Dota 2 - Tiny Build Guide

BIO
Coming to life as a chunk of stone, Tiny's origins are a mystery on which he continually speculates. He is a Stone Giant now, but what did he used to be? A splinter broken from a Golem's heel? A shard swept from a gargoyle-sculptor's workshop? A fragment of the Oracular Visage of Garthos? A deep curiosity drives him,and he travels the world tirelessly seeking his origins, his parentage, his people. As he roams, he gathers weight and size; the forces that weather lesser rocks, instead cause Tiny to grow and ever grow.

INTRODUCTION
Tiny is a deathly nuker on early game. And can be a deathly attacker on the late game. He have the most damaging combo on early game: The Avalanche-Toss. This combo makes enemy receives the Avalance damage twice as the enemy is going up and down. Not just that: he is also a fierceful pusher wiht his Aghanim Scepter. he have a splashed attack to destroy the creeps wave, and also he is the faster tower destroyer in Dota. The damage he can deal to building is so damn high.

PROS	CONS
A deathly nuker (with the Ava-Toss)	Low natural attack speed (should buy +attack speed items)
Have the highest natural damage in Dota
A decent pusher with the Aghanim Stick
Move so fast
Big, a monster
Can defend himself with his Craggy Exterrior ( Gives stun to the attacker)

ROLE
Melee - Disabler - Nuker - Initiator - Durable

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	606	1,404	2,354	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	182	473	941	ATTACK RANGE	128
DAMAGE	61-67	103-109	153-159	MISSILE SPEED	N/A
ARMOR	0	2	6

ABILITIES
1. Avalanche

Bombards an area with rocks, stunning and damaging enemy land units.

MANA COST: 120 / 120 / 120 / 120	COOLDOWN: 17.0
ABILITY: TARGET POINT	DAMAGE: 100 / 180 / 260 / 300
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	RADIUS: 275 / 275 / 275 / 275
STUN DURATION: 1

Every 0,25 second target receive 0,25 damage, skill effect = 1 second.
Linken cannot block this skill.
Damage will be reduced by spell resistance.
This skill cannot be blocked by spell immunity.
This skill + Toss is the main combo of this hero, with this combo, you can instant kill enemies.

2. Toss

Grabs a random unit in a 275 radius around Tiny, friend or enemy, and launches it at the target unit to deal damage where they land. If the tossed unit is an enemy, it will take an extra 20% damage. Toss does more damage as Tiny's size increases.

MANA COST: 120 / 120 / 120 / 120	COOLDOWN: 10.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT	RADIUS: 275 / 275 / 275 / 275
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	RANGE: 1300
DAMAGE: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300

Damage in landing area: 300AoE.
Tossed unit flying duration = 1 second.
Tossed unit will follow it's target except target moves 1300 or more range.
If tossed unit is equipped with linken sphere, it will trigger it's cooldown but still receive the damage.
Damage will be reduced by spell resistance.
This skill cannot be blocked by spell immunity.
This skill deal damage to building. Damage: 25/50/75/100
Use this skill along with Avalanche can produce 2x times Avalanche damage, that's why this combo is a one-hit kill combo in early mid game.

3. Craggy Exterior

Causes damage to bounce back on Tiny's attackers. Enemies that attack Tiny from within 300 units have a chance of being stunned for 1.2 seconds.

CHANCE TO STUN: 6% / 12% / 18% / 24%	DAMAGE: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55
ABILITY: PASSIVE	BONUS ARMOR: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	RANGE: 300 / 300 / 300 / 300

This is a perfect counter for high-speed carries which is more likely to get stunned by this skill.

4. Grow

Tiny gains craggy mass that increases his power at  the cost of his attack speed. Increases Tossed unit damage and improves movement speed. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

BONUS DAMAGE: 50 / 100 / 150	ATTACK SPEED LOSS: 20 / 35 / 50
ABILITY: PASSIVE	MOVEMENT SPEED: 20 / 40 / 60
TOSS BONUS: 35% / 50% / 65%	SCEPTER BONUS RANGE: 107
SCEPTER CLEAVE DAMAGE: 50%	SCEPTER BONUS BUILDING DAMAGE: 75%
SCEPTER TOSS BONUS: 50% / 65% / 80%

Tiny becomes bigger and makes his size the same as Roshan. Makes him funnier to use. This skill makes this hero become a carry.
The increase in Tiny's movement speed makes him easier to escape.

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Avalanche (to hunt for first blood or to survive for firstblood attempt)
Level 2: Toss
Level 3: Avalanche
Level 4: Toss
Level 5: Avalanche
Level 6: Toss
Level 7: Avalanche
Level 8: Toss
Level 9 : Grow
Level 10: Craggy Exterior
Level 11: Grow
Level 12: Craggy Exterior
Level 13: Craggy Exterior
Level 14: Craggy Exterior
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Grow
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Avalanche-Toss first?
For your deathly combo, 1 hit kill combo. You should max that 2 skills. This is the best than other skill.

Grow is important for pushing because it's damage against towers and also buildings.

Craggy exterrior is your defense skill to fight against melee heroes in particular.

STRATEGY

Early Game
If your opponent try to kill you, use your avalanche to stun him/them , run if  you are outnumbered, or fight you feel you can win. You also can defend yourself with toss> toss him back.
If you and your friend decided to kill someone, use your combo Avalanche-Toss and then hits them. Avalanche toss is guarantee kill to squishy hero like Crystal Maiden, Shadow Shaman, KoTL etc.
If you can constantly kills enemies, it will be easier in late game cause you will be a giant snowball that can kill everybody.

