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Zeus

[wiki] rating: 2.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Zeus' abilities deal high amounts of burst magical damage, which ignores Naga Siren's high armor.
* Zeus' Zeus Arc Lightning Arc Lightning is also a good way to destroy Naga Siren's illusions.

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.

Pugna

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 4%)

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.

Naga Siren

* Since Life drain takes out illusions instantly, Pugna with a scepter is decent versus plenty of illusion heroes, most notably Naga Siren and Terrorblade and the aforementioned Chaos Knight. Phantom Lancer is an exception.

Clockwerk

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 7%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes with long cast animations can be continuously interrupted by Battery Assault: Centaur Warrunner, Jakiro Jakiro, Leshrac Leshrac, Naga Siren, Underlord.

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).

Spirit Breaker

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 8%)

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.

Naga Siren

* Heroes with long-lasting, undispellable debuffs will pinpoint the true Naga Siren: Spirit Breaker, Bloodseeker.

Batrider

[wiki] rating: 1.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Many stacks of Sticky Napalm, combined with Flamebreak and Firefly, allows Batrider to destroy illusions from Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image.
* If Batrider can manage to destroy all illusions from Naga Siren, he will be able to use Flaming Lasso on the real one, and will be able to drag her toward his team, potentially preventing Naga Siren from escaping with Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren.
Additional:
* Many stacks of Sticky Napalm, combined with Flamebreak and Firefly, allows Batrider to destroy illusions from Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image.
* If Batrider can manage to destroy all illusions from Naga Siren, he will be able to use Flaming Lasso on real one, and will be able to drag her toward his team, potentially preventing Naga Siren to escape with Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren.

Tinker

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

Meepo

[wiki] rating: 1.2 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* A good Meepo Meepo can mess up Naga Siren entirely: His Meepo Earthbind Earthbind is AoE, which can bind her illusions, his Meepo Poof Poof is a powerful AoE nuke and will clear her illusions. He is also 2/3/4 Meepo Meepos, not one, so her Ensnare will not work efficiently while escaping from him.

Tinker

* Tinker Tinker who can't fight multiple heroes will suffer greatly against Ransack and Earthbind.

Enigma

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 55% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Her illusions are easily dealt with area damage effects.
* Naga Siren won't have much option to recover from a bad position unless she built up a few key items in mid-game.

Nyx Assassin

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 7%)

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.

Beastmaster

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

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

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

Leshrac

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* All of Leshrac's abilities, especially Leshrac Pulse Nova Pulse Nova, can easily deal with Naga Siren's illusions.

Silencer

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 5%)

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.

Earth Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

* Tinker is an easy target for Earth Spirit to initiate on. He likes to split push lanes once he acquires 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.

Slark

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 48% 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.

Axe

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Axe will destroy her illusions by proccing Axe Counter Helix Counter Helix more often due to him being hit by more attacks.

Spectre

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

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

Pudge

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 19%)

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.

Snapfire

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Snapfire Mortimer Kisses Mortimer Kisses can make quick work of Naga Siren's illusions.
* Snapfire Scatterblast Scatterblast and Snapfire Firesnap Cookie Firesnap Cookie's AoE damage are also decent ways to deal with Naga's illusions.

Vengeful Spirit

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 3%)

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.

Tiny

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

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Avalanche, Toss, and Grab Tree combo makes a short work of Naga Siren's illusions.

Doom

[wiki] rating: 1.0 (winrate: 44% pickrate: 2%)

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.

Puck

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 17%)

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.

Dark Seer

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes that rely on illusions will suffer against Ion Shell, which kills them very quickly: Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Naga Siren, Meepo Meepo.
* Heroes that rely on illusions typically spawn very strong illusions inside your Wall of Replica that you should use against them or their team.

Phantom Lancer

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 10%)

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.

Sand King

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 10%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Sand King and Phoenix Phoenix has many tools to deal with a crowd of Heroes, which will work well against a crowd of illusions.

Phoenix

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Sand King and Phoenix Phoenix has many tools to deal with a crowd of Heroes, which will work well against a crowd of illusions.

Anti-Mage

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 13%)

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.

Centaur Warrunner

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes who are reliant on illusions: Chaos Knight, Phantom Lancer, Naga Siren.

Timbersaw

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 8%)

Counters these heroes:

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.

Naga Siren

* Timbersaw's innate durability is very hard to deal with as Naga Siren as she relies on sustained damage rather than burst damage. Timbersaw's high Pure Damage and low-cooldown AoE nukes can also destroy Naga Siren's illusions very fast.

