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Shadow Demon

[wiki] rating: 1.2 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that lose a great amount of their tankiness and become easier to finish off: Bristleback, Spectre Spectre, Phantom Assassin, Enchantress, Dragon Knight.
* Once you have an Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, Shadow Demon instantly reach a new power spike and become a counter for a variety of heroes that have strong passives.
* Heroes that lose a great amount of their tankiness and become easier to finish off: Bristleback, Spectre Spectre, Phantom Assassin, Enchantress, Dragon Knight.
* Heroes that lose a great amount of damage output and become less threatening: Phantom Assassin, Sven Sven, Slark Slark, Phantom Lancer.
* You can always stack camps and farm the scepter with Shadow Poison.

Tinker

* Heroes that can gain vision over trees to catch Tinker: Invoker Invoker, Shadow Demon, Batrider

Vengeful Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Vengeful Spirit Wave of Terror Wave of Terror can reveal a Tinker attempting to hide in the trees and then Vengeful Spirit Nether Swap Nether Swap and Vengeful Spirit Magic Missile Magic Missile will both serve to interrupt/lock him down, should he attempt to town portal or reload.

Zeus

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 14%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Due to Tinker's low health pool, Zeus can easily burst Tinker down, while also cancelling Tinker Rearm Rearm.
* Once Zeus gets Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, he will gain Zeus Nimbus Nimbus, which allows him to scout out Tinker on the map, especially when he is pushing lanes while hiding in the trees.
Additional:
* Zeus can easily reveal Tinker's location in the trees with Zeus Thundergod Thundergod's wrath.
* When Zeus has an Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, he can use his Zeus Nimbus Nimbus, together with Zeus Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt to interrupt Tinker's Boots of Travel channelling and cancel Tinker's Blink Dagger.

Clockwerk

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Rocket Flare can find Tinker if he blinks into the treeline, and Hookshot will prevent him from teleporting out.
* Battery Assault makes Tinker unable to Tinker Rearm Rearm by stunning him repeatedly.
Additional:
* Clockwerk can easily catch a split pushing Tinker with his Clockwerk Hookshot Hookshot and prevent him from escaping with Clockwerk Power Cogs Power Cogs and Clockwerk Battery Assault Battery Assault.
* He can find a Tinker hiding in trees with his Clockwerk Rocket Flare Rocket Flare.
* Clockwerk usually buys a Blade Mail, which does lots of damage to Tinker if he gets hit by his abilities (especially March of the Machines).

Spectre

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 17%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* His global teleportation with Boots of Travel and Tinker Rearm Rearm is easily countered with Haunt, and Spectre can reach him anywhere on the map.
* He is squishy, and if alone Desolate will kill him very fast.
* Tinker Laser Laser's blind isn't reliable, since Desolate cannot miss.

Beastmaster

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Beastmaster's Hawk can find Tinker easily while he is pushing or blinking into trees.

Storm Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Storm Spirit destroys trees and ignores impassable terrains with Ball Lightning, rendering them dangerous places for Tinker to hide within.
* Ball Lightning disjoints projectile from Tinker Heat-Seeking Missile Heat-Seeking Missile and damage from Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines.
* Electric Vortex prevents Tinker from teleporting away, and Static Remnant and Overload can easily burst him down.
Additional:
* He can easily catch Tinker in the trees with Storm Spirit Ball Lightning Ball Lightning and kill him with Orchid Malevolence and his abilities, which deal both physical and magical damage, making them difficult for Tinker to itemize against.

Pugna

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Pugna Nether Ward Nether Ward discourages Tinker from using abilities and items due to its high damage against heavy mana usage.

Lich

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Lich's constant slows with Lich Frost Blast Frost Blast and Lich Chain Frost Chain Frost will slow Dragon Knight to a crawl, especially in a crowded teamfight.

Viper

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* In the early game, a Dragon Knight without Black King Bar is basically defenseless against Viper.
Additional:
* Dragon Knight is easily harassed by Poison Attack after the laning stage ends.
* Corrosive Skin protects Viper from Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire and returns damage.
* Nethertoxin mitigates Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood, Dragon's Knight main source of armor and health regeneration.
* Between Poison Attack and Viper Strike, Viper can keep Dragon Knight permanently slowed even in Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form.

