Tinker Counters

Items

• Blade Mail   Item   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Blade MailBL A razor-sharp coat of mail, it is the choice of selfless martyrs in combat. Cost2200 Bought FromArmor Active Damage Return Bonus +10 Intelligence+6 Armor+22 can reflect a lot of damage back to Tinker, especially while using Mar. of the Machines
• Linken`s Sphere prevents Tinker from using Laser and his targeted items.
• Black King Bar   Item   Changelogs     Black King BarB A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants. Cost3975 (1375) Bought FromArmor Active Avatar Bonus +10 Strength+24 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe makes all of Tinker`s spells and items useless, because they are all magical and don`t penetrate spell immunity.
• Lotus Orb reflects his spells and items back onto himself.
• Monkey King Bar makes laser miss useless

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Bad against...

• Tinker is fragile and vulnerable against carries like Anti-Mage also, Mana Break burns away his mana pool and deals bonus physical damage.
• Tinker`s massive mana pool makes Mana Void deal a large amount of damage.

Arc Warden   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Arc Warden 24 + 3 15 + 1.8 24

• All of his skills are useful against Tinker
• Flux can catch Tinker who loves solo pushing.
• Spark Wraith purges Tinker`s buffs and slows him.
• Tempest Double makes Flux more effective. Kill Tinker with Mar. of the Machines with Double Blade Mail.
• Physical or Magical Arc Warden both make Tinker`s escape hard. Even if he has Black King Bar   Item   Changelogs     Black King BarB A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants. Cost3975 (1375) Bought FromArmor Active Avatar Bonus +10 Strength+24 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe .
• Because he has Hand of Midas For the character from Dota 2 lore, see Midas.   Item   Changelogs     Hand of MidasB Preserved through unknown magical means, the Hand of Midas is a weapon of greed, sacrificing animals to as a core item, he farms faster than Tinker.
• Double Last Will also get benefit from Mar. of the Machines. Until Tinker has Black King Bar   Item   Changelogs     Black King BarB A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants. Cost3975 (1375) Bought FromArmor Active Avatar Bonus +10 Strength+24 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe or Eul`s Scepter of Divinity For the cosmetic item equipped by Crystal Maiden, see Eul s Scepter of Divinity (Equipment)   Item   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Eul s Scepter of DivinityB A mysterious scepter passed down through the ages, , he will die.

Clockwerk   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Clockwerk 26 + 3.2 13 + 2.3 17 + 1.3 Level Base

• Clockwerk can easily catch a split pushing Tinker with his Hookshot and prevent him from escaping with Power Cogs and Battery Assault.
• He can find Tinker with his Rocket Flare.
• Clockwerk usually buys a Blade Mail   Item   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Blade MailBL A razor-sharp coat of mail, it is the choice of selfless martyrs in combat. Cost2200 Bought FromArmor Active Damage Return Bonus +10 Intelligence+6 Armor+22 which does lots of damage to Tinker if you get hit by his abilities (especially Mar. of the Machines).

Doom   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Doom 26 + 3.5 11 + 0.9 13 + 2.1 Level Base

• Tinker is heavily reliant on casting his spells and Doom can disable all of his four active abilities and all of his items. Especially with Scepter, Tinker has to countdown his death and revive time.

Legion Commander   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Legion Commander 26 + 2.9 18 + 1.7 20 + 2.2 Level

• Press the Attack can dispel Laser`s blind while providing great attack speed and health regeneration.
• Once caught in a Duel, Tinker who completely relies on his spells to be effective stands little chance of survival with his low health pool and armor.

Lifestealer   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Lifestealer 25 + 3.3 18 + 1.9 15 + 1.75 Level Base

• Rage will dispel Laser`s blind and turns him magic immune for the duration so Tinker cannot damage him.
• Feast will quickly bring down Tinker due to being so fragile.

