Comprehensive Mina Guide: Mastering Mobility and Burst Damage

So, I usually make very scripted, well thought out, concise, high production quality guides, and I want to

do that for Mina, but I'm going to be honest, it's like fourth on my list, so it's going to be a couple months before

that happens. So, I'm going to make a quick and easy Mina guide here. It's going to be a little more scuffed. I

might yap a little bit too much. Um, the visuals won't be as good cuz I'm just running around in the sandbox live

streaming. But uh hopefully it's enough. They start by picking Mina. And um she's really pretty and um I really like her

lore. You should read it sometime. I think she's really popular. She's just really hard. People see her design and

they want to play her, but they don't really like when you see harasser, nimble, and vexing, you don't really

know what she does, right? Like you shoot her gun. Mina is a very um high mobility in and out big burst damage

kind of character like like >> like that. But she's not a character that can stay in for a long time. Like

you have to be very high mobility in and out. like your movement. I would say you're definitely good movement matters

a lot more on a hero like this than someone who's just shooting their gun like in furnace or raids for example. Um

because you just can't get her value without being able to escape or get in and out quickly and easily. She's one of

if not the squishiest hero in the game. She's very strong in lane and in like the mid game, but as it gets later and

later, if you're not super far ahead in money, or even if you are, you kind of fall off. Like other heroes will be much

stronger as the game goes on at the very late game. Your job in the middle of the game is not to just sit behind the squad

and farm or sit in a lane. It's to roam around and search for kills. like I was my laning phase was over I would be in

their jungle here killing all their farm right and if anyone came to me then I would escape I would run away um or I

might which is why movement is so important because if you don't have movement then you'll be in their farm

and they come to you and you just die which is not good you don't want to die dying is bad

so you shoot people and this circle appears above their head shooting them more they'll fills up the circle.

And if it fills up, it does a bite, which makes that sound and turns the circle into this. That symbol means your

circle is on cool down and you can't bite them again for a while, which means shooting them with your gun does almost

no damage. You don't really have a way of doing damage unless you can make the circle bite cuz the bite is all your

damage, right? And then you have your one, which is a break. The size is um as shown this triangle.

>> So we can hit him like this. If >> you notice the one also applies stacks.

So you could technically get someone to like three quarters and then one and it activates the bite and does the damage

of your one. Now two quirks about the one is the more HP is missing the more damage it does. So you see on hero hit

3% missing HP as damage. Um that is very strong and it means that most of the time um you want to use your one after

the bite because that'll lower their HP to make your one do more damage. But I would say especially when laning and in

the early game, it's totally okay to use your one >> scream just for the extra like border of

this bar. So, like if I was laning against someone, for example, they're going to know, oh, if I stay in Nina's

line of sight for too long, he's going to shoot me and proc the love bite. So, once you get more and more once you get

higher and higher, people are not going to just full peek you. So, you can start using your one to just get that bite and

then leave. But the very important thing about her is when you do the bite, you want to leave. Like, you no longer want

to be engaged. It's all about thin, bite, one, lean. >> This is your This is your your style.

And the two is what helps you do that. So, it makes you completely invulnerable. Like, you literally don't

exist when you're in this batform. Nothing can hit you. You can't take damage. Anything that's attached to you,

like a Bbop bomb, will explode while you're in the bats and not hurt you, which is very nice. So, she's very good

ling against Bbop. Um, keep in mind you can press it twice in one cool down and you can change the direction that it

goes in. >> Also, you can go vertical or any it's omniirectional. It goes wherever you're

pointing. So, the best way to use this in my opinion is to use it vertically if you're escaping because people have a

hard time climbing. Like not everyone's movement is amazing and they might have a really

hard time chasing you on top of a building. So like where someone might have to do wall jump, mantle, double

jump, wall chungus, freaking all that to get up here and use two stamina, you can just

and you're gone. Not only did you get up there faster, but you didn't have to use any stamina. So the extra stamina you

have up here helps you escape. That's one of the best ways to leave as her. Also, her ultimate is um

