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Techies

Popularity: #53

Leaderboard: #113

Ban Rank: #44

KDA Rank: #124

Hero

Build

Matchup

Techies stats, abilities and strategy

Surprises enemies with invisible landmines and explosive attacks

For the Techies, battle is a matter of mischief. Giggling while they lob sticky bombs around the battlefield, their hidden explosive mines, disarming zaps, and reckless blast-off attacks are enough to leave most enemies dead. Or at least enraged. Often both.

Win Rate 46.9%

Pick Rate 7.4%

Attributes

Techies image

538 +57.2/lvl

375 +33.6/lvl

Strength Image

19 +2.6/lvl

Agility Image

14 +1.8/lvl

Intelligence Image

25 +2.8/lvl

Stats

Attack

Damage:

60 - 62 + 5.0/level (236 - 238 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

600

Attack

Armor:

4.3 + 0.3/level (15.4 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

300

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Patch 7.38

  • Base Damage increased by 17
  • Damage at level 1 increased by 3 (from 43-45 to 46-48)
  • Strength gain increased from 2.5 to 2.6
  • Agility gain increased from 1.3 to 1.8
  • Intelligence gain decreased from 3.0 to 2.8
  • Damage gain per level decreased from +4.8 to +3.2
  • Damage at level 30 decreased by 52 (from 210-212 to 158-160)

Facets

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Squee's Scope

Win Rate: 44.5%

Pick Rate: 14.3%

Techies gains %attack_range_tooltip% attack range and attack projectile speed for each point of attack speed.

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Spleen's Secret Sauce

Win Rate: 47.1%

Pick Rate: 65.8%

Increased Blast Off! damage and self damage.

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Spoon's Stash

Win Rate: 47.9%

Pick Rate: 19.9%

Techies stack all previously selected Enchantments onto newly crafted Neutral Items.


Patch 7.38

  • Techies stack all previously selected Enchantments onto newly crafted Neutral Items
  • Also allows to have two Tier 5 Enchantments by recrafting a tier 5 item

Abilities

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Minefield Sign

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: n/a

PASSIVE: No


Plant a warning sign, causing Sticky Bombs and Proximity Mines within its radius to be invulnerable and deal 15% more damage. Only one sign can exist at a time. Lasts %lifetime% seconds.


EFFECT RADIUS: 500

SIGN DURATION: 60

DAMAGE:

MOVEMENT TRIGGER AMOUNT:

Cooldown

60

Cast Range

10


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Scepter

Increases radius and duration of Minefield Sign. When an enemy hero walks within %trigger_radius% units of a minefield sign, the %aura_radius% units area around the sign will become a minefield for %minefield_duration% seconds, dealing damage to enemy units any time they move within its area. Minefield Sign is destroyed after this effect ends.

DAMAGE:

MOVEMENT TRIGGER AMOUNT:


Patch 7.38

  • Cast Point decreased from 1.5s to 1.25s
  • Now also causes Sticky Bombs and Proximity Mines within the radius to deal 15% more damage

Watch your step!

Q

Sticky Bomb

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


Lobs a Sticky Bomb towards the target area. If it lands next to an enemy hero, the bomb will stick to it, slowing its movement speed. After a few seconds the bomb will explode, dealing damage in an area around the detonation and applying a secondary slow for 3 seconds.


EXPLOSION DELAY: 2

STICK RADIUS: 300

DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320

MOVEMENT SLOW: 25% / 35% / 45% / 55%

SECONDARY MOVEMENT SLOW: 15% / 25% / 35% / 45%

EXPLOSION RADIUS: 350

Cooldown

16 / 13 / 10 / 7

Mana Cost

100 / 115 / 130 / 145

Cast Range

1000


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +125 Sticky Bomb Latch/Explosion Radius


Such revolutionary brilliance was meant to be shared.

W

Reactive Tazer

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

BUFF: Yes


Techies trigger an electric charge giving them bonus movement speed for a short period of time. Enemies attacking Techies are temporarily disarmed and get a Basic Dispel. At the end of the effect, the charge explodes, disarming all enemies within the radius.


BUFF DURATION: 6

DISARM DURATION: 2.4 / 2.7 / 3 / 3.3

MOVEMENT BONUS: 18% / 22% / 26% / 30%

EXPLOSION RADIUS: 400

DAMAGE:

Cooldown

30 / 25 / 20 / 15

Mana Cost

60

Cast Range

500


Aghanim ScepterAghanim Shard

Aghanim's Shard

Reactive Tazer can be cast on allies and deals damage on detonation. Also deals damage to any enemy that attacks the affected ally.


A steady bomb hand prefers an abundance of personal space.

E

Blast Off!

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes

DEBUFF [E]: Yes


Techies hurtle themselves into the enemy's midst, detonating charges upon impact which deal massive area of effect damage and stun enemies. Upon landing, the assault deals Techies non-lethal damage equal to a percentage of their current health.


