Hero
Tinker
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Boush, the Tinker, is a ranged intelligence hero who leverages great mobility and blistering nukes to push lanes and gank his enemies. Tinker's ultimate Rearm resets the cooldown on his items and abilities, allowing him to deal prodigious damage with his Laser, Heat-Seeking Missiles and with items such as Dagon. By Rearming Blink Dagger, Rearm also grants Tinker vast mobility, enabling him to pressure multiple lanes with his Laser and March of the Machines. Tinker's mana costs are very high, however, so to remain a global threat he must regularly regenerate at his fountain by using Keen Conveyance. When played with the right items, good mana management and mechanical skill, there are few heroes Tinker will not evaporate.
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Bio[]
Boush, the Tinker▶️ "Victory is 10% inspiration, 90% decapitation!"
Lore:
Boush the Tinker's diminutive race is known for its intelligence, its cunning, and its prickly relationship with magic. As a matter of pride, they survive by their wits, and use only those powers of nature that may be unlocked through rational methodologies. Even this forbearance has led to a great deal of trouble, as Boush can attest. Once a key investigator of natural law, Boush the Tinker led a vast intellectual investigation into the workings of nature, founding a subterranean laboratory in the rumored, mist-wreathed wastes of the Violet Plateau. While scorning mages for the dangers they visit upon the world, Boush and his Tinker associates haughtily wrenched open a portal to some realm beyond comprehension and ushered in some nightmares of their own. A black mist rose from the cavernous interior of the Violet Plateau, shrouding it in permanent darkness from which sounds of horror perpetually emanate. Boush escaped with only his wits and the contraptions he carried, the sole Tinker to survive the Violet Plateau Incident.
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Abilities[]
Laser
Fires an intense energy beam, dealing damage to the target and all enemy units around it. The main target is blinded, causing them to miss all physical attacks.
Cast Animation: 0.4+1
Cast Range: 650 (
950)
950)Damage Radius: 250
Damage: 80/160/240/320 ( 160/240/320/400)
160/240/320/400)Miss Chance: 100%
Hero Duration: 3/3.5/4/4.5 ( 5/5.5/6/6.5)
5/5.5/6/6.5)Creep Duration: 6 ( 8)
8) Bounce Search Radius: 700 Number of Bounces: 1 Max/Current Health and Model Size Reduction: 10%
20/
110/ 101.2/119.6/138/156.4)
Upgrades Tinker's Laser into a Shrink Ray, granting +300 cast range and reducing the main target's size and current health by 10% (stacking) if it's a hero. The laser bounces once on the farthest target up to 700 range from the primary one, prioritizing heroes.
Blind effect persists if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.
Blocked fully only when primary target.Modifiers
modifier_tinker_laser_blind: Dispellable with any dispel.Boush perfected this rock cutting laser in his subterranean laboratory, never considering its combat utility.
Notes:
- Plays a sound effect during the cast time, audible to everyone.
- The area damage only hits visible enemies, and does not hit invisible and enemies inside the Fog of War.
- Uses the creep duration for creep-heroes.
- The laser first applies the blind debuff, then the health reduction debuff, then the damage.
- Multiple instances of the debuff do not stack.
- Laser's blind uses pseudo-random distribution.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, the Laser bounces to the furthest enemy within 700 radius of its current target.
- Laser has no bounce delay, so all targets are hit at the same time.
- Can only bounce to heroes, including clones, illusions and creep-heroes.
- If the primary target is a non-hero unit, it still bounces to valid targets within the search radius.
- Does not bounce on invisible or enemies inside in the Fog of War.
- The bounced laser deals area damage as well.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, Laser reduces the targets' current and maximum health by 10%.
- The lower the target's current health is, the less current health they lose through the reduction, while the maximum health reduction stays constant.
- Since the debuff is placed before the damage is applied, the health reduction takes place before the damage.
- Upon losing the debuff, the target's maximum health is reverted, while their current health stays the same.
- Both the health and the model size reduction are applied by the same modifier as the blind debuff, and multiple instances of the debuff now stacks.
- The model size reduction of multiple instances stacks additively.
Launches rockets at the nearest visible heroes within 2500 range.
