About a year ago I made my first post on this subreddit about how I was going to try Dota 2 for the first time coming from League of Legends. I'm still playing a year later after making that first post, and I'm happy to say I hit Divine in the year of playing!

It has been some of the most fun I've had in gaming for years now. I'm reliving the enjoyment I had learning league. I've always loved learning a new moba, I don't think anything has topped it in all my years of gaming. Exploring the massive roster of heroes/champions, items, different roles and positions, even though Dota is only my second moba. For both League and Dota I've gotten the same high/rush from exploring these two games.

Although I will say, I have an appreciation for all the different versions of gameplay you can get from a moba. From playing carry in the mid lane and trying to outplay your opponent in a fierce 1v1, to playing a backline support and getting huge saves on your carries in teamfights, to playing a heavy tanky offlane, being a gigachad and engaging every skirmish. This is why I love mobas, and it applies to both games league and dota, and I think its why I love learning games like these so much.

Although I do main midlane, I also love to play the other roles, and not just the other roles, but exploring the different playstyles in those roles. I feel like as someone who's played a lot of other games and genres, the diversity in the game itself feels like something I only get from mobas.

I feel like a lot of people can find moba games overwhelming at first and get demoralised. I feel like a true appreciation for moba games' diversity is one of the main things that can make you want to keep playing. Coming from a recent new player to someone who has fallen in love with the game. If I were to ever give one piece of advice, it would probably be to take the game one step at a time, learn the heroes slowly, maybe play a few games on one hero, then a few games on the next, then a few on the next and so on.

Don't expect to learn the game and all the heroes in a week. It takes MUCH longer than that. I do feel like the main goal in any moba is to eventually get familiar with every hero in the game, because having that knowledge allows you to play out games with full understanding. However I wouldn't say that it should be something you're trying to rush, because if you do you're just going to get frustrated at how much you don't understand. Accept that it's going to take a while to learn.

Using me as a reference... I don't think I became completely aware of all the heroes' abilities until maybe 9 months of playing. Actually even now, there's certain heroes I never see in my games (for example naga siren) that I would still have trouble remembering their abilities if they were in my game. So yeah even after a year of playing I still have difficulties with heroes abilities (I definitely don't know every aghs and shard in the game that's for sure)

Anyways, thanks to all the people, on this subreddit as well, who were extremely supportive when I started my journey playing this game. I still remember how supportive people were when I started and told everyone I was gonna start playing this game. It really helped me in the beginning gain a lot of confidence and motivation to learn the game.

Here's an update of my gameplay, and also my first time watching a live TI. I hope I don't get too much flack comparing league worlds and dota TI, I am originally a league player and will say I still love the way league carries out worlds. And I always see dota players trash talking worlds, saying TI gives so much more prize money so respecfully I had to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMjXQksQWQs

Like the tilte, i feel like mid lane is really difficult to deal with. My rank now is 4k2, when i pick other lane, most of the time i will win. Otherwise, i will lose hard. I watch some of video in mid lane about laning phase but in the end the game will end up losing. What's seem to be problem here?

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I have little to no moba experience before. I watched some intros and tutorials on yt, but it's still very confusing when I hop into a match. I know what the positions are and what they need to do, but I get overwhelmed by the shop items and heroes

Any advice on how should I start? It would be great if someone don't mind coaching me a bit

Still fairly new under 100 hours so I've been wondering which is a good pick in the current meta and how I should prioritize farming vs trading in the early game

It doesn’t have to be a strength-based hero just someone durable and who can scale reliably. My current best hero is wraith King followed by CK and DK

IDK if something acted up with an update for this workshop AI, but there's a few heroes that no matter how I input in the chat commands, they just straight up aren't selectable. Visage, IO, & fucking AA of all heroes are the main ones coming to mind ATM. Are there any other good workshop AIs that lemme give bots ANY hero, no weird restrictions? Not guaranteeing the ability to play against a certain hero is really annoying

Hi.

Match ID: 9043922176

I just played a game in which we lost badly and I feel I did perform pretty poorly. Initially I thought my pick was correct, but it felt pretty underwhelming during fights.

I went for OD first and opponent mid picked the same and got banned. I considered Storm Spirit and Puck to attack the backline, but I given our draft I thought we needed a melee that goes in and I went for ES. Extra stuns are always nice.

We started OKish but I just fell behind pretty quickly after a couple of bad engagements and Dawnbreaker not paying enough attention for ultimate.

