Tinker
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Tinker
19 + 2.3
17 + 1.4
30 + 3.3
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +50.6HP and +0.23HP regeneration | |
| +0.23 armor and 1.4 attack speed | |
| +39.6MP and +0.165MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +3.3 Main Attack Damage | |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (117)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.35 + 0.65
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0.6
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Motor
Gib Type | ||
2011-06-02
Released | ||
2004-10-22
(v5.76) | ||
Competitive Span
2011-06-02 — Present |
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| Demolishes his enemies with modern technology. | |
|---|---|
| Compared to magic, the study of natural law was much more consistent, but no less dangerous. From their subterranean laboratory, Boush and his colleagues opened a portal to a distant world, a Conveyance through which untold horrors began to pass into this realm. Laser cutting his way to freedom, Boush surfaced as the only Tinker to survive the Violet Plateau incident. Equipped with contraptions befitting a maniacal researcher, he launches Heat-Seeking Missiles from his shoulders, firing Warping Flares to dislocate his enemies. Unhindered by the delays of magic, the Tinker Rearms his deadly offensive gadgets and Defensive Matrices on the fly, wasting no time in demolishing anything that stands in his way. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Bearded, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Repair Bots
March of the Machines applies a non-stacking heal over time while passing through allied heroes.
Translocator
When Defense Matrix is active on Tinker, it relocates him to a random point within a certain distance upon the all damage barrier depletion.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Applies a stacking debuff that reduces the model size, and both the current and max health of affected enemy heroes.
Laser also bounces once within the radius, prioritizing the farthest enemy hero.
Increases cast range.
Laser also bounces once within the radius, prioritizing the farthest enemy hero.
Increases cast range.
Grants the Warp Flare ability.
Fires a damaging flare towards an enemy unit and applies a debuff that reduces both the affected enemy unit's cast range and attack range.
Fires a damaging flare towards an enemy unit and applies a debuff that reduces both the affected enemy unit's cast range and attack range.
Talents[edit]
| +10s Defense Matrix Duration | 25 | +200 Laser Radius |
|---|---|---|
| -0.5s Keen Conveyance Channel Time | 20 | +10% Defense Matrix Status Resist |
| +50 Laser Damage | 15 | +75 Defense Matrix |
| +8% Manacost/Manaloss Reduction | 10 | +1s March of the Machines Duration |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Bio[edit]
Victory is 10% inspiration, 90% decapitation!▶️Boush, the Tinker
Alias:
Boush
Lore:
Boush the Tinker's diminutive race is known for its intelligence, its cunning, and its prickly relationship with magic. As a matter of pride, they survive by their wits, and use only those powers of nature that may be unlocked through rational methodologies. Even this forbearance has led to a great deal of trouble, as Boush can attest. Once a key investigator of natural law, Boush the Tinker led a vast intellectual investigation into the workings of nature, founding a subterranean laboratory in the rumored, mist-wreathed wastes of the Violet Plateau. While scorning mages for the dangers they visit upon the world, Boush and his Tinker associates haughtily wrenched open a portal to some realm beyond comprehension and ushered in some nightmares of their own. A black mist rose from the cavernous interior of the Violet Plateau, shrouding it in permanent darkness from which sounds of horror perpetually emanate. Boush escaped with only his wits and the contraptions he carried, the sole Tinker to survive the Violet Plateau Incident.
Voice:
Innate[edit]
Eureka![edit]
Eureka! 
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants Tinker an item-based cooldown reduction per 
intelligence, with a cap.
Item Cooldown Reduction Cap: 60%
Item Cooldown Factor per Int: 
0.333%
Details
- Only affects item abilities.
- Requires Tinker to have 180
cooldown reduction value.
- Requires Tinker to have 180
Abilities[edit]
Laser[edit]
Blinds and damages the unit-targeted enemy.
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 1
Damage: 75/150/225/300 (
125/200/275/350)
Miss Chance: 100%
Blind Duration: 3/3.5/4/4.5
Current Health Reduction: (
15%)
Max Health Reduction: ( 15%)
Talent Upgrade
Laser is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units centered around the primary enemy unit.
Laser is now an area-targeted ability and applies all ability effects to enemy units centered around the primary enemy unit.