Mid Game
This stage of the game is full of ganking activities, find opponents who you feel he is alone and use your combo Avalanche-Toss, he is 90% guarantee will die.

So if you want to initiate in a gank, what you need to do is:
1. Comunicate with your teammates about who should be ganked, you should focus fire on 1 hero in a gank, because if you don't communicate well you may attack the A person and your teammates attack the B person, and that is a bad gank and can lead to failure on getting the kill.
2. Prepare the items needed in the gank:
a. Use Smoke of Deceit
b. Prepare Dust, Sentry Wards, or Gem if you will gank an invisible hero like Rikimaru, Clinkz, or Nyx Assassin

3. Initiate using the Blink Dagger, or maybe a Shadow Blade
4. Use The Avalance-Toss
5. Right click
6. Chase the running away enemy

Late Game
In this stage of the game, if you shouldealready acquired +attack speed item like Cuirass, it will be easy for you, cause u hava high damage and high attack speed, use your right-click power to demolish enemies. Y
You also good at destroying towers, this is the advantage of Tiny in the team in late game. Tiny can destroy tower so fast in late game that means once you win 1 or 2 teamfights in late game, you will automatically win because enemy towers and Barrakcks will all gone so quick.

After your team won the teamfight, you have two options:
1. You can get the Aegis for your team's main hero or
2. Your team can push enemy base and destrouy their buildings. Choose wisely!

ITEM BUILD
A. COMMON BUILD
This item build is a common build for Tiny which is a spell caster in early-mid game and a DPS+Pusher in late game. This build is focused with mana for early game and attack speed for late game.
1. Arcane Boots
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster

Active: Replenish Mana - Restores mana in an area around the hero. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 60 Movement Speed + 250 Mana MANA RESTORED: 135 Mana Needed: 25    Cooldown: 55

Why Arcane Boots? It is the core item for your deathly combo Ava-Toss. All players make this. This item is for mana for using skills.

2. Blink Dagger
Cost: 2150

Active: Blink - Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. If damage is taken from an enemy hero, Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds. Manacost: 75   Cooldown: 14

Why Blink Dagger?
1. Perfect for initiating a teamfight
2. To kill a player who are alone and stupid.
First you jump, and then you use Avalanche-Toss.

3. Aghanim's Scepter
Total cost:: 4200
Recipe: Point Booster, Ogre Axe, Staff of Wizardy, Blade of Alacrity

Passive: Ultimate Upgrade - Upgrades the ultimates of certain heroes. + 10 All Attributes   + 200 Health   + 150 Mana

Why Aghanim's Scepter?
Very good item for farming because it gives you cleave/ splashed attack, make farming fasrer and easier
Helps you destroy towers and buildings

After this point, you can buy any +attack speed item you want: example:
4. Assault Cuirass
Total cost:: 5300
Recipe: Platemail, Hyperstone, Chainmail, Recipe

Passive: Assault Aura - Grants attack speed and armor to nearby allied units, and decreases armor for nearby enemies. Multiple instances of Assault Aura do not stack. + 35 Attack Speed     + 10 Armor       AURA ATTACK SPEED: 20 AURA BONUS ARMOR: 5                ARMOR REDUCTION: 5

Why Assault Cuirass?
Increase attack speed that makes your damage flowing rapidly, it is very good because you already have very high damage, it also gives you +aura for the team.
+Armor aura is very important for late game, so good for increasing team's defense.

5. Manta Style
Total cost:: 5050
Recipe: Yasha, Ultimate Orb, Recipe

Active: Mirror Image - Creates 2 illusions of your hero that last 20 seconds. Melee illusions deal 33% damage and take 250% bonus damage. Ranged illusions deal 28% damage and take 300% bonus damage. Percentage based movement speed bonuses from multiple items do not stack. + 10 Strength + 26 Agility    + 10 Intelligence    + 15 Attack Speed    + 10% Movement Speed Manacost:165    Cooldown:50

Why Manta Style?
You already have ultra high damage, this item will make you attack faster to kill enemies easily.
You already move fast, and this item will increase it again and your opponents cannot catch you anymore.
This item will multiple yourself into 3 person, and your opponent will fear you.

After you feel you are fast enough, you should make your damage higher. you can buy damage dealer items such as:

6. Daedlus
Total cost:: 5750
Recipe: Crystalis + Demon Edge + Recipe

APassive: Critical Strike - Grants a chance to deal critical damage on an attack. + 81 Damage CRITICAL CHANCE: 25%        CRITICAL DAMAGE: 270%

Why Daedlus?
With this, you become a true moster. This is because you have the highest hero damage in DotA and this item will multiply your damage so everyone can't match you anymore.

B. ALTERNATIVE BUILD
Spellcaster build/ Dagon Build

After you buy Arcane Boots and Dagger, Buy dagon and use dagon after your combo Avalanche-Toss to get THE instant kill.

Bad Enemies
1. Nevermore

His ultimate reach its maximum potential because the size of your body, so his ultimate will do more damage on your big body!

2. Shadow Demon

Creates 2 illusion of you, and that illusion will attack you, because your damage is high, you will feel your own attack.

Good Allies
1. Guardian Wisp

He have overcharge + tether that will increase your attack speed
He have his ultime to bring you anywhere you want, you can gank, run, or backdoor.

2. Lina

Your stun and her stun can be comboed, your stun make her easier to land her stun. and both of you have high spell damage, perfect for partner