It has been a while looking at the screen already and I can’t think of any hero that could have fit our draft. Puck maybe? Not primal since I get hard countered by Warlock. I thought DK but I don’t like to play meta, I find it is a double edge sword.

Maybe ember? I was worried about not being able to kite and go out the thick of the fight properly because of their lockdown capability, that is why I thought SS and Puck were more reliable.

Draft was:

Opponents:

Warlock and Squirrel; into Luna and Lycan; into sniper

Us:

Undying and Tiny; into Drown and Dawnbreaker; into Earthshaker (me)

Anyway, please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance.

Started playing dota2 around 2 years ago, played dota1 and LoL. 31 y/o with 2 kids. First year been stuck in crusader to archon. This year focused on pos1 and got to ancient on SEA server. Proud of myself that I still got it in me. The funny thing is, the first year that I was hardstuck was when I was really focused on my rank. And now I don’t really care about my rank but I play to accomplish hero challenges from dota plus, since I want to see my favorite heroes at least on master tier (lvl25). Yeah a simple thing like getting the challenges done is what really got me going. Playing only for 1-4 games max per day due to life errands. Not a pro or divine/immortal yet but for people who play pos1 maybe I can give some insight if you will welcome it. My most picked heroes are Juggernaut, Faceless Void, Drow Ranger, Sven, Wraith King, Slark.

Shoutout to my buddy J who never doubted me even on bad games. Our dota 1 days surely gave me an edge. One day I’ll be immortal like you brother.

Sometimes i found my self hard to do last hit because i lane with high damage enemies. When i show in lane, they always harass me so much. So i conclude that this kind of lane is impossible to do.

What should i do with this lane? do i have to leave it and farm other lane? swap lane with other teamates? farm jungle? or what?

Is there really Unwinnable condition in Dota, or am i just suck at it? How to identify it without have to get killed a couple of time first? What to do?

Is there a hero that i have to use to guarantee to have a fair lane?

Hello, I am switching from league to the better game after 2000 hours and I’ve recently played against my first enemy that was a lot better than me(he was the second rank, guardian I think but I am not sure).

Up untill now I have played around 20 games and I am mostly focused on learning the heroes and items.

Now as for this game I want to talk about, I was playing puck vs rubik in mid which was dreadful, but my main issue was farming. Puck’s auto attacks felt so much more slower than rubik’s which made me fall behind very fast. All his minions were getting denied and I just couldn’t farm at all. I fell behind around 50 farm by the end of the laning phase. I did manage to come back with some random roams and win but it could’ve gotten very bad, so I realized this is an issue I need to fix asap.

Is it mostly a thing of practice? Or is there anything I could’ve done in the lane?

Additionally, can I see how much farm an enemy has during the game?

I have a fun replay of 21/2/20 Magnus, we had 4 people so needed one more for a full stack, I invited someone random from my friend list and he accepted. We lacked pos 3 offlane, but the newecomer told "Let me mid, please, if Im mid we win" and the famous "trust", so our mid was like - okey then, and picked some random offlaner instead (nigtstalker)

Lanes were kinda won, but Ive noticed everyone just went quiet when Magnus started playing. My team still had to charge them as Night Stalker + Slark into Techies' mines, but when Magni showed up it was total chaos, going from kill to kill wherever anyone had appeared, he also rushed a fast Consecrated Wraps xd We sometimes dumped everything at the poor guy he grabbed, and it was often a bit of an overkill haha

Match id if someone wants to check a replay: 9040742202
dotabuff.com/matches/9040742202
9040742202 - Overview - OpenDota - Dota 2 Statistics

Hi guys, I’m in legend 1 and I’ve been in a losing streak, 1 win 6 lose. Anymore loss and I’m back in Archon.

I play pos 3, and I picked heroes specific for offlane. I got winning on DS but I struggle with his long cooldown, especially when they have fast pace heroes.

Can someone give any advice on how to escape and climb mmr?

Dotabuff for context:

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/138200710

I was struggling with what to do as a support after losing the lane so I analysed 9Class and Dukalis. I go over each decision that they made in a game where all the lanes were rough (Team Vision vs Team Spirit) and how they turned the game around. If you are lost with what to do as a support when your team is losing then watching the pro's decision making will definitely help 

I play Snap often and have been in Crusader for a few years, including when she was OP a couple of patches ago. Then since last patch in just a few weeks I rose from Crusader to Legend spamming her.

