Lina

Lina

The Radiant

18 + 1.5 16 + 1.5 27 + 3.2

Level 1 16 25 Hit Points 492 948 1556 Mana 351 1001 1599 Damage 40-58 90-108 136-154 Armor 1.24 4.6 9.08 Attacks / Second 0.68 0.82 1.01

Movement Speed 295 Turn Rate 0.5 Sight Range 1800/800 Attack Range 635 Missile Speed 900 Attack Duration 0.75+0.78 Cast Duration 0.45+1.08 Base Attack Time 1.7

Lina the Slayer is a ranged Intelligence hero, adept at destroying enemy heroes fast and delivering massive bursts of magical damage, making her one of the most effective gankers in the game. She possesses immense damaging capabilities all throughout the game, but is very fragile. Two of her fiery spells are her main source of damage, Dragon Slave sends a wave of fire to burn enemies in her path while Light Strike Array stuns them with a concentrated pillar of solar flame. Each of her spells deals great damage early on and has a low cooldown. Her Fiery Soul bolsters her attack and movement speed exponentially every time she casts a spell, which gives her scaling damage for the later game. Laguna Blade, her ultimate, is her ace in the hole. Lina fires off a huge bolt of lightning at a single target, dealing colossal damage. Laguna Blade's damage is staggering in early-mid game, and late game is still enough to destroy frail enemy heroes. Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array, and Laguna Blade are incredible flaming nukes that can incinerate her target instantly, and Fiery Soul allows her to transition into a strong and fast physical attacker. Though her power falls from its peak late game, mana-boosting and damage-increasing items can be purchased to keep herself up, serving as the team's magical semi-carry, dishing out intense burning damage with her attacks and spells.

Bio

Lina, the Slayer Play "Fire makes a fine servant but a harsh mistress." Role: Nuker / Disabler / Support 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: Jen Taylor (Responses)

Abilities

Dragon Slave Q D Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Magical Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path. Range: 800 Damage: 100/170/230/280 Starting Radius: 275 Distance: 1075 Final Radius: 150 8.5 90/105/125/140 In the scorched barren of Misrule, Lina learned to manipulate the fiery breath of the Desert Wyrm as a form of entertainment.

Notes: Dragon Slave can hit units up to 1225 units away. Dragon Slave "Fiery Soul of the Slayer Set" icon:

Light Strike Array W T Ability Affects Damage Target Point Enemies Magical Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies. Range: 600 Radius: 225 Stun Duration: 1.6 Cast Delay: 0.5 Damage: 90/150/210/280 7 90/100/110/125 Lina's essence allows her to focus the sun's energies, causing air to combust at will

Notes: Light Strike Array will destroy trees in its area of effect.

Fiery Soul E F Ability Affects Passive Self Grants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina casts a spell. Stacks with itself. Lasts 7 seconds. Attack Speed Bonus: 40/55/70/85 Bonus Movement Speed: 4%/5%/6%/7% Max Stacks: 3 Dancing flames embody Lina's playful nature, bringing out her true blazing self.

Notes: Duration refreshes each time a spell is cast. Using items does not trigger Fiery Soul. At 3 stacks it provide 120/165/210/255 attack speed and 12%/15%/18%/21% movement speed. Fiery Soul of the Slayer Fiery Soul icon:

Laguna Blade R G Ability Affects Damage Target Unit Enemies Magical Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage. Range: 600 (900*) Damage: 450/675/950 (600/925/1250*) 70/60/50 280/420/680 Increases damage and range. The air around Lina becomes so intensely torrid that it scorches a foe that came too close with white-hot lightning.

Notes: Laguna Blade has a 0.25 delay before the damage is applied after the spell is cast, allowing certain abilities to avoid the damage.

Recommended items

Explanation: To have a larger presence in the early game, it is recommended to get Arcane Boots rather than Phase Boots. This is because casting her three spell combo requires a large mana pool. Lina also falls into the utility hero role, so having Arcane Boots to help regenerate your allies mana along with yours is very helpful. However, it isn't uncommon for players to disassemble the Arcane Boots, and use the Energy Booster for Bloodstone. With most heroes with a low strength gain like Lina, a Bracer is recommended for an early game HP boost. To give Lina better positioning so she can land her Light Strike Array more consistently, a Blink Dagger or Force Staff is considered core on her. Also, if your team does not have one, building your Bracer into a Drum of Endurance is always a good choice, as the item synergizes with Lina very well.

