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why would you want to do any of that, though

it kind of makes sense to dodge people who are toxic because they're toxic and you don't want to ruin your experience, yes, but MMR is just a number

if all you're pursuing is a higher number then I think you might enjoy this

IMO this is the kind of attitude that leads to stagnation

Nicely written. A subtle point that you implied: for approximately equal creep waves dying at a similar rate, you want to try to get your creeps to die first. This is due to the ranged creep; if your creeps are consistently dying first, your opponents creeps will deal more damage to your ranged creep, allowing it to die. Don't be too hasty to make the lanes exactly equal.

An unrelated note -- although I highly recommend Chaq's mid guide, it might seem a bit daunting for newer players or players not interested in the mid role. However, it has one of the most useful (more advanced) mechanics that I've ever learned: utilizing creep aggro to your advantage. I have a post here that take's Chaq's explanation and (more explicitly) shows how it can be useful for other roles as well.

https://imageshack.us/a/img856/7192/v1xn.jpg not my comic but important points when dealing with pudge

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http://weneedwards.com/meathook/ practice hooking with pudge so you get a feel of how his hook travels, and use that to your advantage

Map awareness above all else.

This guide misses some of the most important techniques to actually get last hits (beyond not auto attacking and staying out of harass range as much as possible)

First, time your attacks with the range creeps. The ranged creeps deal so much more damage than the melee creeps that a ranged attack will almost always be the last creep hit before your target falls into last hitting range. If your attack hits a fraction of a second after the range hit, it is very difficult for the enemy to deny.

Second, use the creep aggro mechanics to get closer to low HP creeps without putting yourself in danger. https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/creep-aggro-12f7eb8ce982 This is a pretty decent guide for the basics. Basically, when you right click on an enemy hero, creeps within 500 units will switch targets to you. You can pull a single creep towards you to get easy last hits or bring half the wave to your ranged creep to draw the wave back to your tower.

I use the Windows key within Dota, here is the best way (in my opinion) which allows you to use the Windows key as normal outside of Dota, without having to purchase a fancy keyboard or muck about in the registry.

You will need to download a small program called AutoHotKey in order to execute the script which rebinds the Windows key to some other key on your keyboard (for example the asterisk/multiply key on the numeric keyboard) only when Dota is the active window.

#IfWinActive , ahk_exe dota2.exe { LWin::NumpadMult }

Just create a file and copy the above text into it, and name it something like Dota.ahk

After installing AHK you'll be able to execute that script file. An icon appears in your system tray with a "H" symbol on it which you can use close, edit or reload the script.

I've never been a support player, but I do not think that will interfere with the advice I am going to give.

Practice your last hits and bug your higher rated friends to 1v1! People think that at 5k+, mechanics are the same across the board and knowledge is how players get differentiated. In my opinion, this is complete horse shit. Mechanics are the most difficult and most important part of dota. Only once you have built the house of technique will the spirit of inspiration come. I like to lasthit with OD only, normal starting items, until level four. My preferred 1v1 setting is mirror, no rune no bottle no sanct.

I also read an extremely good book, "The War of Art", and started the practice of praying during game, and I credit these with my recent 300 mmr and counting climb. I would recommend you give the book and habit both a shot.

I was in a similar situation, I watched dota for over a year before I played, to the point where I knew the basics of every hero, ability, and major item before I played a single game.

All I can really say is, if you enjoy watching them keep watching. I always enjoy tournament games more, but streamers are also great for background noise for me. You'll slowly pick up the ideas and objectives as you go. I'd also suggest looking up at least one hero or item per game you watch. Just a quick glance at the dota wiki per game and you'll quickly have an idea of what everything does.

Finally, you can also always go back to the noob broadcasts from TI4 (I don't recall if TI5 had one). There have been quite a few changes from them, but all of the basics about heroes and strategies are pretty much still the same, and they spend a lot more time explaining stuff for the nearly-zero-knowledge viewer.

Hey mate i'm going to be doing a replay analysis of your game in about 5 mins. Youre probably not going to catch it live so you can look on my twitch channel for the highlight. It should remain there for about a week

https://www.twitch.tv/redhotmamma

Overwolf is offering many cool apps for Dota 2. DotaPlus, DotaBuff, Dota Coach, AutoPicker, Gosu.AI, etc.

Note that Overwolf is working closely with game developers and they know where the boundaries are of what is acceptable and what not.

I can tell you from my own experience, as I developed the Dota Coach app (https://www.overwolf.com/app/dota-coach.com-Dota_Coach), that no user was banned by using the app. The app basically helps you improve your game play by giving you tips during the game, which hopefully improves your game play over time and then also your MMR.