Ancient Apparition

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Ancient Apparition Cold Feet Cold Feet and Ancient Apparition Ice Vortex Ice Vortex both hinder Dragon Knight's movement greatly during teamfights.
* Ancient Apparition Ice Blast Ice Blast ignores Dragon Knight's armor and kills him prematurely.

Earth Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Tinker is an easy target for Earth Spirit to initiate on. He likes to split push lanes once he acquieres Boots of Travel and Earth Spirit can jump him with his Rolling Boulder and disable him to buy enough time for his teammates to come and assist Earth Spirit.
* The huge range of Stone Remnant and Rolling Boulder enables Earth Spirit to stop Tinker from teleporting to his fountain since Tinker tends to buy Blink Dagger most of the time to escape.

Doom

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Tinker is heavily reliant on casting his spells and Doom Doom Doom can disable all of his abilities and items. An Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter only makes it harder for Tinker to survive.
Additional:
* Tinker is heavily dependent on active abilities and Doom prevents him from using any of them.

Dazzle

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Dazzle Shadow Wave Shadow Wave provides good sustain against Tinker's spammable abilities.
* Dazzle Shallow Grave Shallow Grave can stop Tinker from bursting down a target.

Pudge

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 24%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* He can Pudge Meat Hook Meat Hook a Tinker hiding in the trees and follow it up with Pudge Dismember Dismember and Pudge Rot Rot for an easy solo kill, as Tinker doesn't tend to buy survivability items.
* His innate magic resistance and huge health pool from Pudge Flesh Heap Flesh Heap makes it hard for Tinker to deal serious damage to Pudge.
Additional:
* Meat Hook can used to pull Tinker while he is hiding in the trees, and a follow up with Dismember and Rot leads to an easy solo kill, as Tinker doesn't buy many survivability items.
* Flesh Heap makes it hard for Tinker to deal serious damage.

Ursa

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Ursa Fury swipes Fury swipes can tear Dragon knight down as it stacks infinitely.

Slark

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 13%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Slark Pounce Pounce prevents Tinker from blinking away.
* Slark frequently builds Shadow Blade, which allows him to approach Tinker unnoticed. Since Tinker's farming usually covers a significant amount of area on the map, Sentry Wards may not be cost effective.
* Slark Shadow Dance Shadow Dance allows Slark to detect both common and unusual wards. Eliminating common ward causes Tinker trouble farming many lanes if he does not know who may be waiting to jump on him. Slark is also uniquely able to identify some of the less common wards used by Tinker, such as those placed on the cliffs at map edges which Tinker uses to give him vision over the trees he uses to hide in.
* Slark's extremely high move speed from Slark Shadow Dance Shadow Dance, potentially stacked with Shadow Blade, allows him to easily follow Tinker between lanes, especially if Tinker has pushed the lanes out.
* Slark Dark Pact Dark Pact dispels Laser's blind.

Bristleback

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Bristleback Viscous Nasal Goo Viscous Nasal Goo slows down Dragon Knight and lowers armor, locking him down and making him more vulnerable.

Underlord

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 56% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* In general, melee heroes without blink mechanisms or spell immunity will have a hard time positioning against Pit of Malice: Sven Sven, Tiny Tiny, Wraith King, Dragon Knight, Meepo Meepo, Doom Doom, Bounty Hunter, Dark Seer, Undying Undying, Alchemist, Legion Commander.

Venomancer

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* In general, heroes that can slow down Dragon Knight's movement speed will do well against him. This includes Venomancer, Drow Ranger and others in addition to the heroes mentioned above.

Anti-Mage

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 16%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Anti-Mage's high mobility from Blink and tendency to build Battle Fury makes him strong against split-pushing heroes: Nature Nature's Prophet, Tinker Tinker, and Arc Warden.