Tips

• Combining Light Strike Array with a guaranteed stun such as Vengeful Spirit's Magic Missile or Sven's Storm Hammer makes Lina a serious ganking force early on.
• Positional items such as Blink Dagger, Force Staff or Phase Boots can help you a lot landing Light Strike Array and thus your whole spell combo without relying on other heroes.
• Always cancel the backswing animation after casting your spells, especially when you plan to skill Fiery Soul.
• In teamfights it can be very beneficial to quickly focus on low hp or support heroes, as Lina has very good nuking abilities.
• Laguna Blade should not be used always as a finishing blow, since that can waste most of the spell's massive damage. It is best used to cripple enemy carries or obliterate their supports; but using it when its damage far exceeds the target's remaining HP is a waste. There is a temptation to use it on fleeing heroes as it is the only one of Lina's abilities that is long range and target-unit; but it is wiser to build Blink Dagger instead to avoid having to expend it.
  • However, Laguna Blade has a decent low cooldown, if you have a well supply of mana pool, you can use it to any enemy hero to burst out their health, and kill them if its necessary.
• When paired with Pugna or Shadow Demon, both of whom have percentage-based damage-increasing mechanics; Lina's burst damage becomes gigantic (a sceptred level 3 Laguna Blade will do about two thousand damage alone) to the extent where she can assassinate enemy heroes with a significant gear/level advantage over her.
• Lina is more or less exclusively a nuker, and in a typical late-game encounter she is most wisely utilised via staying away from the fray and using her Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array effectively; saving her Laguna Blade for a crucial moment.
• If the role of suppport/disabler is covered and Lina has the basic items she needs; she benefits greatly in late-game from building items that augment the power and utility of her basic attack; as while her nukes lose potential as the game goes on, Fiery Soul ensures she has a scaling ability to make her presence felt. Some basic items for this build are Daedalus, Eye of Skadi and Monkey King Bar. Lina's base damage is already extremely high, so crit can be built early.
• Lina's Laguna Blade can hit for around 2500 damage if she combines Aghanim's Scepter and Refresher Orb, granting her enormous nuking power.
• If Lina is tending to be targeted first (this is a very common tendency), some survival-increasing / utility items will be of great use.
• For Fiery Soul to take to its peak, cast Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array, and Laguna Blade successively to take the speed-enhancing effect of Fiery Soul to its maximum potential.

Trivia

• The original Lina Inverse "The Slayer" was modeled after the main character from the novels/anime/manga Slayers who went by the same name. Her Light Strike Array, Dragon Slave and Laguna Blade are all spells used by the original Lina Inverse.
• Lina was the first hero to be made in Dota 2.
• 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.

Update history

February 28, 2013 Patch

• Fixed Lina's Fiery Soul buff not showing the correct cooldown if it was refreshed with 3 stacks.
• [Undocumented] Updated the ability icons for Lina and Tusk.

February 14, 2013 Patch

• Fixed Dragon Slave hitting units behind you.
• Fixed some wave speed issues with Crypt Swarm, Dual Breath, Breathe Fire, Dragon Slave, Illuminate, Sonic Wave and Shockwave.

October 25, 2012 Patch

• Fixed several "missing lane" line bugs for Puck, Mirana, Meepo, Lina, Keeper, Shadow Demon, and Windrunner.

September 13, 2012 Patch

• Added new lines to Puck, Enchantress, Lina, Vengeful Spirit and Windrunner.

April 19, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Dragon Slave's cast range being too short.

March 08, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented]Updated Lina's textures.

February 16, 2012 Patch

• Fixed unit targeting behavior being bugged for the following abilities: Carrion Swarm, Dragon Slave, Breathe Fire.
• Added effect for Phase Boots and Fiery Soul.
• [Undocumented] Added injured animations for Lina.

August 02, 2011 Patch

• Dragon Slave no longer uses a frontal cone.

July 16, 2011 Patch

• New Lina!
• Light Strike Array and Dragon Slave should now hit ancients (except for the magic immune ones).
• Laguna blade has a 0.25 second delay before the damage is dealt.

July 01, 2011 Patch

• Fixed her abilities affecting Ancient creeps.

June 10, 2011 Patch

• Fixed bug that could result in invisible Lina and Skeleton Kings.

May 20, 2011 Patch

• Added new in-progress models for Lina, Drow, Windrunner.

February 19, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Dragon Slave distance and shape.

January 30, 2011 Patch

• Fixed cases where creating a linear projectile directly on yourself would cause it to get stuck. This includes fixes to Fissure, Ghost Ship, Dragon Slave, Arrow, Impale, Waveform, Illusory Orb, Meat Hook, Burrowstrike, Wave of Terror, and Power Shot.

January 27, 2011 Patch

• Fixed Light Strike Array not killing trees

December 17, 2010 Patch

• Toned down Lina's Light Strike Array effects.
• Punched up Laguna Blade effects.

Balance changelog

6.78

• Attack range increased from 625 to 635.

6.76

• Laguna Blade cooldown rescaled from 90/70/50 to 70/60/50.

6.75

• Fiery Soul attack speed bonus increased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/55/70/85.
• Laguna Blade cooldown rescaled from 120/90/55 to 90/70/50.

6.74

• Fiery Soul
  • Attack speed bonus increased from 30/40/50/60 to 40/50/60/70.
  • Movement speed bonus increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7%.

6.73

• Base intelligence increased by 3.
• Dragon Slave
  • Travel distance increased by 100.
  • Final AoE increased from 125 to 150.

6.72d

• Fiery Soul movement bonus increased from 2/3/4/5% to 3/4/5/6%.

6.72

• Aghanim's Laguna Blade cast range increased from 600 to 900.

6.71

• Attack range increased from 600 to 625.

6.69

• Aghanim's Laguna Blade damage increased from 600/875/1150 to 600/925/1250.

6.68

• Light Strike Array cooldown decreased from 8 to 7.
• Laguna Blade level 1 cooldown decreased from 150 to 120.

6.67

• Light Strike Array cooldown decreased from 10 to 8.
• Fiery Soul Attack Speed buff increased from 20/30/40/50% to 30/40/50/60%.

6.65

• Fiery Soul buff duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.

6.63

• Base intelligence increased by 5 points and reduced base damage by 5 (total attack damage unchanged).

6.60

• Replaced Ultimate with a new ability Fiery Soul.

6.50

• Movement speed reduced by 5.

Gallery

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  Lina's original artwork

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  Steam profile background art

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  Upgraded in-game portrait and icons

See also

• Lina responses
• Slayer's Glare