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Lina #8 20 + 2.4 23 + 2.4 30 + 3.8
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 20 460 1186 1978 2286 +0.25 +2.25 +5.61 +9.21 +10.61 Mana 80 440 1076 1676 1928 +0 +1.5 +4.16 +6.66 +7.71 Armor 0 3.83 9.43 15.43 17.77 Magic Resist 25% 28% 33.32% 38.32% 40.42% Damage Block - Damage 21 29 51 59 104 112 154 162 175 183 Attack Rate 0.63/s 0.77/s 0.98/s 1.2/s 1.29/s Attack Range 670 (750) Attack Speed ▶️ 100 (1.6s BAT) Attack Animation 0.65 + 0.6 Projectile Speed 1000 Move Speed ▶️ 290 ( 320) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Fire Internal npc_dota_hero_lina

Increases attack and speed with every spell.
Like her younger sister, Lina's elemental affinity was the source of many headaches. Sent south to live with a patient aunt, she learned to master her Fiery Soul in the blazing Desert of Misrule. Channeling the breath of Desert Wyrms, she unleashes her Dragon Slave to burn a path before her. Attuned to fire, Lina ignites the ground, incinerating foes in a Column of Flame. Even the hardiest of heroes fear the Slayer's signature spell — The Laguna Blade. Supercharging every bit of heat around her, and Cloaking Herself in Flames, Lina fires a condensed bolt of white-hot energy, instantly evaporating her opponent with minimal struggle or effort.
Roles:	Support Carry Nuker Disabler
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Female, Fiery, Flying, Red, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

Lina, the Slayer

▶️ "Fire makes a fine servant, but a harsh mistress."

Lore:

The sibling rivalries between Lina the Slayer, and her younger sister Rylai, the Crystal Maiden, were the stuff of legend in the temperate region where they spent their quarrelsome childhoods together. Lina always had the advantage, however, for while Crystal was guileless and naive, Lina's fiery ardor was tempered by cleverness and conniving. The exasperated parents of these incompatible offspring went through half a dozen homesteads, losing one to fire, the next to ice, before they realized life would be simpler if the children were separated. As the oldest, Lina was sent far south to live with a patient aunt in the blazing Desert of Misrule, a climate that proved more than comfortable for the fiery Slayer. Her arrival made quite an impression on the somnolent locals, and more than one would-be suitor scorched his fingers or went away with singed eyebrows, his advances spurned. Lina is proud and confident, and nothing can dampen her flame.

Alias:

Slayer

Voice:

Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Dragon Slave

▶️▶️QD

Ability
Target Point / Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path and burns them over time.

Cast Animation: 0.45+0.38

Cast Range: 800

Starting Radius: 275

Travel Distance: 1075

End Radius: 200

Impact Damage: 75/150/225/300

Damage per Second: 10/20/30/40

Debuff Duration: 3

 Target Critical Damage: 150%

 11/10/9/8 ( 7.5/6.5/5.5/4.5)

 100/115/130/145

Modifiers [?]

modifier_dragon_slave_burn

Any

In the scorched barren of Misrule, Lina learned to manipulate the fiery breath of the Desert Wyrm as a form of entertainment.

• Dragon Slave travels at a speed of 1200, taking 0.9 seconds to travel the full distance.

• With the travel distance and end radius, it can hit units up to 1275 range away.

• The complete area is shaped like a cone.

• Dragon Slave first applies the base damage, then the debuff.

• Applies a debuff on enemies upon impact which deals damage in 1-second intervals, starting 1 second after it is placed, resulting in 3 instances.
  • Can deal up to 105/210/315/420 total damage (before reductions).
  • The debuff from successive cast does not stack but refreshes the duration.

• Deals the following amount of damage:
  • SCEPTER
    While Flame Cloak is active, it can deal up to 141.75/283.5/425.25/567 damage.
  • SHARD
    • With max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 245/350/455/560 damage.
    • The ability damage bonus per stack does not affect the damage per second component.
  • With both Flame Cloak active and max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 330.75/472.5/614.25/756 while active.

• TALENT
  The critical strike only applies to the caster's attacks against the debuffed enemy, other units under their control do not crit.
  • If the caster is a ranged hero, already launched attacks do not crit if the target gets tracked before projectile impact.
  • Vice versa, already launched attacks do crit if the track debuff expires before the projectiles land.
  • If another source of critical strike procs on the same attack, the higher multiplier has priority.

