Squee, Spleen and Spoon! - The GoblinTechies

Why is about the hype for Goblin Techies?

Techies is the Divine Rapier of heroes,not because of he gives out high damage right clicks,it's his uniqueness that attracts people.In Dota 1,he's like Pudge,getting picked almost in every game.There are 2 types of Techies in the world of Dota:

a)a complete god,bringing fear into his enemies' hearts.Trying to buy something at the sideshop,BOOM!Trying to jungle,BOOM!Trying to grab a rune,BOOM!

b) 2-14-3,enemy has a 10 minute gem.

Pros/Cons

Pros
-Have one of the highest damage spells at early game,Land Mines deal 300 damage at Lvl1
-Fun to play
-Has a high damage suicide skill which can instantly destroy your opponents while denying gold to them.
-Good against melee mid heroes as you can plant land mines near the creep wave.
-Doesn't need to stay in lane
-Have a long attack range


Cons

-Really terrible attack animation in D1
-Can be easily countered with a gem
-Very slow movement speed
-Useless without a decent team

Item explanation

Early Game
You might wonder why to buy a Town teleportation scroll at the beginning of the game.It is used to tp to your assigned lane and place 'first blood mines'.

Clarity are used to constantly place land mines at the same spot as you have little mana in the early game.

Tango to make sure you don't die stupidly.

Mid Game

A Soul Ring to solve all the mana problems alongside with an Arcane Boots.

Your biggest item,the great Aghanim's Scepter,helps you a lot in teamfight as you can plant remote mines from a safe distance.

Luxury and situational
As you have a long attack range,you can easily chase people down with Eye of Skadi.
Get an Animal Courier if no one in your team does it.
Scythe of Vyse and Orchid Malevolence provides your team a great disable and decent hp and mana regen.
Bloodstone gives great hp and mana regen.
Dagon for the burst damage.
Blink Dagger and Force Staff for escaping and positioning.Not to mention that you use Force Staff to push people into your mines.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity gives you great movement speed and the ability to land a statis trap perfectly]]

Early game

As mentioned on top,tp to lane,plant first blood mines,if you opt for a bottle,rune ***** all the time and set traps all around at common spots.Try to get the first blood as you are a snowball type of hero and you don't need to farm.Disrupt enemy pulls with land mines and steal some of the enemy jungler's gold source with land mines.

You can also plant land mines in the lane to push the lane and tower in early stages of the game.

Mid game

Roam around the map and search for kills and planting Remote mines as wards.Try getting a few kills for your carry.Continue controlling runes.

Late game

Use remote mines as wards around your base and the enemy's,you can also use land mines and remote mines to push and counterpush.FYI,land mines also deals damage to towers!

Foes

Batrider,I have to mention,this big jerk,he just flies over your mines,taking advantage of your low movement speed by draining you in his flames,at last using Lasso to drag you to your death.

Phantom Lancer, Naga Siren, Terrorblade,heroes with illusion skills,they can just make their illusions to walk over your traps.

Huskar, Anti-Mage, Pudge and heroes that have high magic resistance.

Wombo combo

Tiny + Goblin Techies,toss into suicide,kills.

Pudge + Goblin Techies,hooks enemy into mines.

Dark Seer + Goblin Techies,vacuum into huge disaster.

Land mines planting spots

TECHIES IS COMING!

From Cyborgmatt's video I can tell that Techies is coming to Dota2!

Hope new players don't pick him :x

UNDERSTAND THE HERO BEFORE YOU PLAY HIM