Dota 2 Lina Guide – Increase Your GPM with Dragon Slave

| Tags: , | Author
Dota 2 Lina Guide – Increase Your GPM with Dragon Slave

Here’s how you can earn more GPM using Dragon Slave while playing Lina in Dota 2. 


A ton of people play Dota 2 for various reasons. Players indulge themselves with hours of Dota 2 games to prove their worth to their team in the massively multiplayer game. These matches can provide plenty of opportunities for esports enthusiasts to increase their gold per minute (GPM), level up faster, and execute stunning combos with their allies. 

Most spells in the strategy game are used to punish their opponents in lanes. Professional Dota 2 players use their abilities to eliminate waves of enemy creeps within seconds to earn more GPM in Dota 2. Choosing Intelligence heroes, such as, Lina, can blaze through her foes using her spells to drain enemy creeps and enemy heroes of their health. 

Take a look at how you can use Dragon Slave to increase your GPM in Dota 2 with Lina. 

Lina – Increase Your GPM with Dragon Slave

Lina earns more gold in style

Lina is an Intelligence hero who has a variety of spells to burn her enemies in battles. She can cast spells to scorch enemy heroes and obliterate enemy creeps with ease. Many Dota 2 players choose Lina for her ability to play multiple roles in the team, including a support hero, a carry hero, and a lane pusher.

The ranged hero can be a perfect pick to increase the amount of gold players can make in their matches. Lina has a base Intelligence of 30 and gains an additional 3.8 Intelligence per level in the game. She has a maximum range of 670, allowing Lina to melt enemy creeps from a comfortable distance in Dota 2 games. 

Lina has a projectile speed of 1000, granting her adequate speed to cast her spells during crucial moments to earn more GPM. Players can level up Dragon Slave after spawning into the game to nuke enemy creeps in lanes. 

People who choose Lina can head mid for an easier time leveling up in Dota 2. The mid lane will provide plenty of chances for Lina to take last hits on enemy creeps while casting multiple instances of Dragon Slave to increase her GPM between battles. 

Players can buy a Bottle to be able to replenish health and mana for the Intelligence hero. Lina can use a Bottle to store and activate Bounty and other runes to regain charges after using the item. She can place a few Observer Wards near the river to take valuable runes on time, like Arcane and Regeneration. 

Runes like Arcane will reduce the cooldown of her spells and the mana cost of her abilities. Lina can cast Dragon Slaves much faster in lanes after activating Arcane runes with her Bottle. She can also use an Arcane rune before casting her ulti, Laguna Blade, to save mana during team fights in Dota 2. 

Lina can deal 85 damage to multiple enemy creeps using Dragon Slave at level one. A maxed-out Dragon Slave can increase the damage dealt to enemy creeps and enemy heroes. The Intelligence hero can deal 310 damage to her opponents with Dragon Slave at level 4. Dragon Slave has a cooldown of 9 seconds and consumes 145 mana to be used. You can decrease the cooldown of Dragon Slave by 3.5 seconds at level 10 through the Talent Tree. 

You can carry a few Clarity potions and a handful of Enchanted Mangoes to restore mana to Lina. Players need over a 100 mana per cast for using Dragon Slave while farming for gold with Lina in the game. Consumable items, such as Enchanted Mangoes can help players increase their GPM in Dota 2 by providing Lina additional mana throughout the matches played. 

The Intelligence hero can stun enemy heroes using Light Strike Array to prevent them from denying enemy creeps in lanes. Lina can cast Light Strike Array to stun all enemy units in a radius of 250. She can deal 100 damage to enemy units and stun them for 1.6 seconds using Light Strike Array at level one. You can level up Light Strike Array to deal 250 damage to enemies and increase the stun duration to 2.5 seconds. 

Light Strike Array has a cooldown of 7 seconds and needs 115 mana to be used per cast. Lina can use Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array together to mitigate waves of enemy creeps without taking any damage from incoming attacks. You can use Dragon Slave before stunning enemy creeps with Light Strike Array and focus on getting last hits to increase your GPM. 

The passive ability, Fiery Soul, can be used to increase the kill counts of Lina. The Intelligence hero gains up to 40 attack speed bonus and 3% increase in her movement speed with Fiery Soul for every spell she casts in the game. Fiery Soul can be stacked up to a total of 7 times in the game. The attack speed bonus and movement speed bonus can last for up to 18 seconds, allowing Lina to use her momentum against neutral creep camps in the game. 

