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 and Heat-Seeking Missile, makes 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 items, mana management, and ability management, in the right hands, there is little that stands in the way of this hero.

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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.
 * Tinker's responses upon killing 's Spiderlings Tink rare 07.mp3 "Lamarr, is that you?" and Tink rare 08.mp3 "Lamarr?!" are a reference to Dr. Kleiner's "debeaked" pet headcrab, Hedy Lamarr.
 * Many of Tinker's lines while using Rearm come directly from Half-Life 2 including Tink ability rearm 09.mp3 "The massless field flux should self-limit" and Tink 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 Tink respawn 08.mp3 "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 Tink death 10.mp3 "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).
 * Tinker's death line Tink death 08.mp3 "The machine, stops." is a reference to the short story of the same name by E.M. Forster.
 * Tinker's phrase "With my brains and your brawn, we'll make an excellent team" taken from Half-Life, from scientist.