DotA Guide: Tiny - The Stone Giant Introduction

 Defense of the Ancients aka DotA remains one of the most popular custom made maps for Warcraft III. To give players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide.

Tiny is a strength hero that can be recruited from the Sentinel hero that has awesome rhythms, and is very fun to play with.

Let's learn a little more about Tiny's past: "Looming from the rocky crags of Ashenra, the stone giants are born from the mountain itself. Tiny, a newly born giant, although small in size, has the strength of a hill. With his supreme strength, he is able to launch anything into the air, including huge amounts of soil to cause avalanches around his enemies.

Because of his craggy exterior, enemies have a hard time attacking him. Over time, Tiny's body will grow bigger as the magnetic forces deep inside his granite heart pull rocks and soil to his rugged stone form."

Although his name seems fitting at first, over time Tiny the Stone Giant will grow both in size and strength. His immense strength allows him to grab the closest enemy and toss them through the air towards a target unit. Combining this with Tiny's Avalanche spell gives him incredible area of effect damage:

- Avalanche (Shortkey V): Bombards an area with rocks stunning and damaging enemy land units (100/180/260/300). 2 second stun duration.

- Toss (Shortkey T): Tiny grabs the nearest unit, friend or foe, and launches them at a location. Upon landing, the unit deals damage (75/150/225/300) in an area (700/900/1100/1300 range) as well as receiving 20% of that damage to themselves (this damage increases as your size increases). Cannot toss Dragon Knight in Elder Form.

If a unit is hit by Avalanche and then Tossed, they can be hit a second time by Avalanche if they land back in its AoE before it ends. Tossed allies take 20% of the Toss damage, but are not hit by the area damage.

- Craggy Exterior (Shortkey C): Tiny's body is made of solid granite, causing great pain to those who attack it. Whenever a unit within 300 range attacks Tiny, there is a chance that they will be stunned for 1.2 seconds.

Each level add 2/3/4/5 armor and a chance 6/12/18/24 to do 23/35/45/55 stun damage. Works on melee and ranged units within 300 range of Tiny. The stun and damage occur at the beginning of the attack.

- Grow (Shortkey W): Greatly increases Tiny's power (50/100/150 damage) and size, but does so at the cost of his attack speed (20/35/50%). Improves toss damage (35/50/65%) and slightly increases move speed.

Does not increase the damage from Toss on allies. Each level increases Tiny's movement speed by 20.

Improved by Aghanim's Scepter, Tiny can target trees to pick them up as weapons, which makes his attack range longer, gives him bonus damage against buildings and 50% splash in a 400 aoe for 6 attacks. Adds an extra level of upgrade to his toss damage that his ultimate normally gives.

The Stone Giant is one of the best high damage hero you'll ever meet in DotA. This, amplified with his powerful abilities, make Tiny a deadly hero, a good inniator and good tank!

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