Luna   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Luna 15 + 2.5 18 + 3.3 16 +

• Luna can easily prevent Tinker from escaping with Boots of Travel   Item   Changelogs     Boots of TravelB Winged boots that grant omnipresence. Cost2400 (2000) Bought FromCommon Active Teleport Bonus +100 Movement speed Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The Boots of Travel are or Rearm with Lucent Beam.
• Luna can also quickly tear Tinker to shreds with Eclipse as soon as he jumps in with Blink Dagger For the cosmetic item equipped by Axe, see Little Blink Dagger.   Item   Changelogs     Blink DaggerBL The fabled dagger used by the fastest assassin ever to walk the lands. Cost2250 Bought FromArcane .

Night Stalker   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Night Stalker 23 + 3.1 18 + 2.25 16

• Night Stalker can easily find Tinker in the trees during Darkness.
• Void`s mini-stun and silence will stop Rearm   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Tinker 17 + 2.3 13 + 1.2 30 + 2.2 Level Base and Boots of Travel   Item   Changelogs     Boots of TravelB Winged boots that grant omnipresence. Cost2400 (2000) Bought FromCommon Active Teleport Bonus +100 Movement speed Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe The Boots of Travel are while also preventing Tinker from fighting back.

Nyx Assassin This page is about the hero. For the goddess in Dota 2 lore, see Nyx.   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities  

• His whole skillset act like a counter to Tinker:
• Impale prevents Tinker from blinding Nyx Assassin or fighting back, while giving Nyx` allies time to catch up to Tinker`s position.
• Mana Burn generally deals more damage to intelligence based heroes like Tinker
• Spiked Carapace can stun Tinker from a distance because of Mar. of the Machines   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Tinker 17 + 2.3 13 + 1.2 30 + 2.2 Level Base
• Vendetta allows approaching Tinker in the trees or waiting for him in common hiding spots and dealing heavy damage to his low armor

• He can Meat Hook a Tinker hiding in the trees and follow it up with Dismember and Rot for an easy solo kill, as Tinker doesn`t tend to buy survivability items.
• His innate magic resistance and huge @@@#@@@HP(hp.com)###@### pool from Flesh Heap makes it hard for Tinker to deal serious damage to Pudge.

• Arcane Curse will force Tinker not to cast any spells and if not, he will take more damage.
• Glaives of Wisdom deals pure damage and makes quick work of fragile Tinker.
• Last Word causes Tinker to get silenced for 6 seconds after casting a spell.
• Global Silence will prevent Tinker to use his spells in team fights, which makes him useless.

• Slark`s Pounce shutdown Tinker`s escape every way except in the case that he has invisible item like Glimmer Cape or Shadow Blade base item.
• Mostly Slark build bash item or slow item so he can kill Tinker with little injury.
• Eye of Skadi, Vanguard, Skull Basher, Heart of Tarrasque, Black King Bar   Item   Changelogs     Black King BarB A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants. Cost3975 (1375) Bought FromArmor Active Avatar Bonus +10 Strength+24 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe make him tanky enough for kill Tinker alone.

• He can easily catch Tinker in the trees with Ball Lightning and kill him with Orchid Malevolence and his abilities, all of which deal much damage to Tinker.

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Good against...

• Tinker can deal a great amount of damage against Shadow Fiend`s low health in the early game while using a good combination of Laser and Heat-Seeking Missile.
• Laser can also make Shadow Fiend miss a lot of last hits, disabling Necromastery.

• Tinker can easily farm and kill Nature`s Prophets Nature`s Call treants by using Mar. of the Machines.

• Tinker`s Laser can make Faceless Void totally useless especially if Tinker can stay outside of Chronosphere and make him miss all his attacks
• Faceless Void`s Time Dilation can`t affect Tinker`s as he can have his abilities without cooldown thanks to Rearm, even if his abilities are already affected by Time Dilation

Works well with...

• Faceless Void`s Chronosphere provides a great setup for Tinkers spells.

• X Marks the Spot allows Tinker to teleport out of base and get recalled as soon as he`s in danger.

• Nature can use his Teleportation to jump around with tinker. Image the push.

• Tinker can teleport onto Spirit Breaker during Charge of Darkness with Boots of Travel 2 and gank heroes.

• Thirst can help Tinker finish off foes after his Dagon, Heat-Seeking Missile, Laser, Rearm combo by providing vision when enemies are at low health.

• Keeper`s Chakra Magic can help tinker stay in pushes without teleportation back to fountain.