The self-damage Techies receive from this blast is pure and non-lethal.

This ability destroys trees.


EXPLOSION RADIUS: 400

FULL DAMAGE: 200 / 300 / 400 / 500

STUN DURATION: 0.8 / 1 / 1.2 / 1.4

CURRENT HP SELF DAMAGE: 20%

MAX HP AS BONUS DAMAGE: 0%

Cooldown

40 / 35 / 30 / 25

Mana Cost

100 / 125 / 150 / 175

Cast Range

1000


FACET: Spleen's Secret Sauce

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Increased Blast Off! damage and self damage.


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: -15s Blast Off! Cooldown

LEVEL 15 TALENT: +200 Blast Off! Damage


Where we going?

R

Proximity Mines

AFFECTS: Area

DAMAGE TYPE: Magical

PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No

PASSIVE: No

DISPELLABLE: Yes


Plant an invisible mine that cannot be detected by True Sight, but is visible if an enemy is within the active 500 AoE of the mine. Mines detonate if an enemy is standing within the active AoE for 1 seconds dealing damage and temporarily reducing the enemy's Magic Resistance. The explosion deals full damage if the target is within 150 radius and decreases up to 50% on the edge. Deals %building_damage_pct%% damage to buildings.


Cannot be placed within 350 AoE of another Proximity Mine.

Proximity Mines do not block neutral creep camps from spawning.

Mines last until they explode or are destroyed.

Mines are triggered by invisible units.

Grants 30 gold if destroyed by an enemy hero.


EXPLOSION RADIUS: 500

DAMAGE: 400 / 575 / 750

BUILDING DAMAGE: 30%

ACTIVATION DELAY: 1

MAGIC RESISTANCE REDUCTION: 15% / 20% / 25%

DEBUFF DURATION: 5

Mana Cost

110 / 140 / 170

Cast Range

400


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LEVEL 25 TALENT: -0.8s Proximity Mines Activation Delay

LEVEL 10 TALENT: -3s Proximity Mines Cooldown


The bane of Toterin!

Detonate Tazer

PASSIVE: No


Detonate Reactive Tazer immediately.


Cooldown

0.5

Talents

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-0.8s Proximity Mines Activation Delay

+252 Damage

+ 0.9 %

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-15s Blast Off! Cooldown

+ 0.3 %

+125 Sticky Bomb Latch/Explosion Radius

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+3 Mana Regen

+ 2.8 %

+200 Blast Off! Damage

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-3s Proximity Mines Cooldown

+ 1.8 %

+20% Magic Resistance

Win Rate

Pick Rate

Strategy

Use spells to quickly push out the wave and secure the rune that's about to spawn without missing farm.

Ferry some health consumables with your courier to use Blast Off! frequently.

Blast Off! destroys trees which can be useful against certain heroes and when opponents try to hide in trees.

Look to place a couple of Proximity Mines around portals for a surprise burst on enemies using them.

You can make it harder for opponents to destroy mines by sitting on top of them.

Drop or backpack items that provide you with mana before using Arcane Boots, Bottle or Soul Ring.

Sticky Bombs and Proximity Mines provide a little vision so you can scout cliffs and highgrounds, runes or the Roshan pit.

Consider smoking yourself onto the opponents' side of the map to mine aggressively. Bring an observer as well.

Look for pickoffs or join teamfights with your massive burst potential.

If your teammates are pressuring, move with them, mine around them and Blast Off! when opponents clump up.

Place a couple of Proximity Mines at the entrance of Roshan pit to scout enemy movement.

Pick up Aghanims Shard for extra damage on your Reactive Tazer adding additional burst to your combo.

Consider using Force Staff on enemy heroes to push them into mines.

Play aggressively in lanes and the enemy jungle with your level 7 as you have massive kill potential.

With Ethereal Blade, you can burst down just about any hero on the map with your combo.

Counter Strategy

Against Techies, deliver extra consumables and an Observer Ward to keep track of him.

Proximity Mines explode 1 seconds after you hear the beep. Destroy them or move away quickly.

Keep track of Techies' movements and which part of the map is being mined.

Avoid walking up highground or in Roshan pit without vision. You might run into mines.

Magic resistance items, Black King Bar and Aeon Disk are great against Techies to avoid getting bursted.

Make it tricky for Techies to land Sticky Bombs on you by making sharp turns.

Avoid running too close to Techies' Minefield sign once he has Aghanim's Scepter as it triggers a massive damage area for anyone who walks through it.

Lore

In the storied saga of Dredger's Bight, no business has ever been more reviled than Techies Demolitions. Then again, Dredger's Bight no longer exists. Nor does Toterin. Or even Trapper Town. In fact, if one were to track the history of Techies Demolitions they might notice that shortly after Techies appear, towns tend to disappear.

Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.

Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.

Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.

Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?

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