Additional:
* Tinker is fragile and vulnerable against carries like Anti-Mage.
* Anti-Mage Mana Break Mana Break burns away his mana pool and deals bonus physical damage.
* Tinker's massive mana pool makes Anti-Mage Mana Void Mana Void deal large amount of damage, and can be used to cancel a Boots of Travel teleport even through spell immunity.
* Anti-Mage Blink Blink gives Anti-Mage many options, like disjointing Heat Seeking Missiles or leaving March of Machines' area of effect. He can use Blink to wait out of sight for a split pushing Tinker or chase a blinking Tinker into trees.
* Tinker doesn't want any of his spells reflected back at him through Anti-Mage Counterspell Counterspell.

Slardar

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Slardar Slardar can chase Dragon Knight down with Slardar Guardian Sprint Guardian Sprint and stun him with both Slardar Slithereen Crush Slithereen Crush and his passive Slardar Bash of the Deep Bash of the Deep. He can also use Slardar Corrosive Haze Corrosive Haze to whittle Dragon Knight's armor.

Sand King

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes with no mobility will take some good damage from Sand King's spells: Dragon Knight, Jakiro Jakiro, Pugna Pugna, Earthshaker,...

Omniknight

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes who rely strongly on melee physical damage will fare badly against Omniknight's Guardian Angel: Sven Sven, Phantom Assassin, Juggernaut, Dragon Knight, Lycan Lycan, Ursa Ursa, Troll Warlord

Timbersaw

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Timbersaw's pure damage will kill Dragon Knight surprisingly fast, especially if he gets caught in a bad position while laning.

Tinker

* Timbersaw's ability to destroy trees can be a serious problem for some heroes that use them, as either a way of enhancing their spells like Treant Protector, or heroes that tend to hide inside of them like Tinker Tinker and Monkey King.

Countered by:

Tinker

* All Tinker's damage is magic/pure and completely ignores Timbersaw's Timbersaw Reactive Armor Reactive Armor.
* Timbersaw very rarely builds Black King Bar, making him very vulnerable if Tinker builds Scythe of Vyse.

Elder Titan

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Elder Titan's Elder Titan Natural Order Natural Order completely nullifies Dragon Knight's high armor.

Pangolier

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes who rely on skills to become a heavy hitter in a certain amount of time can waste their timing because of a lucky Lucky Shot's disarm: Terrorblade, Sven Sven, Clinkz Clinkz, Windranger, Alchemist, Dragon Knight, Legion Commander

Meepo

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Tinker Tinker who can't fight multiple heroes will suffer greatly against Ransack and Earthbind. However, Tinker with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter can blind multiple Meepos permanently with Tinker Laser Laser, killing them before Poof can come off of cooldown.

Puck

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Low health spellcasters: Lina Lina, Witch Doctor, Tinker Tinker, Keeper of the Light, all rely heavily on their spells and are fragile heroes. They all also have avoidable spells, allowing Puck to get to them and quickly burst them down.

Kunkka

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Similarly, heroes with low cooldown teleports can be afraid to split push against X Marks the Spot, such as Tinker Tinker and Nature Nature's Prophet.
* In general, highly mobile heroes like Earth Spirit or Storm Spirit are at a disadvantage against X Marks the Spot.
* Similarly, heroes with low cooldown teleports can be afraid to split push against X Marks the Spot, such as Tinker Tinker and Nature Nature's Prophet.

Additional:
* Kunkka X Marks the Spot X Marks the Spot can be used to prevent Tinker from escape with Blink Dagger or Boots of Travel, discourage him from snapping farm and snapping gank. However, in later game, it'll be much more difficult because Tinker can buy Black King Bar or Linken Linken's Sphere to prevent Kunkka from placing X on him, or Eul Eul's Scepter of Divinity to prevent the recall

Batrider

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Heroes that can gain vision over trees to catch Tinker: Invoker Invoker, Shadow Demon, Batrider

Night Stalker

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Night Stalker can easily find Tinker in the trees during Night Stalker Dark Ascension Dark Ascension.
* Night Stalker Void Void's mini-stun will stop Rearm and Boots of Travel.
* Night Stalker Crippling Fear Crippling Fear's silence will prevent Tinker from fighting back, as Tinker relies on his spells.
Additional:
* Night Stalker is one of the best heroes to find (and silence) Tinker in the trees during Dark Ascension.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that are hard to gank: Dragon Knight, Mars Mars, Centaur Warrunner.

