[Bone Fletcher] It's good to be skinny!

[mrmemories]

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Version 6.70


Written by mrmemories

I. Introduction

This is my first guide, feel free to suggest strategies for this hero.

II. The hero

Playstyle
Clinkz can be play as a ganker, soloer and for scouting.

Stats


Advanced Statistics

• Affiliation: Scourge
• Attack Animation: 0.7 / 0.3
• Damage: 37-43
• Casting Animation: 0.5 / 0.51
• Armor: 2.1
• Base Attack Time: 1.7
• Movespeed: 300
• Missile Speed: 900
• Attack Range: 600
• Sight Range: 1800 / 800

Pro/Cons

Pro

• Easy to farm, harrass and get last hits with Searing Arrows.
  
• Tower gold is mostly yours due to Strafe.
  
• Has a descent escape mechanism skill, Wind Walk.
  
• High Movespeed (after maxing Wind Walk and have a decent boots)
  
• Great Late gamer. (with proper items)

Cons

• Very fragile during early game due to low HP.
• Easily countered by gem and wards.
• Item dependent Hero
• Low Hp even at level 25 (can be solved by buying HP item)

III. Skills

Notes

• Mana cost : 90 at all level
• Bone Fletcher will get an animation on him for the duration of the spell, show that it's currently active.
• This skill is for your Hero killing and Tower bounty
• Use it for Backdoor (late game)

Notes

• Mana cost : 8 at all level
• This skill increase your damage by a lot.
• In summary a free desolator.
• Allow you to orb walk. (will be discussed)
• Searing arrow is an orb effect, non buff placer.
• Searing arrow deal damage to structures.

Notes

• Mana cost : 75 at all level
• Bone Fletcher can go through units when under the effects of windwalk.
• Will not break most channeling of spells or items upon activation
• When attacking, invisibility is broken before the projectile reaches the target.
• For chasing/escape purpose.
• Can be used to dodge projectile such as Mystic snake, Storm Bolt, etcs

Before death pact

After death pact

Note: Death pact is at level 1 when used, from those picture you can see how clinkz max HP increases.

Notes

• Mana cost : 100 at all level
• If the target is an enemy or neutral unit, it will give the Clinkz the correct gold and experience bounty.
• Bone Fletcher gains HP capacity based on the HP of the target. Increases his current and max HP by a certain amount.
• When the duration ends, the max HP returns to normal, but the current HP remains the same.
• Bonus damage is also a percentage of the killed unit's HP.
• A skill for you to neutral creep (during mid-game)

IV. Skill build

Level 1 - Windwalk
Level 2 - Searing arrow
Level 3 - Searing arrow
Level 4 - Strafe
Level 5 - Searing arrow
Level 6 - Death Pact
Level 7 - Searing arrow
Level 8 - Windwalk
Level 9 - Windwalk
Level 10 - Windwalk
Level 11 - Death Pact
Level 12 - Strafe
Level 13 - Strafe
Level 14 - Strafe
Level 15 - Stats
Level 16 - Death Pact
Level 17 - Stats
Level 18 - Stats
Level 19 - Stats
Level 20 - Stats
Level 21 - Stats
Level 22 - Stats
Level 23 - Stats
Level 24 - Stats
Level 25 - Stats

Skill Build justification

• Take 1 level windwalk for escape.
• Next we will get Searing arrow ASAP as this will be our bread and butter skill
• When you get Level 2 Searing arrow, there will no be cool down so we will get 1 level strafe so that if there's opportunity to gank you can just Auto-cast Searing arrow and activate Strafe.
• Windwalk will then be max for movement speed boost.
• Strafe will be max during mid-game.
• Stats will then be taken whenever possible.

V. Item build

Core





Core Justification

• Magic wand : A well spend item, Instant regen is always good.
• Wraith band : For more damage
• Tread (Str): Increase movement speed, attack speed, +10 str.
• Orchid malevolence: This item increase your attack speed, damage, intelligent, 225% mana regen and a soul burn. This solve your mana mid and late game. What's more a counter to spell caster. Ever hate Lion Impale+Figure 1 hit ko on clinkz? Eg: Lion/Zeus/Kotl/etcs

Extended





Extended Justification

• Monkey King Bar: Mini stuns to cancel channeling spell such as Sand king's Epicenter, Butcher's dismember, etcs
• Butterfly: Every Agi hero's luxury. Increase attack speed, evasion and damage.
• Buriza-dokycannon: Critical will occurs more frequently with Strafe, useful against tankers
• Heart of Tarrasque: As mention earlier, clinkz have low hp even at lvl25. Heart will solve his low HP. Adds about 1k HP to clinkz health. ^^

