Guide: Bone Clinkz

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Guide to Bone Clinkz,
The Bone Fletcher by
Beast_Pete & MrBuffet

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I. Introduction
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• Beast_Pete and MrBuffet both had written a guide for Clinkz seperately before writing this one. As both guides were based on Dr Aegis (Divine Rapier + Aegis of the Immortal), they decided to make a merged guide, which was waited by many forum readers. That meant the end of the first era of their guides.
  
  After the merged guide was published it received loads of positive comments and soon became a nominant for the premiums. After the reviews of moderators it finally became one of the Premium Guides. Unfortunately MrBuffet decided to retire from DotA, but the guide is still being updated by the other author, Beast_Pete. A bit after the premiuming the guide was changed which meant the end of the 2.0 series and the introduction of the 3.0 version.
  
  After the new trends, I decided to add Hand of Midas to the item build as it helped in farming up for the expensive items a lot. As Bone was better off farming for 40-45 minutes Midas was a needed item, however in newer and newer versions pushing strategies became more and more effective meaning that farming whole became not viable and Bone started to become useless. If that was not enough, the Dr Aegis builds were screwed up by removing Aegis of the Immortal from the shops and adding it to Roshan as a droped item with only one charge and no physical/spell resistance.
  
  So it was clear I had to change my guide by completely revamping it. But thanks for the buff on The Butterfly the Bone Fletcher's time for owning the Sentinel seemed to come again! Bone received some buffs, the possibility of orb-walking at level5 and a "cheaper" ultimate.
  
  But I decided to revamp the guide again and as the 4.0 series ended with only few edits, I am now introducing you the 5.0 series. This version includes two different item builds and is a bit shorter than the previous versions. I hope you'll enjoy my guide and will be able to become much better in this wonderful game called as Defense of the Ancients.

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├A. Pros and Cons┤
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• Pros:
• One of the best assassins in the game
• Very effective at taking down buildings alone (best backdoorer in the game)
• Really hard to get ganked with proper use of wards by the Bone player and his allies
• Good at landing last hits and harassing enemy heroes thanks for Searing Arrows
• Many spells get negated if Wind Walk is turned on just before the spell would blast in
• A free moving observer ward for allies thanks for Wind Walk

• Cons:
• Fragile to stun & high damage combos
• Really low on mana in early-mid game
• Many AoE spells affect him even when he is invisible
• His wind walk + strafe combo can easily be screwed up with a single stun
• He is hated by most of the players in public games, so expect to be ganked regularly

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├B. Bone's Role in the Team┤
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Basically there are two ways of playing the Bone Fletcher. One of them is an gank oriented, assassin type, which focuses on building up a relatively high DPS as early as possible and go around participating in ganks allowing your team's main carry to farm up or you to farm up by scoring kills and having free farm as the enemies are underleveled.

The other style is concentrating more on farming in early/mid game, which will allow you to solo towers and raxes later on. Backdooring is allowed by the TDA rules, therefore on default you may start attacking towers without your creeps being nearby. Only exceptions are leagues that deny IceFrog's rules and rather make their own ones forbiding backdooring and other kind of strategies.

You can often see 5-men teampushes in league matches, and Bone should be the one to make confusion in the enemies' line-up by suddenly attacking someone from behind/the side and possibly taking out a hero or more. This is good also at defence and at attack.

Another important role in the game is backdooring. You should go under WW, travel near to one of the towers, and wait for the creeps passing by until they cannot see you and turn back automatically when you'd start attacking a tower. If the tower has full health, then you should backdoor only if you have a really high DPS or some teammates are helping in.

Don't forget that you win when you destroy the opposing team's World Tree or Frozen Throne. Frags do not count when your Tree/Throne is falling down.

In this mini-clip you can see how I pick out Zeus by a surprise attack from the right wing side of the tower while my teammates are pushing from the front side. This made a little confusion and a loss of one hero for them. The whole game can be seen in the PRG vs dT scourge replay that can be found in the league replays section.

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II. The Power of Clinkz
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├A. Skills Info┤
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Strafe


Fire a large number of arrows in a short time period.
Lasts 10 seconds.

Level 1 - 20% increased attack speed. (costs 90 MP, cooldown 30)
Level 2 - 40% increased attack speed. (costs 90 MP, cooldown 30)
Level 3 - 60% increased attack speed. (costs 90 MP, cooldown 30)
Level 4 - 80% increased attack speed. (costs 90 MP, cooldown 30)​

Beast_Pete: "The hero killer and tower destroyer ability. Great to use at a backstab. But don't forget, that your stunner enemies are going to stun you as soon as they can, so use strafe only if you are sure, you can kill your enemy in 1-2 seconds or after the stun. If you pushed till a tower, and you have enough melee creeps attacking the tower, then you just simply use strafe and destroy the building in no time.

If you enlarge the picture you can see a mini-clip of me destroying a tower in less than 10 seconds without getting hurt hard. My enemy did not have enough time to come back defending their tower and had no TP scrolls as it was my first backdoor in that game"
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Searing Arrows


Increases the damage of the Hero's attack by adding fire. If you learn this during wind walk the first time, you will lose the invisibility.

Level 1 - 10 bonus damage. (costs 8 MP, cooldown 4)
Level 2 - 20 bonus damage. (costs 8 MP, cooldown 3)
Level 3 - 30 bonus damage. (costs 8 MP, cooldown 0)
Level 4 - 40 bonus damage. (costs 8 MP, cooldown 0)​

Beast_Pete: "It's the harassing ability of clinkz, and also needed for final shots at creeps. When you see, that the creep's life is low, then push button 'R' and target that creep. Later on it's very helpful in killing your enemies and in taking down towers faster.