Razor

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Razor Static Link Static Link saps Dragon Knight of his already low base damage, making him even more useless in a fight if he gets kited.
* Razor Storm Surge Storm Surge makes Razor much faster than Dragon Knight, and hard to catch.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes who rely on abilities to deal damage (e.g. Timbersaw, Tinker Tinker) can fight a Razor even after Static Link.

Techies

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* A common playstyle among Tinkers is to teleport to a lane creep using Boots of Travel and immediately blink into the trees to cast Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines. If Techies can predict where said Tinker would blink after teleporting, he could place strategic Proximity Mines or even Remote Mines in those places. Stasis Traps also prevent Tinker from blinking or teleporting away.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Any hero with a low HP pool is easy for Tinker to nuke down: Crystal Maiden, Enchantress, Gyrocopter, Lion Lion, Riki Riki, Techies Techies, Terrorblade, Necrophos, Invoker Invoker.

Lifestealer

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Lifestealer Rage Rage will dispel Laser's blind and turns him spell immune for the duration so Tinker cannot damage him.
* Lifestealer Feast Feast will quickly bring down Tinker due to being so fragile.
Additional:
* Lifestealer's Rage makes him immune to all of Tinker's damage and debuffs.
* Lifestealer can infest any mobile hero (teams usually pick one against Tinker), which ensures that Tinker will die if he is caught.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that rely on physical damage are ineffective against Dragon Knight due to his high armor: Phantom Assassin,Bloodseeker, Lifestealer, Troll Warlord

Outworld Devourer

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Outworld Devourer Arcane Orb Arcane Orb's constant pure damage output is devastating to Dragon Knight.
* Dragon Knight's relatively low mana pool leads to heavy damage from Outworld Devourer Sanity Sanity's Eclipse, which also bypasses his armor.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker Tinker's Tinker Laser Laser is useful against Outworld Devourer, as the blind prevents him from landing Arcane Orbs.

Better not pick these:

Bloodseeker

[wiki] rating: -2.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Laser can be very effective against Bloodseeker Bloodrage Bloodrage as the damage will be amplified while the blind prevents Bloodseeker from landing hits.
* Tinker is a natural Boots of Travel carrier and Rearm guarantees him escape from Rupture.
Additional:
* Tinker Laser Laser blinds Bloodseeker, preventing him from getting last hits and denies during the laning stage and preventing him from finishing off enemies.
* Tinker always buys Boots of Travel, helping him escape Bloodseeker's early ganks.
* Tinker's heavy magical damage will burst down Bloodseeker during the early to mid game, as he has little health.

Dragon Knight

* Bloodseeker's physical damage is unlikely to kill Dragon Knight, and therefore rarely get a chance to recover the large amount of HP from Bloodseeker Bloodrage Bloodrage.

Magnus

[wiki] rating: -1.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 14%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker can break Magnus's Blink Dagger using Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines and Tinker Heat-Seeking Missile Heat-Seeking Missile, therefore delaying any initiation or making Magnus use Skewer or Force Staff to initiate. Tinker usually gets his own Blink Dagger as well, which makes him harder to lock down unless Magnus commits Reverse Polarity only for Tinker.

Dragon Knight

* Any hero who can survive Magnus's initiations and manfight him: Huskar Huskar, Faceless Void, Weaver Weaver, Abaddon Abaddon, Troll Warlord, Alchemist, Dragon Knight, Night Stalker, Viper Viper.

Riki

[wiki] rating: -1.6 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Dragon Knight

* Riki does little damage to Dragon Knight, as he relies only on physical damage with modest attack speed and lack of burst.