Cast Animation: 0+1.2
Search Radius: 2500
Number of Targets: 2 ( 3)
3)Damage per Rocket: 115/190/265/340
Stun Duration: 0.25 18 80/ 73.6/87.4/101.2/115)
Does not target spell immune units.Modifiers
modifier_bashed: Dispellable with strong dispels.The last contraption Boush was able to save was a retrofitted rocket launcher with a homing mechanism.
Notes:
- Heat-Seeking Missile interrupts Tinker's channeling abilities upon cast.
- The missiles travel at a speed of 700.
- When all missiles hit, they collectively deal up to 230/380/530/680 ( 345/570/795/1020) damage (before reductions).
- Does not target invisible, invulnerable, hidden or enemies inside in the Fog of War.
- When cast while no valid targets are in range, the missiles are released and fall on the ground, indicating the cast failed.
- The Heat-Seeking Missile ministun talent first apply the damage, then the debuff.
Defense Matrix
Ability
Target Unit
Target Unit
Affects
Allies
Allies
Targets an allied unit, applying a barrier to them that blocks some damage and provides Status Resistance.
Cast Animation: 0.2+0.6
Cast Range: 600
Shield Capacity: 100/180/240/320 ( 250/330/390/470)
250/330/390/470)Status Resistance Bonus: 20%/30%/40%/50%
Duration: 15
12 70/ 64.4/73.6/82.8/92)
Modifiers
modifier_tinker_defense_matrix: Dispellable with any dispel.
Notes:
- ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.
- Defense Matrix fully negates damage (after all reductions), causing several on-damage effects to not trigger. Except for the following abilities:
- When combined with the following damage negating effects (i.e. Aphotic Shield, Ghostship, Shield Crash and Mischief), Defense Matrix negates the damage while the abilities aforementioned do not.
- Shields the affected target from the 3 damage types, but not heals and HP Removal effects (e.g. Sunder, Soul Ring etc.).
- Multiple instances of the shield do not stack. Re-casting it refreshes the duration and resets the shield capacity.
- The status resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of status resistance.
March of the Machines
Enlists an army of robotic minions to destroy enemy units in an area around Tinker.
Cast Animation: 0.53+0.63
Cast Range: 300
Robot Spawn Radius: 900
Robot Collision Radius: 50
Robot Explosion Radius: 150
Robot Explosion Damage: 30
Spawn Duration: 6
35 190 ( 174.8)
Robots do not collide with spell immune enemies.Modifiers
modifier_tinker_march_thinker: Undispellable. Persists death.
Ability Draft Notes:
Requires drafting Rearm to be unlocked.
Even though the laboratory has since been sealed off, the ability to radio in robotic drones is still in working order.
Notes:
- Requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.
- The robots move at a speed of 400 and move a distance up to 1800 forwards, taking 4.5 seconds to travel the full distance.
- The 900 spawn radius is centered and fixed around the cast point, not on Tinker's location.
- The spawn area is a line with 1800 length, which is centered 900 range behind the targeted cast point.
- The overall affected area is a square, with 1800 side lengths.
- Robots spawn in 0.0417-second intervals at a random point of the line, which is 24 robots per second, for a total of 144 robots.
- Robots do not spawn at points of the spawning line which are outside of the map boundaries.
- When an enemy comes within 50 radius of a robot, or the robot reaches max distance, it deals damage in 150 radius around itself and then disappears.
- If a single enemy unit stands still within the area for the full duration, they would take an average of 355.2 damage (before reductions).
- The robots do not explode and deal area damage when colliding with Courier.
- The sound effect upon cast is not audible by enemies. However, the robot marching sounds are.
Affects
Self
Self
After channeling for s teleport to a target friendly structure. Level 2 allows teleporting to friendly units and Level 3 to friendly heroes.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Cast Range: Global
Min Targeting Distance to Building: 70
Max Targeting Distance to Building: 800
Max Targeting Distance to Outposts: 250
Channel Time: 4.5/4/3.5 ( 4/3.5/3)
4/3.5/3)Channel Time to Outpost: 5 ( 4.5)
4.5) 80 75 ( 69)
Prevents casting, and cancels the teleport if already channeling.Modifiers
modifier_teleporting: Dispellable with death only. modifier_teleporting_root_logic: Dispellable with death only. modifier_boots_of_travel_incoming: Dispellable with death only.Ability Draft Notes:
Keen Conveyance is granted to the player that drafted Rearm.
