Tinker/Counters

Bad against...

 * Tinker is fragile and vulnerable against carries like Anti-Mage.
 * burns away his mana pool and deals bonus physical damage.
 * Tinker's massive mana pool makes deal large amount of damage, and can be used to cancel a  teleport.
 * gives Anti-Mage many options, like disjointing Heat Seeking Missiles. He can use Blink to wait out of sight for a split pushing Tinker or chase a blinking Tinker into trees.
 * Tinker doesn't want any of his spells reflected back at him through.


 * Clockwerk can easily catch a split pushing Tinker with his and prevent him from escaping with  and.
 * He can find a Tinker hiding in trees with his.
 * Clockwerk usually buys a, which does lots of damage to Tinker if he gets hit by his abilities (especially March of the Machines).


 * provides good sustain against Tinker's spammable abilities.
 * can stop Tinker from bursting down a target.


 * Tinker is heavily reliant on casting his spells and can disable all of his abilities and items. An  only makes it harder for Tinker to survive.


 * can dispel Laser's blind while providing great attack speed and health regeneration.
 * Once caught in a, Tinker, who completely relies on his spells to be effective, has little chances of survival with his low health pool and armor.


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


 * Luna can easily prevent Tinker from escaping with or Rearm with.
 * Luna can also quickly tear Tinker to shreds with as soon as he jumps in with.


 * Night Stalker can easily find Tinker in the trees during.
 * 's mini-stun will stop Rearm and.
 * 's silence will prevent Tinker from fighting back, as Tinker relies on his spells.


 * His whole skillset acts like a counter to Tinker:
 * prevents Tinker from blinding Nyx Assassin or fighting back, while giving Nyx' allies time to catch up to Tinker's position.
 * generally deals more damage to intelligence based heroes like Tinker
 * can stun Tinker at a moment of Nyx Assassin's choosing if March of the Machines has been cast. It is also quite easy to time Spiked Carapace against Heat Seeking Missiles.
 * allows Nyx to approach Tinker in the trees or wait for him in common hiding spots and deal heavy damage to his low armor.


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


 * As Tinker relies heavily on his spells to be effective, and  will render him largely useless.
 * effectively prevents Tinker from casting spells during its duration, as he will otherwise suffer heavy damage.
 * deal pure damage, which make quick work of fragile heroes like Tinker.
 * Silencer's intelligence steal permanently weakens Tinker since he's a hero who requires lots of mana to be effective.


 * prevents Tinker from blinking away.
 * Slark frequently builds, which allows him to approach Tinker unnoticed. Since Tinker's farming usually covers a significant amount of area on the map, Sentry Wards may not be cost effective.
 * allows Slark to detect both common and unusual wards. Eliminating common ward causes Tinker trouble farming many lanes if he does not know who may be waiting to jump on him. Slark is also uniquely able to identify some of the less common wards used by Tinker, such as those placed on the cliffs at map edges which Tinker uses to give him vision over the trees he uses to hide in.
 * Slark's extremely high move speed from, potentially stacked with , allows him to easily follow Tinker between lanes, especially if Tinker has pushed the lanes out.
 * dispels Laser's blind.


 * He can easily catch Tinker in the trees with and kill him with  and his abilities, which deal both physical and magical damage, making them difficult for Tinker to itemize against.


 * can reveal a Tinker attempting to hide in the trees and then and  will both serve to interrupt/lock him down, should he attempt to town portal or reload.


 * Zeus can easily reveal Tinker's location in the trees with.
 * When Zeus has an, he can use his , together with to interrupt Tinker's  channelling and cancel Tinker's.


 * discourages Tinker from using abilities and items due to its high damage against heavy mana usage.


 * can be used to prevent Tinker from escape with or, discourage him from snapping farm and snapping gank. However, in later game, it'll be much more difficult because Tinker can buy  or  to prevent Kunkka from placing X on him, or  to prevent the recall

Others

 * Getting caught in a is a death sentence for Tinker.
 * Illusion heroes, such as, , , will become strong against Tinker in the late game when Tinker's only area of effect damage, March of the Machines, ceases to kill illusions quickly. Without  Tinker is forced to defensively disarm heroes with Laser, leaving illusions free to deal physical damage which Tinker's low armor makes highly effective. In addition,  or , two common pickups against illusion heroes, don't work well on Tinker at all.
 * Heroes that can gain vision over trees to catch Tinker:, ,
 * Heroes with global spells that can reach anywhere on the map:

Items

 * can reflect a lot of damage back to Tinker, especially while using March of the Machines.
 * prevents Tinker from using Laser 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.
 * grants 80% chance to hit attacks.

Good against...

 * Laser can be very effective against as the damage will be amplified while the blind prevents Bloodseeker from landing hits.
 * Tinker is a natural Boots of Travel carrier and Rearm guarantees him escape from Rupture.


 * With, Tinker's Laser completely stops Chaos Knight's damage, forcing him to buy either a Black King Bar for his own survivability while leaving his illusions still vulnerable, or a Monkey King Bar leaving him still vulnerable to Tinker's nukes, though improving his damage.
 * Tinker rarely finds himself in the middle of a fight, which is where Chaos Knight typically thrives, and even in the rare cases of being so, at level 3 Tinker's constant rearm and blink away can kite and dodge Chaos Knight's spells reliably, so Chaos Knight has very little catch against Tinker's mobility. This gives Tinker impunity to create more chaos in a teamfight than Chaos Knight can control, laying down the field with March of the Machines and constantly being hit by rockets and lasers.


 * If Tinker can stay outside of, Laser can cause Faceless Void to miss all his attacks.
 * Faceless Void has low health and strongly relies on 's healing factor to remain alive. Getting caught by Tinker with will almost always spell a quick end for Void.
 * Rearm ignores completely.


 * During the laning stage Laser will reduce Shadow Fiend's last hits, preventing him from getting souls.
 * Shadow Fiend has low health and is vulnerable to Tinker's high magic burst.


 * Tinker can single-handedly stop Terrorblade's early-push and quickly clear his illusions with Laser (especially with ) and March of Machines.
 * Tinker has perfect tools to reveal Terrorblade from his illusions as well as to burst him down if he is low-health before he will be able.


 * All Tinker's damage is magic/pure and completely ignores Timbersaw's.
 * Timbersaw very rarely builds, making him very vulnerable if Tinker builds.

Others

 * Any hero with a low HP pool is easy for Tinker to nuke down:, , , , , , , ,.
 * Heroes who rely on basic attacks will suffer from Laser:, ,.

Works well with...

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


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


 * Tinker and Nature's Prophet are both very good at pushing lanes, and their combined global presence means they can easily show up to help each other.


 * Tinker can teleport onto Spirit Breaker during with  and gank heroes.
 * provides vision of the target, allowing Tinker to chase it with repeated casts of Heat-Seeking Missile.


 * can help Tinker finish off foes after his, Heat-Seeking Missile, Laser, Rearm combo by providing vision when enemies are at low health.
 * significantly increases Tinker's already massive damage output.


 * reduces Tinker's mana usage so he won't have to return to the fountain as often.
 * spam along with March of the Machines makes an area difficult to traverse for the enemy team, so as long as a hero doesn't commit spell immunity.


 * gives True Sight of the target, allowing Tinker to chase it with repeated casts of Heat-Seeking Missile.


 * gives True Sight of the target, allowing Tinker to chase it with repeated casts of Heat-Seeking Missile.

Others


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

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