Effect Radius: 
200
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Applies a stacking debuff that reduces the model size, and both the current and max health of affected enemy heroes.
Laser also bounces once within the radius, prioritizing the farthest enemy hero.
Increases cast range.
Applies a stacking debuff that reduces the model size, and both the current and max health of affected enemy heroes.
Laser also bounces once within the radius, prioritizing the farthest enemy hero.
Increases cast range.
Search Radius: ( 700)
Number of Bounces: ( 1)
Bounce Delay: ( 0)
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
The Shrink Ray's health reduction component does not affect Roshan.
The Shrink Ray's health reduction component does not affect Roshan.
19/18/17/16
95/105/115/125 (
87/96/105/115)
Boush perfected this rock cutting laser in his subterranean laboratory, never considering its combat utility.
- All ability effects are visible and audible to everyone during the cast point.
- Reapplying the
debuff refreshes the duration.
Blind uses
pseudo-random distribution.
- Stacks additively with other
evasion sources.
- The
creep-heroes as creeps.
- Stacks additively with other
- Now bounces to the farthest enemy unit, prioritizing heroes, within the radius centered around the affected enemy unit.
- Applies the ability effects to all affected enemy units in the same time upon cast.
- Does not bounce to the following units:
Fogged units.
Invisible units.
- The max and
current health reduction component are applied by the
- Upon the
model size and max health are reverted, while the
- Upon the
- The
talent changes the ability targeting functionality from unit-targeted to unit and area-targeted.
- Causes Laser to apply all ability effects to enemy units within the radius.
- The radius damage does not affect the following units:
-
debuff immune units.
-
Spell Block procs on the primary target nullifies the ability.
Laser Blind: Missing x% of attacks.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
pure
spell damage.
- The
- Laser may apply its ability effects in different orders in the damage radius.
- Reduces the affected enemy unit's
collision size.
- Reduces the affected enemy unit's
March of the Machines[edit]
Enlists an army of robotic minions to destroy enemy units in an area around Tinker.
Cast Animation: 0.53 + 0.63
Cast Range: 
300
Spawn Area: 900
Max Travel Distance: 1800
Robot Collision Radius: 50
Damage Radius: 150
Damage per Robot: 17/26/35/44
Duration: 6 (
7)
35/33/31/29
100/120/140/160 ( 92/110/128/147)
Even though the laboratory has since been sealed off, the ability to radio in robotic drones is still in working order.
Repair Bots
March of the Machines applies a non-stacking heal over time while passing through allied heroes.
Heal per Second: 
14/21/28/35
Heal Duration: 4
Heal Duration: 4
- Has a 400-speed, and has a
- Has a 400-speed, and has a
- Creates 144 (
- Does not interact the following units:
- The spawn area has the following properties:
- The area is centered around the point-targeted location and is a line with 1800-length.
- Hence, the total ability area-of-effect is a square with
- Robots do not spawn outside the map boundaries.
- The robots deal
magical
- When an enemy unit is within the robot's collision radius.
- When the robot reaches the max travel distance.
- Repair Bots applies a
- Considers
clones,
illusions, and
- Reapplying the buff refreshes the duration.
- Considers
- Repair Bots applies a
On hidden entity
- The ability sound effects upon the ability's cast point are audible ally-only.
- The robots' marching sounds are audible to everyone.
Defense Matrix[edit]
Unit
Affects
Allied Units
Applies an all damage barrier and grants bonus status resistance to the affected allied unit.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.6
Cast Range: 700
Barrier: 
80/160/240/320 (
155/235/315/395)
Status Resist Bonus: 15%/20%/25%/30% (
25%/30%/35%/40%)
Duration: 15 (
25)
20
80/95/110/125 ( 73/87/101/115)
Translocator
When Defense Matrix is active on Tinker, it relocates him to a random point within a certain distance upon the all damage barrier depletion.
Teleport Distance: 350
Teleport Angle: 90°
Teleport Angle: 90°
Doubletap casts the ability on Tinker.
- Affects the following units:
- Allied
Couriers.
- Allied
- Affects the following units:
- Reapplying the buff refreshes the duration and resets the damage barrier capacity.
- The all damage barrier
talent does not update the current active instance.
- Stacks multiplicatively with other status resistance sources.
