Lina/Counters

Bad against...

 * High strength, decent to very high armor and high likelihood of spell immunity makes this hero one of the hardest to take down with magic nukes and right click attacks.
 * He can build and benefit greatly from it damage-wise, while eating up your whole  upgrade, which is Lina's only consistent way to damage Sven.


 * Lina has lots of mana and expensive spells, but low health. Apply a timely after she uses her spell combo or just her ultimate on later levels.
 * and make Lina's delayed stun, magic damage and slow-moving long-range attacks likely to get disjointed, blinked out of or heavily mitigated.
 * One missed stun and Lina is a sitting duck against Anti-Mage's mobility and.


 * Nyx Assassin's high burst damage combo against a low armor-low HP Lina will more often that not ensure an easy kill. Her high Int growth allows to do insane damage and should she survive, she will probably not be able to get too many spells off afterwards thanks to her high mana costs.
 * A well timed will turn Lina's powerful nukes against her and stun her in kind: an intercepted  allows a crafty Nyx Assassin to stun you from afar and move in to finish you off whilst you are helpless. A reflected  will most likely annihilate most of your HP pool by itself. Make sure Nyx is disabled before using your high damage abilities against him.


 * and prevents Lina from casting any spells, causing her to not benefit from . Her damage output is severely diminished because of this.


 * 's causes him to be completely immune to all of Lina's burst, until she gets an . Even then,  heals up Lifestealer, and Lina will still have a very tough time locking down Lifestealer with  because of this.
 * Because Lina has no natural gap creators other than the movement speed bonus of, is devastating to her. She will be forced to save  to dispel Open Wounds off herself, meaning that she cannot use it to initiate on any of Lifestealer's teammates and expect to live.


 * can very easily close the distance on Lina with and  and due to Lina's abysmal mobility without a  and terrible health pool and armor, Lina easily gets slaughtered due to.
 * can mitigate a good portion of Lina's burst damage, allowing Spectre to turn against her afterwards.


 * and are both fairly easily telegraphed, so  can dodge both with.
 * and allows Phantom Lancer to quickly close the gap on Lina and allow him to stick on her.
 * Beware that Lina has good enough AOE damage that she can kill off Phantom Lancer's illusions if he does not get health boosting items.


 * Though you have two abilities which can damage Slark through his Ultimate, he will still make short work of you due to your low armor and health pool. He can also purge off the stun from your Light Strike Array and will often enough have ample time to see it coming. He is, however, weak to your burst, so try to ensure you kill him before he can get any of his abilities off.

Others

 * Pudge
 * Timbersaw
 * Arc Warden
 * Legion Commander
 * Faceless Void
 * Wraith King
 * Dragon Knight
 * Slardar
 * Huskar
 * Troll Warlord

Items

 * reduces lina's damage potential.
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Good against...

 * Enchantress has pitiful health. She cannot tank Lina's heavy magic damage. Lina's has massive range, potentially hitting back-liners like Enchantress.
 * is decently countered by Lina's, exposing Enchantress' weakness to physical damage due to her low armor.
 * Lina is decent at clearing creep camps, making her not-too-useless against Enchantress' creeps.
 * could prove crucial against a centaur conqueror chain-stun, for example


 * Low HP hero, Lina can nuke her down easily.
 * Crystal Maiden's is channeling, Lina can use her  to cancel it easily.


 * Lina's high damage burst from, and  can easily destroy Phantom Assassin.


 * Skywrath Mage is weak to Lina's long range and attacks and has to commit farther into her range to trade with her, potentially killing him.


 * Lina can cancel with  and also quickly kill Shadow Shaman.


 * Mirana's does little good to her against Lina's  and.
 * Lina's damage burst can quickly kill Mirana's teammate before she saves them with.
 * Mirana is weak to Lina's long range because she is always reliant on  to get into her range to trade with her, which can potentially kill Mirana.


 * Terrorblade will be often killed by Lina's damage burst before he saves himself with.


 * Lina can easily cancel with  while at same time exposing Sand King to Lina's team.

Others

 * Any low HP Hero
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Works well with...

 * can easily set-up an early/mid game gank with his to cast Lina's  which otherwise have a long cast-time and successively nuke down.


 * can ensure a perfect to disable some escape hero for long enough time to quickly finish off.
 * with her long range harasses works well as a lane support of.


 * can hugely increase the magic damage output of all of 's skills and also the slow ensures a perfect


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 * 's (and later ) is a perfect set up for  and combining your nukes together will usually assure a kill.

Others

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List of heroes that counter Lina, and list of heroes that work well with Lina.