item builds and where to mine?

items can vary on the game but idealy: BoT, Gunisoo, Skadi, Linkens, Euls, Force Staff, Heart, Shivas are all good items on techies

for minning, mine common walk ways in forrest or the river, such as the rune spot area.
for your ult, mine near your towers so when they are being pushed by the enemy u detonate the mines and u should get a few kills or deal some nice damage depending on how many mines you have placed.

Item build seems fine, and mining could work like this ...


But i like to do massive mana regen and mana items, and mine their jungle -- if they got some heroes that need massive farm -- mby roshan if they got ursa/lycan/troll
Remotes can be used @towers for anti-push/hero kills or @secretshop for herokills or just 4 farming up

Arcane ring >> Guinsoo >> Shiva >> Skadi

Arcane ring for mass farming obviously.
Mine ramps at rivers/ mine @ secret shot and the shops on the side of top and bottom lanes.

Stasis traps where people can possibly come to gank you.

Arcane > BoT > Euls > Guinsoo's is best strat for technies imo, 2 disables plus with those items you wont run out of mana ever, Shiva and Skadi are decent on techies but they aren't so much necessary, but if you have that much gold, then sure. And to you who said heart... uh wtf? No don't get heart, techies isn't a tank.

Early Game: mine up rosh/rune spawns asap. If you get enough mines in rosh you can get some pretty sick multi kills. I've gotten an ultra kill when 4 of their heros were about to do rosh. Also place statis traps at the points where ther river merges with land, these are the best gank spots so the stun will be usefull.

Later on start planting statis traps behind your team in the lanes when they push, also if you push up far enough mine up their secret shop.

This post was edited by yakitat3 on Jul 24 2009 01:27am

My advice, don't mine random areas. It's a feeding strategy that'll have you under level and under farmed all game. Only when fighting complete noobs will mining that way do much ...as wards will ruin your surprise set ups every time.

Use your ulti as free wards, and go to their jungle with tangos and clear a tree near neutral spawn points and place mines there. Techies real strategy is getting some nice mines down before combat, and using mines as free wards. In combat, stasis is your key skill, imba 5 second stun=sexy, works incredibly well with decent initiators and or kunkka.

For items, I'd suggest going for cheap and easy to complete items. Phase/Bracers/Nulls and throw in a void stone. That would essentially be your core items. If the fates are merciful, you might one day end up with guinsoo, although I'd be tempted to pick up an easier to build, team friendly, item, like necrobook/Mek/Force staff (force staff sounds like fun). I'd almost be tempted to pick up blademail, as techies is usually a free and quick kill; people will be after you, and it makes for interesting, run in with pipe buff, absorb a bunch of AoE with blademail on, and then suicide, tactics. If you are somehow able to farm well early, blink dagger might not be bad at all.

Techies have some interesting strategies, including denying the enemy neutrals. He can also neutral fairly well. His traps can make enemies weary of chasing and pushing.

Techies will never be an amazing farmer, and you shouldn't be stealing your carries farm anyways...but his mines do allow him for decent burst farming, making him a good candidate for midgame support items.

Techies work quite well with heroes like mirana and tree, as they both have long stuns and can both make him invisible, which is nice for placing stasis in battle and getting them to actually trigger. Also, other special mentions include VS and pudge, for obvious reasons, Enigma and alchemist, for the very long stuns.

get all disable items but start with rob and 2 voids

hes simple to play make a few safe spots lane push bait them to your mines and laugh your ass off

aghanims. 900 range BIG dmg nuck with 10s cd yes plic.

bot,shivas,aghanim

Suicide against everything.