- The
Translocator ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
basic dispel.
- The
teleport.
- The
Defense Matrix: Absorbs incoming damage and provides x% status resistance.
Has the following priorities among damage barrier sources.
- This ability grants a
damage barrier that absorbs damage instances (after reductions).
- Does not proc on-damage effects until the barrier is depleted.
- Stacks additively with the same damage-type barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources.
- With other higher-priority damage-negation sources, the barrier does not function until the other damage-negation sources expire.
Warp Flare[edit]
Fires a damaging flare towards an enemy unit and applies a debuff that reduces both the affected enemy unit's cast range and attack range.
Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.5
Cast Range: 700
Damage: 150
Attack Range Reduction: 40%
Cast Range Reduction: 40%
Debuff Duration: 2
Warps the affected enemy unit to the ability's current cast range.
Max Teleport Distance: 2000
Cast Range to Teleport Distance Factor: 1
Teleport Distance Bonus: 100
15
80 ( 73)
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Shard unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- The ability teleports the affected unit toward Tinker's, correspondingly to Tinker's ability cast position upon
projectile impact.
- Neither interrupts the affected enemy unit's
channeling abilities not changes its
facing angle.
- The teleport distance is defined as:
- EXPR
TeleportDistance = CurrentCastRange + 100 , MAX = 2000
- The ability teleports the affected unit toward Tinker's, correspondingly to Tinker's ability cast position upon
- Does not reduce any ability's
- Stacks additively with the following sources:
- Percentage-based
- Percentage-based
attack range manipulation sources.
- Percentage-based
- Does not
- Procs
- Procs
Spell Reflection sources upon
- Fires a
- Acquiring
Warp Flare: Cast range reduced by x% and attack range reduced by x% due to warp disorientation.
- Has a 1900-
projectile speed.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The
- The
- Offensively
- The
Keen Conveyance[edit]
Point / Unit / Channeled
Affects
Self
Globally convey to an allied unit conditionally. Self-cast automatically convey to the fountain after a certain distance.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Channel Time: 3 ( 2.5)
Fountain Target Distance: 1500
Initial Cooldown: 20
LEVEL 1
Conveys to somewhere near a building, but not directly to it.
Min Target Distance: 70
Max Target Distance: 800
LEVEL 1
Does not work as effective on Outposts.
Base Channel Time: 4 ( 3.5)
Second Channel Time Increase: 2
Following Time Increase: 0.5
Min Target Distance: 70
Max Target Distance: 250
LEVEL 2
Tinker now can convey himself to the allied creep's current location.
LEVEL 3
Can teleport himself directly to an allied hero's current location.
80
75 ( 69)
As Boush likes to say, "There is nothing the arcane can accomplish that the curious mind cannot reproduce given time. And proper funding, of course."
- The ability has the following properties:
- Starts the game with a 20-second
- Incoming
- Does nothing if the
mana, and goes into
- Cannot directly target and uses the min
buildings.
- Grants a 4.5-second
flying vision at the teleport destination.
- Has a 1-second vision lingering duration.
- The ability also lowers the affected allied unit's auto-attack priority while channeling.
- Does not interrupt the teleport to
- Starts the game with a 20-second
- Keen Conveyance has three targeting functionalities:
- Keen Conveyance considers
-
Root sources prevents the following ability effects:
- Ability casting.
- Cancels the
Teleporting
Hidden modifier
Boots of Travel Teleport: An ally is teleporting to your location.
Rearm[edit]
No / Channeled
Affects
Self
Resets the cooldown of Tinker's abilities. Does not affect item abilities cooldowns.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
Channel Time: 2.75/2/1.25
Ability Cooldown Factor: 0
This ability cannot be acquired by the Grand Magus by design.
7/6/5
100/150/200 ( 92/138/184)
This ability levels up with Keen Conveyance.
A new battery here, another set of rockets there, Boush continually improves on existing technology.
- The ability has the following properties:
- Does nothing if the
- Only resets Tinker's current abilities' cooldown.
- Does nothing if the
-
magic resistance sources.
Unacquirable.
Replenishes 1 
charge to charged-based abilities upon 
channeling completion.
Explicitly does not reset this Devour's cooldown.
