What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
339 buys
2ndSecond most
90 buys
3rdThird most
89 buys
4thFourth most
67 buys
5thFifth most
18 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Lina
Ranged · Intelligence
- Win rate
- 49.7%
- Pick share
- 2.1%
- Matches
- 967,669
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsSupportCarryNukerDisabler
NeedsInitiatorFrontlineTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 20–30 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 49.1% over 13,182 matches.
- You are playing around Ancient — its strongest medal, 50.5% over 147,339 picks.
Avoid
- Pudge is on their side — this hero wins 39.9% of 153 matches against it.
- Keeper of the Light is on their side — this hero wins 33.3% of 60 matches against it.
- Pangolier is on their side — this hero wins 36.9% of 84 matches against it.
339 buys90 buys89 buys67 buys18 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Lina took at each level.
QDragon Slave
Lina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path.
Unit Target · Point Target · Magical damage
WLight Strike Array
Summons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.
Point Target · AOE · Magical damage
EFiery Soul
Grants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina hits an enemy with a spell.
Passive
RLaguna Blade
Fires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage.
Unit Target · Magical damageMax Order
QEW
Max Q first, then E, then W. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QDragon Slave
- WLight Strike Array
- EFiery Soul
- RLaguna Blade
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QDragon Slave | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WLight Strike Array | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| EFiery Soul | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||
| RLaguna Blade | R | R | |||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Lina performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
103 opponents · public matches40%60%Lina's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard
If this happens, use this
- They are running away
Something that holds them still, or closes the gap yourself. Matched on “slow”, “stun”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.
- Clear or push the wave
Creeps, summons and anything that hits a building. Matched on “summon”.
By medal
- Herald48.3%24,759
- Guardian48.1%78,980
- Crusader49.0%135,843
- Archon49.7%195,365
- Legend50.1%213,976
- Ancient50.5%147,339
- Divine50.4%102,723
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min47.5%4,804
- 20–30 min49.1%13,182
- 30–40 min49.0%7,670
- 40–50 min48.1%2,904
- 50 min +48.4%1,266
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Lina
Abilities
Dragon Slave
Unit Target · Point Target · Magical damageLina channels the breath of a dragon, sending out a wave of fire that scorches every enemy in its path.
Light Strike Array
Point Target · AOE · Magical damageSummons a column of flames that damages and stuns enemies.
Fiery Soul
PassiveGrants bonus attack and movement speed each time Lina hits an enemy with a spell. Stacks with itself. Lasts 18 seconds.
Flame Cloak
Instant Cast · No TargetGrants Lina unobstructed movement and increases her spell damage and magic resistance. Grants max fiery soul stacks on activation.
Slow Burn
Passive · Magical damageLina's abilities deal an additional 64% damage as burn damage over 4s.
Laguna Blade
Unit Target · Magical damageFires off a bolt of lightning at a single enemy unit, dealing massive damage.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 20 +2.4
- Agility
- 23 +2.4
- Intelligence
- 30 +4.0
- Move · range
- 290 · 670
Talents
- 4+1s Slow Burn Duration150% Attack Crit On Targets Affected By Slow Burn
- 3-20s Laguna Blade Cooldown+10/1% Fiery Soul Per Stack
- 25% Fiery Soul Magic Resist Per Stack+110 Light Strike Array Damage
- 1+25 Damage-3s Dragon Slave Cooldown
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Flame Cloak
Grants Lina unobstructed movement and increases her spell damage and magic resistance. Grants max fiery soul stacks on activation.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Laguna Blade
Casting Laguna Blade temporarily supercharges Lina, granting her stacks of Fiery Soul.
Sources
- Kit, talents and upgrades · mechanicalread 22 Sept 2026
Ability names, icons, behaviour, damage type and text, plus the Aghanim’s Scepter and Shard descriptions — as the game itself ships them. Nothing here was counted over matches.
- Win rate by medal · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The same hero at each of Valve’s eight medals, over 4,610,063 public matches. Each medal carries its own sample, because the eight buckets are nothing like the same size.
- Matchups and match length · counted, on a narrower windowread 16 Sept 2026
Win rate against each opponent and across five match-length bands. This channel reports far fewer games than the medal figures above: the median hero pairing is 51 matches and the largest on the whole roster is 707. Rows under 30 games are absent rather than shown small, and the ones that remain are ORDERED by a figure shrunk toward even by its own sample — the rate you see is the real one, the ranking is the careful one.
- What players build · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The five most common items in each of Valve’s four game stages, with each row’s own pick count.
- Skill order · counted, in league matchesread 3 Oct 2026
Where skill points go, read off every player's own learning order in premium and professional league matches on patches 7.41 and 7.40. Each level shows the ability most players took there and the share that did — a column only a third agree on is printed as a third, not as the rule. Heroes under 30 counted games show no path.
- Situation index · derived, and checkableread 22 Sept 2026
Each situation is a phrase match against Valve’s own ability text, and every row shows the phrases that matched. No win rate is attached, because nobody counts one per situation.
Mechanics are the ones Valve publishes for patch 7.41f. GamGem is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.