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.

Dragon Knight

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* 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.

Shadow Demon

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 2%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

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

Legion Commander

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 11%)

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.

Naga Siren

* Heroes who rely on illusions will see them destroyed easily by Overwhelming Odds: Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Terrorblade, Naga Siren

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Song of the Siren lasts long enough to prevent a successful Legion Commander Duel Duel (but only if Naga wasn't the target).

Ember Spirit

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

Keeper of the Light

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Keeper of the Light can stall pushes with {Ability ID:Illuminate|Keeper of the Light} this makes him strong against pushing heroes: Terrorblade Naga siren Nature Nature's Prophet and Anti-Mage

Kunkka

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 44% pickrate: 3%)

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

Sven

[wiki] rating: 0.6 (winrate: 43% pickrate: 1%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes who depends on illusions and summons: Naga Siren, Terrorblade, Arc Warden,Broodmother.

Outworld Destroyer

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 13%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Outworld Destroyer Sanity Sanity's Eclipse will likely instantly kill all illusions.

Countered by:

Tinker

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

Gyrocopter

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 5%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Gyrocopter Flak Cannon Flak Cannon and Gyrocopter Call Down Call Down can easily clear Naga Siren's illusions.

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.

Lion

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 17%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Both Lion Hex Hex and Lion Mana Drain Mana Drain destroy Naga Siren's illusions in an instant, making it hard to teamfight or push against a team with Lion. If Lion chooses the AoE effect talent for Hex or the multi-target Mana Drain, it can negate her pushing potential entirely.
* Lion Earth Spike Earth Spike is an AoE disable with good damage. If used well, it can help distinguish the true Naga Siren by the damage they take (illusions take more damage).

Countered by:

Tinker

Storm Spirit

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 12%)

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.

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Any hero reliant of mobility, like Storm Spirit.

Earthshaker

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image's illusions increase Echo Slam's damage.
Additional:
* Earthshaker's strong AoE abilities can clear Naga Siren's illusions, or at least make it easier to distinguish the real one by the damage they take.
* Earthshaker Echo Slam Echo Slam deals more damage against more enemies, which can be devestating against Naga Siren and her illusions.

Countered by:

Tinker

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

Lifestealer

[wiki] rating: 0.4 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 5%)

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:

Naga Siren

* Heroes with illusions: Chaos Knight, Naga Siren, Phantom Lancer

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Nature's Prophet

[wiki] rating: -2.0 (winrate: 44% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren is a natural split-pusher. With a Radiance equipped, she will easily out-push Nature's Prophet, farming his treants in the process.
* Ensnare prevents Teleportation. Even if he hid inside Sprout, Song of the Siren lasts long enough to prevent him from escaping.
Additional:
* Naga Siren is a natural split-pusher. With Rip Tide, she will easily out-push Nature's Prophet, farming his treants in the process.
* Ensnare prevents Nature Teleportation. Even if he hides inside Nature Sprout, Song of the Siren lasts long enough to prevent him from escaping.

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.

Lone Druid

[wiki] rating: -2.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Unless Lone Druid purchases a Black King Bar for his Spirit Bear, Ensnare will easily kite the Bear.
* Song of the Siren allows Naga Siren and her team to completely bypass the Spirit Bear and hunt for the Druid himself when starting a fight.
* Lone Druid's lack of innate AoE capabilities mean that Naga Siren's illusions have no problem against him.

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.

Winter Wyvern

[wiki] rating: -2.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 7%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Song of the Siren can be used to nullify the effects of Winter's Curse, and when upgraded with Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter it also outmatches the heal of Cold Embrace.
* If Winter Wyvern is reckless enough to put an ally in Cold Embrace, Naga Siren will be able to use her Ensnare to extend the disable on the hero affected by Cold Embrace.

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.

Crystal Maiden

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

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image can dispel Frostbite.
* Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren can stop Freezing Field regardless of any kind of invisibility as well as allow Naga Siren's team to quickly close the gap on Crystal Maiden.
Additional:
* Mirror Image can dispel Crystal Maiden Frostbite Frostbite.
* Ensnare and Song of the Siren can stop Crystal Maiden Freezing Field Freezing Field.
* Song of the Siren can allow her team to quickly close the gap on Crystal Maiden.

Tinker

Huskar

[wiki] rating: -1.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image can cause Huskar to Life Break the wrong target.
* Naga Siren Rip Tide Rip Tide reduces Huskar's already low armor.
* Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren allows teams to recover from Huskar's initiation, as well as the damage over time from Burning Spears.