Probably it is best for you try out the different apps and then see what works best for you.

www.gargoyle-router.com/

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/doku.php?id=qos

Dota2 still lags with heavy downloading but it's a large improvement over no QoS. You'll need to buy a compatible router for Gargoyle, many of the TP-Link ones work well.

I will consider getting a stout shield more often. I normally get RoP as it builds into Aquila.

I have a problem with timing my last hits under the tower with the tower's hits. I always mess it up. Definitely something I need to work on.

I've gone back and forth on Drum vs Aquila and this is what my research gave me... http://tinypic.com/r/2z8q0k2/8 Aquila gives more damage (synergizes better with crit), more armor, and more mana regen. To me, the extra cost of drum isn't worth the small amount of extra EHP and AS/MS it gives (blink and phase active cover both of those). For just 160g more than drum, I can get Aquila and Ogre Club for more dmg and survivability. Plus the club builds into BKB. Drum gives a good bit more mana though less regen but I've never really had mana problems with PA. That's my reasoning at least. There's probably more to this that I'm not seeing being the potato MMR I am though. lol If you don't mind elaborating a bit?

Thanks. I've been watching a lot of Purge's videos where he's harping on the players he's coaching about their camera position which has made me more aware of it. I'll definitely check out that video as well.

I always forget about TP scrolls for some reason. I never remember it until I need it.

Thanks for the advice.

Just an update guys. I played my second match today (not a ranked match), played Crystal Maiden

http://tinypic.com/r/m7ub1g/8

There is my screen shot. Pretty much 2nd best player on the team and made the most denies. Although I had the least kills, I don't mind because I felt like I was able to support my team mates and made some pretty awesome moves that helped other members to make a last kill.

Here's something I wrote in the past: https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/tinkering-about-f0326aa705b8

I no longer believe that you should always go hex, but you will need to be able to identify on your own when you want to go hex and when you want to go dagon.

I saw someone suggest this before and I feel it's relevant now. Go to this website and flip 200 coins. Despite a 50% chance of being heads or tails you'll see streaks come and go frequently, it is not unusual at all. This is in a system where the previous result has no impact on the coming results.

Keeping this in mind, think about Dota. You have a near 50% winrate except unlike this coin flip your results in one game do impact your results in the next game, as do innumerable other factors. You are far more prone to having win or loss streaks due to things like mood (i.e tilt from losing/winning), desire to play a certain hero regardless of context, the time of day you play at or even how tired you are.

The best advice is to not play 5 games in a row if you are doing poorly and to only play when you're in a good mindset. Take a break between each game you play too.

http://dotamax.com/player/detail/177289545/ As weird as it sounds, that few games (only around 100) has a really good chance of not being exactly 50% assuming the odds were even. Take a look at this page: https://www.geogebra.org/material/simple/id/140645

You can see as you increase the number of coin flips it gathers to 50% much tighter the higher you go, but at only 100-200 the chance of not being exactly 50% is quite high.

If you still have that difference at 1000 games then it would be more likely due to some effect than just random chance.

Hey, I play a lot of Tinker. (:

Regarding the concern about stealing farm: that's a good concern to have. Until you get blink, focus on taking all the mid farm, a bunch of the jungle farm, and ancients. Take any farm in a lane that is pushed to your tower with no one defending. Take any farm that your team cannot (or will not...) take.

Once you have a blink you are much harder to kill. This enables you to farm riskier areas. In particular, this means pushed out lanes. You can then rotate into their jungle and farm their jungle. Now you're stealing from their carry, not yours.

I don't have different hotkeys for Tinker. However, I do place my items on the same hotkeys without fail; this way, I never have to think about which item I want to use. If you're interested, my item hotkeys are 2 mouse buttons and ZXCV. I do NOT recommend ever using alt+key for items, especially Tinker (you aren't doing this, but I figured I'd mention it just in case).

It's good that you are thinking situationally. Ideally though, you will always be able to get bots, soul ring, bottle, blink, and hex in a reasonable amount of time. I think good timings are considered 10-11 min bots, soul ring, and bottle (faster without pressure), 14 minute blink, 24 minute hex.

Finally, I wrote an article on playing Tinker a little while back. It just goes over some important basics, which you may or may not already know. https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/f0326aa705b8

Hope that helps!

Could you give more info? What role do you usually play? Why do you lose? etc.

Personally, some of the more useful things I learned include being more active around the map and not running away from a team fight prematurely.