Make sure you use your abilities on neutral creeps to increase your GPM in Dota 2. Neutral creeps camps can be stacked over time to gain additional gold while Lina is roaming the map. Lina can cast Dragon Slave on neutral creeps to easily increase the gold earned, granting her the gold she needs to buy items to dominate Dota 2 games with the ranged hero. 

Her ulti, Laguna Blade, can be used to deal up to 900 damage to her enemies with Lina. Laguna Blade has a cooldown of 50 seconds and requires 450 mana per cast. You can avoid using Laguna Blade on enemy creeps to be more effective in battles. Laguna Blade can be cast on enemy heroes who are weakened by spells like Dragon Slave and Light Strike Array. Lina’s ulti can provide instant kills to the Intelligence hero to drastically increase your GPM. 

Items to Buy for Lina

Arcane Boots

Arcane Boots provide 250 mana and 45 movement speed to the Intelligence hero. Lina can use Arcane Boots to replenish up to 175 mana to herself and her allies in a radius of 1200. Arcane Boots has a cooldown of 55 seconds. The item can be purchased for 1300 gold in the game. 

Veil of Discord

Veil of Discord grants Lina 5 Intelligence, 5 Agility, and 5 Strength. The ranged hero can cast Magic Weakness using Veil of Discord to increase the damage dealt from her spells by 18%. Magic Weakness can be cast on enemy units in a radius of 600 and lasts for up to 16 seconds in the game. Veil of Discord has a cooldown of 22 seconds and consumes 50 mana. 

Allies around Lina gain an increased mana regeneration rate of 1.75. Lina can cast several Dragon Slaves in her lane to destroy enemy creeps with her abilities after casting Veil of Discord. The increased damage dealt to enemy units with Magic Weakness can help Lina gain additional GPM. You can buy a Veil of Discord for 1525 gold. 

Aether Lens

Aether Lens can be bought for 2275 gold. Lina gains 300 mana and 2.5 mana regeneration by purchasing an Aether Lens in Dota 2. The item increases the cast range of all her spells and items by 225, letting Lina cast Dragon Slave from a distance to earn more gold while farming in lanes. Aether Lens can be vital to increase your GPM while playing Lina in Dota 2. You can upgrade Aether Lens to Octarine Core to reduce the cooldown of Dragon Slave and the rest of her abilities by 25%.

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity can be a resourceful item for Lina. Players can use Eul’s Scepter of Divinity to cast Cyclone on enemy units to disable them for 2.5 seconds. Lina can use Cyclone on enemy heroes before using Light Strike Array to stun them in battles. 

She can also use Cyclone on her opponents to prevent them from killing your allies during team fights in Dota 2. Eul’s Scepter of Divinity has a cooldown of 23 seconds and consumes 175 mana. The item can be bought for 2725 gold. 

Best Allies for Lina

Wraith King

Wraith King stuns enemies to assist Lina in earning more gold

Wraith King is a Strength hero who can help Lina earn more GPM in Dota 2 matches. The melee hero can deal up to 60 – 62 damage per hit from the start of the game. He has a base movement speed of 315 that lets him chase heroes for easy kills. 

Allies playing Wraith King can cast Wraithfire Blast to stun enemy heroes for up to 2 seconds. Enemy units affected by Wraithfire Blast will have their movement speed slowed by 20% for 2 seconds, allowing Lina to cast spells like Light Strike Array to extend the duration of the stun. Wraithfire Blast has a cooldown of 8 seconds and needs 140 mana. 

Lina can cast multiple Dragon Slaves after enemy heroes are weakened by Wraith King for fast kills throughout the game. Wraith King can summon skeletons using Vampiric Spirit to fight enemy creeps in lanes. Skeletons summoned by Wraith King deal 34 damage per hit and last for up to 40 seconds. Wraith King can use Vampiric Spirit once every 50 seconds and requires 100 mana to be used in Dota 2. 

Wraith King can deal up to 270% of his attack damage to enemy units using the passive ability, Mortal Strike. Lina can nuke enemy creeps with Dragon Slave after they are hit by Mortal Strike for more gold. 

Avatar of Chetan Shekar
Chetan Shekar
I'm passionate about gaming and love to cover topics and news from the esports industry.