Tinker

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

Necrophos

[wiki] rating: -1.2 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Naga Siren

* Illusions make it difficult for Necrophos to target his Reaper's Scythe correctly, thus giving illusion heroes like Chaos Knight or Naga Siren an edge against Necrophos.

Wraith King

[wiki] rating: -1.2 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 17%)

Countered by:

Tinker

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

Naga Siren

* Heroes with summons and illusions such as Broodmother and Naga Siren, are ill-suited for Wraith King to fight, as he has no source of waveclear.

Faceless Void

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 41% pickrate: 3%)

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.

Magnus

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 44% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

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.

Naga Siren

* Any hero who can counter-initiate in anticipation without getting caught in Reverse Polarity: Sven Sven, Omniknight, Enigma Enigma, Luna Luna, Naga Siren, Mars Mars, Jakiro Jakiro, Venomancer, Elder Titan, Faceless Void, Rubick Rubick, Keeper of the Light, Pugna Pugna, Invoker Invoker, Spectre Spectre, Alchemist, Treant Protector, Lina Lina, Oracle Oracle, Zeus Zeus, Shadow Shaman, Phoenix Phoenix, Razor Razor, Huskar Huskar, Batrider, Kunkka Kunkka, Tidehunter, Wraith King, Sand King.

Rubick

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 16%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Song of the Siren is very difficult for Rubick to Rubick Spell Steal Spell Steal when he is affected by sleep. However, if Rubick does successfully steal it, the Song will allow his team to initiate from unexpected angles.
* Ensnare and Rip Tide together with some attacks can take Rubick down quickly, due to his low health pool and armor.
* Naga Siren usually buys Diffusal Blade, which may prevent Rubick from using his abilities.
* Mirror Image allows Naga Siren to dodge the incoming stun from Rubick Telekinesis Telekinesis (when she is not a target), and it can also dispel Rubick Fade Bolt Fade Bolt's damage reduction debuff.

Shadow Fiend

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 18%)

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.

Viper

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren can easily disjoint, and dispel Viper Corrosive Skin Corrosive Skin with Mirror Image.
* Since Viper is a single-target hero, he will not stand a chance against Naga Siren because she is an illusion based hero.
* However, Viper Nethertoxin Nethertoxin can clear her illusions quickly if Naga Siren does not micromanage them well.

Drow Ranger

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 4%)

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.

Omniknight

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren can be used to time out Guardian Angel, giving Naga Siren's team an easy opportunity to counter-initiate.
Additional:
* Song of the Siren will waste Omniknight Guardian Angel Guardian Angel.
* Ensnare fully works on Omniknight Heavenly Grace Heavenly Graced targets. However, Ensnare is dispellable with any dispel, and so can be dispelled by Heavenly Grace.
* As an agility hero that relies on illusions, Naga Siren is one of the most natural Diffusal Blade carriers, the bane of every hero with a small mana pool.

Sniper

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

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Ensnare with her attacks allows Naga Siren to gank Sniper easily.
* Rip Tide removes Sniper's very little armor.

Abaddon

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren completely wastes Abaddon Abaddon Borrowed Time Borrowed Time while keeping him in place.
* Naga Siren is able to simply dispel Abaddon's Abaddon Curse of Avernus Curse of Avernus with Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image before getting hit 4 times consecutively.
* Although Naga Siren's illusions can be easily destroyed by Abaddon Aphotic Shield Aphotic Shield, Naga Siren can resolve that issue easily by purchasing Heart of Tarrasque to drastically increase her durability. Plus, the said item makes Naga Siren harder to be distinguished from her illusions.

Chaos Knight

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 3%)

Counters these heroes:

Tinker

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Illusion-based and multi-unit heroes can take advantage of Chaos Knight's lack of area damage: Naga Siren, Phantom Lancer, Broodmother

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.

Arc Warden

[wiki] rating: -1.0 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 4%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Song of the Siren stops Arc Warden from acting and allows Naga Siren's team to close in on him, past his Arc Warden Magnetic Field Magnetic Field.
* Mirror Image dispels Arc Warden Flux Flux. The illusions created from it also disable the slow from Flux if Arc Warden casts it after Mirror Image.
* Arc Warden's playstyle heavily favors split-pushing, which Naga Siren can compete against with her illusions.
Additional:
* Her illusions can push better than Arc Warden's Tempest Double because Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image has a longer duration.
* Mirror Image dispels Flux, and the illusions stop Flux from working.