As Boush likes to say, 'There is nothing the arcane can accomplish that the curious mind cannot reproduce given time. And proper funding, of course.'
Notes:
- Leveling this ability automatically levels Rearm as well.
- ↓↓ Double-tapping the ability while being at least 1500 range away from the team's fountain, automatically targets the fountain.
- When ground-targeted, it automatically searches for the closest valid target for Tinker teleport to.
- By default, Keen Conveyance can only target buildings. Level 2, can target non-hero units as well, and level 3, can target heroes as well.
- Cannot directly target buildings. Instead, it uses the minimum teleport distance.
- Disjoints projectiles upon teleporting.
- During the channeling, the teleport destination is marked with a visual effect in the same color as the player, and a sound is played.
- The sound and visual effects are visible and audible to everyone.
- The visual effect is also visible while teleporting to invisible enemies.
- Also marks the point on the minimap for allies. The mark is in the player's color and lasts as long as the channeling does.
- Provides 200 range flying vision at the destination point for the whole channel duration, even if canceled. The vision lingers for 1 second.
- The targeted unit's priority is lowered, meaning it is attacked as the last auto-attack target by other units.
Cast Animation: 0+0
Channel Time: 3.5/2/1.25
0 150/ 138/207/276)
Grants a new ability: March of the Machines.Modifiers
modifier_tinker_rearm: Dispellable with death only.Ability Draft Notes:
A new battery here, another set of rockets there, Boush continually improves on existing technology.
Notes:
- Leveling this ability automatically levels Keen Conveyance as well.
- The following items are not refreshed with Rearm:
- Aeon Disk, Arcane Boots, Black King Bar, Hand of Midas, Helm of the Dominator, Linken's Sphere, Meteor Hammer, Pipe of Insight, Refresher Orb, Refresher Shard and neutral items.
- Visually resets the cooldown of Tranquil Boots, but does not skip the broken state.
- Does not reset charges on charge-based items (e.g. Drum of Endurance).
- Only refreshes items owned by Tinker, his inventory and backpack.
- Items in stash, in other units' inventories (e.g. Courier) or dropped items are unaffected.
- Allied items in his inventory or backpack are not refreshed.
- When the channeling is interrupted, nothing is rearmed.
- Can rearm Crimson Guard and Mekansm, but does not reset their stack restriction timer.
- The same rule applies when rearming Guardian Greaves, but Mend still restores mana.
- Rearm's sound gets shorter with each level to match the decreasing channel time.
- The Rearm modifier is only for informational purposes.
Talents[]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| +0.25s Heat-Seeking Missile Ministun | 25 | +80 Laser Damage |
| +150 Defense Matrix Damage Absorbed | 20 | +10% Spell Amplification |
| +1 Heat-Seeking Missile Count | 15 | -0.5s Keen Conveyance Channel Time |
| +8% Manacost/Manaloss Reduction | 10 | +2s Laser Blind Duration |
Recent Changes[]
Main Article: Tinker/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile damage per rocket from 125/200/275/350 to 115/190/265/340.
- Increased Rearm mana cost from 130/210/290 to 150/225/300.
- Increased health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
- Laser now deals its damage to all visible enemies within a 250 radius around the target. [?]
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Laser
- Reduced cast range bonus from 400 to 300.
- Reduced current health reduction from 15% to 10%.
- Laser
- Rearm
- Rescaled mana cost from 100/210/320 to 130/210/290.
- Added Keen Conveyance sub-ability.
- Keen Conveyance
- After a short channeling time, teleports Tinker towards a targeted allied building. Level 2 allows teleporting to non-hero units. Level 3 allows teleporting to allied heroes.
- Replaced March of the Machines with Defense Matrix
- Is now a abasic ability, taking the 2nd ability slot.
- Reduced shield capacity from 350 to 100/180/240/320.
- Reduced status resistance from 50% to 20%/30%/40%/50%.
- Increased cast range from 400 to 600.
- Reduced mana cost from 100 to 70/80/90/100.
- Reduced cooldown from 30 to 12.
- Reworked Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Old: Grants Tinker the Defense Matrix ability.
