Tinker

Boush the Tinker is a ranged intelligence Hero who relies heavily on his assortment of nukes for ganking and pushing. While he does have rather low stat gain, he is able to reset the cooldown on his abilities, which in conjunction with Boots of Travel gives Tinker global mobility rivaled only by Nature's Prophet, which combined with his two high damage nukes, Laser & Heat-Seeking Missile make him a constant threat. Tinker abilities' mana costs are very high, however thanks to his ultimate Rearm, and Boots of Travel, Tinker can simply to go back to base to refill health and mana, Rearm and go back to the lane to push or gank once more. Acquiring said boots early with a level advantage is key to success, considering he is lackluster without them. With the right item, mana management, and ability management, there is little that stands in the way of this hero.

Tips

 * has an extremely long range. With Rearm, you can continuously spam missiles as to harass enemy heroes and wear them down in preparation of a fight.
 * is a perfect farming and anti-push tool, as enemies cannot avoid the damage if they wish to attack anything in the affected area. You can overlap several March of the Machines using Rearm to deal massive area of effect damage.
 * along with with allows Tinker to jump into action from anywhere, and return to the fountain often to regenerate.
 * and are both vital items to prolong the time you spend away from the fountain. The 150 mana boost from  makes up for Rearm's mana cost at level 1.
 * You can stack commands by holding Shift (also called Shift-queuing) to prevent unintentional Rearm interruptions. Tinker will perform stacked commands right after finishing Rearm.
 * Pick up a positioning item such as or  after Boots of Travel to counter smart opponents predicting your teleports and ambushing you on the lane. Shift-queuing Blink Dagger after teleporting allows you to safely cast March of the Machines from the trees without fear of retaliation, making potential ganks harder.
 * March of the Machines deals Universal damage, which goes through magic immunity and damages ancients as well as siege creeps.
 * There are several locations where intelligently-placed March of the Machines can considerably improve your farm.
 * A mid-laning Radiant Tinker may stack the easily accessible ancient camp every minute to gain considerable bonus income in the laning phase with a March-focused build.
 * On Dire, Tinker can aim the ability on the trees to the right side of their ancient camp to defend his off-lane tower and farm the ancients at the same time.
 * Also on Dire, a well-placed March of the Machines can cover the two eastern-most camps in the jungle. Both camps can be simultaneously stacked by timing this correctly.
 * It is a good idea to delay learning level 2 or 3 of until Tinker has a much larger mana pool.
 * Always keep enough mana handy to escape and teleport back to the fountain, as Tinker is a very squishy and vulnerable hero when caught out in the open.
 * , when used with, , and can output massive amounts of damage.
 * is situational pick-up for teams threatened by robust auto-attackers such as Ursa and Huskar, allowing you to disable their auto-attack for 6-6.5 seconds per Rearm between the Halberd's Disarm and your Laser.
 * Careless pushing may result in your own carries being unable to find farm, while enemies are allowed to farm close to their towers.

Trivia

 * The Tinker's voice actor, Harry "Hal" Robins, also voiced Dr. Isaac Kleiner in Half-Life 2 and the scientists of Black Mesa in Half-Life. Many of Tinker's voice lines reference characters and events from the Half-Life universe. In addition, the name "Violet Plateau" is quite similar to "Black Mesa," and the events described in Tinker's backstory are remarkably similar to the events of Half-Life.
 * Many of Tinker's lines while using Rearm come directly from Half-Life 2 including tinker_ability_rearm_09.mp3 "The massless field flux should self-limit" and tinker_ability_rearm_10.mp3 "I've clamped the manifold parameters to… CY base and LG orbifold… Hilbert inclusive".
 * The Tinker's alternate/fun name in DotA was "X!!", name of a professional DotA player.
 * Tinker's line "I tink! Therefore I am!" is a reference to the philosophical statement "I think, therefore I am." proposed by René Descartes. Its original Latin words are "Cogito ergo sum."
 * Tinker's line "Tinker, failure…Soldier…Fie…" is a reference to the 1974 spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by British author John le Carré about George Smiley (who was played by Gary Oldman in the 2011 film adaptation).