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Here is the suggested skill build:

C. Skill Build

1. lasEr
2. heaT seeking missile
3. lasEr
4. heaT seeking missile
5. lasEr
6. heaT seeking missile
7. lasEr
8. heaT seeking missile
9. Rearm
10. marCh of the maChines
11. marCh of the maChines
12. marCh of the maChines
13. marCh of the maChines
14-25. attribUte Bonus / Rearm / marCh of the maChines







Brief explanation to skill builds:

1. lasEr and heaT seeking missile is your signature move. Both gives an instant burst of huge damage. You should be maxing these 2 skills as soon as possible,


2. Rearm is taken once, due to its exorbitant mana consumption on it's subsequent level early game,

3. marCh of the maChines should be taken next. It is your main farming skills that helps you acquire your next big item after your core items fast.

D2. Walkthrough by game stages:

D2a. Early game:

Buy a chicken as your 1st item. That's all. Nothing else.

Go to mid lane. It will be good if u can have mid lane solo all by yourself. You really need that level and gold fast.

Same early game, just farm. Don't do anything fancy or dangerous.

Once you got your 600 gold, send your chicken to bring you your bottle.

That's the time when you get aggressive !!!!!

1. spam your spells on enemy (lasEr and heaT seeking missile) 2. drink your bottle 3. Ask your chicken to refill your bottle for you. 4. Rinse and repeat step #1 - #4.

Now, you might say, so many freaking commands to handle, so many units to control, Ii can't do that. All these is really slowing you down.

Here, I'll share with you how you can do that. It's just my style, you can have your own if u feel more comfortable with it. With practice, I believe it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

1. Do you know that the chicken has 2 command keys?

2. "E" is the command key to send your chicken back to base.

3. "T" is the command key to send your chicken to transfer any item to you.

..... and with these, now, all you need to do is to assign your hero to CTRL 1, and assign your chicken to CTRL 2.

 

1. Transfer your bottle from your hero to your chicken. 2. click 2 (to sellect your chicken) 3. click "E" (to send your chicken back) 4. click "T" (chicken will transfer the refilled bottle to you)

There's only 1 goals in your early game, that is, to farm up as fast as possible for your Boots Of Travellers.

In order to achieve that, utillise your spells (lasEr and heaT seeking missile) to harras your enemy, together with the unlimited refill from your bottle+chicken combo, so that they need to go back home, and you can farm as freely as possible.

You early game ends once you have obtained your Boots Of Travellers.

 

D2b. Mid game:

Now is the time for you to really shine.

Remember, the earlier you get your Boots Of Travelers, the better for your contribution towards the entire team.

If everything goes well, you shouldn't have much problem getting your Boots Of Travelers around level 10.

Now, you main task now is to:-

1. Roam everywhere of the map, especially team mates that need your help most. Tele there immediately. 2. Help to gank/harras the enemies in that lane. Hopefully the enemy will need to go back and heal, or you guys manage to kill the enemy in the ganks. 3. This will buy your DPS team mates more time to farm.

Whenever your you are out of mana, just tele back to base to refill, and restart the whole procedure again.

When you see that a lane is empty, and there seems to be not much help needed at this moment, you can always tele there, and cast (marCh of the maChines --> Rearm --> marCh of the maChines) to farm fast, then tele back to base to regen + refill your bottle again.

The keyword here is FAST !!! You just wanna fly there, cast all your spells to clear the creep wave as fast as possible, then fly back to base. You want to avoid getting caught by enemy. You are still a glass canon now. You need to clear creep FAST, and get out of that area IMMEDIATELY.

So, again, let's go thru your main task/goal that you need to achieve during mid games:-

1. Help your team mates in their lane to harras. Main idea here is to help your team to kill/gank/harras the enemy so that your team mates can farm better. 2. If #1 is not available, then start fly and farm FAST from lane to lane. 3. At any instance when u see any of your team mates are in trouble, DO NOT HESITATE to teleport there and help them, even if it means causing you death. It's ok for you to die, if you are able to safe your team's DPS, because they need the valuable GOLD and EXP more than you do.

 

 

 

D2c. End game:

End game is all about pushing and huge ganks.

You should have your Guinsoo / Shiva / Euls by now.

Once you have your end game items with you, you no longer need to tele back to regen every time you cast a set of spells. You mana pool should be able to take the huge mana consumption by now. It should be able to last you for a few sets before your mana pool is being depleted.

You are indeed a multi-lane pushing machine.

With your marCh of the maChines and Shiva, you can clear a single save of creeps in seconds.

Let's your team mate push 1 lane, while you hope from lane to lane.

Meet them up together when the anticipate huge gank push is about to happen,

Cast all your spells + items during team fight.

Then run away to hide, Rearm , and repeat the entire procedure again.

 

E. Summary:

Well, here are a few things that you have to remember while playing tinker. Once you've mastered the essence of it, you should be able to enjoy playing him in all levels of game.

1. Non-stop harrasing your lane enemy with (lasEr and heaT seeking missile) and your chicken+bottle refill combo.

2. Farm very very fast for your main CORE item at all cost.

3. Mobility is the key. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't be caught standing still at one place for more than 1 minute!!! (unless u are ganking/pushing)

4. You shouldn't be concern at your mana at all time. Mana shouldn't be a concern to you. Whenever you are thinking and afraid of mana insufficient, you are not playing Tinker the right way.

5. Whenever you see your team mates being gank, immediately tele there to help. DO NOT HESITATE. I repeat. DO NOT HESITATE. A slight delay of 3-5 seconds of hesitation would means life and death for your team mates. You shouldn't be afraid of dying at all. If it means saving your team mates by you dying, by all means, DO IT!!!

 

 

 

Here are some Replays of Tinker:-

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