Tinker

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Tinker 17 + 2.3 13 + 1.2 30 + 2.2
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 494 1198 1968 2254 +1.5 +3.2 +6.42 +9.92 +11.27 Mana 75 435 795 1203 1359 +0.9 +2.4 +3.94 +5.64 +6.29 Armor 2 4.17 6.97 10.97 12.3 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block - Damage 22 28 52 58 82 88 116 122 129 135 Attack Rate 0.59/s 0.66/s 0.76/s 0.9/s 0.95/s Attack Range 500 (800) Attack Speed 100 (1.7s BAT) Attack Animation 0.35 + 0.65 Projectile Speed Move Speed 305 ( 335) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Boush, the Tinker, is a ranged intelligence hero who relies heavily on his assortment of nukes for ganking and pushing. While he does have rather low stat gain, he is able to reset the cooldown on his abilities, which in conjunction with Boots of Travel gives Tinker global mobility rivaled only by Nature's Prophet, which combined with his two high damage nukes, Laser and Heat-Seeking Missile, makes him a constant threat. Tinker abilities' mana costs are very high, however, thanks to his ultimate Rearm, and Boots of Travel, Tinker can simply to go back to base to refill health and mana, Rearm and go back to the lane to push or gank once more. Acquiring said boots early with a level advantage is key to success, considering he is lackluster without them. With the right items, mana management, and ability management, in the right hands, there is little that stands in the way of this hero.

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.

Voice:

Harry S. Robins (Responses)

Abilities

Laser

▶️QE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Pure

Fires an intense energy beam, dealing damage and blinding the target, causing it to miss all physical attacks.

Cast Animation: 0.4+1

Cast Range: 650 ( )

Bounce Radius: 0 ( 650)

Damage: 80/160/240/320 ( )

Miss Chance: 100%

Hero Duration: 3/3.5/4/4.5

Creep Duration: 6

 14

 95/120/145/170

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Causes Laser to refract between all visible enemy units within range.

Modifiers [?]

Laser Blind

Any

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

• Plays a sound effect during the cast time, which is audible to everyone.

• Uses the creep duration for creep-heroes.

• When upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter, the Laser bounces to the closest enemy hero within a {{#show:#Laser|?value2 aghs#}} radius of its current target.
  • The bounces happen instantly, with no time interval between them. Has no bounce limit.
  • Can only bounce to heroes (including clones), illusions and creep-heroes. When the primary target is a regular creep/summon, it still bounces to valid targets within range.
  • Does not bounce on invisible units or units in the Fog of War.
  • Can never hit the same unit twice per cast.

Heat-Seeking Missile

▶️▶️WT

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemy Heroes

Damage
Magical

Launches a pair of rockets at the nearest visible enemy heroes within {{#show:#Heat-Seeking Missile|?value1#}} range.

Cast Animation: 0+1.2

Search Radius: 2500

Number of Targets: 2 ( 4)

Damage per Rocket: 125/200/275/350

Stun Duration: 0 ( )

 25

 120/140/160/180

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Increases Heat-Seeking Missile target count.

The last contraption Boush was able to save was a retrofitted rocket launcher with a homing mechanism.

• Heat-Seeking Missile interrupts Tinker's channeling spells upon cast.

• The missiles travel at a speed of 900.

• When all missiles hit, they collectively can deal up to ( ) damage (before reductions).

• Does not target units which are out of vision (e.g. invisible), invulnerable or hidden.

• Does target hero clones and illusions.

• When no valid targets were in range, the rockets are released and fall on the ground, showing that the cast failed.

March of the Machines

▶️EC

Ability
Target Point

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

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: 16/24/32/40 ( )

Spawn Duration: 6

 35

 145/150/165/190

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

• The robots move at a speed of 400 and move a distance up to forwards, taking seconds to travel the full distance.

• The {{#show:#March of the Machines|?value2#}} spawn radius is centered and fixed around the cast point, not on Tinker's location.

• The spawn area is a line with length, which is centered {{#show:#March of the Machines|?value2#}} range behind the targeted cast point.

• So the overall affected area is rather square-shaped, with 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 robots.

• Robots do not spawn at points of the spawning line which are outside of the map boundaries.

• When an enemy comes within {{#show:#March of the Machines|?value3#}} radius of a robot, the robot deals damage in {{#show:#March of the Machines|?value4#}} radius around itself and then disappears.

• If a single enemy with standard 24 collision size remains stationary in the radius for the entire duration, they would take an average of ( ) damage (before reductions).

• If each explosion could hit a single target, it would deal up to ( ) damage (before reductions).

• The robots do not explode and deal area damage when colliding with couriers.

• The sound effect upon cast is not audible by enemies. The marching sounds are.

Rearm

▶️▶️▶️RR

Ability
No Target / Channeled

Affects
Self

Resets the cooldown on most of Tinker's items and abilities.

Cast Animation: 0.53+0

Channel Time: 3/1.5/0.75

 0

 100/200/300

Modifiers [?]

Rearm

Undispellable

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

• The following items cannot be rearmed:
  • Arcane Boots, Black King Bar, Hand of Midas, Helm of the Dominator, Linken's Sphere, Meteor Hammer, Aeon Disk, Necronomicon, Pipe of Insight, Refresher Orb, and Refresher Shard.
  • Visually resets the cooldown of Tranquil Boots, but does not skip the broken state.
  • Does not reset charges on charge-based items ( Bottle, Drum of Endurance).
  • Only refreshes items in Tinker's inventory. Items in stash, in other units' (e.g. couriers) inventories or dropped items are unaffected.
  • Only refreshes items owned by Tinker. Allied items in his inventory 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.

• Can rearm Manta Style, but recasting it replaces the previous illusions.

• Can rearm a disabled Blink Dagger and Heart of Tarrasque as well as the cooldown of Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.

• Rearm's sound gets shorter with each level to match the decreasing channel time.

Talents

Hero Talents
+0.3s Heat Seeking Missile Ministun	25	+100 Laser Damage
+8 March of the Machines Damage	20	+100 Damage
10% Spell Lifesteal	15	+40 Movement Speed
+75 Cast Range	10	+6% Spell Amplification

Notes:

• The spell lifesteal stacks additively with that of Octarine Core.

• The spell lifesteal heals for % from non-hero units. Treats creep-heroes as creeps and does not heal off of illusions.

• Grants generic bonus outgoing damage amplification. Stacks additively with other generic outgoing damage manipulation sources.
  • Affects only spell damage sourced to Tinker. Does not amplify damage flagged as HP removal.

• Stacks additively with other spell lifesteal sources.
  • Heals for 2% from non-hero units. Treats creep-heroes as creeps and does not heal off of illusions.

• Grants bonus attack damage.
  • Does not benefit illusions and is not affected by most percentage-based damage increasing or reducing effects.

Gameplay

Strategy & Tips

Counters &
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Audio

Responses

Sounds

History

Lore

Old Abilities

Changelogs

Equipment

Tinker Equipment (expand sets) Sets Blackshield Protodrone Fortified Fabricator Submerged Hazard Head Rollermawster Right Arm Arcanic Resonance Beam Misc Mecha Boots of Travel Mk III Taunt Taunt: Advanced Bladework

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 beggining 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.

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References

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