Medusa

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 2%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Heroes that build Diffusal Blade or can fit it well into their item build will also make Medusa much less tanky: Riki Riki, Naga Siren, Terrorblade, Juggernaut, Spectre Spectre, Slark Slark,Drow Ranger.

Enchantress

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 1%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Mars

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 16%)

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.

Riki

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Tinker

Disruptor

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

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren with Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image
* Heroes that can dodge Glimpse:
* Puck Puck with Puck Phase Shift Phase Shift
* Riki Riki with Riki Tricks of the Trade Tricks of the Trade
* Phantom Lancer with Phantom Lancer Doppelganger Doppelganger
* Ember Spirit with Ember Spirit Sleight of Fist Sleight of Fist and Ember Spirit Activate Fire Remnant Activate Fire Remnant
* Chaos Knight with Chaos Knight Phantasm Phantasm
* Naga Siren with Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image
* Tusk Tusk with Tusk Snowball Snowball
* Juggernaut with Juggernaut Omnislash Omnislash
* Brewmaster with Brewmaster Primal Split Primal Split
* Lifestealer with Lifestealer Infest Infest
* Phoenix Phoenix with Phoenix Supernova Supernova

Slardar

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Illusion heroes like the aforementioned Phantom Lancer or Naga Siren, or heroes that tend to buy Manta Style, like Luna Luna or Juggernaut, will give Slardar a hard time, as his damage is single-targeted.

Monkey King

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 16%)

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

Templar Assassin

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 5%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Multiple attackers thanks to illusions: Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Naga Siren (bonus for her Naga Siren Ensnare Ensnare). Also despite the visual effects, Templar Assassin does not spill damage against illusions or buildings, so she is not a really good hero to clean up illusions.
* Heroes that can quickly deal damage to her, regardless of how weak they are, can easily break through her Refraction:
* Multiple attackers thanks to summoned units or clones: Meepo Meepo, Witch Doctor, Lycan Lycan, Enigma Enigma, Shadow Shaman
* Multiple attackers thanks to illusions: Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Naga Siren (bonus for her Naga Siren Ensnare Ensnare). Also despite the visual effects, Templar Assassin does not spill damage against illusions or buildings, so she is not a really good hero to clean up illusions.
* Weak damage but high tick rate or persist in a long time: Slark Slark, Gyrocopter, Queen of Pain, Shadow Shaman ( Shadow Shaman Shackles Shackles), Pugna Pugna

Additional:
* Ensnare disables Templar Assassin's invisibility and Blink Dagger (a core item on Templar Assassin), and her illusions will break $Templar Assassin Refraction$ Refraction easily.

Luna

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

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:

Naga Siren

* Heroes that create illusions (such as Spectre Spectre, Shadow Demon, Phantom Lancer, Naga Siren, Chaos Knight, Terrorblade) or bring other units into the fight (such as Nature Nature's Prophet, Lone Druid, Chen Chen, Enchantress and the aforementioned Meepo Meepo and Arc Warden) can cause Eclipse to strike the illusions/summons unintentionally. (However, in many cases Moon Glaives can resolve this issue and eliminate them before activating Eclipse).

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.

Chen

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 0%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Illusion and heroes with summons are difficult to kill with Chen's single-target offensive spells: Terrorblade, Phantom Lancer, Chaos Knight, Broodmother, Naga Siren, Lycan Lycan, Visage Visage. However, Chen can convert enemy summons with Holy Persuasion, as long as they don't bunch up.

Additional:
* Naga Siren can make landing Chen's combo very hard due to her being an illusion hero.
* Ensnare will prevent Chen from activating Chen Hand of God Hand of God.

Juggernaut

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 19%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Illusion-based heroes are effective against Omnislash and Juggernaut's single-targeted damage: Naga Siren, Chaos Knight, Terrorblade,Phantom Lancer.

Clinkz

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 53% pickrate: 4%)

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.