Light Strike Array

▶️▶️WT

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.

Cast Animation: 0.45+0.67/0.43

Cast Range: 700

Effect Radius: 250

Effect Delay: 0.5

Damage: 110/160/210/260 ( 260/310/360/410)

Stun Duration: 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2

 13/11/9/7

 100/115/130/145

Modifiers [?]

modifier_lina_light_strike_array

Undispellable

modifier_stunned

Strong

Lina's essence allows her to focus the sun's energies, causing air to combust at will.

• Light Strike Array first applies the debuff, then the damage.

• Destroys trees within its radius after the effect delay.

• The visual effects and the sound during the 0.5-second effect delay are only visible and audible to allies.

• Lina has two different animations for this ability, leading to two possible cast backswing durations.

• Deals the following amount of damage (before reductions):
  • SCEPTER
    While Flame Cloak is active, it can deal up to 148.5/216/283.5/351 ( 351/418.5/486/553.5) damage.
  • SHARD
    With max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 250/300/350/400 ( 400/450/500/550) damage.
  • With both Flame Cloak active and max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 337.5/405/472.5/540 (540/607.5/675/742.5) while active.

Fiery Soul

EF

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

Grants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina hits an enemy with a spell. Stacks with itself. Lasts 18 seconds.

Max Stacks: 7

Move Speed Bonus per Stack: 1%/1.5%/2%/2.5% ( 2%/2.5%/3%/3.5%)

Attack Speed Bonus per Stack: 8/16/24/32 ( 18/26/34/42)

Stack Duration: 18

 Ability Damage Bonus per Stack: 20

Laguna Blade Supercharged

Max Stacks: 10

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Lina's spells deal 20 more damage for each Fiery Soul Charge.

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Abilities reflected from Lina also grants a stack.

Break Notes:

Prevents gaining new stacks.

Existing stacks still provide bonus movement and attack speed.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_lina_fiery_soul

Undispellable

Ability Draft Notes:

Stacks granted are not limited to Lina's abilities, however, restrictions listed in the notes still apply.

The damage bonus only works for Lina's default abilities.

Dancing flames embody Lina's playful nature, bringing out her true blazing self.

• Grants a stack whenever one of Lina's abilities deal damage to enemies (before reductions), including to buildings.
  • Does not trigger on active item abilities, on abilities with 0 cooldown, or on abilities which do not trigger on-cast effects.
  • The stacks share a duration, gaining a new instance refreshes the entire stack.

• This is how much bonus movement speed and attack speed Fiery Soul grants respectively, up to 7 stacks on each level:
  • 2 Stacks:
    • 2%/3%/4%/5% ( 4%/5%/6%/7%) movement speed
    • 16/32/48/64 ( 36/52/68/84) attack speed.
  • 3 Stacks:
    • 3%/4.5%/6%/7.5% ( 6%/7.5%/9%/10.5%) movement speed
    • 24/48/72/96 ( 54/78/102/126) attack speed.
  • 4 Stacks:
    • 4%/6%/8%/10% ( 8%/10%/12%/14%) movement speed
    • 32/64/96/128 ( 72/104/136/168) attack speed.
  • 5 Stacks:
    • 5%/7.5%/10%/12.5% ( 10%/12.5%/15%/17.5%) movement speed
    • 40/80/120/160 ( 90/130/170/210) attack speed.
  • 6 Stacks:
    • 6%/9%/12%/15% ( 12%/15%/18%/21%) movement speed
    • 48/96/144/192 ( 108/156/204/252) attack speed.
  • 7 Stacks:
    • 7%/10.5%/14%/17.5% ( 14%/17.5%/21%/24.5%) movement speed
    • 56/112/168/224 ( 126/182/238/294) attack speed.
  • SHARD
    Also increases the damage of Lina's abilities by a flat 20/40/60/80/100/120/140 with each amount of stacks.

Flame Cloak

▶️DL

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Grants Lina unobstructed movement and increases her spell damage and magic resistance

Cast Animation:  0+0

Magic Resistance Bonus: 35%

Spell Amp Bonus: 35%

Duration: 8

Fiery Soul

Set Max Stacks: 7

 25

 50

Modifiers [?]

modifier_lina_flame_cloak

Death

Ability Draft Notes:

Only turns Lina and Rubick into a flying unit upon cast, other units do not ascend up and are still considered ground units.

