Clinkz counter and synergy picks

Falcon Blade

A core item to improve your damage, tankiness, and mana sustain to spam Tar Bomb and Death Pact. Helps you in both farming and fighting. You can pair this item with {power-treads} for mana sustain.

Power Treads

A core Boots upgrade that allows you to farm faster and get more right clicks in the Tar Bomb duration. Also helps save mana through stats toggling.

Dragon Lance

A core item that increases your attack range to hit from further away. Also improves your damage and tankiness through stats. The attack range also affects your skeletons, which lets them attack from a longer distance as well.

Desolator

A core item to increase your right click damage and apply minus armor on every hit. Massively improves your kill threat on the map and lets you burst down enemy heroes with Tar Bomb and Strafe.

Orchid Malevolence

A core item in the mid game to disallow an enemy hero from using spells and burst them down in the duration of the effect. Especially useful against elusive heroes like {puck}.

Aghanim's Shard

A core item to gain the Burning Barrage ability to clear creep waves in an instant and do massive damage in an area. Has great synergy with damage items like {desolator} and {maelstrom}.

Hurricane Pike

A core mobility item that also increases your attack range to hit enemy heroes and buildings from further away. Works well to put some distance between you and an enemy hero and hit them with infinite range for a short period with the Hurricane Thrust active. Look to use Tar Bomb before you push away an enemy hero to do more damage with right clicks.

Daedalus

A core damage item to burst down enemy heroes with right clicks using your massive attack range.

Gives you tankiness to take less damage from right clicks from Clinkz and his Skeleton Archers to trade HP more effectively.

Ring of Regen

Gives you HP sustain to stay in the lane and not get zoned by Clinkz's constant damage from Tar Bomb and right clicks.

Ring of Health

Gives you HP sustain to stay in the lane and not get zoned by Clinkz's constant damage from Tar Bomb and right clicks.

Sentry Ward

Lets you scout Clinkz while he rotates through invisibility with Skeleton Walk.

Dust of Appearance

Lets you detect Clinkz while he is invisible with Skeleton Walk to slow him and possibly kill him.

Blink Dagger

Gives you mobility to jump Clinkz and possibly delete him at the start of the fight. Works well if you have an instant stun or hex.

Blade Mail

Lets you reflect Clinkz's high damage back to him and possibly kill him if he does not stop attacking you.

Heaven's Halberd

Provides evasion and lets you disarm Clinkz to prevent him from right clicking freely in fights.

Lets you detect Clinkz while he is invisible with Skeleton Walk to avoid or kill him.

Glimmer Cape

Lets you kite Clinkz and his Skeleton Archers by protecting yourself or an ally against their right clicks through invisibility.

Ghost Scepter

Lets you kite Clinkz and his Skeleton Archers by protecting yourself against their right clicks in Ethereal form.

Force Staff

Lets you kite Clinkz and his Skeleton Archers by pushing yourself or an ally away from them. Also helps move out of Burning Barrage.

Scythe of Vyse

Gives you an instant disable against Clinkz to burst him down in its duration before he becomes invisible using Skeleton Walk to get away.

Aeon Disk

Lets you survive and never get bursted by Clinkz's initiation and high right click damage from invisibility.

Abyssal Blade

Gives you an instant lockdown against Clinkz and burst him down with a possible chain stun before he becomes invisible using Skeleton Walk to get away.

Butterfly

Gives you armor and evasion to defend yourself against right clicks from Clinkz and his Skeleton Archers with the tankiness and miss chance.

Lets you detect Clinkz while he is invisible with Skeleton Walk to avoid or kill him.