Worst heroes in the 7.31

From a hero who was a pain in the ass for all community, techies turned to just a regular heroes. Now he joins the fight, can stay in line because of 47 base damage and doesn't break the line by mines. Today techies has a great combination of skills, but the hero has not enough damage yet and needs up. Aghanim is pretty weak as well. Waiting for guides from Travoman on how to play this hero now.

Favorite community hero was nerfed as well. The passive no longer grants magic resistance. Now it’s active and gives a magic shield which blocks 20 damage while used. FLESH HEAP still gave strength after enemy death, but it was reduced one and a half times less than before.  A few more minor nerfs like reduced base armor, increased cd with a shard led to a minus 6% win rate per week.

Just like in the case of Pudge, the hero’s passive was nerfed, now it has 7 charges and the passive stacks only when the enemy is hit by a spell, which means that Lina has become less effective in farming, which will reduce the hero net worth and his usefulness in fights. To get 7 stacks, you need to hit dragon slave on 5 heroes, and LIGHT STRIKE on 2, which is almost impossible. Lina was probably the worst hero in the patch, and a 43% win rate on dotabuff only confirms this. Probably the Valve developers did not like the rampage from Somnus too much.

The main imba of the last patch has finally been nerfed. The hero's rearm time was increased, which is critical for a Tinker. Also laser damage was decreased. Bloodstone and ETHEREAL BLADE were also nerfed, both artifacts were very strong for this hero. The rearm CD talent was moved to lvl 20 instead of lvl 15, the status resistance from the matrix was also reduced. Tinker is now dangerous only in the late game, and you still need to live to see him.

Zeus and another passive nerf. The old passive will be given with a shard, so the hero has to spend money to buy it, which will slow down the hero's pace. Also, the Arcane Blink, Refresher Orb and Bloodstone nerf, had a strong impact on the hero. Meta heroes are now mostly fat and with a bunch of heals and summons, so Zeus will have some difficulties breaking through them with a new passive.

The main nerf of the hero was the remake of the ETHEREAL BLADE, and coupled with previous nerfs, the hero began to look a little weaker than the others carry in this patch.

This is not the whole list of heroes that was nerfed by valve, we just wrote about the main ones. For the rest of the nerfed heroes, Valve weakened their talents or slightly decreased their based attributes, talks about win rate, it did not change at all.