Requires drafting Laguna Blade to be unlocked.

A natural defense equally suited to keeping anything from unwanted sisters to snarling hellbeasts at bay.

• Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

• Interrupts Lina's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Grants the following bonuses while active:
  • Sets Fiery Soul stacks to 7 upon cast.
    • Has the same set max stacks priority with Laguna Blade. Casting Laguna Blade after Flame Cloak replaces the set max stacks value to the current max stacks, and vice versa.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
    • Increases Lina's magic resistance to 51.25%.
    • With the magic resistance bonus from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 0.65%. [?]
  • Turns Lina into a flying unit, allowing her to fly over impassable terrain, trees, units, and buildings for its duration.
    • However, it does not grant her flying vision.
    • Lina is not disabled while flying and can use any items and abilities normally.
  • Applies generic outgoing damage manipulation on Lina. Stacks additively with other sources of generic outgoing damage manipulation.
    • Affects only spell damage sourced to Lina. Does not amplify damage flagged as HP removal.

• Upon cast, Lina ascends 100 units above the z-axis at a speed of 350, taking 0.29 seconds to fully ascend up and down.
  • The flight speed equals Lina's current movement speed.
• SPELL STEAL
  Does not turn Rubick into a flying unit.

Laguna Blade

▶️RG

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage. Temporarily Supercharges Lina giving her 10 stacks of Fiery Soul.

Cast Animation: 0.45+0.7

Cast Range: 600

Effect Delay: 0.25

Damage: 500/700/900

Buff Duration: 5

Fiery Soul

Set Max Stacks: 10 ( 15)

 70/60/50 ( 45/35/25)

 150/300/450

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Flame Cloak ability.

Debuff Immunity Notes:

Does not pierce debuff immunity.

Fully pierces debuff immunity.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_lina_laguna_blade_line

Undispellable

modifier_lina_laguna_supercharged

Any

modifier_lina_laguna_blade

Death

The air around Lina becomes so intensely torrid that it scorches a foe that came too close with white-hot lightning.

• Places a debuff on the target, which applies the damage upon expiring. The debuff lasts 0.25 seconds.
  • This means the ability can be avoided by being invulnerable or hidden as the debuff expires.

• Upon cast, Laguna Blade first sets Fiery Soul max stacks to 10 ( 15) upon cast, then set the stack amount to 10 ( 15) for the buff duration.
  • The stacks are then reduced to 7 once the buff expires.
  • Has the same set max stacks priority with Flame Cloak. Casting Laguna Blade after Flame Cloak replaces the set max stacks value to the current max stacks value, and vice versa.

• Laguna Blade first applies the damage, then grants the stacks.
  • Therefore, the outgoing damage is not affected by the Ability Upgrade.

• Deals the following amount of damage (before reductions):
  • SCEPTER
    While Flame Cloak is active, it can deal up to 675/945/1215 damage.
  • SHARD
    With max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 640/840/1040 damage.
  • With both Flame Cloak active and max Fiery Soul stacks, it can deal up to 864/1134/1404 while active.

• Cannot be cast on Couriers.

Talents

Hero Talents
+150% Crit On Targets Affected by Dragon Slave	25	-25s Laguna Blade Cooldown
+10/1% Fiery Soul Per Stack	20	+5 Laguna Blade Supercharged Stacks
+150 Light Strike Array Damage	15	+325 Health
-3.5s Dragon Slave Cooldown	10	+25 Damage

Notes:

• Grants bonus attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

• The health talent increases the max health capacity and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

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7.35

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +11% spell damage amplification ➜ +5 Laguna Blade Supercharged stacks.

  LVL 25

   

  Laguna Blade pure damage and pierces spell immunity ➜ +150% self critical damage against targets affected by Dragon Slave. [?]

7.34b

• Increased Dragon Slave debuff duration from 2 to 3.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +20 attack damage increased to +25.

  LVL 15

   

  +275 health increased to +325.

7.34

• Dragon Slave
  • Now also applies a 2-second debuff that deals 10/20/30/40 damage per second. [?]
  • Reduced impact damage from 85/165/245/325 to 75/150/225/300.
• Rescaled Light Strike Array mana cost from 115 on each level to 100/115/130/145.
• Laguna Blade
  • Now increases max Fiery Soul stacks by 3 and grants max stacks upon cast.
  • Has a 5-second buff duration.

