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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. Focusing every bit of heat around her, 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: | Legs ( 2 )
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Bio
▶️ "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.
Voice:
Abilities
Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path.
Cast Range: 800
Starting Radius: 275
Travel Distance: 1075
End Radius: 200
Damage: 85/160/235/310
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.
- For how much damage Dragon Slave deals with each amount of Fiery Soul stacks on each level, please refer to the chart below.
Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.
Cast Range: 625
Effect Radius: 250
Effect Delay: 0.5
Stun Duration: 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5
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.
- For how much damage Light Strike Array deals with each amount of Fiery Soul stacks on each level, please refer to the chart below.
Ability
Passive
Passive
Affects
Self
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
Stack Duration: 18
Break Notes:
Prevents gaining new stacks.
Existing stacks still provide bonus movement and attack speed.
Gaining stacks is not limited to Lina's abilities, however, restrictions listed in the notes still apply.
Dancing flames embody Lina's playful nature, bringing out her true blazing self.
- Gains a stack whenever one of Lina's abilities deal damage to enemies (before reductions).
- 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 stacks on each level:
- 2 Stacks:
- 3 Stacks:
- 4 Stacks:
- 5 Stacks:
- 6 Stacks:
- 7 Stacks:
- With Aghanim's Shard, it also increases the damage of Lina's abilities by a flat 15/30/45/60/75/90/105 with each amount of stacks.
- Lina doesn't lose stacks after the death.
Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage.
Cast Range: 600
Effect Delay: 0.25
Damage: 500/700/900
Changes Laguna Blade's damage type to Pure, and allows it to slice through spell immunity.
Spell Immunity Notes:
Cannot be cast on spell immune enemies.
Deals damage if the target turns spell immune during the effect delay.
Fully pierces spell immunity when reflected.
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.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, Laguna Blade's damage changes from magical to pure, and allows it to pierce spell immunity.
- For how much damage Laguna Blade deals with each amount of Fiery Soul stacks on each level, please refer to the chart below.
Fiery Soul Calculations
Dragon Slave | Ability Damage per Fiery Soul Stack | |||||||
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Base | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
Level 1 | 75 | 95 | 115 | 135 | 155 | 175 | 195 | 215 |
Level 2 | 150 | 170 | 190 | 210 | 230 | 250 | 270 | 290 |
Level 3 | 225 | 245 | 265 | 285 | 305 | 325 | 345 | 365 |
Level 4 | 300 | 320 | 340 | 360 | 380 | 400 | 420 | 440 |
Light Strike Array | ||||||||
Level 1 () |
110 | 130 | 150 | 170 | 190 | 210 | 230 | 250 |
260 | 280 | 300 | 320 | 340 | 360 | 380 | 400 | |
Level 2 () |
160 | 180 | 200 | 220 | 240 | 260 | 280 | 300 |
310 | 330 | 350 | 370 | 390 | 410 | 430 | 450 | |
Level 3 () |
210 | 230 | 250 | 270 | 290 | 310 | 330 | 350 |
360 | 380 | 400 | 420 | 440 | 460 | 480 | 500 | |
Level 4 () |
260 | 280 | 300 | 320 | 340 | 360 | 380 | 400 |
410 | 430 | 450 | 470 | 490 | 510 | 530 | 550 | |
Laguna Blade | ||||||||
Level 1 | 500 | 520 | 540 | 560 | 580 | 600 | 620 | 640 |
Level 2 | 700 | 720 | 740 | 760 | 780 | 800 | 820 | 840 |
Level 3 | 900 | 920 | 940 | 960 | 980 | 1000 | 1020 | 1040 |
Talents
Hero Talents | ||
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+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 Article: Lina/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Talents:
- LVL 20+11% spell damage amplification ➜ +5 Laguna Blade Supercharged stacks.LVL 25Laguna Blade pure damage and pierces spell immunity ➜ +150% self critical damage against targets affected by Dragon Slave. [?]
- 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.
- 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.
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History
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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.[1]
- Lina's line ▶️ "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.
- The line ▶️ "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.[2]
- 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".