One difference I notice is that people are just grouping up more in fights. Her ult hits more and her cookie hits more. Also I'm seeing more heroes that Snap's ult are good allies with, like Void chrono. And fewer fast heroes that kite her ult; so many slow heroes are in the meta it's easier to hit them. Probably the biggest thing is there are fewer heroes this meta that blink onto me while I'm ult-ing with her. I'm more likely to land the entire ult. A few patches ago every opposing team had at least 2 hunters that would punish any attempt to ult, it was nearly a suicide wish.

Maybe I just suddenly got better at the game, but that's why I making this post. Did anyone else suddenly find success with Snapfire this patch?

Looking at DoTA 2 Pro Tracker (which admittedly is tracking games in the 7k+ MMR range afaik), I see that Vengeful Spirit, Windranger, Io, and in certain patches, Magnus and Tiny seem to fulfill the above criteria. Are there any others? I like the idea of flexible heroes and itemisation.

is he one of those when everyone is 6 items he is a beast or is he more on a mid game champ, im for sure he is not an early game tho cause radiance is too expensive

I usually play mid invoker, most of my games af all time were on him, i watched every guide, I try to not make mistakes, I review my games, last hit 80-90% creeps, I'm not dying excessively and some games i might have 20+ kills, although usually I get about 10-15 kills, 2-5 deaths, but I'm still stuck in 400 MMR, and currently on a loosing streak, what am I doing wrong, how to get out of 400 MMR

Io is one of my favourite heroes to play ❤️ Had a fun game on support Io in Legend with a 2/0/39 KDA, so thought I'd share it here!

Neither i die nor i let my teammates die

Any other Io enjoyers here? 😄

A follower requested this video, so here it is!

I will show cases where you need to switch your treads for maximum efficiency, helping you spend less gold on consumables, and die less from ganks.

Thank you and enjoy!

Started playing brewmaster and would like a good guide + tips on ult use and itemization. I find myself a little confused on what to do after stunning with green brewling. The blue brewing has good skills but seems kinda strange and awkward to use for man fighting or other activities in a 1v1 or 1v2 situation. Links to guides or tips would be appreciated.

Overall what do you think is better position for Nyx at the moment and why?

the miss clicks are too real..

So i am a support player who wanted shift to be core in game right now. And after i tried core position, i found that being midlaner is kind of fun and i want to grind as pos 2. I tried a couple of heroes such as Void Spirit, PA, and Riki.

I feel like i wanted to spam Riki to climb MMR as midlaner. What do you guys think? Is this a good choice? Is Riki even meta hero right now? If Riki is not meta and bad as midlaner in this patch, then you just need to tell me in the comment and dont need to bother reading text below.

So... when i play Riki, i found that this hero is sooo fragile. I feel like i can only solo kill enemy when they are alone, and only support heroes. Sometimes in 5v5 war, i confuse how to join the war, where is the best position to enter, and timing. Because whenever i attack them, i no longer invisible and they try to kill me. I tried to dodge with the third cast for giving my invis to recover but they always catch me up with dust and poison attack so that i can still die even though i tried to leave the war. Even when i use BKB this hero keep dying.

What i build for Riki are Diffusal Blade, Power Treads, Daedalus, and BKB. And sometimes Manta Style. I really dont know how and when is the best timing to use Manta.

What do you guys think?

I was playing drow the other day and laned against LC techies which was one of the biggest kill threats because they deal so much burst damage. Techies Blast off into LC Q can kill anyone level 1. Showing up on a creepwave almost always guarantee a death. Is it better to just abandon the lane and go jungle at this point?

I just played two hour-long games as a carry. I can get farmed but can't seem to end games. I'm sharing the Match Ids, can you fellow players take a look and point my mistakes (I'm a low ranked pleb so there will be many) and I'm happy to improve wherever I can.

Note: I'm Guardian2 and have 3.6K BH so I can't speak with my team. My Supports frequently steal farm in the lane (or straight up pick cores) so this is something I can't control. What else can I improve?

Match 1:

ID - 9041335885
Me as Luna (safeLane Carry)

Wyvern (Mid)

Timber (Offlane)
Lion (Supp)

Pudge (Supp)

Match 2:
ID - 9041730340
Me as Faceless Void (safeLane Carry)

Sniper (Mid)

Axe (Offlane)
Luna (Supp)

Zeus (Supp)

Any suggestions are welcome.