- New: Grants Tinker the March of the Machines ability.
- March of the Machines
- Now requires Aghanim's Shard to be unlocked.
- Increased mana cost from 130/150/170/190 to 190.
- Rescaled damage from 16/24/32/40 to 30.
- Talents:
- Level 10 right talent changed: +8% spell damage amplification ➜ +2s Laser blind duration.
- Level 15 right talent changed: +2.5s March of the Machines duration ➜ -0.5s Keen Conveyance channeling time.
- Level 20 left talent changed: +8 March of the Machines damage ➜ +150 Defense Matrix shield capacity.
- Level 20 right talent changed: +8 armor ➜ +10% spell damage amplification.
- Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile mana cost from 80/100/120/140 to 80/95/110/125.
- Rearm
- Reduced cast time from 0.53 to 0.
- Increased channel time from 3/1.5/0.75 to 3.5/2/1.25.
- Increased mana cost from 100/200/300 to 100/210/320.
- Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Reduced Laser current health reduction from 20% to 15%.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Defense Matrix
- Increased status resistance from 40% to 50%.
- Increased shield capacity from 275 to 350.
- Increased duration from 12 to 15.
- Defense Matrix
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent changed: +125 cast range ➜ +8% mana loss reduction.
- Level 15 left talent changed: +9% mana loss reduction ➜ +1 Heat-Seeking Missile.
Recommended Items[]
Starting items:
- Tango sustains Tinker's health in lane.
- Healing Salve also restores health to Tinker.
- Clarity replenishes Tinker's mana so that he can always push out lane with March of the Machines or have enough nuke power to attempt a kill.
- Mantle of Intelligence gives Tinker more base damage as well as a bigger starting mana pool. It is useful for helping with Tinker's last-hitting and casting in-lane.
- Iron Branches are cheap and give attributes to help with the early game. Branches can be consumed with Tango for increased healing.
Early game:
- Boots of Speed are basic mobility requirements for any hero. Getting them early on Tinker allows him to more easily position himself for casting his spells.
- Null Talisman provides Tinker with more damage, which helps with last-hitting. As such, it is advised to start with a Null Talisman when playing mid, as the extra damage can make a huge difference against certain lane opponents.
- Bottle is essential for a mid Tinker, as it provides HP and mana regen critical for allowing him to stay in-lane to farm. Bottle remains vital on Tinker throughout the game, as it extends his mana pool when teleporting forward to cast spells and speeds up healing in fountain, so consider dropping it in the Stash instead of selling it later.
Mid game:
- Boots of Travel provide global mobility and map presence in the form of teleportation to any friendly building or creep. Combined with Rearm, Tinker can reposition himself globally at will to swiftly push lanes, join teamfights, and then return to the fountain to replenish his mana.
- Soul Ring greatly extends Tinker's mana pool when teleporting around the map to cast spells, as he can dip into his HP pool to extend his active operation time. As he can reset its cooldown at will with Rearm, using Soul Ring once per cycle can give him vastly more mana to use. As well, he can offset the HP cost via the use of Bottle, keeping him at full HP even with regular use.
- Blink Dagger drastically improves Tinker's mobility, and gives him great survivability when pushing lanes with March of the Machines. As it can be shift-queued after teleporting to the front lines, Tinker can instantly blink into the treeline to safely cast his spells without giving the enemy an opportunity to spot him.
- Kaya grants intelligence and mana regan amplification so Tinker can use more abilities outside of base. The increased spell damage also helps with pushing waves and bursting heroes.
- Aether Lens increases mana pool and cast range so Tinker can use Laser and March of the Machines from a safe distance.
Late game:
- Bloodstone greatly increases mana regan, which is quite useful for Tinker as he can quickly run out of mana.
- Aghanim's Scepter gives Tinker a vast amount of teamfight contribution, as he can use Laser to blind and deal pure damage to multiple enemy heroes per cast, forcing them to dispel the debuff if they want to deal any physical damage, and bombarding them with long-range artillery using Heat-Seeking Missile.
- Dagon is a very powerful burst damage nuke on Tinker that additionally increases the size of his mana pool as it is upgraded. Combined with Laser and Heat-Seeking Missile, it can instantly blow up lone targets, especially once combined with Rearm to increase the damage output by multiples.