Clinkz

[wiki] rating: -1.6 (winrate: 57% pickrate: 10%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes with high armor like Dragon Knight, or with abilities to cause attacks to miss like Phantom Assassin, Riki Riki and Tinker Tinker will be hard to deal with, as Clinkz relies almost entirely on physical attacks.

Dragon Knight

* The extra damage from Clinkz Searing Arrows Searing Arrows is largely blocked by Dragon Knight's armor.

Shadow Fiend

[wiki] rating: -1.4 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 11%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Shadow Fiend's Shadow Fiend Presence of the Dark Lord Presence of the Dark Lord reduces Dragon Knight's armor considerably, and his strong base attacks are augmented by his Shadow Fiend Necromastery Necromastery.

Countered by:

Tinker

* During the laning stage Laser will reduce Shadow Fiend's last hits, preventing him from getting Shadow Fiend Necromastery Necromastery souls.
* Shadow Fiend has low health and is vulnerable to Tinker's high magic burst.
Additional:
* The blind from Tinker Laser Laser prevents Shadow Fiend from attacking for its duration, potentially preventing him from getting a kill.
* Scythe of Vyse can be used to prevent Shadow Fiend from casting Requiem of Souls.
* A combination of Tinker's abilities and his items (like the Dagon 5 Dagon 5 and Ethereal Blade combo) can kill Shadow Fiend quickly.

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight Dragon Tail Dragon Tail can be used to cancel Requiem of Souls.
* Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire reduces Shadow Fiend's damage even further.
* Dragon Knight's high strength and Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood means that he'll be able to tank Shadow Fiend's right clicks.

Chaos Knight

[wiki] rating: -1.4 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Illusion heroes, such as Naga Siren, Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Terrorblade will become strong against Tinker in the late game when Tinker's only area of effect damage, March of the Machines, ceases to kill illusions quickly. Without Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter Tinker is forced to defensively disarm heroes with Laser, leaving illusions free to deal physical damage which Tinker's low armor makes highly effective. In addition, Mjollnir or Battle Fury, two common pickups against illusion heroes, don't work well on Tinker at all.

Countered by:

Tinker

* With Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, Tinker's Laser completely stops Chaos Knight's damage, forcing him to buy either a Black King Bar for his own survivability while leaving his illusions still vulnerable, or a Monkey King Bar leaving him still vulnerable to Tinker's nukes, though improving his damage.
* Tinker rarely finds himself in the middle of a fight, which is where Chaos Knight typically thrives, and even in the rare cases of being so, at level 3 Tinker's constant rearm and blink away can kite and dodge Chaos Knight's spells reliably, so Chaos Knight has very little catch against Tinker's mobility. This gives Tinker impunity to create more chaos in a teamfight than Chaos Knight can control, laying down the field with March of the Machines and constantly being hit by rockets and lasers.
Additional:
* Tinker's Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Tinker Laser Laser can blind him and all of his Phantasm illusions.

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood's armor bonus greatly reduces the damage dealt by Phantasm.
* Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire and Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form's splash damage quickly destroy illusions and reduces their damage output.

Phantom Assassin

[wiki] rating: -1.2 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 13%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes who rely on physical damage will suffer from Laser: Phantom Assassin, Wraith King, Huskar Huskar.

Additional:
* The blind from Tinker Laser Laser can render Phantom Assassin useless if she is not protected by Black King Bar.
* Tinker is a natural Scythe of Vyse carrier and can permanently disable Phantom Assassin, not giving her chance to activate Black King Bar if she has it.

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that rely on physical damage are ineffective against Dragon Knight due to his high armor: Phantom Assassin,Bloodseeker, Lifestealer, Troll Warlord

Additional:
* High armor thanks to Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood makes it difficult for Phantom Assassin to burst down Dragon Knight, as she deals 100% physical damage.
* Dragon Knight Dragon Tail Dragon Tail stuns Phantom Assassin as soon as she initiates, preventing her from gaining bonus attack speed.
* Dragon Knight is one of the few heroes who can safely solo lane against Phantom Assassin alongside a support.

