General DiscussionHow to win vs Lina ?

go storm, if she gets you low before bottle ferry a salve

when you get 6 she should be 6-7 tops and you can kill her by zip zap zooping if people don't rotate

Lina is squishy as fuck, and not that fast early without buying phase and maxing out her passive first and spamming spells, in which case her spells won't do shit early game. Early game you can combine two stuns to kill her, or if you have some souls on your SF, one stun + razes + right clicks are more than enough. Like other heroes who have nukes to clear waves, if she uses them to push the wave a bit you can use that to your advantage by forcing her to spend some time in the river. Use this timing window to gank her. Just smoke up on her and she's utterly dead. Mid game get BKB, hopefully she'll have something to by before aghs. Lategame, be tanky and don't give a fuck. Really, I don't see how core Lina is hard to play against if you have ANY coordination with the team, unless, obviously, she gets a bkb, daedalus and skadi and rapes the shit out of you because somebody fed her whole game. Support lina is actually more fucked up because unlike ordinary supports, she can actually right click you to death pretty easily, all she needs is mana regen to spam spells, and unlike mid Lina, she can actually roam since level 1 and (for example) fuck you up as SF on mid, along with another hero with a stun. But even in that scenario, if you counter initiate, she'll melt. She can run fast, but once she's stunned, it's over in most cases.

be fat

also have supports on ur side, lina is evry weak against disables, particularly when she is in the middle of euls combo

^pretty much TL;DR of my post, so yeah. Also bear in mind her animation is garbage, so abuse the fuck out of that as well.

I am mainly asking as when ur not playing mid. I can handle her mid in the early phase but she do kills left and right so easily, and hardly can fight her once she has euls with most heroes.

abuse her garbage animation

lol i think u forgot the fact that she can attack u from like the fountain

best is ta but even that matchup is 60-40 ta at best

Girl, I meant spell casting animation, though her attack animation is garbage too (until she gets stacks of fiery soul, obviously). But yeah, she has that 670 range going for her which is really good.

1. pick sniper
2. level take aim
3. ???
4. profit

Actually I'm joking, sniper will beat her mid but he's not the greatest mid right now but the point is she is extremely weak but has ridiculous range so you have to get around it somehow. Dragon slave and he auto attack are both super far reaching.

What about lesh? He can trade hits with her can't he?

Or you could just go pugna and drop wards uphill. Warlock might work too.

If your focusing on killing her in lane. You are doing it wrong. Just cs and try not to die. If you are getting smashed stack. Rush mek.

kill her in lane dont even try to cs

Wait for 6.85 and enjoy the incoming nerf :P
Lina and Lesh are the most broken lane dominators, viper is a joke in comparison thats sad

ask ur team to gank her once or twice and watch her be with brown boots for rest of the game ez katka

Pick TA.

play antimage mid ez

Avoid her nukes in lanes. Play against enough nukers and you'll have a rough feel of when they're going to cast a nuke to CS + harass you. Then, when ganking her, or when she's ganking you, predict her stuns, bait her stuns, make her whiff it. When she whiffs it, she has one less source of damage, wasted some mana, and has no more disables on you.

pick ta or qop, they will outlane lina

for qop, its 50 vs 50, you either can lose lane or win the lane

TA vs Lina is not as good as many people are saying here, TA has terrible range early on which makes it very easy for Lina to break through refeactiom and just harras her constantly. At lvl 5-7 Lina is also just going to nuke the creep wave apart which secured pretty much always a rune for her and also leads TA back to the tower csing there. Ofc TA is immune to her constant nukes but also can't win the lane against her.

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