>> it applies stacks. As you can see, it just did the bite and it silences them. So um yeah, one interesting thing about

it is as you get more love bites throughout the game, it increases the amount of bats that are released so your

last longer. though you infinitely scale the duration of your ult as you shoot more people throughout the game. Um

worth noting this only starts happening once you have ult unlocked. So you can't do it in lane before your ult is

unlocked. The love fights don't matter then. So yeah, I would say best way to use the ult is you can go like this this

this to finish a kill. Or if you're helping a teammate escape, you can do this

>> and hit their entire other team and silence everyone. There's like a lot of um reasons you'd want to silence

someone. That's her abilities. Um there's some interesting things. Uh there's a few ways to build her. Maxing

three first can be good because it removes their stamina and slows them. So if you hit your love but on someone,

they're kind of just dead. They can't really escape. Um, but you'll see a lot of builds max two first because this

ability is just broken and having it on a shorter cool down means you are much more easily able to escape. Also,

something to keep in mind, you can do two and there's a delay between each one. So, you can two double

jump, two dash, or like two dash to can't dash again. But, um, yeah. Uh the only thing I haven't

seen is anyone maxing one first if >> I'm not worried about my health. >> I don't know. I feel like it's not that

good, but it could be good. Who knows? I think uh the builds that I would recommend right now. I mean, this is

obviously going to change cuz the game gets updated so much, but Ido, Zurgy, and Cosmetical all have good builds.

When you're in lane, you're very strong. You should not be afraid to engage people because if you trade abilities,

more likely than not, you will do more damage to them than they've done to you. So, for example, if I procite on someone

and hit my one and then run away, the amount of time that it took me to do that means I probably did way more

damage to them than they did to me. It's just important that you get away after you do it. That's the most important

part. You just enter, proc your love bite any way you can. I'd say in laning phase if if they're not peing long

enough to do it with just bullets, you shouldn't be afraid to use your one to just get the love bite process

>> or even or even this and then shoot them. Very nice. Another thing is her her one heals her. Um you see here it's

30 heal per kill. So, not only do you get the lane uh healing, but um as you buy items, you can eventually one-shot

all three of these guys, but at the very beginning of the game, you have to shoot them a couple times. So, like one, two,

one, two, one, two, >> and that would heal me for 90. Um, and this heal also increases as you put more

points into it. So, one plus 20 heal per kill, now it heals you for 150. And it also scales with spirit. So, as you buy

the first few items in your lane now, it heals me for 71 per kill. And if I upgrade it by two more points, it heals

me for 119 per kill. And look, I have 600 HP. So, if I come up here and I just one-shot these guys, it heals me for

half my health, which is insane. One of the reasons she's a very strong laner is because

you're doing this trade where you do a [ __ ] ton of damage to them and then you back up and you just have a lunch break

and heal all the damage that they did to you. Um, you can even do it like midfight or while you're running away.

Um, it's very strong. Also, her two means that if they stick something to you, like a viper poison or bbop bomb,

you can get all this free damage and then just immortality, whatever they've done to you and not take any damage,

which is really cool. Also, I forgot to mention her right click has a glide. That's very nice. But you're a bully.

Um, as as you bully people, you should take advantage of this bullying. Steal all of the boxes in the lane. Um, take

the mid buff that spawns at 5 and 10 minutes. steal the boxes on their side. Even take this jungle camp, which I

would do like this. When you farm camps, you should think of the most efficient way to use your one

to do so. Um, for example, the camp up top here, they have quite a bit of health. So, if I used my one, it's like

this. Well, it does a lot of damage because I've already I've already bought a lot

of items. But here's typically you would apply the love bite first to them and then like this. Then you beat them all

in one go cuz it heals you if you finish with your one. See that just healed me for 340. So this this you do it

perfectly. You can do it in one clip. Maybe I'll even cold front and then I messed it up. But you get the idea. You

should do this for every camp. If you won lane, what you should immediately do, and even while you're winning it,

you just bully them and take their money. You don't do that much damage to objectives. So, there's not much point

in shooting it, unless your lane mate is like someone that does do a lot of damage to it. Instead of when I push my

wave up here and they're low, if I feel like I can't kill them, instead of just sitting here and trying to to deny

souls, I'm going to steal their money. I'm gonna go over here and take their boxes. I'm gonna go up here, take their

boxes. Eventually, at 8 minutes, the center sacrifices will spawn. I'm going to steal their center sacrifices. Um, at