Situational




Situational Justification

• Bracer: Increase your health, especially facing nukers
• Hood of defiance: Nuke is not as pain as before
• Black king bar: If your opponent have a lot of disable

VI. Strategy

Early game (Level 1 - 9)

Starting item



x3

Farming item




Laning
Rule 1: Always last hit and deny
Rule 2: Always manual cast. Press "R" and click on enemy hero. (AKA Orb walk)
Rule 3: Always save 75 mana for windwalk

Here's a video on how to harass your opponent

From the video you can see that i do not draw creep aggro

The advantages of orb walking

• Will not get nearby enemy creep to attacks you
• You can attack faster than you leave it on auto-cast

Mid game (level 10 - 16)


Farming items



Gang
By this point of time, you should always stick with your team and gang.
Step 1: Windwalk
Step 2: Scout and look for victims (esp those are neutral creeping)
Step 3: Inform your teammates
Step 4: Right click on searing arrow (Auto-cast)
Step 5: Press orchid malevolence on enemy hero
Step 6: Activate Strafe and shoot!

Neutral creeping
It's always dangerous to farm across the river, how should we make full use of our time? The solution is neutral creeps.
Step 1: Go to a Neutral creep camp.
Step 2: Kills the "easier to kill creep"
Step 3: Death pact on the "harder to kill creep"

Late game (level 16 - 25)


Farming items



Gang and gang
Same as above

Team clash
Just focus fire on those who are weak (non-tanker)
Step 1: Auto cast Searing arrow
Step 2: Orchid malevolence on their caster
Step 3: Strafe
Step 4: Shoot

Backdoor
Okay... don't worry this is legal.
Backdoor AKA hitting towers without the sight of ally units. Towers will regenerate when you backdoor, however once you reach late game, your damage will be higher than the tower's regeneration.

From this video, you can see that clinkz is able to Backdoor tower with the help of Strafe and Death pact when he's in low health.

VII. Tips

Position

• When trying to kill a hero in the forest, try to position yourself uphill. So that when they run downhill, you still able to see him and shoot him. On the other hand, Shooting uphill have 25% to miss.
• Anticipate the enemy movement after you attack him, if you thinks he run north, then position yourself at north so that you can have few more shots.
• During team clash, position yourself at forest/un-noticed area so that people would not focus fire you.

Stealthy

• Windwalk at max level have a cooldown of 20seconds, duration 35seconds. This means you can have 2 windwalk in a row AKA Duo-windwalk
• When you windwalk and found a target, try to wait for the windwalk to cooldown before you engage so that if the enemy escape, you can use another windwalk to chase them. On the other hand, when you realized his allies is coming, you can do another windwalk to escape.
• When your team are going to push, try to scout around with windwalk so that your team gets to prepare before the clash.

Countering Linken's Sphere
If your enemy hero have a linken's sphere, when you click orchid malevolence on him, linken's sphere will block. So how?
Step 1: Windwalk and wait for cooldown (duo-windwalk)
Step 2: Shoot the enemy (While you break your invisibility to do the first shot, their linken's sphere will block for the first shot)
Step 3: Orchid malevolence
Step 4: Stafe
Step 5: Shoot

VIII. Hero relationship

Allies
Disable




They disable, you shoot, as easy as ABC

Reduce Armour




Your searing arrow + their reduced armour = Pain!:ouch:

Babysitter


Helps you to stay in lane and farm

Enemies
Disable




Disabled clinkz spells dead corpse.

Tracker



Those guys reveal your location.

Special enemy(s)

This guy is scary...
Charge->dust->MoM->ulti
Clinkz got no way to escape from this (unless bash misses and you got lucky and windwalk away)

IX. FAQ

Q:Where is Eye of Skadi?
A:I would not recommend EOS into the extended. Those item in extended > EOS.

Q:Where is guinsoo?
A:Guinsoo is difficult to build. Orchid is easy to build with cheap components. Each of the component benefits a lot with your farming/killing. Esp Sobi mask which can solve our mana problem early game.

X. Replay

A public replay played by me. (game ended during mid game)

XI. Credits

• Darkmedina: For his format
• gwho: For his BBC coding
• Those who commented on my guide
• Icefrog
• Myself (?)

XII. Conclusion

Clinkz is a newbie friendly hero and could help his team in many ways.
Comment/feedback is appreciated.
Thanks for reading my guide.

change logs

6.65 update: Searing arrow cd reduced to 2/0/0/0 ^^
6.67 update: Death pact reworked :D woot
6.69 update: wand no longer detect spells when enemy cast in fog. ):

[Lycan]

Great Late gamer. (with proper items) Poor late gamer is easely outcarried by a hardcarry like visage or TB

Rescale the images to fit the screen

gl

~Lycan

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by Lycan

Great Late gamer. (with proper items) Poor late gamer is easely outcarried by a hardcarry like visage or TB

Rescale the images to fit the screen

gl

~Lycan

okay.. so what you are telling me is to resize the image?

