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Carry Lina

November 27, 2011 by exTro#154404
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Build 1

Build 1: Carry Lina

DotA2 Hero: Lina


Lina

Offense

Damage 37-55

Defense

Armor 1.24

Other

Movement Speed 295

Attributes

Strength 55.5
Agility 53.5
Intelligence 104

Basic Stats

Health 1556
Mana 1599

Purchase Order

Start Items

Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game



Hero Skills

Dragon Slave

2 3 5 7

Light Strike Array

1 4 8 9

Fiery Soul

10 12 13 14

Laguna Blade

6 11 16

Stats

15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25


Carry Lina

exTro#154404
November 27, 2011

1.Introduction
2.Pros / Cons
3.Skills
4.Items
5.Team Work
6.Conclusion

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Introduction

Hello to my "Carry Lina"-Guide and my 3rd guide here on DotaFire.

She is an awesome spellcaster who can deal tons of burst damage and with this build I want to deal damage after my spells are on cooldown and to have so much mana regen that I can cast my abilities the whole day.

So I hope you will enjoy her like me as I played HoN with Pyromancer and there is my guide: http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/heroesguide_view.php?gid=12475

Have Fun!

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Pros / Cons

Pros:

+ High burst damage caster
+ Can carry with this build
+ With this build you have enough mana regen to cast your abilities the whole day
+ You should be able to take a bit of damage
+ With a combo she can kill early game instantly kill someone

Cons:

- Low mana pool early
- Very slow early on
- Her spells get weaker later on

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Skills

Now here is the explanation of the skills who are very awesome for a caster:

Q - Dragon Slave

This skill deals a nice amount of damage early game. It looks like a fire dragon and you can cast it near you and all enemys in the range of it get damage from it.

W - Light Strike Array

This spell deals magic damage in a small AoE radius and you can cast it near you. The good thing is you can stun the target/s. With the "Light Strike Array + Dragon Slave"-Combo you can deal nice damage on the enemys.

E - Fiery Soul

This skill is a passive what gives you after every spell you cast attack speed and movement speed for a short period of time. So it can stack up to three times.

R - Laguna Blade

This spell can deals tons of burst damage to one enemy and is mostly the lasthit on an enemy. The Combo what is very awesome and early game a 100% kill is: Light Strike Array > Dragon Slave > Laguna Blade.

The combo can be used also as that and should be always used in that form:
Light Strike Array > Dragon Slave > Laguna Blade > Normal Attacks

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Items

The items should give you everything you need in every case:

Start Items:

Iron Branch - Gives you good stats early game.

Healing Salve - This helps you to stay on lane.

Circlet - Gives you good stats early game.


Early Game:

Null Talisman - Gives you nice stats especially intelligence.

Phase Boots - It gives you damage, speed and a nice extra-speed-active. The damage is nice and it helps farming early game.

Aghanim's Scepter - This is a must have for Lina because the stats are nice and the ultimate get a huge damage buff.

Mid Game:

Bloodstone - It's an other very nice item. It gives you nice stats. HP, Mana (what is really helpful on her), HP-/Mana-Regen and a nice passive. I don't explain the passive but you can read it every time here on Dotafire: http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/items.

Orchid Malevolence - This item is very very great on my Lina-Carry-Build. It gives us all we need as an caster-carry: Intelligence, Attack Speed, Damage and Mana-Regen (the highest in the game if I remember correctly). For this build it's also a must have.

Dagon - This is an awesome item with nice stats and a burst damage active what is perfect for Lina with her other burst-cast-spells. It can be upgraded 5 times with buying the recipe more times. The stats are Intelligence (what will be increased after buying the recipe more times). A few points to all stats and a bit damage. The damage of the active will be increased to by buing the recipe more times. Also the Manacost, Cooldown and Range of it.

Late Game:

Linken's Sphere - It is a great item later on because it gives more Mana/HP-Regen a few points to all attributes and a spell block passive with a 20 second cooldown.

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Team Work

You can gank and with Light Strike Array you will make a kill maybe with ur team if you can land it. You should try farm of course but later on your stun and your burst can be important in the team fight to destroy the carry.

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Conclusion

Lina is awesome and makes a lot fun with her burst damage and can be very strong after she used her abilities with this build.