Animation canceling is a basic microtechnic which all Bone players should practise a lot, as it helps in attacking much more frequently and in evading Last Word's Silence effect or Enchantress' Untouchable's slow debuff. As a manually cast arrow type of spell is considered to be a spell and not an ordered attack, you may use it for attacking enemy heroes while not drawing the attention of creeps. If you click on the icon, you can see an animated gif where coL.Fear presentates how to send back an opponent with the help of animation canceling."
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Wind Walk


Turn invisible for a period of time, increasing movement speed.

Level 1 - 07% increased movement speed, 20 seconds. (costs 75 MP, cooldown 20)
Level 2 - 14% increased movement speed, 25 seconds. (costs 75 MP, cooldown 20)
Level 3 - 21% increased movement speed, 30 seconds. (costs 75 MP, cooldown 20)
Level 4 - 28% increased movement speed, 35 seconds. (costs 75 MP, cooldown 20)​

Beast_Pete: "This is the ability what so many people hate in clinkz. If your enemies have no gems or sentries, then you can backstab them easily. Also useful when you have to run away. Even if your enemies see you, you get such an amazing movement speed boost, that it gets quite difficult to catch you (not to mention the lack of disable spells makes it impossible, if you run away with enough HP). It's good thing to remember that Wind Walk does not cancel any kind of channeling spell, so you may teleport and then go invisible without canceling the teleport effect.

The animated gif attached was made by Boogiepop!, who was working on a Fletcher guide himself, but decided to give this gif for my guide after he saw it was premiumed. In this little clip you can see how effective Wind Walk is against spells. You can easily dodge most of the targetting spells by going under WW."
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Death Pact

Kills a target friendly unit, returning a percentage of its life.

Level 1 - 055% conversion. (costs 120 MP, cooldown 20)
Level 2 - 095% conversion. (costs 200 MP, cooldown 20)
Level 3 - 135% conversion. (costs 280 MP, cooldown 20)​

Beast_Pete: "I don't like this ability too much. Death Pact just simply does not synergize with Clinkz. If you can run away, then why need instant healing? Although it might be useful sometimes, I rather choose to have the other abilities and the stats maxed out first. Useful when you are under the effect of poison, and cannot run home in time, or in early-mid game, when you want to stay in a lane to farm for a longer time. Use it only if you still have 75 manas for running away under WW after using DP."
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III. On to the build
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├B. Core Item Builds┤
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2 Circlets + 2*2 Tangos (550)
Finish 3 Wraith Bands (1010)
Power Treads (1530)
2 TP Scrolls at the very least (270)
Monkey King Bar (5400)
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Total Cost: 8860​

2 Circlets + 2*2 Tangos (550)
The Butterfly (6350)
Boots of Speed (500)
2 TP Scrolls at the very least (270)
Finish 2 Bracers (650)
Hood of Defiance (2350)
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Total Cost: 10670
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Item Build Justification:
The first build offers the best performance early game if you are to gank heroes and you would be under heavy gank-pressures if you'd try to farm up 3400 golds. 3 Wratih Bands and a Power Treads come in small pieces so these items are easy to build up and therefore you are not stressed to farm throughout the whole game and you may go around the map ganking enemies. After these four items, Monkey King Bar will be an easy item to farm up as the most expensive part costs 2600 golds. Later when you finish this item the minibash will be very helpful for canceling channeling spells like teleport, shackles and blackhole.

The second build is focusing more on staying in a lane and performing lane-deny, which - along with the ability of going invisible - will allow you to farm up for 3400 golds smoothly. This build is only recommended if your team is able to control the enemies and don't need your assistance in ganks. If that's the occasion, then you'll have a free farm anyway. Butterfly and Hood of Defiance make sure that you are not prone to either physical attacks, nor to spells while offering a great DPS.

I don't want to go into details of certain items' DPS and compare them to each other. Ihave done that several times, I have seen them being used several times. Butterfly is the best DPS item for AGI heroes at the moment, the only item that can come near to it is Desolator, which is not to be chosen on the Bone Fletcher because Searing Arrows do not stack with Corruption. Monkey King Bar is also a great DPS item. Buriza comes near to it and passes it after a certain amount of damage is "collected". However it does not have the so useful minibash and against towers, MKB is much better. Skadi isn't a great DPS item, but the frost attack is very useful for the whole team and even in 1v1 nut-kicking fights. It gives a nice survivalability boost, but if you want survivalability, then Heart is much better.

Skill Build Justification:
Searing Arrows is maxed out as soon as possible for obvious reasons. You need the additional damage and the none-cooldown orb. Death Pact's role is to keep you alive in early game while you are farming in your lane for the expensive Eaglehorn or just trying to stay alive against a tough lane, so I get one level on it at hero-level 6, but you don't need to max it until the very end of the game.

Attribute Bonuses are gotten on level 4, 8, 9, 10 because you will still be farming at that stage of the game and for that you need more HP to be able to survive ganks and the bonus damage helps in last hits by a lot, also the additional mana in your mana pool will allow you to use Death Pact and Wind Walk more often. If you estimate of collecting 3400 golds by only at level 15, then get one more point on Attribute Bonuses at level 11.