</div> </div>

Recommended Items

Starting items:

• Tango restores health to keep Lina in lane.
• Null Talisman gives attributes and mana regeneration.
• Clarity sustains mana so Lina can keep using abilities, threatening enemies more.
• Regular Stick is useful for absolutely no reason.
• Boots of Speed helps Lina get into position to land her abilities while avoiding danger zones.
• Bottle is a common pickup for Lina when playing in the mid lane.

Early game:

• Arcane Boots is a must-have item for Lina no matter which role she is playing, as the mana replenish will allow Lina to use her abilities more often and restore her own and her allies's mana.
• Force Staff gives Lina more intelligence, health and an escape tool for either escaping or chasing enemy heroes. Later it can be upgraded into Hurricane Pike that can also give her more attack range.
• Witch Blade gives Lina attack speed, armor, more intelligence, and increases the traveling speed of her attack projectiles while also providing Lina with true strike every 9 seconds.

Mid game:

• Eul's Scepter of Divinity enhances Lina's positioning and greatly boosts mana regeneration. It can also be used to set up Light Strike Array more reliably.
• Aghanim's Scepter will give Lina access to Flame Cloak ability that will allow her to gain unobstructed movement, magical damage resitance and extra spell damage.
• Black King Bar will give Lina spell immunity, which will allow Lina to use her abilities and to attack enemy heroes with minimal risk of getting affected by enemy abilities, it will also increase her strength and attack damage.
• Hurricane Pike, an upgrade for Force Staff gives Lina extra mobility to use for either escaping or catching up with enemy heroes and the increased attack range that allows her to attack enemies from safer distances.

Late game:

• Crystalys provides a good damage boost when playing as a semi-carry Lina, and can be upgraded to Daedalus or Khanda.
• Parasma, an upgrade for Witch Blade will allow Lina's attacks to weaken magic resistance by 20% for 3 seconds, making them more vulnerable to her abilities that deal magical damage.
• Wind Waker, an upgrade for Eul's Scepter of Divinity gives Lina bonus mana regeneration along with an escape tool and much needed mobility.
• Aghanim's Shard will allow Lina's Fiery Soul to have her all of her abilities to deal 20 more damage for each charge provided by Fiery Soul.
• Scythe of Vyse will give Lina an important disable that also helps to ensure she lands Light Strike Array. Furthermore, its attribute bonuses will make her a bit more survivable and drastically improves her mana regeneration.

Situational items:

• Silver Edge can be useful for a carry Lina, as it helps her to cast Light Strike Array while invisible, and also provides her with an escape mechanism. It will also allow Lina's attacks to disable an enemy hero's passive abilities.
• Daedalus is an upgrade for Crystalys to greatly improve a carry Lina's attack damage, complementing Fiery Soul's attack speed bonus.
• Veil of Discord will give Lina armor, ince attributes and will also allow her to weaken the magic resistance of nearby enemy heroes, causing them to take amplified damage from Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array and Laguna Blade. Veil of Discord can later be upgraded into Shiva's Guard for bonus armor, attack speed reduction and heal reduction of nearby heroes.
• Monkey King Bar can be useful for a carry Lina, as it can give her bonus attack speed and attack damage, and the ability to have her attacks pierce evasion.
• Satanic increases Lina's survivability by providing her lifesteal, and allows carry Lina to use her high DPS to rapidly heal to full health.
• Shiva's Guard, an upgrade for Veil of Discord will greatly increase Lina's low armor while also allowing her to reduce the magic resistance, attack speed and heals of nearby enemy heroes.
• Linken's Sphere provide attributes to Lina's overall stats. The passive Spell Block also protects her from disables.
• Blink Dagger gives Lina the ability to stay back in safety, then blink in at an opportune moment to cast her Light Strike Array before the enemy can see her coming and evade it.
• Bloodstone will give Lina very good amount of health and mana along with spell lifesteal that will allow Lina to heal herself whenever she damages enemies with her abilities.
• Dagon will give Lina nice attributes and even more magical damage burst along with spell lifesteal. Its active ability can be used to put Linken's Sphere on cooldown before using Laguna Blade.
• Ethereal Blade provides mana and mana regeneration for Lina's abilities, a greater cast range for all of her targeted abilities along with the ability to disarm enemy heroes and make them more vulnerable to her abilities that deal magical damage, or to protect herself from physical attackers.
• Revenant's Brooch will give Lina great attack damage, spell lifesteal, and will also allow Lina's attacks to deal magical damage that can pierce through armor and to attack ethereal units at the cost of 50 mana while it's active.
• Rod of Atos provides Lina with improved stats and a root to disable enemies that can make landing of Light Strike Array much easier. Rod of Atos can later be upgraded to Gleipnir with a Chain Lightning effect that procs reliably with Fiery Soul for heavy damage along with a root in an area.
• Gleipnir an upgrade for Rod of Atos will give Lina more health to withstand more damage, more intelligence to use her abilities more often, passive chain lightning that can make her attacks bounce between enemies and damage them, and an active root in a area that will allow Lina to root multiple enemies at once, making them easier targets for Light Strike Array.
• Abyssal Blade will increase Lina's durability and will also allow Lina's attacks to stun enemy heroes, and the bash will proc often thanks to Lina's high attack speed from Fiery Soul even if she is a ranged hero. Abyssal Blade will also allow Lina to stun an enemy hero if he/she gets too close to Lina even if they are debuff immune, making them easier targets for Light Strike Array.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics	Voice Lines
Dragon Slave Kills Cyclone Light Strike Array Combos 30s Full Fiery Souls Stacks Full Ability Combos Laguna Blade Hero Kills Light Strike Array Hero Stuns Eul's Leading to Kills Damage from Invisibility Stuns Leading to Kills Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Dusts Leading to Kills Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ That was hot!
	Silver	▶️ Burns, doesn't it? ▶️ That wasn't too bright.
	Gold	▶️ Wanna play with fire? ▶️ What a punk.
	Platinum	▶️ What in the blazes?
	Master	▶️ Come to mama!
	Grandmaster	▶️ It's not the heat, it's the humiliation.

Equipment

Lina Equipment (expand sets) Sets Bewitching Flare   Dead Heat   Divine Flame   Dragonfire   Ember Crane Set   Everlasting Heat   Fashion of the Scorching Princess Set   Fireflight Scion   Glory of the Elderflame   Hellfire Insurgent   Jini the Bright Moon Set   Light of the Solar Divine   Regime of the Enthaleen Dragon   Smoldering Journey   The Battle Caster Set   The Garments of the Charred Bloodline Set   The Scarlet Flare   Vehement Plume   Warhawk Vestiments Head Braid of Fiery Curls   Catalyst Cap   Curls of Flame   Fiery Soul of the Slayer   Magnificent Flame Neck Disciple of the Wyrmwrought Flame Belt Fire Lotus Belt   Golden Wyrmwrought Flare   Wyrmwrought Flare Taunt Taunt: Get Burned Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Everlasting Array   Kinetic: Twister

Trivia

• The original Lina Inverse "The Slayer" was modeled after the main character from the novels/anime/manga "Slayers" where Light Strike Array, Dragon Slave and Laguna Blade are all spells used by the original Lina Inverse.

• ▶️ "Better to burn out than fade away" is a reference to the Neil Young song, "My, My, Hey, Hey".
  • The line also appears in the suicide note of Kurt Cobain.

• ▶️ "Turn me over... I'm done." is a reference to Lawrence of Rome who was roasted alive on a giant grill and joked, "Turn me over — I'm done on this side.

• Lina's rival response towards Batrider ▶️ "Why'd you stop? This isn't Batrider country." is a reference to a line in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

• In older versions of DotA, Lina was a male hero that used the Blood Mage model, also used by the Invoker. In these versions, Lina was known as Link Inverse.

• Lina's line ▶️ "It's not the heat, it's the humiliation." is a reference to "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." a quote from Yogi Berra.

• Lina's coils around her neck are possibly a representation of Kayan Lahwi women in Myanmar, who are also referred to as "dragon women".

• ▶️ "Time to hot-foot it!" is a reference to a prank where the prankster sets the victim's shoelaces or shoe on fire with a match or lighter. The hot foot prank is mentioned in several baseball stories as a prank that players play on one another.

Gallery

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  Lina's original artwork

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  Steam profile background art

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Lina on the 7.00 update page.