Nature's Prophet

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 7%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker with Tinker Rearm Rearm and Boots of Travel can teleport and defend towers whenever Nature's Prophet tries to push.
* Tinker Laser Laser prevents Nature's Prophet from attacking. Additionally, even with Monkey King Bar, Nature's Prophet cannot hit towers and buildings.
* Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines can easily kill an entire wave of Treants, giving Tinker lots of gold.

Witch Doctor

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 13%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Witch Doctor Death Ward Death Ward does little damage against Dragon Knight's armor, and Dragon Knight's high health regeneration minimizes damage from Witch Doctor Maledict Maledict.

Templar Assassin

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Despite the armor reduction from Templar Assassin Meld Meld, Templar Assassin's reliance on physical damage and medium attack speed is unlikely to harm Dragon Knight.
* Templar Assassin's Refraction charges also get quickly removed by the damage over time from Dragon Knight's ultimate.
Additional:
* The damage over time from Dragon Knight's Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form rapidly burns down Refraction, allowing him to attack her. Also, Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire reduces Templar Assassin's damage and Dragon Knight Dragon Tail Dragon Tail is a stun with a considerable duration, letting him and his team whittle her health down once her defenses wear off.

Winter Wyvern

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* All of his damage is magical and pure, which makes Cold Embrace a good setup for his nukes.
* Winter's Curse is very hard to cast on Tinker because he usually stays in the back-lines in team-fights. In turn, Tinker has mediocre attack damage and will contribute very little when he is cursed to attack an ally. He can also save his ally under Winter's Curse effect with Ethereal Blade.

Lone Druid

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 2%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker Laser Laser blinds Lone Druid, making his attacks miss. Furthermore, a Tinker with Aghanim's Scepter is sure to blind both Lone Druid and his bear, negating his ability to root or deal physical damage.

Shadow Shaman

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight can simply tank and destroy all Shadow Shaman's Serpent Wards.

Faceless Void

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 17%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* If Tinker can stay outside of Faceless Void Chronosphere Chronosphere, Laser can cause Faceless Void to miss all his attacks.
* Faceless Void has low health and strongly relies on Faceless Void Time Walk Time Walk's healing factor to remain alive. Getting caught by Tinker with Scythe of Vyse will almost always spell a quick end for Void.
* Rearm ignores Faceless Void Time Dilation Time Dilation completely.

Grimstroke

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 10%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes with powerful spammable abilities will prove problematic for Grimstroke as Ink Swell does not protect him from them: Zeus Zeus, Skywrath Mage, Tinker Tinker, Lina Lina

Enchantress

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Monkey King

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes with wide AoE abilities will reveal Monkey King through Mischief: Necrophos, Phoenix Phoenix, Alchemist, Earthshaker, Razor Razor, Tinker Tinker, Leshrac Leshrac, Queen of Pain

Chen

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes with cleave abilities and area of effect damage can make quick work of Chen's converted creeps and at same time gain farm: Magnus Magnus, Jakiro Jakiro, Shadow Fiend, Kunkka Kunkka, Luna Luna, Dragon Knight, Medusa Medusa, Alchemist.

Tusk

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Durable heroes can fight with stand against Tusk during 1v1: Axe Axe, Dragon Knight, Night Stalker, Centaur Warrunner, Wraith King and more.

Lion

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 15%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Mars

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 9%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes with high magical or pure damage will bypass Bulwark: Timbersaw, Dark Willow, Enigma Enigma, Invoker Invoker, Pugna Pugna, Skywrath Mage, Tinker Tinker, Zeus Zeus, Oracle Oracle.

Troll Warlord

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that rely on physical damage are ineffective against Dragon Knight due to his high armor: Phantom Assassin,Bloodseeker, Lifestealer, Troll Warlord

Earthshaker

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 12%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker Tinker's Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines will disable Blink Dagger over a large area.

Jakiro

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 14%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes with good counter-push abilities to clear creep waves can hinder Jakiro's early pushing ability: Death Prophet, Sniper Sniper, Tinker Tinker, Windranger.