Wind Walk is gotten at level 2 because you need to go invisible occassionally. More levels on it are not needed while you are farming, because you won't be ganking and switching lanes, so the purpose of this skill is only and only becoming invisible until level ~13. From level 12, 13 or 14 you can gank when situation calls for it. For that you don't need the added MS of Wind Walk, you only need to position yourself behind the target. After you have level 4 Strafe and one DPS item (The Butterfly most probably) then you should start maxing Wind Walk because you need to switch lanes for farming purposes more often now, and you should be able to gank those heroes who are farming alone and also chasing down fleeing heroes.

Strafe is gotten before Wind Walk, because you need it by the time your first DPS item is complete or else you won't be able to take down towers fast enough. That time comes at around hero level 14 or 15.

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├C. Levels 1-10┤
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• Skill order
  
  Level 01 | Searing Arrows
  Level 02 | Wind Walk
  Level 03 | Searing Arrows
  Level 04 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 05 | Searing Arrows
  Level 06 | Death Pact
  Level 07 | Searing Arrows
  Level 08 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 09 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 10 | Attribute Bonuses

Gameplay

Take a solo lane, as you are a carry hero without a slow, nuke or a stun, you need to be soloing and you need to farm up for the Eaglehorn (or the 3wratihs+treads) as fast as possible. The middle lane and the long lanes are the best for the Bone Fletcher as you can easily hug your tower since the begining of creep-fights. Try to concentrate on landing the last hits the most. Successful denies are not as important as tower hug, so start hitting your creeps already at half life, so you stay at a defended area. If your opponents are not last hitting, but rather auto-hitting, land only last hits on your own creeps as well. Same in situations, when your tower is hitting the creeps.

If you aim for Butterfly, then your role in the middle game is farming, and only that. You shouldn't start going around ganking as it will slow you down by a lot. Get a second Ring of Regeneration if you are harassed too much. If that's not enough against the nuker(s) you are facing in your lane, get a Planeswalker's Cloak and buy a Hood of Defiance before buying an Eaglehorn.

If you can farm up Treads + 2 Wraiths, then start participating in ganks.

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• Skill order
  
  Level 11 | Strafe
  Level 12 | Strafe
  Level 13 | Strafe
  Level 14 | Strafe

Gameplay

This is the time when you can finally start participating in ganks. Leave your lane only if a fight is nearby and your help is needed. Otherwise stay in your lane and perform the lane-deny technique. If you are playing a ganking role, then of course you shouldn't be wasting the opportunities of killing lonely heroes, go behind them and asdasd.

Lane-deny: this is a technic that I first saw from Fear then from ezy, so credits go for compLexity clan. Basically you have to keep on denying your creeps, while landing last hits as well. Be wary that if there are two many enemy creeps, you shouldn't deny your creeps at all and you might want to damage the opposing creeps a bit before the last hits. This ensures that the creeps fight at the same area ALL the time. So you don't have to leave your lane as you can stay at a safe place, and your opponents won't be able to push back and gain some golds. If they come for you, just simply switch lane or go and kill some neutral creeps. After you have your Eaglehorn or Demon Edge, lane-denying becomes easier. My favourite place is at the top lane a bit behind the first tower, where you can go down between the trees to escape and if you want, you can go neutral creeping.

You should always have a tp scroll in your inventory. This is important because when you push too far away and another lane is empty, then you can teleport to the nearest tower and farm there. Also, sometimes Wind Walk might not be enough to escape and you need to hide somewhere and tp out. Teleporting away and then activating WW will ensure that you can go to a safe place without harm. When you are poisoned and you know you would die, then teleporting to the Fountain will save you many times.

Although the wards got nerfed I would still recommend buying some once in a while. You are the carry hero, so you don't need to buy much, but warding some of the more important places is very important. If your allies don't buy wards, you are to throw out the gold.

When you are backstabbing a hero, go under Wind Walk and look around for hiding heroes. If you think you can safely kill your pray, then go behind it into melee range. This is important for the following reasons:
1: you will be recognised a bit later allowing you to land 2-3 hits more.
2: escaping from you won't be that fast, because it takes the same amount of time in each direction.
It's not too difficult to perform a backstab, just start hitting the hero and immediately turn on Strafe after the first arrow is shot. Searing Arrows have to be turned on as well. You should also make sure that when you go out of invisibility, your Wind Walk is not on cooldown, or at least you don't have to wait more than 3 seconds for it to be castable again. If you come out of invisibility too early, you will get killed in many cases. Don't underestimate your opponents that much!

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• Skill order
  
  Level 15 | Wind Walk
  Level 16 | Wind Walk
  Level 17 | Wind Walk
  Level 18 | Attribute Bonuses

Gameplay

This is the time when you have your shiny little Butterfly. With this item and Hood of Defiance you will be really hard to kill now, especially if you buy Bracers as well. If you are confident enough of being able to survive team collisons, then you need to boost your damage even further. I prefer Monkey King Bar as second DPS item. However if you have too low HP compared to the opponents' focus damage, then get a Heart of Tarrasque, you will need it badly.

Your role in these levels is to help out in ganks and to push together with your team. Of course once you get your second 4th Tier item, you may go backdooring, especially against towers with low red HP. Thanks for the 30% evasion, towers won't hurt you much, so it's still a viable tactic with the Bone Fletcher.

Roshan Raids should be starting from these levels on. The first Roshan spawn is weak, and with 2-3 of your allies helping in, you should be able to kill him fast. Aegis works as an Akh of Reincarnation now, so put it into your inventory, when you wish to push down a heavily defended base tower.

