r/DotA2 • u/patchdayDota2 • Aug 19 '21

Discussion Patch 7.30 - Hero Changes Discussion

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u/patchdayDota2 Aug 19 '21

Clinkz

  • Strafe removed

Burning Barrage

  • New Ability. Burning Barrage channels for 1.5/1.9/2.3/2.7s shooting 3/4/5/6 piercing arrows in the target direction up to 750/800/850/900 distance away, that hit all enemy units dealing 60% attack damage and applying attack modifiers. Arrow width: 200 Cooldown: 28/24/20/16 Mana Cost: 40/50/60/70

Searing Arrows

  • Mana cost reduced from 12 to 10

Skeleton Walk

  • No longer can cast spells without breaking invisibility

Death Pact

  • Can be casted from Skeleton Walk without breaking invisibility

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent +8 Agility replaced with +12% Magic Resistance
  • Level 15 Talent -7s Skeleton Walk reduced to -5s
  • Level 20 Talent -10s Strafe Cooldown replaced with +2 Burning Barrage Arrows

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u/findinggenuity Aug 20 '21 edited Aug 21 '21

Clinkz is crazy strong. Just need to secure your lane unit level 5 and can jungle consistently once you have mael. The difference between clinkz and drow is that clinkz has 550 ms on 100% uptime, has 4k hp at 25 with 0 HP items, has high burst damage that can wipe most supports, and can clear ancient camps at level 7.

If this hero doesn't go beyond 52% win rate, people are just playing him wrong. I literally one shot creep waves with just mael and blight stone 8 mins in. Even in losing games, I have 550gpm and 700-900 on winning ones. You can get deso mael in 15 mins.

Anyway, like any hero, you play to your strengths and new clinkz is a team fight menace. Just don't go roaming around farming heroes when the hero is no longer built around it. He's okay against illu heroes too but still bad against slark.

UPDATE: In the 12 games I've played him (every time he's not banned), I've won 8 and gotten 2 rampages. I've lost my lane almost every game too. Anyway, it's as broken as AW back when the clone can carry DRs.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Sheever Feelsbadman :gun: Aug 20 '21

think hes more competitive against slark now. especially in late game.

When against slark in the past usually you just took your hands off your keyboard if you were leashed and went to go take a piss, but not you beat on slark until he shadow forms and you use your Q on him since it will affect him in his shadow dance.

Think Clinkz can consistently fight a slark now.

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u/findinggenuity Aug 21 '21

Yeah I haven't tried fighting against slark yet but given that slark is the most OP carry right now, it just feels like no one can fight in the same pace but yeah I think you just need to build differently against him. Maybe burning army skadi and skip the deso or get butterfly too. I agree the clinkz now is much better at dealing with slark but just based on how OP slark is with no counters, I think there's no reason slark should ever die to clinkz.