Windranger

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 24%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Since Windranger is bad against magical damage, heroes with continuous magical damage or magical nukes can blast her: Zeus Zeus, Tinker Tinker, Leshrac Leshrac, Viper Viper, Skywrath Mage, Lion Lion, Lina Lina, Venomancer.

Void Spirit

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 12%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes who can match Void Spirit's mobility (like the aforementioned Ember Spirit or Queen of Pain) or tank his spells (Dragon Knight or Centaur Warrunner) are very problematic for him.

Lycan

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight's insanely high armor and splash damage can cause Lycan to struggle taking him down.

Crystal Maiden

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 13%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Juggernaut

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 19%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes with high armor and/or durability can handle Juggernaut's ultimate, such as Sven Sven and Dragon Knight.

Wraith King

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 8%)

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes who rely on physical damage will suffer from Laser: Phantom Assassin, Wraith King, Huskar Huskar.

Broodmother

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Broodmother's spiderlings and spiderites do almost nothing against Dragon Knight.

Additional:
* Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire will clear Broodmother's spiderites while significantly damaging her spiderlings and decreasing their damage output.
* Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood's added armor and regen mitigates the damage done by Broodmother and her spiders.
* Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form at level 2 and above applies splash damage to Dragon Knight's auto attacks.

Terrorblade

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker can single-handedly stop Terrorblade's early-push and quickly clear his illusions with Laser (especially with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter) and March of Machines.
* Tinker has perfect tools to reveal Terrorblade from his illusions as well as to burst him down if he is low-health before he will be able Terrorblade Sunder Sunder.
Additional:
* An Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Tinker Laser Laser allows Tinker to blind Terrorblade and illusions.
* Tinker can also clear Terrorblade's illusions and stall his pushing attempts with Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines .

Phantom Lancer

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight Breathe Fire Breathe Fire and Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form's splash damage takes out Phantom Lancer's illusions quickly.
* If Dragon Knight can Dragon Knight Dragon Tail Dragon Tail the real Phantom Lancer, he and his team can quickly kill him before he has a chance to escape.

Drow Ranger

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 13%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* In general, heroes that can slow down Dragon Knight's movement speed will do well against him. This includes Venomancer, Drow Ranger and others in addition to the heroes mentioned above.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker Laser Laser applies a blind debuff, making Drow Ranger miss her high damage attacks.
* Tinker Heat-Seeking Missile Heat-Seeking Missile lets Tinker out-range Drow Ranger and hit her in the backline of a teamfight.

Necrophos

[wiki] rating: -0.2 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Necrophos Heartstopper Aura Heartstopper Aura and Necrophos Reaper Reaper's Scythe go right through Dragon Knight's armor.

Countered by:

Tinker

Dragon Knight

* Enemies that possess high defenses through magic resistance, damage reduction, or high regeneration will make it difficult to whittle their health down to get to Reaper's Scythe's threshold. Such heroes include Bristleback (although only from behind), Spectre Spectre, Ursa Ursa, and Dragon Knight.

Gyrocopter

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Heroes that relies on armor or other type of physical damage negation are easy for Gyrocopter to take down during the early game with his magical damage: Axe Axe, Dragon Knight, Sven Sven.

Countered by:

Tinker

Silencer

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* As Tinker relies heavily on his spells to be effective, Silencer Last Word Last Word and Silencer Global Silence Global Silence will render him largely useless.
* Silencer Arcane Curse Arcane Curse effectively prevents Tinker from casting spells during its duration, as he will otherwise suffer heavy damage.
* Silencer Glaives of Wisdom Glaives of Wisdom deal pure damage, which make quick work of fragile heroes like Tinker.
Additional:
* Silencer can stop Tinker Rearm Rearm, preventing Tinker from spamming his abilities/items or escaping.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* If Silencer can't prevent Dragon Knight from using Dragon Knight Elder Dragon Form Elder Dragon Form, Silencer's spells aren't going to be that effective against him, as Dragon Knight relies on right-clicks and not spells.
* Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood's armor bonus and health regeneration allows Dragon Knight to stay in the lane against Glaives of Wisdom.
* Dragon Knight often builds Black King Bar, allowing him to remove Global Silence before engaging.