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  Level 19 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 20 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 21 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 22 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 23 | Attribute Bonuses
  Level 24 | Death Pact
  Level 25 | Death Pact

 

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Gameplay

When you have a high damage output, you will need to concentrate on survivalability a bit more. As I have already mentioned, I recommend buying Heart over Skadi. It gives a better survivalability especially as you already have a Butterfly and preferably a Hood of Defiance as well.

Whenever Roshan respawns go and gank him. The Aegis is a useful item for deciding the outcome of the game in the end. Place Wards near his spawning place, so you can be sure you won't get ganked and you can see when the opposing team is ganking Roshan.

Now that you have a pretty high DPS and a great EHP, backdooring becomes more and more luring strategy. Go under WW, wait at the entrance of the base until the creeps leave your sight. Go on top of the hill, so you won't miss any of your shots. The tower however will miss on almost every 3rd attack and thanks for Strafe and Searing Arrows, you will take down the tower in the matter of 10-14 seconds.

More decent teams will buy TP Scrolls and BoT to counter your backdooring strategy. If they buy Sentry Wards as well, it will become pretty difficult to go in backdooring. However this will put their team under pressure and constant gold loss because of constantly buying Wards and TP Scrolls. Be more cautious and go back rather than suiciding.

Buying Boots of Travel is needed mostly for two cases:
1: you go backdoor and when your team needs you badly, then you teleport back and help out in the defence.
2: you defended successfully and then you teleport to a creep near to their base and either push in or if the creep wave is not close enough, then go backdoor.

Some people think backdooring is not allowed. TDA rules say it is allowed, and therefore in public games and in IHs/leagues where no rules are written against it, backdooring is allowed. For more information, press F9 ingame.

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IV. Counters and Usage
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There are several ways to counter the Bone Fletcher. His times have long gone since the downfall from v6.27b. Because of losing the imba movementspeed bonus of WW, he needs tp scrolls or BoT to be able to effectively control the map. Because of having a cooldown on his arrows until its third level, his lane controlling abilities were greatly nerfed and he can barely 1v1 the top soloists.

The most obvious counter is true sight. In early/mid game buy sentry wards and whenever he pops up, disable him, then lay down a ward, so you can stun him again before he could run away. As he has a low health pool, you should be able to catch not cautious bone players. Later on someone in your team should get a Necronomicon lvl3 and whenever there's a big fight, you will sure see him approching your team from behind. Also when chasing him you can keep up with him a bit easier thanks for the MS boost and if you manage to burn his mana before he could turn on WW, then GG to him. Of course if one of your allies or you is/are stacked, then buy a Gem of Truesight and problem solved permanently (unless the stacked player is not THAT stacked

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In early game try to lane nukers and disablers against him. Best candidates are Maiden, Slayer, Venge, Rhasta... the rest you can easily find out. In a 1v1 situation heroes like Visage, Viper, Enchantress, Syllabear, Warlock, Tinker are all going to own him if the players are on the same level in game experience and micromanagement. This is basically because of two facts 1: low starting STR; 2: cooldown on Searings until the hero reaches level 7.

If you really want to counter Bone, then get heroes with silencing abilities (i.g: Doom, Drow) and/or heroes with tracking abilities (i.g: Gondar, Spirit Breaker, Slardar). This will ensure, he can't escape from battles, and you can bash/stun/disable him.

A Bone Fletcher worths nothing without at least one DPS item, so you should not let him farm it up. Gank him constantly from the begining of mid game or even from early game. Well organized ganks will earn you a reward of golds and him becoming a feeder late game.

So to sum it up: truesight, disables, ganks, counter-pick.

 

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Queen of Pain & Sand King | Bone Fletcher | Bane Elemental & Pugna
In early game Bone is either soloing against Silencer/Enchantress/Tinker/Sylla in middle lane or possibly soloing on top lane (middle lane is safer). Bane and Pugna are at bot. They are common picks in higher level game. I already mentioned Bane before and with Pugna they are a deadly couple. Decrepify + Brain Sap & Blast is a high damage combo, and if someone is soloing against them then Fiend's Grip + Life Drain is also a horrible high damage in the matter of seconds.

On the top lane, the QoP and SK couple will be able to chase for longer when they decide to go for a kill. QoP initiates with the slow, so Sand King can land a perfect impale and QoP casts Scream of Pain.

If you decide to leave your farming lane to gank a hero, then pair up with either Bane or SK. They both have a disabling ability, which is essential if you wish to land your searings freely. Bane Elemental is extremely powerful combined with you in ganks thanks for his Fiend's Grip.
Queen of Pain and especially Pugna are good at pushing, which means that you don't have to fear about the opponents pushing too early, while you are farming up for Dr Aegis.

This is only one Scourge strategy I gave here, and you can of course switch one hero with another if they have synergy with the line-up. Good alternative heroes are: Death Prophet (mass AoE), Lich (extremely powerful support hero with a nuke-slow, "infinite" mana and a powerful ultimate spell), Tide Hunter (powerful ultimate, good tank), Leshrac (powerful AoE spells). But the best substitution for Sand King is Necrolyte who has an AoE spell that he can spam and which heals allies. This strategy is mostly based on the ones used in 6.32b and 6.37.

Warlock & Queen of Pain | Bone Fletcher | Leshrac & Pugna
Since 6.42, Warlock is allowed in leaguemode and if 6.43 becomes the new stable map, then he will be picked in almost all line-ups for sure. The role of the two heroes on the top lane is to get the first blood. Shadow Strike + Shadow Word and some attacks landed will make sure the target is dead and the lane control is in the hands of the Scourge at that lane.

