stats gain.
The only cons are that the spells cost a huge amount of mana,slow movement,low hp and the stun is very small AoE.

Roles

Support
Semi-Carry
Ganker
Pusher
Nuker
Disabler

Stats

Level 1 > 25
Hit Points 492 > 1556
Mana 351 > 1609
Damage 37-55 > 137-155
Armour 1 > 9
STR 18 > 55.5
AGI 16 > 53.5
INT 24 > 104

STR/Lvl : 1.5
AGI/Lvl : 1.5
INT/Lvl : 3.2
Sight Range : 1800/800
Attack Range : 670
Missile Speed: 1000
Movement : 295

Abilities

Dragon Slave

Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path.

Mana Cost: 100/115/130/145
Cooldown: 8.50

ABILITY: Unit Target, Point Target
AFFECTS: Enemy Units
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES SPELL IMMUNITY: No
DAMAGE: 110 / 180 / 250 / 320

In the scorched barren of Misrule, Lina learned to manipulate the fiery breath of the Desert Wyrm as a form of entertainment.

A high damage wide AeE skill.
Usefull for farming and harassing enemies.
Can be used in combination of Lina's 2nd skill to drop heavy nukes.
Dragon Slave can hit targets upto 1225 units away.
The complete affected area is shaped like a cone.

Light Strike Array

Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.

Mana Cost: 100/110/120/130
Cooldown: 7


ABILITY: Point Target
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES SPELL IMMUNITY: No
DAMAGE: 120 / 160 / 200 / 240
RADIUS: 225
CAST DELAY: 0.5
STUN DURATION: 1.6 / 1.9 / 2.2 / 2.5

Lina's essence allows her to focus the sun's energies, causing air to combust at will.

Another one of Lina's nukes but unlike the first skill its a very small AoE, has a half second cast delay.
The visual effects and the sound during the 0.5 second effect delay are only visible and audible to allies.
But it provides a great 1.6 second stun.
Can be used to stun enemies and stike with dragon slave with perfect acuracy and deal high damage.
This skill also destroys the trees in it's 225 radius.

Fiery Soul

Grants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina casts a spell. Stacks with itself. Lasts 10 seconds.

ABILITY: Passive
ATTACK SPEED BONUS: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85
MOVE SPEED BONUS: 5% / 6% / 7% / 8%
MAX STACKS: 3
DURATION: 10

Dancing flames embody Lina's playful nature, bringing out her true blazing self.

Casting spells makes lina's attack speed like an Agility hero.
At 3rd skill max with 3 max stacks, this hero's carrying ability is unbeleivable.
Duration of this skill refreshes each time a new spell is cast.
But items does not trigger Fiery Soul.
At 2 stacks the buff grants 10%/12%/14%/16% movement speed and 80/110/140/170 attack speed.
At 3 stacks the buff grants 15%/18%/21%/24% movement speed and 120/165/210/255 attack speed.
Each spell cast refreshes the duration of the whole stack, making it theoretically possible to permanently have 3 stacks on.

Laguna Blade

Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage. Upgradable with Aghanim's Scepter.

Mana Cost: 280/420/680
Cooldown: 70/60/50

ABILITY: Unit Target
AFFECTS: Enemy Units
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES SPELL IMMUNITY: No
DAMAGE: 450 / 675 / 950
SCEPTER RANGE: 900 / 900 / 900

The air around Lina becomes so intensely torrid that it scorches a foe that comes too close with white-hot lightning.

The most damaging nuke of lina.
Laguna Blade has a 0.25 delay before the damage is applied after the spell is cast aloowing certain abilities to avoid damage.
If in a luxury state of the game one can also try the combination of a dagon and this ulti for a deadly effect.
Aghanim scepter does not only increases lina's ultis range but it also makes the damage pure which can also pierce through spell imunity.
Heroes with high magic resistance can take evade a huge aount of damage from Laguna Blade if Lina has no scepter.
An awesome skill to last hit one target.
This skill shall easily reduce some low total hp with low magic resistance hero's hp near half to empty.
This is the highest single targeted spell damage in Dota.
Laguna Blade should not be used always as a finishing blow, since that can waste most of the spell's massive damage. It can be also used to cripple enemy carries or obliterate their supports but using it when its damage far exceeds the target's remaining HP is a waste.

Skill Build

The first skill you'll take is skill number 2 which can stun enemy.Then increase Lina's Dragon SLave damage.
The first Fiery Soul skill level up is later because at the begining Lina's normal attacks dosent carry that much damage so it won't do that good even with a little boost of attack speed.

1. Light Strike Array
2. Dragon Slave
3. Dragon Slave
4. Light Strike Array
5. Dragon Slave
6. Laguna Blade
7. Dragon Slave
8. Light Strike Array
9. Light Strike Array
10. Fiery Soul
11. Laguna Blade
12. Fiery Soul
13. Fiery Soul
14. Fiery Soul
15. Stats
16. Laguna Blade
17-25. Stats

Strategy

It is better to make items and use builds which is more comfortable for you.
Here are some suggested builds that you can use in the three stages of the game.