Naga Siren

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Cleave heroes will clear her illusions. Such heroes include Sven Sven, Magnus Magnus, Dragon Knight in Elder Dragon Form, Ember Spirit (via item), Phantom Assassin (via talent or item), etc.

Nyx Assassin

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* His whole skillset acts like a counter to Tinker:
* Nyx Assassin Impale Impale prevents Tinker from blinding Nyx Assassin or fighting back, while giving Nyx' allies time to catch up to Tinker's position.
* Nyx Assassin Mana Burn Mana Burn generally deals more damage to intelligence based heroes like Tinker
* Nyx Assassin Spiked Carapace Spiked Carapace can stun Tinker at a moment of Nyx Assassin's choosing if March of the Machines has been cast. It is also quite easy to time Spiked Carapace against Heat Seeking Missiles.
* Nyx Assassin Vendetta Vendetta allows Nyx to approach Tinker in the trees or wait for him in common hiding spots and deal heavy damage to his low armor.
Additional:
* Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines and Tinker Heat-Seeking Missile Heat-Seeking Missile allow easy Spiked Carapace stuns.
* As a fragile hero that relies on mana and intelligence items, Tinker is vulnerable to Mana Burn.
* Nyx Assassin's stuns can interrupt Tinker Rearm Rearm and leave Tinker helpless.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight's heavy armor negates Nyx Assassin Vendetta Vendetta's burst physical damage. His large HP pool also gives him a good chance of surviving Nyx Assassin's follow-up nuke damage.

Invoker

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 21%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Heroes that can gain vision over trees to catch Tinker: Invoker Invoker, Shadow Demon, Batrider

Additional:
* Tinker is relatively helpless against Invoker, as his Tinker Rearm Rearm and Boots of Travel can be easily interrupted by Invoker's long range disables, even if he blinks away.

Countered by:

Tinker

Legion Commander

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 14%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Legion Commander Press the Attack Press the Attack can dispel Laser's blind while providing great attack speed and health regeneration.
* Once caught in a Legion Commander Duel Duel, Tinker, who completely relies on his spells to be effective, has little chances of survival with his low health pool and armor.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Dragon Knight's high natural sustain and health regeneration from Dragon Knight Dragon Blood Dragon Blood makes him hard to take down in Duels.

Luna

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Luna can easily prevent Tinker from escaping with Boots of Travel or Rearm with Luna Lucent Beam Lucent Beam.
* Luna can also quickly tear Tinker to shreds with Luna Eclipse Eclipse as soon as he jumps in with Blink Dagger.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Tinker's Tinker March of the Machines March of the Machines and Tinker Laser Laser both destroy Luna's small health pool and make it hard for Luna to initiate with Eclipse (and making it hard to land glaives in Laser's case).
* Since Tinker typically buys Blink Dagger, Luna has a hard time catching him despite her high movement speed.
* Tinker can easily disable and nuke Luna down with Dagon Dagon or Scythe of Vyse before she can use Lucent Beam or Eclipse.

Spirit Breaker

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 6%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Tinker relies on his high mobility from Boots of Travel and Blink Dagger to survive. Those items don't help him if Spirit Breaker manages to cast Charge of Darkness on him.
* Spirit Breaker can easily cancel Tinker Rearm Rearm and Boots of Travel.

Countered by:

Dragon Knight

* Spirit Breaker's slow attack speed and moderate damage do very little to harm Dragon Knight, even if ganked with Spirit Breaker Charge of Darkness Charge of Darkness.

Huskar

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Dragon Knight

* Huskar Huskar can burn down Dragon Knight's health quickly during the early to mid game, but is not as effective during the late game. However, Huskar Life Break Life Break remains a constant threat due to the slow and percentage-based damage.

Additional:
* Huskar can negate Dragon Knight's passive with multiple trades of Burning Spear.

Countered by:

Tinker

* Heroes who rely on physical damage will suffer from Laser: Phantom Assassin, Wraith King, Huskar Huskar.