Lesharc and Pugna will be pushing the bottom lane for the tower gold in case the Sentinel is not running a tri-lane strategy. That tower is the priority to destroy as it will allow your team to gank more and farm the opponents' neutral creeps.

Bone will most likely have a hard time soloing against a decent Enchantress and a Tinker or a dual-nuker lane (Maiden+Slayer come into my mind as perfect example). In that case rushing for Hood of Defiance is a must or else you will be wtfpawned whenever you come out of the tower's defence.

Basically this line-ups strategy is to own the side lanes, while Bone tries to farm up for the Eaglehorn/Butterfly. Whenever Bone needs help, then his allies come for a gank. Warlock with the Infernal, Pugna with Blast and Leshrac with all of his spells are great pushers and while you are farming, they will be counter-pushing. Once you have your Butterfly and some Bracers, you can help out in team fights more often and you will be one of the important gankers as you will be the one to seek for lonely heroes.

In team fights you need to find the hiding heroes, who want to blink/run into the battle following their initiator(s). You may start attacking these heroes if they 1: can't disable you; 2: you can cast WW again after you come out of the invisibility and you need to run away; 3: your allies started the team-fight earlier. The initiators in your team will be Warlock's Infernal and Queen of Pain. Once Fatal Bonds is cast (and especially if it binds all the 5 enemy heroes), then QoP casts her ultimate, Pugna casts Blast, Leshrac runs in and activates his spells. Your role is to focus the heroes with the least EHP, so you can get rid of them earlier and Fatal Bonds disses out more amount of damage.

It's also a viable option, that your team is constantly pushing, making the opponents think, you are around and that your team is waiting for the perfect time to start the fight. But suddenly the Sentinel sees a red spot (or green if they switched to coloured-mode minimap) and their tower/rax is starting to fall down. If they let you solo their base, they will lose. If one of them teleports back, he/she gets disabled or if not, that hero will still not help out in the fight for some crucial seconds. All-in-all, backdooring can decide the outcome of a fight, but it's still counterable. Some leagues don't allow it for reasons like "it ruins the game", but I think it opens doors for new strategies and some heroes would be much weaker without backdoor (especially the Bone Fletcher).

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Early Ganker Build (map version 6.46b) played by Beast_Pete​

A public -apem game for showing the effectiveness of the early ganker build. I find that Bone became very weak and is useful mostly in public games, where you can farm freely and easily gank the enemies. My clanmates told me to get S&Y for all the heroes, but I refused to take part in the fun. So I made a replay for my new build instead. Enjoy!

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DotA 5v5 Clinkz Kani IH Butter Build (map version 6.42) played by Beast_Pete
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First game with this build after the official build. As I don't upload replays from betatests, neither the beta maps, I provided the first decent replay after the official version came out... and it the first game was already decent.

The build I use is getting two RoRs early, then rushing for Eaglehorn -> Butterfly, then getting some health and the Hood of Defiance. When the game ended I nearly had 4000 golds.

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DotA 5v5 clinkz TDA ownage for 1.21a (map version 6.40) played by Beast_Pete
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Hand of Midas build!​

This one was a TDA game where I played with Great Crusades, who picked Doom to provide a 1.21a replay for his guide. I picked Bone for the same reason. I don't give much description let it be enough that we had the map control and we could easily farm the whole game and own in the end. Bah.
This was played in a previous map version, where Dr Aegis was still viable, so this replays purpose is to provide more technics to learn and will stay in the guide until I get enough replays from 6.42<.

 

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Note, these replays were played with previous Warcarft patches and with the 1.21a patch you can't watch them anymore, unfortunately. Refer to this topic to see how you can watch them.

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DotA 5v5 clinkz IH (map version 6.37) played by Beast_Pete
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Hand of Midas build!​

• Sentinel: Nerubass, Bane, Abaddon, Phantom Assassin & Prophet
  Scourge: Blood Seeker, Zeus, Morphling, Razor & Bone

This one was a Hungarian IH, a Retech game. I solo against a Prophet at top. He denies me quite effectively in the first some levels, but then I start to play a bit agressively making him go back a bit. Then when my Searings become stronger he cannot deny much creeps anymore, and I don't let him land last hits on his own creeps. I manage to farm up for the Dr Aegis in 47 mins, which could have been faster, but I decided to help my allies in mid game by ganking the opponents sometimes. After the build was ready we won in 6 minutes.

There are nice ganks here and there, effective lane-denying and some of the players have decent micro to make this replay worthy to download.

The mini-clip I linked in shows you a situation when Prophet decided to kill neutrals after defending the 1st bottom tower against me with the help of one of his allies. But I decided to kill neutrals too... and I found him transmuting a Furbolg. I transmuted the other one and started shooting at the poor Prophet. It was a funny backstab, I must say.

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DotA 4v5 clinkz some Kani noobs xD (map version 6.37) played by Beast_Pete
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Hand of Midas build!​

This one was a Hungarian pub game. On the Sentinel there were 5 friends fighting against the Scourge, against us. Unfortunately our Axe was a ****-talking feeder, he curses me to hell how bad I am and that I know nothing at all etc etc. He and his clanmate (the Morphling) were saying in all-chat that they have a sucky team, and the Sentinels would be easily raped if they had their own clan playing against them. One of the guys on the Sentinel knew about my guide and told Axe and Morph that it might be the Bone Fletcher that would bring vitory for them in the end... he was right.