Regarding melee vs ranged heroes, you can alleviate some of the harass you take by manipulating creep aggro. Skip to about halfway down the page (under Farming Safely) in this article: https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/12f7eb8ce982

This is good advice. As for determining where you want vision, this depends on whether your team is ahead or behind, what your team wants to accomplish, and what the opposing team wants to accomplish. I go into more detail in my guide (https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/68fa5b08c0c).

There are Quick Attack option under Options > Game tab, and Smart Attack Move option under Options > To Advanced Options > Game

There is no quick cast option for Move or Patrol and that is really dumb. A few updates ago you could use +sixence_left_click console command to turn anything into quick cast but now it is removed. I use this AutoHotKey script that clicks after keys being pressed:

setkeydelay 20, 30 ; 20 ms delay before action, 30 ms delay before release

~*1:: ; Enable quick patrol when binded to 1 ~*2:: ; Enable quick move when binded to 2 send {blind}{click} keywait % substr(a_thishotkey, 3) return

friendlyplayer123

That doesn't seem "friendly" :P

Two things:

1) I have started learning english since I was a little child, so young I wasn't even aware of my thoughts.

2) Through the pass of the years I have played many games where I had to communicate by using English only.

3) SA servers are bad in both terms (ping/community)

As I said my ping on US East is around 166-180. But on SA: 250. Luckily, I've found (by the help of a friendly guy I met in another game) that I can get 50 ms with PureVPN in SA. This was a few days ago, and when I went back to the US East ping I really felt the change really matters. So that's why I'm asking this big community if there's an option for me. If there's not, well, I'll just have to accept this and move on.

I read this book called The Power of Habit. And I felt like I was rereading that book in some form while reading your post.

There is a section in the book where he says how basic fundamental habits are required to excel in any field, and they should become second nature, instead of making the mind work to take a decision every time anything happens in the game/sport/field.

I don't play myself, (Just an outside admirer), but I get your point about perfecting fundamentals in any field.

PS: I don't play dota 2, as I just don't have the time and discipline to make it a meaningful venture (To be 'good', whatever that means). I watch dota 2 during TI and the majors as I find it a very complex and entertaining game, and I love the 'plays' that happen. I seeit just as any other sport. People don't play soccer very well, but it's an entertaining sport to watch. Same with e sorts. My roommate got me into it, and I tried playing, but it's just too steep of a curve. I played a game or two and i wish i had tried harder, but i stopped for some reason. Maybe if I make up my mind, I'll try to play. But like you said, Fundamentals are important!

You have to think like you enemy. Something like 'The Art of War' from Sun Tzu.

If I am a Spirit Breaker vs a Nature Prophet I will wait you to split push and kill you. This happens with a Tinker as well.

Anyways If you watch some pro matches you will see that they can predict the enemy moves so accurate that maybe they kill the last creep and tp away seconds before they get ganked.

I think it's just a matter of playing a lot of games until you get it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dota2.easypick

I never used it but it exists apparently. I don't know how to counterpick against carries either... if there's PA/Slark/Troll/Weaver then the game usually ends before it even starts.

Here it is: DotaHex

Here it is: DotaHex

I don't want to say you are wrong, because you often don't care about Armor (since enemy team has both Physical and Magical damage), but that calculation your opinion is based on is not saying much.

Let's take a look at this Chart Armor/HP. You can see there that every Armor point is less effective than previous one (530 is 6% Effective Health Points-EHP increase while 560 is 5.66% EHP increse from 530).

And that's where we get to the point I recalled wrong in my previous comment. From 1000HP and 5 Armor, every 500HP is equal to 11 Armor in terms of EHP. It's highlighted in the whole Chart, just take a look. :) I'm not saying you should follow that every time, getting raw HP is often better, just bear in mind that this exist.

Extremely relevant pro gameplay.

this game (and the next one) are just textbook how to crush someone games by alliance. I will just say this is bit of a stomp, hopefully someone in this tournament isn't just going to not get schooled like this.

I will just say that ending games early is pretty much either destroy or loose. even games go on for ages. when you play all in like this you either win in a landslide or loose in a landslide.

Edit: just want to add, if you stick around through the averts you'll get a pretty decent breakdown of the game.

If youre interested I will do some free support coaching today, 16:00CEST at https://www.twitch.tv/dancingdragontv

If you are interested join the "DancingDragon" channel ingame or just visit my stream.