Try her out and feel the fire in your hands and burn the enemys away with your abilities and let the ash from your enemys rain to the ground and let it breeze away from the air.

Have fun and play in team to be successgful.

Your Lina-Fan

exTro

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Quote | PM | +Rep by dirrwen » November 28, 2011 8:20am | Report
I don't find Agha's as core as other items on Lina, since your ult is only single-target damage. Those are pretty weird items even for a carry Lina. Orchid, I don't like at all. Sheep makes you better overall, and even gives some survivability. Dagon is a pretty bad choice for Lina because unless you go an actual carry build (guinsoo, mkb etc) you won't scale with kills, so why take them? Just use stun+nuke+nuke to soften targets up for your real carry. Also your Pyro guide is private =(
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Quote | PM | +Rep by exTro#154404 » November 28, 2011 9:56am | Report
Thanks to you here dirrwen.

Okay? The guide isn't private is it? Hmm I looks now (28.11.2011 - 18:48). Oh man. Thank you. Your right... Sorry. Now it should work (28.11.2011 - 18:53). I have to do that with other guides now!

Anyways. As I started playing with this build with Pyromancer it works really good and was fed mostly times. The E is just useful for the lasthits in my opinion and I made a carry guide to be not helpless after I used my skills thats the trick here. The point is I must spam my skills before I stack my E. I don't know here also how this works in Dota 2 because I don't have a Beta Key yet :(.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by dirrwen » November 28, 2011 2:41pm | Report
Quoted:

Thanks to you here dirrwen.

Okay? The guide isn't private is it? Hmm I looks now (28.11.2011 - 18:48). Oh man. Thank you. Your right... Sorry. Now it should work (28.11.2011 - 18:53). I have to do that with other guides now!

Anyways. As I started playing with this build with Pyromancer it works really good and was fed mostly times. The E is just useful for the lasthits in my opinion and I made a carry guide to be not helpless after I used my skills thats the trick here. The point is I must spam my skills before I stack my E. I don't know here also how this works in Dota 2 because I don't have a Beta Key yet :(.

Ohh I see. I thought you mean literal carry items, like MKB and daedalus. Now I realize that your "carry" lina uses a lot of mana and regen to spam skills to stack up e for more autoattacks while your spells CD. And the Pyro guide works ;D
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Quote | PM | +Rep by exTro#154404 » November 29, 2011 9:32am | Report
Haha dirrwen. That's fine and thanks that you said that with the HoN guide :). Yeah maybe is "carry" not the correct term but I didn't know how I should call it. So I hope this guide works in game too hehe. :)
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Quote | PM | +Rep by PotatisFarfar » November 29, 2011 9:35am | Report
No dagger.

Agga as core?

no guinsoo? :o.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by exTro#154404 » November 29, 2011 10:25am | Report
Are you are a troll? xD

I think it's a core because it gives you awesome stats and your ultimate gets a huge damage buff because you lose damage later on.

No Dagger and no Guinsoo how you can see. I know what I'm building ;).
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Quote | PM | +Rep by PotatisFarfar » November 29, 2011 10:34am | Report
It increases damage by 300.

Maybe luxury, but never core!

I don't even understand what you said at the end...
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Quote | PM | +Rep by Soleplayer » November 29, 2011 11:48pm | Report
Lina needs armor... Give her a shiva's guard..
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Quote | PM | +Rep by exTro#154404 » November 30, 2011 12:57pm | Report
PotatisFarfar wrote:

No dagger.

Agga as core?

no guinsoo? :o.


@PotatisFarfar

What do you mean with "No dagger." and "no guinsoo?" then ;).

In my opinion it's a core because the damage falls of late game and this isn't as bad. The stats it gives are very useful on her. I know what I'm talkin about. So let me build her how I like to build her. :)

@Soleplayer

The name "Carry-Lina" should say enough to your "she needs armor" comment.
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Quote | PM | +Rep by dirrwen » December 8, 2011 10:22am | Report
But her ult is SINGLE TARGET, Agha's is a terrible pickup for Lina. Sure, you get like 100 more burst on ONE TARGET, and it won't change ANYTHING.
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