The Mogul Khan left after some time (thanks god, no more feedage). Our Naga was farming quite well, and the Goblin was defending good enough for us to survive. I manage to get my build (BoT, BKB, Rapier, Aegis, HoM) and later I have to invest into another Aegis and swap the HoM with a Skadi. Backdooring was really difficult as they were prepared for it by buyig dozens of Sentry Wards and placing them on all 3 lanes and buying TP scrolls as well. But still I could manage to take down the bot tower and raxes and later with the help of the Naga's sleep we could take down the final 2 towers and the World Tree. All of my 6 charges were taken away, but as I knew that we would win if I teleport back even without charges on, I did so.

"Thanks" for the Axe and Morph it was a really tough game, this is why I named the replay the way I did.
Click on the thumbnail pic to see an animated gif of a nice double kill.
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DotA 5v5 clinkz bd in pub lol (map version 6.37) played by Beast_Pete
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Hand of Midas build!​

After the first Hungarian League was over I decided to stop playing Clinkz for a while. I realised that I had a lack of knowledge of other heroes, and also as I received the mod job at DotA Allstars I had to hang around the forum a lot. So for about 3 months I haven't played Bone at all (maybe once or twice, but then I sucked with him).

In this game I decided to go for HoM first, and tried out the stats build, something like this:
SA: 1, 3, 5, 7
WW: 2, 21, 22, 23
Strafe: 9, 10, 11, 12
DP: first at around 17, 24, 25
Stats: 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20

Items: RoR, 3 branches, Boots & HoM (first trip at home), Sacred, Demon, completing Dr Aegis after first death (at around the 30th min I think), BoT, another Aegis, BKB parts, but then it was over...

It was a stupid em game, unfortunately my friend had no time to wait for a normal -tp or -ap game (and gosh, how much pubbies love em games...), and I wanted play with him. As I had to have a game against nondecent players (who actually call themselves pros - dota -apem only pro - lol ) with my "first" Bone, I did not care about it. So I went top to solo against rhasta. I was quite nice with him, I just sent him back for fountain trips and did not try to kill him. But he was nasty. First he tried with invis rune then ulti+shackles, but he failed, then the second try was sentry ward placing and he managed to make me go back for a fountain trip with nearly 3800 golds. So I decided to buy the HoM and BoS.

Unfortunately a Naga became quite imba, and managed to take out many many towers, and in a mid push they destroyed the tower and the raxes. Later I bonesoloed bot ala hans2, while in mid they went in again and took out the 2 towers at the Throne. Then I realised we have no chance if I don't go backdoor again (ohh I forgot to mention that one of the guys told me I'm on Ban List because of backdooring... of course he wasn't willing to press F9, eventhough I told him to do so). So I took out the 2 towers at their Tree and nearly destroyed the woodstick itself as well. Then the Naga was defending effectively and I realised that the only way we could make him go out of his place is... killing Roshan. It worked. We killed Roshan, then Naga arrived just a bit later and we killed her as well. Then I backdoored again and got banned by 2 noobs. I know now what I missed so much during the last 3 months. ^^ ("you motherf... noob" "you are an unclef..." "banned &@%*�Ÿ backdoorer")
I'm gonna add 2 more HoM replays later.

In the mini-clip you can see when we kill Roshan, Naga arrives, casts Song of the Siren and then we kill her too (though she kills the troll as well).
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PRG vs dT scourge (map version 6.32b) played by Beast_Pete
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This was a Hungarian League match. I am in clan PRG.
We were in a little problem at this game as AArgon couldn't come, so we lost our Death Prophet player for this game. She was exchanged to a Bane Elemental.
So the line-ups were the following:

• Sentinel:
  top: furion
  mid: kotl, zeus
  bot: treant, omni
  
  Scourge:
  top: bone (me)
  mid: venom, tide
  bot: sand, bane

In the begining the Furion was playing an early rush tactic, and I couldn't concentrate on harassing/denying that much. But he couldn't kill me, and I could defend the first tower for a very long time. Later we ganked and killed him. There were a lot of unsuccesful ganks from both sides, but luckily we could take out their two mid towers, and from that time I was pushing bot lane and took down the second tower there. All of their outer towers were destroyed, so they couldn't concentrate on pushing anymore, as we pushed all lanes simultenaously. I farmed up for the Dr Aegis and the Travel, and when I finally managed to pick out the omniknight, my teammates could push in at mid, and I pushed in at bot, and nearly took down the tower there. From that time on it was no question who was going to win.

It is really worth watching for their defence, which was perfectly built up. They made it a really long game after all.

 

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coL vs Verge game 2 (map version 6.32b) played by coL.Fear
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Hand of Midas build!​

The King of Bone aka coL.Fear. Yes, you can finally see one of his BF replays in my guide again after I got permission from Clan compLexity.

Fear has an amazing micro, I say he has the best in the whole DotA World and watching him using Bone is always pleasing to the eyes. In early game he soloes against a Silencer and from level3 he is outmicroing the opposing player. This replay presentates how much of a good lane controller Bone used to be back in 6.32b which ability was nerfed by adding cooldowns on the first 3 levels on Searing Arrows.

In early game Fear farms up fast for the Midas and the Relic then starts helping out his teammates. From mid game Scourge's dominance is clear and they easily wipe out all the outer towers, while the Goblin Techies make it nearly impossible for them to break in the base. What should Clan coL do now? They decided to all farm up for Aegis + BoT, while Fear is denying a whole lane and buying the wards for his team.

