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Lina lacks strenght stats , survavility , movement speed and regen . So improving resistance both magical and physical is must ,
My Build :
I start with a wand , tangos and mangos . Farm Mid and get sentries for runes.
First Item to get : Phase Boots
This are great for movement speed which lina lacks without her passive , This can be replaced for BOT lvl 2 later on the game
Second item to get : Linkens sphere
This item will give you the edge over some single target heroes such as (bloodseeker , legion commander , sniper) . There will always be 1 or 2 single target heroes that can basically **** your game.
Third Item : Eul Scepter of divinity
This item is very helpfull against disablers and stuns , but requieres good timing . If you are good enough to eul yourself right before an echo slam , Epicenter or storm hammer then you can replace bkb for this great item . Low cooldown provides protection on both physical and magical , can remove orchids silence .
Fourth item : Aghanim Scepter
Good against magic resistance heroes and bkbs . Pure damage can destroy an anti mage and huskar (this heroes counter lina spells)
Fifth item : Etheral Blade
Combine this item with your spells will deal 40% more damage to the target and also deals an initial damage depending on your intelligent points , This Item works excellent against omnislash , or any physical damage . combine Etheral blade on yourself and boots of travel for great escapes.
Sixth Item : Eye of Skadi
Lastly , this item can provide Slow movement of your target and slow attack speed for them , combine this with linas high attack speed and High Range attack (650) , Your opponent will be dead before he can reach you .
Lina requieres very high Skill for players to Effectively land stun properly on team fights and help your team mates as well as saving yourself from a 5 man gank. This is the ultimate build that worked for me
I think aghanim is required because magic damages are moved to physical. So it is a huge increase of damage.
Eul for me is also required for movement increase and mana regen for few gold.
Force staff doesn't give you more attack speed.
The old force staff was as follows quarter staff + staff of wizardry + 300 gold recipe
which gave + 10 damage, + 10 intelligence and + 10 attack speed.
The new force staff had a ring of regen substituted for the quarter stuff, losing the + 10 damage and + 10 attack speed, but gaining hp regen - this makes it more appealing for supports and somewhat less appealing for intel carries.
Nice guide. This guide should have a section advising when to play carry lina and when not to do so. As I'm sure you are aware, certain heroes can shut down a lina quite easily. Even though carry lina relies a lot on right-click, her passive requires frequent spellcasting. Thus even a right-clicking lina is shut down by silence.
Also, since the lina scepter upgrade buff, you may want to consider getting scepter over/before orchid against carries with magic immunity.
P.D: I one shotted in the face an Antimage with Orchid Malevolence + Aghanim's Scepter <3 that felt sooooo soo goooooooood *-*
In all reality, you should never plan to build lina this way. You should plan to build her as a support first, getting stuff like Mek, Force Staff, or Eul's with an Aghanim's later. Plan on those items, then if you are balling from a ton of ganks, get Orchid or Desolator to pimp yourself out.
Remember, she is still one of the easiest to kill chars in the game. No escape mechanic, slow, and low health and armor. work on fixing those first, then your right click.
True, but sometimes, in particular if you play in pub, you can play Lina in this way, if the enemies are feeding you.
I love to play Lina Semi-carry, and I always pick it, it is a good item, mostly because it help with your squishiness
In all reality, you should never plan to build lina this way. You should plan to build her as a support first, getting stuff like Mek, Force Staff, or Eul's with an Aghanim's later. Plan on those items, then if you are balling from a ton of ganks, get Orchid or Desolator to pimp yourself out.
Remember, she is still one of the easiest to kill chars in the game. No escape mechanic, slow, and low health and armor. work on fixing those first, then your right click.
This is completely correct.
Remember, she is still one of the easiest to kill chars in the game. No escape mechanic, slow, and low health and armor. work on fixing those first, then your right click.
This made me laugh. Hard.
Great guide overall. I like the idea about Orchid instead of Aghanims. It is a little more expensive, but consists of cheaper parts all of which you can get at the sideshop (except the recipe), and provides CC with the silence. But its really offensive and i dont think that this build is really viable in high level games since noone is going to let you walk around with <1k hp and no bkb/burst heal in fights. This build is weak against coordinated teams or 5 man doto or against any kind of hero that builds orchid (direct contestants as gankers like
This is a glass cannon build which is only viable in low to mid skill matchmaking or if you have a 2,5 carries lineup (lina being the 0,5 here, since with an equal farm, rolewise similar heros deal more damage and have escape abilities) and the 2 main carries get their farm going and not a single lane is lost.
What i would be interested in is the question about laning. You would go lane support (since you say that you concentrate on denies), but never lose a word about wards. You say you gank alot, but never lose a word about
Still a good guide, since the most guys reading these guides are not in high mm.