- Scythe of Vyse greatly improves the size of Tinker's mana pool, and gives him powerful mana regen, increasing the number of spells he can cast on deployments before returning to base. The Hex is extremely powerful as combined with Rearm it allows Tinker to permanently hard-disable an enemy for as long as he has the mana to do so.
Situational items:
- Shiva's Guard gives Tinker much needed intelligence to continue use of Rearm, and gives him a magic nuke to assist in pushing. The extra armor and passive attack speed slow also give him resistance against physical damage if he shows up to teamfights, and the active nuke can be refreshed and cast multiple times.
- Boots of Travel 2 is a useful upgrade to Boots of Travel for engaging in fights at inopportune locations. The ability to teleport to allied heroes rather than just creeps allows Tinker to bring instant reinforcements to any unfolding fight, particularly if they take place where there are no friendly creeps to jump to.
- Eul's Scepter of Divinity is a good cheap mana item that gives Tinker good mana regeneration and a useful disable. Used properly, the Cyclone can be used to set up disables on enemies offensively, or buy Tinker time if he's caught while pushing a creep wave.
- Glimmer Cape can be a strong survivability item, both for Tinker and his team. As he can constantly have the effect up with Rearm, Tinker becomes much harder to catch since the enemy must bring detection, and their magic nukes become far less potent for focusing him down. In fights, Tinker can use the active on multiple allies simultaneously, allowing him to either save them en masse or give them increased initiation ability.
- Black King Bar prevents Tinker from being locked down in teamfights, particularly since Rearm is a channeled spell that can be interrupted. While it cannot be refreshed by Rearm, it can give Tinker the survivability he needs to cast his spells uninterrupted in a fight.
- Lotus Orb is an extremely strong defensive item, both for pushing and for teamfighting. Echo Shell can prevent enemies from easily disabling Tinker, as using targeted disables or nukes reflects them back, disabling or nuking the enemy in turn and forcing them to reconsider the engagement. As well, since Echo Shell can be refreshed with Rearm, it can be placed on multiple allies at once, giving your team a strong edge in fights.
- Ghost Scepter builds into Ethereal Blade and makes him invulnerable to physical damage. It can be refreshed to keep him safe from attacks.
- Ethereal Blade does not give Tinker very beneficial stats, however it is useful for augmenting Tinker's already impressive burst magic damage against enemies, especially if he has built numerous intelligence items, and can be used on himself or teammates to grant immunity against physical damage. In a pinch, it can also be used on one of the enemy's carries to prevent them from attacking if Laser was already used on another target.
Gameplay[]
| Roles: | Carry Nuker Pusher |
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| Complexity: | ★★☆ |
| Playstyle: | Compared to magic, the study of natural law was much more consistent, but no less dangerous. From their subterranean laboratory, Boush and his colleagues opened a portal to a distant world, a portal through which untold horrors began to pass into this realm. Cutting his way to freedom with a Laser, Boush surfaced as the only Tinker to survive the Violet Plateau incident. Equipped with contraptions befitting a maniacal researcher, Boush launches Heat-Seeking Missiles from his shoulders, and radios in armies of robotic drones to disassemble his enemies. Unhindered by the delays of magic, the Tinker Rearms his tools on the fly, wasting no time in demolishing anything that stands in his way. |
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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 Broodmother's Spiderlings ▶️ "Lamarr, is that you?" and ▶️ "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 ▶️ "The massless field flux should self-limit" and ▶️ "I've clamped the manifold parameters to… CY base and LG orbifold… Hilbert inclusive".
- Tinker's death line ▶️ "It's probably not a problem, probably" is also a reference to Dr. Kleiner, who says it in the beginning of Half Life's second chapter right before the equipment he and his team are working on suffers a catastrophical malfunction and causes the alien invasion of Black Mesa.
- Tinker's selecting respones ▶️ "With my brains and your brawn, we'll make an excellent team" is also a quote from Dr. Kleiner.
- The Tinker's alternate/fun name in DotA was "X!!", the name of a professional DotA player.
- Tinker's line ▶️ "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 ▶️ "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 ▶️ "The machine, stops." is a reference to the short story of the same name by E.M. Forster.
- Tinker's line "Blinded you, with Science!" is a reference to the song She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby.
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