In the end the Bone has the following inventory: Aegis (1 charge), Aegis (3 charges), Divine Rapier, Butterfly, Skadi, BKB. Now tell me that it's impossible to farm in a League match. When Lich finally has his Aegis they decide to break in at bot lane, while Bone is soloing top. This results in both lanes' towers and barracks being destroyed and coL winning against another top-5 team.

I REALLY recommend downloading this clip. Fear is like 5246 times better with Bone than I am.
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coL vs tPD Game 1 CAL-M Season 2 Final (map version 6.32b) played by coL.ezy
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Hand of Midas build!​

Clan compLexity and Team Pandemic met for 3 times in the last season (in regular season, playoffs and in the final). The first one was a 1-1 draw, the second was 2-1 for coL all won with the Scourge sides. So of course everyone was expecting that it would happen again when they meet for the third time (it was a 2-0 for coL, so they broke the chain).

In this replay coL.ezy presents how to farm mad even if you are harassed heavily and constantly. He plays with a different skill build by delaying Strafe and higher levels of Wind Walk, and maxing stats instead. Also it's more that his team helps him in farming by ganking the Morph repeatedly, and not the other way around - the Bone helping in ganking. This ensures that ezy can farm up quickly for the following items: BoT, HoM, Divine Rapier, Aegis of the Immortal and BKB. After he gets all of these items he goes in at bot and takes down the 2 towers defending the World Tree as tPD has no choice because they had to defend their raxes and tower at top as well.
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Scourge Ward spots and Hiding places
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This is the new ward spots replay where I give tips for you if you play on the Scourge side... which is more likely, if you play in an IH or League and pick Bone.
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Sentinel Ward spots and Hiding places
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There's not much to say. Just watch the replay and try to memorize the ward and hiding spots. Read the comments written during the replay, too.
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Q: why do you take Strafe so late? You should max it as fast as possible, and kill the enemy heroes with this spell.

A: yes, Strafe is a really great skill for hero killing... but not in early game. There are many reasons why you shouldn't try killing enemy heroes with strafe early game.
1: you have to concentrate on farming, because farming up for nearly 13-15000 golds is not easy, and you have to earn your gold very fast to be the most powerful hero in the game. With a kill you only get 100 golds (and some more if it was first blood, or you are on killing spree, or you killed someone who was on killing spree), while with 2-3 killed creeps you get the same or even more.
2: As you have a low HP and a low MP, it's quite risky to backstab your enemy, as he/she might be stronger than you are. It's better harassing early game, and force the enemy to go back to fountain, as he/she will have to take the trip to the fountain and back to the lane. Until then no money and no experience is gained by him/her.
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Q: why do you use Searing Arrows at all? It costs 8 mana per cast, and you'll run out of mana in no time.

A: turn off autocast and learn how to cast manually. Watch the replays to learn more and read the whole guide next time.
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Q: Only level 1 windwalk through mid game.?

A: Wind Walk is used for escaping and dodging spells in early game as well as positioning yourself when you prepare for a gank. As it has been nerfed heavily your role in the begining should be farming and getting some kills when your allies help you out in ganks at your lane. For that you don't need the added movement speed bonus, but you need survivalability and higher mana regeneration with higher mana pool as well, because you need to cover searings and occassional WWs and Death Pacts. More levels on Wind Walk are needed only when you complete Butterfly, have a maxed Strafe and you need to be able to gank and backdoor around the map.

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Q: since Aegis of the Immortal is a Roshan-drop, do you still prefer Dr Aegis over any other Clinkz build?

A: not anymore. Roshan-raiding will not always let you take the Aegis and you won't have the same survivalability either.
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Q: I always buy a Perseverance with clinkz. It's a really cool item on him, as you can stay longer in your lane, and survive ganks more often. Why don't you suggest buying one, too?

A: first of all, Perseverance slows down the entire process of buying your Eaglehorn, which is essential for having a decent damage early game and to head for the Butterfly earlier. Moreover you won't be able to survive ganks, as in 5 seconds you'll regenerate only 20 HP more, than normally, and that is maximum one more shot on you. Without getting more HP, never buy a health regeneration item. Buy a Bracer before, for example, but don't buy a Perseverance, as Ring of Regeneration or Death Pact will be enough for you to survive. You shouldn't be having problems with your mana either, if you are using your skills wisely, and not spamming any of them. If you get nuked constantly, then buy another RoR which will help you survive the tough early game.

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Q: I cannot find any screenshots. Why don't you include some? They are so cool!

A: yeah, screenshots are really cool, and can help in learning some heroes... but not the Bone Fletcher. What exactly would you like to see? Hiding behind enemies? Watch a replay! Dealing the last hit on creeps? Watch a replay! Denying XP/gold? Watch a replay! Harassing your enemy? Watch a replay! How to backdoor effectively? Watch a replay! Do you have any questions? Watch a replay!
Note: I added some thumbnails later just to make the guide sexy, but they show animated gifs if you click on them... they are actually somewhat useful.
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Q: does Zeus' ulti effect clinkz, while he is under Wind Walk?

A: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. If he has sight on you, then it does. It might happen that he casts Lightning Bolt (before he uses his ulti) on one of your allies who is in range of 900 of you, and this makes him revealing you for some seconds, so he can target you with Thundergod's Wrath then.
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Q: are you sure, that lifesteal and corruption do not work with Searing Arrows?

A: yes, just check The complete orb effect priority table.