It is free, could try d/ling it and turn everything on minimum settings.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

MINIMUM:

OS: Windows 7

Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Network: Broadband Internet connection

Hard Drive: 8 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-of-the-most-noob-friendly-dota-2-heroes-and-some-to-avoid/

I just recently started since I have nothing better to do and came across this article. Basically, i learned how to play by playing easy bots using Wraith King 1st as he has one ability so learned when to use it. Then played Bane, learning how to use abilities and farming. Then Lich. Then played a few other heroes and started looking for builds and items.

When I feel comfortable playing a few heroes by not dying as much and can kill a few enemy heroes, I escalate the difficulty to medium and repeat the above process. Slowly you'll understand basically how the mechanics work but will take longer to master

Thanks!

I spent some time this morning familiarizing myself with the new map. Here's a mini-guide with all of the ward changes I noticed:

https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/6-82-warding-changes-59e209bbdb69

I'm planning on updating the other guide at some point, but I don't know exactly when that will be yet.

Get rid of the camera keys and use the mouse to pan the camera. I use to have it set like you, after a bit of practice you'll find it much easier. I use my spacebar for an inventory item, usually the item I use the most (like treads); it use to be stop for me, but I found after the laning stage I rarely needed it, however I use my items all game long. I have right-click deny enabled so I have one less key to worry about.

For items 1-3 I have it q-w-e, for items 4-5 I have it z-x, for item 6 I use spacebar. For my abilities I use A-S-D-F(ult)-R-T.

Skribbl.io is a game that you can play with your friends where one draws an image and the others guess what it is. You can create your own custom lobby and enter your own words to guess, instead of the default which has names of animals, trees, birds, furniture etc.

If you want to play the game with Dota 2 related terms, create a private room, copy and paste the words in the post into the custom words box and invite your friends with the link. Remember to tick the option 'Use custom words exclusively'.

I sincerely doubt anyone hits 5k without years of experience playing this game and having at least some experience in one of the amateur leagues such as ixdl or rd2l.

You kids get to have your entire match history tracked if you desire through barely any extra work on your own and easy downloads of your vods and those of so many professional players. Back in 2005 we had a few relatively (to today; pretty awesome then) crappy sites like this one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050825115655/http://www.dota-allstars.com/download.php

There was no datdota, no dotabuff, no twitch.tv; there was battle.net chat and a couple of php forums and a couple download sites for you to guess if you had the real version or a tweaked copy where someone made agility slippers do 3 bajillion damage.

The bottle is always first to go, and then the soul ring. This is because the soul ring gives you a lot more mana to work with than the bottle will. When I "get rid" of these items, I actually keep them in my stash to speed up my fountain trips.

EDIT: If you're new to Tinker, this is the intro guide I wrote. I no longer stand by always going hex first. https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/f0326aa705b8

Join us on DotaFromZero!

Super friendly and helpful discord for all ranks. New and Old players.

we host lobbies for all the regions, The lobbies are fair since our coaches evaluate you and place you into tiers. So no smurfs, trolls or flaming and you get coached at the same time!

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/ZxbZF3J

Hey I am about to make a post about free coaching and that will also go on Youtube. Gonna be awesome my friend :) Hope you sign up for a session: https://calendly.com/shani1997

Go get a coin. Flip it 100 times. Watch the patterns it makes.

It may seem counter intuitive, but the ideal 50/50 chances match maker is trying to set up will have streaks. Yes, you can influence them by playing well or poorly, but even playing absolutely normal you'll still have streaks. Not only that, but you're hard-wired to notice streaks.

Can you identify the last time you alternated between winning one game, then losing the next? It may sound odd, but a streak of that pattern, over 6 games, has the same likelihood as a six game all win or all loss run. But nobody would ever recognize it, because it doesn't feel noteworthy.

Try a meditation app like Headspace.. It's a great mental refresher in the short run, but in the long run it'll help you deal with all emotions much better, and not just in Dota!

Actually I would overthink my Item build. Aghanims is ridicoulusly good at wr at the moment. while Desolater or Diffusal are pretty bad pickups. Windrunner gets alot of attackspeed out of her ultimate which makes Diffusal mediocre, because you don't really profit from the tons of Agility. Desolater is an Item which is more for heroes which attack slow, but hard. But a Windrunner attacks extremely fast and not very hard. As a Damage Item I'd suggest maelström, MKB or crit if you are superrich. Also: Never build shadow blade, it's crap. Blinkdagger is a pretty good initiiation Item, but is worse than a force staff in escaping, especcially if you don't have the best reflexes. Linkens is a waste of money imho, if you are not playing vs. bane. http://pokit.org/get/?ab02898b624c42dafc51e38158819c6d.jpg these are pretty much the Item builds I prefer. Also: Consider Ghost Scepter as a safety item, it's rather cheap and gives you "extra windrun" time. And you have to exploit your incredible range, your place is never IN the teamfight, it's at the verge of it. >Playing WR at 4k.

