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In-Depth Guide: How to be credit to team with Techies
By Epilepsy
Guide on how to play Techies in multiple ways and own Enemies. Annoy the hell out of them with devious Minetraps, denying their farm and killing them while they're not watching their hero.

Ingame Itembuild: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=310120742
   
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Itembuild
Starting Gold
Mineheavy Build
(Soulring Recipe)



Suicide-Firstblood Build





Early Game

(Bottle Mid Only!)




Midgame





Lategame

Skillbuilds
Techies Skillbuild is relatively easy and differs mostly at lvl 1.

If you want a Suicide-Firstblood, obviously on lvl 1 you skill







Otherwise you skill:







From here on you can decide.
Do they have many Heroes with low Armor/slow MS/low HP?
LVL
Skill
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2
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5
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11

From here on, max Stasis Trap & Remote Mines, then Stats

Do they have Tanky heroes with lots of Armor, or Carrys with lots of Armor that want to roam alot?
Then go Landmines with Suicide only to deny yourself!

LVL
Skill
1
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11

Max Stasistrap, Ulti & Suicide, then Stats
Mines & Placement
Probably the funniest Skill in Techies arsenal, nothing beats a good stack of mines killing a random opponent.





Deals Damage to buildings, e.g.
Tier 1 Tower:
  • Mine lvl 1: 160
  • Mine lvl 2: 213
  • Mine lvl 3: 266
  • Mine lvl 4: 320
If your creepwave reaches tower range, just walk to the tower, put a mine beneath it and walk away, do not attack the tower and you should be fine

There are several ways to place good mine fields, but this would bet an example of how NOT to do it:











You can stack how many mines you want onto One Mine, so even if opponents have a gem and see your "Mine", if they are melee they cant do anything but walk over it while thinking "Oh its just one mine, i have full hp, better to deny it now, than to walk over it later and die." ( They WILL die now though :) )
Here is how you do it:
1. Walk to the place you want your minestack.
2. Use Mine as often as you want and click on your Portrait, this will palce the mine on the spot where you stand DO NOT MOVE while doing this!
(3.) If you want to do shenanigans, get yourself a late Shadow Amulet (Not Shadowblade!) and stand there, using mine followed by Shadow Amulet (it only has 10s Cooldown) and youre safe from roaming enemies (if they dont have Gem or Sentries)

















Here are some good spots to stack mines, cause you will never get good vision on them, even if you have a gem or sentries.

















You can also use Mines to block Creepcamps (This works only with these Mines, not with Remotemines!)
Radiant Jungle:






























































Dire Jungle:

Stasis Trap


Stasistrap is a terribly annoying spell and can turn teamfights 180 degrees

Therefore it is important, that you place them correctly and communicate with your team, so that they engage, if multiple enemy heroes get caught in your Trap!

Therefore here are some simple rules:
  1. NEVER place the Stasistrap on the lane, where creeps will activate it! Only 2 Exceptions: 1. You're pushing. 2. Directly in front of your tower while defending.
  2. Place Stasistrap on Spots, where enemies need to walk in a curve and you place it on the inside of the curve. Remember that the Trap needs 2 Seconds to activate after someone runs into the activation area!
  3. You can use the traps as effective wards: They do not grant money when killed and they cost you nothing!
  4. Use them to ward off your teams jungle and place them in the middle of walking paths, so that when an enemy tries to gank e.g. your radiant Botlane, he gets stunned and detected, so that your team has enough time to run or hide.
  5. You can place stasistraps in the middle of a teamfight, remember it takes 4 seconds for them to activate (2s setup, 2s activation delay), so you can use them directly after Chronosphere, Blackhole, Ravage, Alchemist Concoction and many more to give your team the 5-6 effectve seconds to kill the whole enemy team.
Suicide Squad!
Heroes that you can One-Shot with Suicide Squad at Lvl 1 (when they dont have Str+ items!)









































It is helpful, if you have a Teammate with a reliable stun or movement disabler that deals burst damage, this way you can even kill other heroes very easily.
Use Smoke on you and him, search for your Victim, let him throw the stun, and you blow him up for an easy firstblood.

Heroes good for this would be:


Some Extra-Hints
  • DO NOT use it, when youre not completely sure, that it will kill the enemy, remember the damage is composite and will be reduced by ARMOR and MAGIC RESISTANCE
  • If you are near to death, you can easily deny yourself while doing at last some damage to one or multiple enemies by using Suicide, this will deny them all the exp and gold. You can use the Skill on the ground beneath you to instantily blow up without walking a few meters!
  • In combination with Bloodstone, you have 2 Ways of completely denying yourself to the Enemy team, don't forget that! If youre a good player, the enemies will not kill you once cause you kill yourself every time!

Remote Mine control
Remote mines are not my personal favorite, cause they are not so random, like Landmines, but nonetheless, they are awesome!







The tactis hereby are simple.
  • DO NOT place single Mines all over the Place, only if you use them as wards (and then place them on high ground)!
  • Stack as many Mines as needed to kill every hero (HP and Magicresist-Wise) on the enemy team, it is important that you always click on them to see what items they have! Dont forget, that 300 Magic Damage is actually only 225 Damage on a normal Hero without any Magicresistance Items or Skills (Antimage, Pudge, Huskar, Rubick have evil Skills that make you deal less damage, with Rubick being the worst with his evil aura :( )
  • You can farm creepcamps very easily with this skill!
  • They do NOT block creepcamps (Landmines do though)
  • Don't even try to kill Roshan with your Skills, its not possible!

Also, you can use them as an epic damage AOE Nuke in Teamfights, just use your Ulti, then directly after that (while the Mine is still flying) use the Focused Detonate Skill, the Mine will explode directly when it touches the ground! With Ultimate lvl 3 or Aghanims+lvl 2, you can Oneshot a whole creepwave, use this to push and farm for the last few items!





Runes
If youre a roaming Techie (what you should be), it is your job to control the Runes (and the whole map as bonus). Just place Stasis Traps and Minestacks by the runespots and after the first enemy walks over your Trap and dies, they will buy Sentries or never go there again. If you counter their sentries with sentries, its even better cause you have free wards (Remotemine & Stasis Trap) and they dont, so that you can counterward easily!