Can we talk Tinker counters?

I've got 250 Tinker games, I'm basically Satan. I'm going to keep this short.

Heroes

• Storm, Beastmaster, Tuskar, Skywrath, Pugna, Nightstalker, Brood, Clinkz, Axe, Treant, ES (All Ember spirit, Earth Spirit and Earthshaker), Spectre, Clockwerk, bloodseekers, venge is good too. Note these are counters to only Tinker, and most of them are rarely picked in a team comp.

Gameplay

• It's so obvious, but stuns, this hero is so squishy and rarely buys bkb. Usually Tinker is the only farmed on their team and he's so easy to lock down most of the times.

• Don't even think it's a good idea to 5 man blademail and stand in march, it's not good or smart.

• It can be hard to gank a Tinker after a few levels, so gank him early. If your mid is someone like a SF and Invoker who can't really help with ganks, you're straight up going to lose.

• Stick together, obviously.

• Tank up, carry urns, meks, tranquils, late game hearts. He's good at harrassing and instantly killing you, if you survive the initial burst then you're probably going to win the team fight.

YOU ARE DOOMED

sky wrath, six seconds instant silence. blood seeker works as well. storm spirit iwth orchid etc etc

I love it when I farm the jungle as Anti-Mage and Tinker teleports near me for the traditional March spam, then when he tp's a Mana Void interrupts him and also cut 90% of his hp

For heroes you have clock and storm which are really good, they can initiate from very farm, blademail is a very good item on clock and in this case it's evn better vs tinker because it means he won't want to burst your ass down and storm generally gets items like orchid, and hex so that + his cc make him great as well. Overall any hero with a stun a blink, for example lion with blink + stun is great.

Meepo is another amazing counter, you can just leave a meepo in the trees in one lane waiting for tinker to come, then you fuck him up all the while pushing out the other lanes.

I think in terms of carries, weaver is pretty great vs him for several reasons. Weaver has linkens as a core item and that forces tinker to at least wiff one spell/item which can give you time to run away, weaver is very mobile and hard to lock down + after linkens you can get mkb to ministun him and stop him from tp'ing away.

Void is also a great hero vs tinker, his chrono is great + he can backtrack some of the huge nukes tinker has, naga can be good to go fuck up a tinker in the backlines of a fight.

Overall yeah you can ward his ancients and gank him early + just not take shit fights early and always remember that even if you think you have a 3v2 fight in your favor, tinker cna always tp in and turn it around, and that's how tinker gets alot of his early boost from because sure he farms quickly but he also gets alot from those small skirmishes in the early game.

Honestly there are lots of ways to fuck up a tinker and it's just that he's very impressive when he snowballs because he tends to have amazing kda and solo carry his team but he is also very underwhelming if put vs good counters or if he is shut down early

Edit: I also forgot bloodseeker who's silence is a huge pain in the ass

Legion Commander with Blink

"What? your rightclicks are shit? Too bad for you son, get rekt."

Nightstalker with aghanims and blink should be able to stop any solo push Tinker wants to do

Get a hero that has invisible or can destroy trees helps also blink.

Spectre/Storm

bloodseeker is insanely annoying

clockwerk

storm

venge spirit there's so many

Blink Doom, Storm Spirit, Bloodseeker or smoke where you predict he's going to tp and surprise butt-fuck him.

Ward his jungle ;-)