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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

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

V. Item build

Core

Core Justification

Extended

Extended Justification

Situational

Situational Justification

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!

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.