DotA2 - Original Thread

Thanks again for the invite. It's exciting and an hour flies by when I play. I'm dying way too much though. I actually died 20 times in a bot match (though I'm a little better than that now). Do you have tips for what to do while running away?

Welcome to dota, allow me to be your guide.

A big part of DotA, or rather the biggest part is to know your boundaries. This is something even the best of the best have problems finding.
If you know your boundaries and the boundaries of your enemies, the game automatically becomes around 10 times easier.
This comes primarily from experience, you need to know the range of things, how dangerous a hero is at a certain level and so on.

And generally, just playing teaches you this. The best way to learn how to play DotA is to simply play, theorycrafting and reading guides only gets you so far. As you feel more and more secure you can up the difficulty of the bots, as they are not bad as far as laning(the phase of the game where people stick to their lanes to kill creeps) goes and when ganking(Leaving your lane to go kill someone specific). So they will probably teach you some bad habits, which you will slowly lose once you play against other people, but they will also teach you a lot about not overstepping your boundaries since they do what is often referred to as 5-man-doto(Running around as 5 going for kills over farm(killing neutrals)) and this means they will punish and kill you quite often.

Dying a lot in DotA is to be expected if you are new to it, and i am not sure how much experience you have in the game so far, if you let me know i'll explain in the amount of detail i think will be needed.

But as far as escaping goes, you should first of all: ALWAYS CARRY A TELEPORTATION SCROLL.
This is the single most cost-effecient and important item in DotA. It allows you to move fast and to where you need to, but for now you should focus on the basics.
When escaping you can also utilize fog of war and items such as Blink dagger, Shadow blade and force staff.
And then you have certain heroes with built in escape mechanisms, if you do not have access to an item that lets you escape and your hero has no escape mechanisms, then the best tool you have is map awareness, placing wards give you immense vision on the map and allow you to quite safely prevent ganks.

This might give you some good information:

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And you should not be scared away by the aggressive attitude of the DotA community, no matter how good you are, no matter how well you played people will whine and peach. So if they do, you can just mute them and play your game, don't ever let anyone tell you that you are a bad player, because they are in a game with you so their matchmaking is equal to yours or around it, thus they are at the same skill level. And everybody has bad games, EVERYBODY.

I will gladly elaborate and answer any and all questions anybody has about DotA.


And here comes the most important and best advice i will ever be able to give anyone about DotA:

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And this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmess..._id=365959
Has a ton of good tips/tricks/links.


And this explains almost all you need to know regarding towers:

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