[aiceball]

no, its that he gets countered the whole game. early by nukes, late by nukes, late by carries( spec, tb, void, troll, pa, slardar(especially buttseks one))

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by aiceball

no, its that he gets countered the whole game. early by nukes, late by nukes, late by carries( spec, tb, void, troll, pa, slardar(especially buttseks one))

oh well :/
counter void and pa by butterfly (?)

thanks for comment anyways. i haven even started the strategy! *argh*

[DirtyEpic]

Gl!

[Asian]

ok holy shit u should use my replays in ur guide put em up

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by Asian

ok holy shit u should use my replays in ur guide put em up

how about you attach a replay in your post. i would like to view it

[Clear]

could please add skadi at the extended items? It really help him. I mean it adds his dps survivability and have a slow.

[Clear]

and also please get his ult at lvl 6. It really helped me a lot of times staying in the lane. I don't use his ult at the lane creeps I usually use it for neutrals which are lvl 6 and it gives a lot of exp and gold.

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by toasta

could please add skadi at the extended items? It really help him. I mean it adds his dps survivability and have a slow.

i would but it's very expensive. by the time clinkz completed those extended item, i guess the game already ended.

Originally Posted by toasta

and also please get his ult at lvl 6. It really helped me a lot of times staying in the lane. I don't use his ult at the lane creeps I usually use it for neutrals which are lvl 6 and it gives a lot of exp and gold.

i would consider that, sounds reasonable
thanks for the comments

[stealthfire]

he's all bones, how can he be skinny.

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by stealthfire

he's all bones, how can he be skinny.

sounds reasonable but i don't have any creative name though..

[Clear]

is radiance a suitable item for him? I think its fun to see people suffering the burn while clinkz is wind walking and the damage is quite nice.

[Asian]

http://www.playdota.com/forums/81252...-clinkz-again/
http://www.playdota.com/forums/39511/lol-clinkz/

[mrmemories]

Originally Posted by toasta

is radiance a suitable item for him? I think its fun to see people suffering the burn while clinkz is wind walking and the damage is quite nice.

I believe that Clinkz should be play as steathy as possible. Radiance reveals his position

Originally Posted by Asian

http://www.playdota.com/forums/81252...-clinkz-again/
http://www.playdota.com/forums/39511/lol-clinkz/

Thanks. i shall review it and see if it's suitable for my guide.

[Black Isle]

if u can max your ulti at level 15 then u should be a highlevel-godlike-pro

[Unnamed_]

I don't see why not level your ultimate whenever possible.It's mana doesn't scale, only the ammount healed, so, there's no reason not to level it.And you wouldn't be backdooring at level 12-13, so you don't need the Strafe for that long, because the hero you want to kill will die for the 4 seconds of level 2 Strafe.
Depends how much HP you have, but I prefer having all my HP healed by 1 Death Pact, not by 2.
But I have to say you play him like I do.Reading the guide so far made me wonder if I didn't write it .Good job.1 difference here is that I get butterfly after the core items and then I get HoT, because I always get focused with him, and HoT gives a huge(for bone) HP bonus, which he needs.After butterfly and HoT, I proceed to the other items, with MKB/Skadi varying to how much HP I need.
They both have Buff Placers, so you can't have them both.

[mrmemories]

I don't see why not level your ultimate whenever possible.It's mana doesn't scale, only the ammount healed, so, there's no reason not to level it

Before getting orchid, you won't have mana to use Death Pact effectively.

And you wouldn't be backdooring at level 12-13, so you don't need the Strafe for that long, because the hero you want to kill will die for the 4 seconds of level 2 Strafe.

Agree, as i said earlier,Backdoor is at late game >level16.
Strafe is max ASAP in mid gate because Maybe you take 4 seconds to kill 1 hero what about the other target?

1 difference here is that I get butterfly after the core items and then I get HoT, because I always get focused with him, and HoT gives a huge(for bone) HP bonus, which he needs.After butterfly and HoT, I proceed to the other items, with MKB/Skadi varying to how much HP I need.

I would consider adding HoT in the extended item.
thanks for comments.

Originally Posted by PhthaloBlack

if u can max your ulti at level 15 then u should be a highlevel-godlike-pro

sorry. half asleep when drafting :x edited

[Clear]

Originally Posted by mrmemories

Before getting orchid, you won't have mana to use Death Pact effectively.

you have enough dude..I already played clinks a lot of times and mana is not a problem as long as you buy sobi mask first when forming obli..please add skadi to extended items the point booster could be gotten before making the third obli which can increase your mana for your skills and hp to at least survive some nukes..