Explicitly does not reset this Devour's
Rearm: Resetting ability cooldowns.
- The ability sound effects is shorter per level matching the decreasing
- The
rearmbuff is only for informational purposes.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Tinker/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 16, 2025 - 17:00 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 16, 2025 - 14:30 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 15, 2025 - 17:15 PET | Tier 3 | EPL World AM S15 | 1 : 0 | |||||
| Mar 15, 2025 - 19:00 EET | Tier 1 | PGL Wallachia S3 | 1 : 0 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Laser
- Increased current health reduction from 10% to 15%.
- Increased max health reduction from 10% to 15%.
- Laser
Talents:
- LVL 15 +40 Laser damage increased to +50.
- LVL 25 +50% Rearm magic resistance bonus ➜ +10s Defense Matrix duration.
- LVL 25 +200 Laser radius decreased to 200.
- Defense Matrix
- Reduced cast range from 700/750/800/850 to 700 on each level.
- Rescaled status resistance bonus from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 15%/20%/25%/30%.
- LVL 15 +125 Defense Matrix shield capacity reduced to +75.
- March of the Machines
- Increased mana cost from 90/110/130/150 to 100/120/140/160.
- Reduced
Repair Bots heal per second from 15/25/35/45 to 14/21/28/35.
- Increased Defense Matrix mana cost from 70/80/90/100 to 80/95/110/125.
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
| Tinker's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills |
Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
| |
Master |
| |
Grandmaster |
| |
Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Head | |
| Right Arm | |
| Misc | |
| Taunt | |
| Kinetic Gems | |
Trivia[edit]
- The Tinker's voice actor, Harry "Hal" Robins, also voiced Dr. Isaac Kleiner in Half-Life 2 and the scientists of Black Mesa in Half-Life. Many of Tinker's voice lines reference characters and events from the Half-Life universe. In addition, the name "Violet Plateau" is quite similar to "Black Mesa", and the events described in Tinker's backstory are remarkably similar to the events of Half-Life.
- Tinker's responses upon killing Broodmother's Spiderlings ▶️ "Lamarr, is that you?" and ▶️ "Lamarr?!" are a reference to Dr. Kleiner's "debeaked" pet headcrab, Hedy Lamarr.
- Many of Tinker's lines while using Rearm come directly from Half-Life 2 including ▶️ "The massless field flux should self-limit." and ▶️ "I've clamped the manifold parameters to… CY base and LG orbifold… Hilbert inclusive.".
- Tinker's death response ▶️ "It's probably not a problem, probably." is also a reference to Dr. Kleiner, who says it in the beginning of Half Life's second chapter right before the equipment he and his team are working on suffers a catastrophical malfunction and causes the alien invasion of Black Mesa.
- Tinker's select response ▶️ "With my brains and your brawn, we'll make an excellent team." is also a quote from Dr. Kleiner.
- Tinker's respawn response ▶️ "I tink! Therefore I am!" is a reference to the philosophical statement "I think, therefore I am." proposed by René Descartes. Its original Latin words are "Cogito ergo sum."
- Tinker's death response ▶️ "Tinker, failure…Soldier…Fie…" is a reference to the 1974 spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by British author John le Carré about George Smiley (who was played by Gary Oldman in the 2011 film adaptation).
- Tinker's death response ▶️ "The machine, stops." is a reference to the short story of the same name by E.M. Forster.
- Tinker's Laser kill response ▶️ "Blinded you, with Science!" is a reference to the song She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Tinker is based on and inspired by the Tinker, a neutral goblin hero.
- Heat-Seeking Missile was inspired by the Tinker's Cluster Rockets.
- March of the Machines is inspired by the Clockwerk Goblins, a unit summoned by the Tinker's Pocket Factory.
- The Tinker has more assets that went unused in DotA
- The afforementione Pocket Factory has not been used in DotA, which is a small temporary building the Tinker can place.
- The Robo-Goblin form of Tinker has not been used either, which is an available transformation of the Tinker.
- Tinker has a 1/7 chance to spawn in with the name "X!!", as tribute to the professional DotA player.
- Tinker is based on and inspired by the Tinker, a neutral goblin hero.
Gallery[edit]
Concept art
Concept art
Concept art
Ability icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead