Semi-daily hero tips. Day 18: Clinkz

PREVIOUS HEROES

• Abaddon
• Alchemist
• Ancient Apparition
• Anti-Mage
• Arc Warden
• Axe
• Bane
• Batrider
• Beastmaster
• Bloodseeker
• Bounty Hunter
• Brewmaster
• Bristleback
• Broodmother
• Centaur Warrunner
• Chaos Knight
• Chen

DISCLAIMER

A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Clinkz

Notes:

• Time your ganks so skeleton walk is off cooldown when you go in.
• Good versus: Chen, Heroes that build HotD (especially, creeps have more HP than usual), Phoenix (Strafe + orchid + big static teamfight skills), Enigma, Elder Titan, Disruptor, AA, Undying, Warlock, Jakiro (The speed of shadow walk and nature of clinkz makes their static and big teamfight skills less useful), Ember, Jugger, AM (Orchid on Clinkz)
• Counters: Brood, PL, Naga, CK (clinkz has no AOE), PA (Clinkz can't manfight her until he gets MKB, by which point PA might have abyssal), LC (no strafe and searing arrows in duel), Spirit Breaker (charge), Axe (call disable is long enough), WK (strafe can only kill WK once), Slardar, BH, NS (true sight)
• Searing arrows affect buildings and go through BKB
• Only use strafe for farming when you're farming stacked ancients
• Recast your invis in the fog, it has a visual effect
• Versus: Gem > Sentries > Dust
• Versus: Get your own sentries (or dust if you're fast) as a carry
• Versus: Get ghost scepter
• HotD is a decent situational item to ensure you always have a creep with you to dark pact or alpha wolf to give you crits more damage.

Role: Hard carry or solo laner

Item build: (RoB --> RoA, Soul ring, HoM) Treads, bottle/wand, (Dragon Lance --> Pike), orchid --> bloodthorn/deso, BKB, (Blink, MKB, daedalus, HotD, Linken's)

Skill build: Searing Arrows --> Skeleton Walk --> Strafe