I'm guessing that you want to know how to play Pudge in a 1v1 mid matchup as a melee hero.

Depending on the hero, it might not be a favorable matchup for you. In general, Pudge can threaten you if he has more HP than you. On the flip side of that, if you are able to constantly bully him, he'll be more hesitant to go in for a kill; this is especially true if landing a hook still doesn't bring you into kill range. An effective way to maintain this control is to use your nukes to get last hits and hit Pudge; all the melee mids that immediately come to mind (Mag, DK) can do this. Most ranged mids also have a nuke, but they can also get in that damage via right clicks.

If Pudge goes on you, make a split second decision as to whether or not you can get out (i.e. you have boots and he doesn't or you have a disable). If you can't, stay and man fight (juking hook if you can). Pudge is taking just as much damage as you are from Rot, so sometimes you can get a kill instead (if you do, just ferry yourself a salve and you're good again).

Finally, control creep equilibrium. Pudge has to actually walk up to Rot you; if you are 300-400 units away going for a last hit, you have plenty of time to react. You can engineer these situations by taking advantage of creep aggro. You can check out the "Farming Safely" section here for an explanation of how to do this: https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/12f7eb8ce982

Hope that helps.

Although it's always nice to learn new tactics, a lot of the improvement around 3.5-4.5k comes from increasing your understanding of what is going on in the game and making good decisions based off of that situation. Another large part is proper execution in fights as well as contributing as best as you can to the fight.

I recommend watching better players to pick up on what they're doing. Almost everything action they take is one that you're capable of; what you should be looking to figure out is how they decide/know what they should be doing at a given moment.

I also have two articles that touch on some more advanced tactics:

https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/12f7eb8ce982

https://medium.com/dota-2-notes/182500ad9494

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Pretty good deal tbh

You're right. In SA I get even worse ping: 250.

But recently I've discovered a way to get 50 ms (with PureVPN) in SA and when I went back to US East I really felt the change so that's why I'm asking this here.

I have heard in the news that some day Uruguay and United States will be "directly connected". I don't know the reason, neither the details of this proyect, but hope it will happen some day.

This isn't exactly what you meant, but you can also scroll with keys. For example I have a Razor Orbweaver and it has a thumbpad. I bind keys to each of the four directions so I can pan around with just my thumb. It's really handy and I always cringe at the fact that even pros need to edge-scroll a big portion of the time, and lose valuable time away from clicking motions.

https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Powerline-Adapter-Starter-TL-PA2010KIT/dp/B00AWRUIY4

heres the solution i found, basically puts you on a seperate connection from the rest of your wifi without using an ethernet cable. worked for me.

I have a gameboard, so I junctioned camera control to OKL; or something and bound the thumbstick to those keys. I found it helps a lot.

yeah i got that one and use their keys quite often. especially that button next to the left click is awesome for chatwheel and stuff. Although 6 buttons on the side would be enough. Sadly the steelseries mice only have 2 buttons :/

Here's a solution.

Spray this on any length of cable he can get to, and he should stop eventually due to the bad taste.

EDIT: Pun unintended.

NSFW and that's why you go to lan parties and move around a lot. I don't think I've ever heard anyone make the hookup http://www.amazon.com/Multi-Input-PlayStation-Gamecube-Dreamcast-Camcorder-2/dp/B000JCLLUW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313459167&sr=8-2 I had the same as BF3 in that respect.

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Hey, settebello_ here from Twitch, you may have seen me around as I enjoy your stream. I really enjoyed your read and the parallels of Tennis coaching as you look to become a better dota2 coach. The relation you are making is really cool and I think you would really get a kick out of this book, The Art of Learning if you haven't read it already.

But I agree, improving is more of a process than a bunch of info thrown at a player all at once. Kind of like someone trying to diet or get in shape at the gym - one didn't get out of shape over one night, so the same person can't expect to get back into shape in a day or a week. It takes work, pattern (poor habit) recognition, failure (the best way to learn - although people get discouraged, in dota2 case looking at replays, etc) and watching others to improve over time.

According to Draftpro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.retrograde.dota.dotadraft) you should have picked Troll, Oracle or Lifestealer. Lifestealer = good against LC. Rage avoids big ults from lesh, lich. Troll is great vs LC, axes good vs husk and PA and a quick BKB deals with Lesh and Lich.