6 minutes, the tier 2 camps spawn. I'm going to steal their tier 2 camps. I'm just going to do whatever I can to

make them get less money. I'm going to take all their money. That's my goal. Um, and if anyone bothers me while I'm

doing this, I can burst them. I can do my combo. Maybe I can even kill them using cold front

>> away and my love. >> And then I will leave. I'm gone. Can't catch me gliding away very popin

style. Yeah, that's your objective. You should also when you're in lane, you want to uh gank a lot. This hero is very

good for ganking. What I would say as a condition for a gank is if the people in the lane close to me or even in the lane

opposite, if they were in green lane, I would take the teleporter inside of the secret shop

>> headed to York, >> which takes you from here to here instantly. Um, if they're pushed all the

way up on the tower, that means when you pull up, hold on. Look, this is a roll out to get from yellow to blue very

quickly. If you pull up, um, they can't easily run away, right?

They're committed to the fight. So, say I pull up and they're fighting right here. Bang, bang, bang. Burst damage.

Oh, team runs at them. They're probably dead, right? But if I came to gank and they're just sitting behind the tower,

they're they're just gone. You can't kill them. So, keep that in mind. You want to go at an opportune time. Um,

this is how you get back. And then you want to return quickly. Um, very nice. Very nice. Very gank. Um, one

thing to note if you don't know about 4.8k gun spikes, hover over here. Once you hit 4,800 spent in a single

category, you get a massive power spike. You can see here at 3.2k, I get 19 spirit. At 4.8, I get 38. So, in this

build, as soon as I buy quicks over reload, I become vastly more powerful and I should look to fight, especially

if I've gotten that boost before my lane opponents have, I really want to beat them up. It It matters for vitality and

gun as well. Once you're on Mina and you've hitten your 4.8 gun spike, rather than just trying to get your love bite,

which like before I was telling you, oh, it's okay to just use your one to get the love bite. Okay, now you want to mag

dump them and use your one as late as possible. You can see when I have nothing even maybe I have level two or

whatever. Um, if I shoot if I do the love bite afterwards, I'm not really doing that much more damage. Like it's

kind of pointless for me to be shooting them. Um, cuz it's not that much more damage,

right? So if I save my one, I don't really get all that much extra. Once you hit your 4.8k Ak gun spike, you kind of

start hitting like a truck even after the uh love bite has propped. So, because

your one does more damage based on missing HP, you should stay close to them and shoot as many bullets as you

can and also use your cold front and use your one as late as possible when they're right about to escape your

range. So, look, for example, if I just proc and one, I'll do 774 damage, right? Or 980 in total. I full not dumped them

and then I won. Look, I did 400 more damage and I missed a bullet. So, you want to

be like boring and then you can even wait for the toxic bullets to proc more and then eat them. You can really minax

this. And if you do this with cold front, too. Um, >> I want to play. It just does so much

more. And then you can even them. And this is enough to like kill anyone. 2,200 damage when you only have 14,000

souls is so much. Like I have I mean it's squishy, but I have,00 HP, which is crazy to think about. That's even with

the vitality spike. Uh people are going to counter you with like stuns and things. If you're getting

stunned a lot, you buy dispel magic. >> This instantly removes all stuns and debuffs that are affecting you. Um, so

for example, another common way to counter me up is to buy the item slowing hex because casting this on a teammate

or on someone makes it so you can't use your two anymore. So if someone casted this on me, I would not be able to use

my two for 4 seconds while three and a half, which is enough time to just die. You don't want that. Using dispel magic

instantly removes the debuff that sewing hex applies. So if someone's selling hexes me, I just dispel magic and then I

two. You can also eventually get counter spell if you want to be even more unkillable. This lets you parry anything

in the game. Like any stun that might hit you, you can just parry it, but you should only grab one. The other stuff in

this is like I mean it's kind of built the same way and everything. The one interesting thing is a lot of builds

have spirit shredder bullets. This is important because it reduces the spirit resist of the target you're shooting at.