Early Game

With Lina one can try playing supportive or solo role.
If supportive u need to buy wards/courier.
If solo and take mid with Lina's good attack range it will be easy to last hit and deny creeps.
And as a mid laner a bottle is very usefull, check runes every 2 minutes.Bottle does not only help to survive but the bottled runes can become very usefull in ganks.
If Lina's ulti is ready, lina is ready for ganking, choose enemy to gank, and gank together with teammates.
In early game a bracer can be used to help Lina have a smooth hp regen and remove the squishyness a bit.
Talking about boots both a power tread or an arcane can be great for Lina.
Power threads is a flexible shoes, you can change it to STR, AGI, or INT for what you need.
STR for Survivability, AGI for attack speed, and INT for mana.
With the extra attack speed, it will boost your attack speed more beside the fiery Soul.
If Lina's teammates are in-need of an arcane boot then an arcane boot is must for lina.
She can not only help herself with mana but also can help the whole team as a support.
Lina is a great hero for the early game because of her abilities.

Mid Game

If Lina meets an enemy, immediately spam all spells, try to guess where the enemy is going to move and place a nice stun.If maybe all the spells is not enough to kill an anemy, try using normal hits, because after casting spells, Lina gets an extra attack speed and also movement speed.
A blink dagger can help Lina a lot in Mid Game to Late Game in initiating ,fighting or escaping.
Force Staff is useful on many purposes, can initiate a teamfight with ForceStaff, or can save somebody, or Lina can save herself.
Force Staff gives Lina much mobility and also some health regen.
As for supportive items a Medalion is very usefull. In ganking in early game a minus on enemy armour will amplify Lina's team's damage greatly. It is also helpfll when going for roshan.
Mekansm and Pipe of Insight can be nice supportive items for Lina.
Eul Scepter and phase boots can help Lina place her lighting stike ablity precisely.
Not only Eul will prove mana regen for Lina but it will enhance her movement speed, lets her to save herself from enemy attack and can be used to remove lps damages.
An eul to throw an enemy into the air, this gives lina the time to place her 2nd spell perfectly.
In Mid Game with the help of wards Lina can score a lot of gold by spotting and surprise attacking enemies.

Late Game

In late game Only Lina's nukes arent enough because enemy Hp is high. Then the nukes are less effective and doing the same effect as early and mid game by lina's nukes is not possible.
In late game Lina can be most usefull by only using her spells in combos with other team mates.
The stun becomes a great friend in the late game.
Lina can initiate a team fight with Schyte Of Vyse and stun enemies in the middle of a team gank with Light Strike Array.
In ganks lina can pick out and destroy the low hp enemies with her ulti and cause damage to closely situated all enemies by the 1st spell and harassing them.
If the game is in favour of lina's side as more then luxury Lina can also use dagon and eblade with aghanim scepter.
With the combination of a hex and a blink dagger Lina can provide a great opportunity for the team to gank an enemy.
Late game items are expensive.
Boots of Travel for fast teleporting and also fast movement. Lina may counter a pushing with this boots. Or Lina may start a gank by teleporting to a creep nearest to the enemy target.
Schyte of Vyse is a good item to initiate a teamfight. A hexed enemy can't do anything.Or it can also be used to defend against somebody.
Purchasing an Ethereal Blade if the farm is available combined with an Aghanim's Scepter and Lina's naturally high Intelligence gain will give you a perfect combination of survivability through stats, armor and Ghost form and an enormous increase (roughly 2534 not counting the damage from Ether Blast) in damage output allowing Lina to instantly kill most low to average HP heroes provided that she lands all of her skills during the Ether Blast. The slow provided by Ether Blast also comes in very handy in landing Light Strike Array.

Combinations

Lina in early and mid game can kill enemies with her 3 skill combo. 2nd skill stun 1st skill damage and ulti can make an average hp hero crippled.
As luxury if Lina keeps a dagon then lina alone can kill a high hp enemy in ease with a combination of other items.

Lina can lane with sven or tiny and excel a lot because both are tankers and take enemies damage and harass them.
Both has AoE stuns like Lina which can provide a great combination.

As all heroes with high magical damaging skills Pugna is a best friend because of his skill to turn one into etherial form.
While Pugna makes an enemy go into etherial form Lina can unleash all her nukes at ones causing massive damage.

Lina and Lion, a great combination. Both has high damaging stuns/disables and both have super damage ultimates. With boths abilities its possible to easily kill a tanky hero very easily.

Lina can provide great support for heroes like slark or carries with stuns. Slark uses pounce to get an enemy, when the pounce is going to be disabled lina can easily place a perfect lighting strike on the stuck enemy giving slark more time to do the damage.
Lina can combine her stun with other stuners and also can help a fellow carry to farm while Lina harasses enemies with her 1st spell.

Invoker is one of a kind hero who can go along very well with any hero depending on invokers skill and item build.
Specially lina and invoker is a nice pair. Lina can stun then invoker can tornado,chaos meteor and use deafing blast.Lina can use laguna blade and dragon slave if any enemies survive.
Or Invoker can use tornado to give Lina some time to place her stun correctly.Both can support each other.Lina can help a well farmed Invoker get richer.

The two sisters Lina and Crystal Maiden can also do many good comboes. Like one can hold enemy at a spot and the other nukes it.

Lina and the Oracle both has skills which can be combined for a greater, better and a deadlier effect. Both of their skills go along nicely with one another and Lina and Oracle works well together, many good possible combinations.

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well its not just for ks but if you go caster build with lina you can use those tricks

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i use lina for ks too

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That build mentioned in the last i use it for ks in pub games xD