 

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The replays are basically for teaching how to play Clinkz, and as every game is different, every replay is different too. It is recomended to download the replays as you can learn the most from them. This is, why I did not attach screenshots (just mini-clips). Clinkz doesn't have any special moves that could be easily taught with some images. Last hit, deny and harass are common microtechnics, that have to be learned with every hero. Also the backstab combo is more easily presentated in replays, than on pictures.
The replays show different situations that were solved. This way I can teach the readers more easily.

Note, that some of the replays were played with previous Warcarft patches and with the 1.21a patch you can't watch them anymore, unfortunately. Refer to this topic to see how you can watch them.

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• Updated to 6.46b with a secondary build and shortened the guide (2007.08.23.)
• Removed some sections; added IV. Counters and Usage (2007.05.21.)
• Updated the second part accordingly to 6.42 (2007.03.14.)
• Updated the first part accordingly to 6.42 | Good Bye Dr Aegis! (2007.03.12.)
• Updated for the Final Version of 3.0 series by adding a 1.21a replay (2007.02.28.)
• Switched Doombringer with Slithereen Guard at Trackers (2007.02.15.)
• Added the "Why Dr Aegis > All?" section; more FAQs, less allies (2006.12.13.)
• Old replays removed, because they simply sucked! (2006.11.17.)
• Added explanations on when to backdoor and when not (2006.11.15.)
• Added alternates for the suggested lineup; improved layout for the 2nd part of the guide (2006.10.31.)
• Added an explanation on what to choose in different situations after the core build (2006.10.20.)
• Completed all the intros for the replays and added the Scourge Ward Spots replay as well (2006.10.16.)
• Further improved layout (replay-seperation, strafe mini-clip) (2006.10.15.)
• F. Suggested 5v5 Line-up section added (2006.10.13.)
• Further improved layout and Heroes section (2006.10.09.)
• Added a new IH replay with Hand of Midas (2006.09.26.)
• Revamped guide; version 3.0 (2006.09.18.)
• Added 2 replays to the League Replays section played by coL.Fear and coL.ezy (2006.09.13.)
• Moved from Scourge section to Premiums section (2006.09.08.)
• Improved the Heroes section (2006.09.01.)
• Changed the font colour to fit the new forum skin (2006.08.18.)
• Added an animated gif as a presentation on how to pick out heroes (2006.08.11.)
• B. Bone's Role in the Team section added (2006.07.30.)
• Updated as a birthday present for one of the moderators (2006.07.26.)
• Updated to map version 6.34 (2006.06.23.)
• L. League Replays section added (2006.06.15.)
• G. Readers' Replays section added (2006.05.26.)

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I hope that this guide helps you out in learning how to play Bone Clinkz, the Bone Fletcher. Any comments are welcome as long as they are constructive. If you post something like: "Hey this guide sucks" or "This is a good guide", then noone will ever know, why you think so. So please tell everyone what your thoughts are and why you think that way. Also, if you are trying to prove that one of your builds for clinkz is better than this one, then enclose your replays proving it, and add real calculations, not fake ones, where you provide your truth by ignoring some facts. Read the RULES! If you are flaming in this topic (or anywhere else), you'll be warned, don't forget it. If you are giving a mini-guide in others' guides, then you break the rules again. If you are having multi-accounts posting in a guide, then you'll be warned or banned. If you see any post breaking the rules, then don't hold yourself, report it!

• Credit goes to:
• everybody who has posted a constructive comment either to this or to our previous bone guides
• noobasaurusREX for the similar layout, as we "stole" it from his Sven premium guide (with permission of course)
• coL.Fear for his amazing clinkz replays and for the whole Clan giving permission for using their replays
• JoMartin7 who posted the most constructive comments into our guides, and mostly for the Travel idea
  (chek out his guide too for a clinkz not rushing for Dr Aegis)
• everybody else that we forgot to mention

Beast_Pete & MrBuffet
2006.02.16. - 2006.05.16.​

 

[JFK]

Го обожавам херојов, прво спремам pthreads, после то полека полека кон mkb, редовно го лупам на dmg, со по некој bracer, од ко ќе земам манки одам на буриза.. па сеа рачунај =)

 

[Mac))]

Со боне некако ги обожавам типците кои му прават Stygian,нормално кога играат против мене.

Финтата е што и да имаш 200 дмџ,со 800 енергија не смееш да се појавиш да тепаш.
Иначе,бар да смениме фонтов на guide-от,ништо не се глеа со темно-помаранџастите бои

 

[Shorty]

coL.Fear беше најдобриот играч на Дота а воедно и најдобриот Боне јузер. Едноставно газеше. Сум ги гледал сите риплејови на coL против verGe. Снимете го риплејот што е вклучен во гајдот за да научите да ја одбегнувате анимацијата на Searing Arrows

 

[Dr.Zizou]

Со боне некако ги обожавам типците кои му прават Stygian,нормално кога играат против мене.

Финтата е што и да имаш 200 дмџ,со 800 енергија не смееш да се појавиш да тепаш.
Иначе,бар да смениме фонтов на guide-от,ништо не се глеа со темно-помаранџастите бои

Па зависи ти кој херој ке го имаш-зависи и јас што артефакти ке склопам.Во глобала боне е многу јак херој-само кој знае да го игра правилно......

 

[Potato]

Здраво пријателе, како оди учењето кинески?

 

[Gohan]

Dobro e toa,ama ke ti ostavam komentar,koga si pisuval si se zaboravil : D

 

[Crazy Diamond]

многу е топ херојов.скоро сегогаш играм со него

 

[Cecio]

ja nego bi go igral so PT,2x bracer,silence,MKB,buriza
epa posle ako stasam buterfly i namesto braceri bi zel HoT