Tinker/Counters

Bad against...

 * Tinker is fragile and vulnerable against carries like Anti-Mage also, burns away his mana pool and deal bouns physical damage.
 * Tinker's massive mana pool makes deal large amount of damage.


 * His all skills are useful for Tinker
 * can catch Tinker who loves to solo pushing.
 * avoid damages from Tinker except March of the Machines.
 * purges Tinker's buff and slow him.
 * makes Flux more effective. Kill Tinker with with Double Blade Mail.
 * Physical or Magical Arc Warden makes Tinker's escape hard both. Even he has.
 * Because he has as core item, he farms faster than Tinker.
 * Double Last Will also get benefit from March of the Machines. Until Tinker has or, he will die.


 * Clockwerk can easily catch a split pushing Tinker with his and prevent him from escaping with  and.
 * He can find Tinker with his.
 * Clockwerk usually buys a which does lots of damage to Tinker if you get hit by his abilities (especially ).


 * Tinker is heavily reliant on casting his spells and can disable all of his four active abilities and all of his items. Especially with Scepter, Tinker has to countdown his death and revive time.


 * will dispel 's blind and gives her great attack speed and health regeneration.
 * A smart Legion Commander will choose fragile support heroes for like Tinker and at later stages of game, Tinker cannot survive at the end of Duel's duration and this point makes him useless in team fights.


 * will dispel 's blind and turns him magic immune for the duration so Tinker cannot damage him.
 * will quickly bring down Tinker due to being so fragile.


 * He can easily find Tinker in the trees during.
 * 's mini-stun and silence will stop Rearm and while also preventing Tinker from fighting back.


 * His whole skillset act like a counter to Tinker:
 * allows approaching Tinker in the trees or waiting for him in common hiding spots and dealing heavy damage to his low armor
 * can stun Tinker from a distance because of March of the Machines
 * generally deals more damage to intelligence based heroes like Tinker
 * prevents Tinker from blinding Nyx Assassin or fighting back, while giving Nyx' allies time to catch up to Tinker's position.


 * He can a Tinker hiding in the trees and follow it up with  and  forn eay solo kill, as Tinker doesn't tend to buy survivability items.
 * His innate magic resistance and huge HP pool from makes it hard for Tinker to deal serious damage to Pudge.


 * will force Tinker not to cast any spells and if not, he will take more damage.
 * deals pure damage and makes quick work of fragile Tinker.
 * causes Tinker to get silenced for 6 seconds after casting a spell.
 * will prevent Tinker to use his spells in team fights, which makes him useless.


 * Slark's shutdown Tinker's escape every way except in the case that he has invisible item like  or  base item.
 * Mostly Slark build bash item or slow item so he can kill Tinker with little injury.
 * ,, , , make him tanky enough for kill Tinker alone.


 * He can easily catch Tinker in the trees with and kill him with  and his abilities, all of which deal much damage to Tinker.

Others

 * Faceless Void's make Tinker unable to act and easy to be targeted first.
 * Illusion heroes, such as ,.
 * Meepo

Items

 * can reflect a lot of damage back to Tinker, especially while using
 * prevents Tinker from using and his targeted items.
 * makes all of Tinker's spells and items useless, because they are all magical and don't penetrate spell immunity.
 * reflects his spells and items back onto himself.

Good against...

 * Tinker can easily hold back Lunas early pushes with and .  gets even stronger against Luna, as soon as Tinker gets an.


 * Tinker can deal a great amount of damage against Shadow Fiend's low HP at early game while using a good combination of and
 * can also make Shadow Fiend miss a lot of last hits, disabling


 * Tinker can easily farm and kill Nature's Prophets treants by using.


 * Tinker's can make Faceless Void totally useless especially if Tinker can stay outside of  and make him miss all his attacks
 * Faceless Void's can't affect Tinker's as he can have his abilities without cooldown thanks to, even if his abilities are already affected by

Others

 * Any hero with a low HP pool is easy for Tinker to nuke down:, , , , , ,.

Works well with...

 * Faceless Void's provides a great setup for Tinkers spells.


 * allows Tinker to teleport out of base and get recalled as soon as he's in danger.


 * Reason


 * Tinker can teleport onto Spirit Breaker during with  and gank heroes.


 * can help Tinker finish off foes after his, , , combo by providing vision when enemies are at low health.

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