Tinker

Popularity: #39

Leaderboard: #39

Ban Rank: #2

KDA Rank: #8

Hero

Build

Matchup

Tinker stats, abilities and strategy

Demolishes his enemies with swarms of machines

Tinker demolishes foes with swarms of machines and a host of deadly gadgets. If he can gather the resources he needs, the power that instantly refreshes his abilities enables him to lead his team from every front.

Win Rate 50.6%

Pick Rate 9.4%

Attributes

Tinker image

538 +50.6/lvl

435 +39.6/lvl

Strength Image

19 +2.3/lvl

Agility Image

17 +1.4/lvl

Intelligence Image

30 +3.3/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

52 - 58 + 3.3/level (161 - 167 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

500

Attack

Armor:

6.8 + 0.2/level (15.9 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

310

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

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Repair Bots

Win Rate: 51.5%

Pick Rate: 31.5%

March of the Machines applies a non-stacking heal over time when passing through allied heroes.

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Translocator

Win Rate: 50.2%

Pick Rate: 68.5%

When a Self-Defense Matrix barrier on Tinker is fully absorbed, he blinks in a random forward direction.

DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Eureka!

ABILITY: Passive

PASSIVE: Breakable


Tinker gains 1% item cooldown reduction per %int_per_one_cdr% Intelligence, up to a maximum of %max_cdr%%.


ITEM COOLDOWN REDUCTION: %

Q

Laser

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Pure

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Fires an intense energy beam, damaging and blinding the target. Blinded targets miss all physical attacks.


BLIND MISS RATE: 100%

BLIND DURATION: 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5

LASER DAMAGE: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300

RADIUS: 0

Cooldown

19 / 18 / 17 / 16

Mana Cost

95 / 105 / 115 / 125

Cast Range

600


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Upgrades Tinker's Laser into a Shrink Ray, reducing the main target's size, current health, and maximum health by %scepter_reduction_pct%% (stacking). The laser bounces once on the farthest target up to %scepter_bounce_radius% range from the primary one, prioritizing heroes.


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: 200 AoE Laser

LEVEL 15 TALENT: +50 Laser Damage


Patch 7.38c

  • Aghanim's Scepter size and health reductions decreased from 15% to 13%

Patch 7.38

  • Aghanim's Scepter current/maximum health reduction increased from 10% to 15%

Boush perfected this rock cutting laser in his subterranean laboratory, never considering its combat utility.

W

March of the Machines

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No


Enlists an army of robotic minions to destroy enemy units in an area around Tinker.


Robots spawn at a rate of 24 per second.


RADIUS: 900

DURATION: 6

DAMAGE: 17 / 26 / 35 / 44

HEAL PER SECOND: 0

HEAL DURATION: 0

Cooldown

35 / 33 / 31 / 29

Mana Cost

100 / 120 / 140 / 160

Cast Range

300


FACET: Repair Bots

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March of the Machines applies a non-stacking heal over time when passing through allied heroes.


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LEVEL 10 TALENT: +1s March of the Machines Duration


Even though the laboratory has since been sealed off, the ability to radio in robotic drones is still in working order.

E

Defense Matrix

AFFECTS: Unit

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

BUFF: Yes


Targets an allied unit, applying an all damage barrier to them that also provides Status Resistance.


DAMAGE BARRIER: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320

STATUS RESISTANCE: 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%

DURATION: 15

BLINK RANGE: 0

Cooldown

20

Mana Cost

90 / 105 / 120 / 135

Cast Range

700


FACET: Translocator

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When a Self-Defense Matrix barrier on Tinker is fully absorbed, he blinks in a random forward direction.

DISPEL TYPE: Basic Dispel


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: +10s Defense Matrix Duration

LEVEL 20 TALENT: +10% Defense Matrix Status Resistance

LEVEL 15 TALENT: +60 Defense Matrix Damage Barrier


Patch 7.38c

  • Mana Cost increased from 80/95/110/125 to 90/105/120/135
R

Rearm

PASSIVE: No


CHANNELED - Resets the cooldown on Tinker's abilities.


BONUS MAGIC RESISTANCE: 0%

Cooldown

7 / 6 / 5

Mana Cost

100 / 150 / 200


A new battery here, another set of rockets there, Boush continually improves on existing technology.

Warp Flare

Shard grants new ability

AFFECTS: Unit

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Throws a flare towards an enemy, dealing damage, teleporting them away, rooting them and reducing their Cast and Attack Range for 2 seconds.

The teleport location is always the ability's current cast range + 100 from Tinker's position when he threw the flare.


Will not teleport enemies if the distance is over 2000 units away.


DAMAGE: 150

CAST/ATTACK RANGE REDUCTION: 40%

Cooldown

15

Mana Cost

80

Cast Range

700

Talents

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+10s Defense Matrix Duration

200 AoE Laser

+ 0.9 %

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-0.5s Keen Conveyance Channel Time

+ 0.1 %

+10% Defense Matrix Status Resistance

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+50 Laser Damage

+60 Defense Matrix Damage Barrier

+ 3.6 %

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+8% Manacost/Manaloss Reduction

+1s March of the Machines Duration

+ 0.5 %

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Patch 7.38c

  • Level 15 Talent Defense Matrix Damage Barrier decreased from +75 to +60

Patch 7.38

  • Level 15 Talent Laser Damage increased from +40 to +50
  • Level 25 Talent Rearm Grants 50% Bonus Magic Resistance replaced with +10s Defense Matrix Duration
  • Level 25 Talent Laser AoE decreased from 250 to 200

Strategy

You can use Laser to blind the enemy hero and secure or deny creeps while your opponent cannot do any right click damage.

If the enemy laner does not have great HP regeneration, you can whittle them down with Laser spam along with right clicks and March of the Machines.

Ask your teammates to stack and make some yourself. You can clear multiple jungle camps and ancients with March of the Machines.

Look around the map to join fights or gank. Be careful not to expose yourself, especially before Blink Dagger.

Take your time and farm {blink-dagger} as it greatly improves your survivability and kill potential.

Make sure to apply Defense Matrix on yourself before teleporting out of the base.

Alert your teammates to not fight at places where you cannot join them quickly.

Look for {arcane-rune} and {regeneration-rune} as you'll be able to pump in so much more damage in the fights.

Fight under your vision to position yourself in a safe spot for the Laser and March of the Machines spam. You can even place the wards yourself.

Avoid trapping yourself in tree lines where the enemy team might have an {observer-ward} on a cliff.

You can smoke yourself here and there as another layer of protection in the fights.

Keep buyback available as you can rejoin the fights almost instantly.

Tinker is an insane highground defender. Don't give up and lift up your team's morale.

Counter Strategy

Tranquil Boots are great against Tinker as they don't break by his magical damage.

Look to gank midlane Tinker early on as he doesn't have an escape.

Tinker tends to make a lot of stacks in the jungle. Contest them or sentry off camps.

Avoid using long lasting disables and debuffs on a hero shielded with Defense Matrix due to its high status resistance.

Focus Tinker in fights as he's squishy but does insane amounts of damage.

Be aware of Tinker's Blink Dagger timing.

Magic resistance items, Black King Bar or a well timed Lotus Orb are great against Tinker.

Gap closing items are great at getting on top of Tinker.

Tinker is great at split-pushing. Consider getting Boots of Travel on a core.

Place Tinker wards at the outer jungles of the map. Consider camping those spots under the ward.

It is really hard to push highground against Tinker. Be patient and take fights outside the base.

Against the Translocator facet, try to root or silence Tinker only after you break through his Defense Matrix as he gets a basic dispel when the shield expires.

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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