So most builds would buy this instead of missing shot. Um and you can see how much more damage this does. It's like

because they have less spirit resist now when I shoot them with all the bullets and I proc it. It's like a lot of

damage. 1300 spirit rend landing headshots reduces it even further. This can make

you disgusting. Like if I put all 12 bullets in their head. >> I want your blood.

>> Yeah, Mina does a lot of damage. Towards the late game, they're going to have a lot of stuff to just like throw at you.

It's It's just all about using your movement and things to get in and out and never die. Just limit test

permanently. You can get away with so much more than you might think. Um once you really start using her too properly

in her glide and movement. Okay, I will open up the class to questions. Does anyone have questions? Chat room. Did

you save your questions? Who do you I ship Mina with Paige Chud can play this character of? Of of course

anyone can play Mina, but um it requires more practice than other characters. Sliding after a jump worth more than

just sliding and B hopping. Yes. Um although you can do both. Once you feel like you're getting slow, then you can

go to the side. Difference in builds from ido and carries. Who's carry? Oh h it's pretty much the same. I'd say

I I feel like most Mina builds are are the same. Um, this one just gives you a lot more choices and idols I think is a

lot more it's more for him. He's a god, right? So like he needs less to survive. This one is for like

most I'd say this is more accessible although less accessible because there are so many options. There's so many

options me. Um, but like spirit shielding makes you a bit tankier against spirit heroes.

Reactive barrier if you get stunned gives you a huge shield. You can see it scales based on spirit power. So a 400

HP barrier is one/ird of my health bar which is crazy. And then spiritual overflow also makes it so your left

clicking just like autos do more. And kinetic dash this isn't if you buy this you really need to think about it.

>> Um dash jumping gives you an increased rate of fire. So what what you want to do with this item is dash jump and then

start applying your >> debuffs. It also increases your amount of bullets. It's a good item. You can

see how to counter itemize. As Mina, you just buy something hex's and curses and anything that makes her not be able to

move anymore. Um, if you're getting hit by that as Mina, you need to buy dispel magic or counter spell. Once

people start building spirit resilience and other spirit items, my damage drops off like a brick, meaning I only do up

to 40% with a full burst. Yeah, that means you need more shred. Spirit rend and maybe even crippling headshot could

be good. Um, it just means you need to shoot them more to apply the shred before uh using your one. I really like

the zurgy build. This is my favorite one to use. Cosmetical is good, too. Although this carries looks good, I

think. I I think there's just so many options that you'll end up being sub-optimal cuz like unless you're

really nerdy about items. I prefer not to think the person you lane with is too aggressive for you to rotate or steal

jungle without them dying. You could be like, "Yo, the way I do it is like, yo, I'm going blue for a gank, which or I'll

ping it." It it lets my team know that it lets blue lane one, it lets blue lane know that I'm going there or whatever

lane I'm going to so they can set up to help me when I get there. And it also tells my lane teammate to

not run it down. Um if they're running it down, that's unfortunate.

You could be like, "Yo, when I leave, do you mind playing a little bit more passive?"

>> Um other than asking them, there's not really much you can do but hope that they do the right thing.

But I don't think the answer is to just stay in lane and lane with them. Although, I don't know, give it a try.

If you're really strong, you can definitely like make it easier for them. Um, what I'll do as well is like because

I'm roaming, it doesn't mean I can't come back, right? Like if my teammate's like alone in the lane, usually that

means they're going to push into you. So, I'll just come back and we'll kill them. Focus lens. Um, I've never bought

focus lens on her. It might be good. I'd say like item stuff is not as important to mention because that's just things

you you figure out with time. Experiment it with yourself. You know, read up on it, read what it does and think like,

hm, is this good for me? If itemization is something that interests you, then it's definitely important to know what

they do and and experiment for yourself. Maybe even make your own build. To me, I don't care too much about it. Um, I

would say like if on a on a a level of skills, I would say like my movement is very high. My itemization is probably

the worst of everything. Um, and I'm still almost the highest rank in the game. So, it doesn't matter if you don't

want it to matter, but it can matter if you do. If your team is getting stomped, but you're winning lane, you you roam

you go to other lanes and and beat them up. Cuz your team getting stomped means they're pushed really far ahead, right?