Bounty Hunter

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 10%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren with Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image
* Heroes that can remove the Track debuff with their skills:
* Abaddon Abaddon with Abaddon Aphotic Shield Aphotic Shield and Abaddon Borrowed Time Borrowed Time
* Huskar Huskar with Huskar Life Break Life Break
* Juggernaut with Juggernaut Blade Fury Blade Fury
* Legion Commander with Legion Commander Press the Attack Press the Attack
* Lifestealer with Lifestealer Rage Rage and Lifestealer Infest Infest
* Naga Siren with Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image
* Omniknight with Omniknight Heavenly Grace Heavenly Grace
* Oracle Oracle with Oracle Fortune Fortune's End and Oracle False Promise False Promise
* Phantom Lancer with Phantom Lancer Doppelganger Doppelganger
* Slark Slark with Slark Dark Pact Dark Pact
* Ursa Ursa with Ursa Enrage Enrage
* Weaver Weaver with Weaver Time Lapse Time Lapse
* Tidehunter with Tidehunter Kraken Shell Kraken Shell when damage received reaches the threshold.

Additional:
* Bounty Hunter is a single target damage dealer, so he will not fare well against Naga Siren. He may try to Bounty Hunter Track Track her, but her Mirror Image will dispel the effect. Ensnare also reveals invisible units while they're rooted, putting Bounty Hunter at a disadvantage.

Razor

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 6%)

Countered by:

Tinker

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

Lycan

[wiki] rating: -0.6 (winrate: 54% pickrate: 3%)

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Lycan Lycan is a hero focused entirely on single target physical damage and lacks disables or AoE damage. Due to this, he can't deal with illusions or Naga Siren's Ensnare.

Terrorblade

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 46% pickrate: 4%)

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 .

Bloodseeker

[wiki] rating: -0.4 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 4%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes with long-lasting, undispellable debuffs will pinpoint the true Naga Siren: Spirit Breaker, Bloodseeker.

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.

Techies

[wiki] rating: -0.2 (winrate: 48% pickrate: 8%)

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:

Naga Siren

* Heroes with summons like Broodmother, Enigma Enigma, Invoker Invoker, Nature Nature's Prophet, Lycan Lycan, Visage Visage;or illusions, like Naga Siren, Phantom Lancer, Terrorblade are effective at keeping the choke points and rune spawns safe from Proximity mines in the early game.

Tinker

Phantom Assassin

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 45% pickrate: 16%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

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.

Grimstroke

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 47% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes who are reliant on illusions or summons: Chaos Knight, Broodmother, Naga Siren.

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

Dazzle

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (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.

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image's illusions can easily walk straight at Dazzle and attack him, due to Dazzle's lack of reliable AoE nukes or disables.
* Naga Siren Ensnare Ensnare roots Dazzle or his allies, making it harder to stay in range of Dazzle's saving abilities.
* Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren can be used to initiate a fight with superior positioning, potentially zoning Dazzle's high-impact spells out of the fight.

Pangolier

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 49% pickrate: 12%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Heroes who are illusion based, or even heroes who frequently build Manta Style can be cleared quickly by Pangolier's high damage, or lose their damage ouput because of Lucky Shot: Chaos Knight, Naga Siren

Countered by:

Naga Siren

* Heroes with powerful rooting abilities will disable most of Pangolier's skill, a bonus point if it pierce spell immunity since it will also be able to stop Pangolier during his Rolling Thunder: Treant Protector, Meepo Meepo, Crystal Maiden, Dark Willow, Underlord, Naga Siren

Invoker

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 16%)

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

Jakiro

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 50% pickrate: 9%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* Jakiro's early pushing ability from Liquid Fire makes Jakiro very strong against heroes, that take a long time to get online: Morphling, Naga Siren, Spectre Spectre.

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: 0.0 (winrate: 51% pickrate: 16%)

Counters these heroes:

Naga Siren

* As long as Windranger is able to identify the real hero among the illusions, heroes relying on them can be easily tagged with Focus Fire: Chaos Knight, Terrorblade, Phantom Lancer, Naga Siren.

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.

Night Stalker

[wiki] rating: 0.0 (winrate: 52% pickrate: 5%)

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:

Naga Siren

* Mirror Image can be effective since Night Stalker cannot withstand fighting illusions. If he's unable to tell which Naga Siren is real, he will have a hard time landing his Night Stalker Void Void. However, if Night Stalker obtains an Aghanim Aghanim's Scepter, the upgraded Void will hit and may even locate the real Naga Siren in fights.
Additional:
* Naga Siren Ensnare Ensnare and Naga Siren Song of the Siren Song of the Siren prevents Night Stalker from escaping and ganking during daytime or even nighttime.
* Naga Siren Rip Tide Rip Tide reduces Night Stalker's armor, making him easier to focus down.
* Naga Siren Mirror Image Mirror Image can be effective against Night Stalker, due to his single target abilities.