So, they shouldn't be able to escape when you pull up. Rem is just really annoying in lane. Yeah, his heal is a

lot. Sometimes you have a lane where they just they're too tanky for you to. But pretty much the answer to all these

laning things is going to be like you got to go somewhere else. You shouldn't feel incredibly committed to your lane.

If you're laning against like Rem and Victor, they heal a million. Your trades don't actually do anything because

they're just going to heal all the damage that you've done. So, if I'm ling against Rev and Victor, every time I

push the wave, I'm just going to be looking to gank. Like, I don't have to stay here. There's there's no obligation

to um actually me leaving, depending on who my teammate is, can be good because they're getting more money. Um I'll just

go to where I I'll just go to where the money is. Um the tower doesn't actually matter that

much. All it really is is a shop. U when Deathy was coaching me, he was saying to think of the tower as the same value as

a sinner sacrifice. And I I agree with that. It's definitely improved my game a lot now that I value them less. Oh, that

is one thing. Mina does not do a lot of objective damage, but like your value comes from killing them and setting your

team up to destroy the objectives. I mean, killing the other team rather, and from stealing the other team's money so

that uh your team has a better chance of fighting. The the dream on Mina is to be more fed than the other team and just be

like freaky in their jungle taking everything. Um, and if anyone pulls up, you just kill them. She's also an

incredibly fast jungler because of her one. The first movement tech I'd recommend anyone to learn, no matter the

hero, is uh the zipline dash and to learn where all the vents are. This makes your rotation so much faster.

Like what I said about ganking, it matters a lot if you know how to get quickly, how to quickly get from one

lane to the other. Like if I was laning blue, I didn't want to go green. Um,

I would come over here. >> The shopkeeper is a little much for me, but are good.

>> I would slide and then wall jump off this and then dash and I'm green now. And if I wanted to leave green, then I

know a route to do that as well. I go back to the zipline. I zipline dash. Go to the vent.

Oh, and I should explain how to do this at Blind Tech, actually. Um, I'll explain it more in depth in a

YouTube short later. I plan on making that, but you crouch and then you dash. That's the essence of it. You can double

jump to keep your speed. Uh, if you're if you're a real pro, you want to do it on hard mode. You should dash uh

diagonally, so forward and right or forward and left, cuz that gives you a little bit more speed. But doing it with

just Ford is perfectly acceptable. You don't actually lose that much. Ability upgrades. Just depends on the build.

There's um there's so many ways to player. You should try everything. I'd say try out a bunch of different

builds on the top daily and see which ones you like and make sure you're informed on what the three of each

ability does. I'd say when you go to the shop, um you should buy something that gets

rid of the most money. Like if I came up here and I had like 2500, I would buy something that cost 2,400 rather than

something that costs like 16. Just whatever gets rid of the most money. But you also don't want to go too far out of

order for your build. It's like a balance. You you'll figure it out. There's so many things that are like

very difficult to answer that I'll I'll say like you'll just figure it out with time cuz that's really the only way. I

can't explain every situation. There's too many and I don't even know the answer to all of them myself. Two or 300

each. Um, one interesting thing about maxing two is it it allows you to be so much more aggressive than you usually

could be. >> It's on a 32 second cool down and if you buy compressed cool down and put on two,

>> it becomes 26. >> If you max it, it's a >> 14-second cool down. That means you can

literally use it twice in a sing in the same fight often times >> and it just lets you get away with

things that are much more uh risky there. I I wouldn't even say there's like a correct ability to max out first.

Just different play styles for each one and worth trying all of them. It even varies

from game to game like which one you should do. Although I'm not sweaty enough to change my ability order per

game. I just follow one guide and I never change anything. Don't be like me. But I am You can't get

very far being being like that. So that's Mina. Mina, rise and take what you deserve. I will close

questions now. Video over.