Play DotA As a Beginner

Dota is an action-strategy game which is more than just a game to play for beginners. Actually, its not about reading guides for heroes and playing, its all about getting your facts right about dota. It's more of a mathematical game. Once you get your facts right there's no stopping you. This article will help you learn how.

Steps

  1. Before you choose a hero, see his strength, agility and intelligence. These three factors are the keys to success.
  2. You can choose a hero from these three clans which have agility, strength and intelligence as their special attributes.
  3. Now here's a secret, For an agility hero you should increase its agility to max and for an intelligence type you need to increase its intelligence and similarly strength for a strength hero.
  4. Now here is something you should know. For a hero increasing its inherent type by 1 will increase his damage power by 2, and an increase of 7 in his strength will increase his armor by 1. So choose items carefully while keeping these combinations in mind. You can look for these facts in the stats window by hovering your mouse over your stats.
  5. Make a note of all items available in dota and make sure to study them and know what each item does.
  6. Get items to increase your mana and Hp regeneration and of course to increase your special attributes. Some heroes have very low life in the starting game, so in order to manage your health get Hp items and also items like Tango, bottle or other healing salves to increase your health instantly.
  7. Here are some items that you should make for an agility type: boots of speed or arcane boots, butterfly or manta style, ethereal blade and for melee heroes make radiance(optional). Get Buriza or Mjolnir to become even more powerful, this actually increases your damage and speed.
  8. For an intelligence type you can make: Guinsoo or dagon and aghanims for your ultimate improvement. You can also make Shiva's guard to kill the escapees.
  9. For a strength hero you need to increase Armour,damage and attack speed so make Vanguard, mjolnir, buriza and assault cuirass.
  10. Remember to choose items according to the situation, for instance: An enemy hero is on verge of death but it has mini shadow walk(blink) because of which it always escapes out. In this case you need to buy Kelen's dagger to make sure you kill it. You can also use it to escape from ganging or other situations.
  11. Practice with computer before you go in a real battle with your friends. But remember: real games will be quite unpredictable so always be on your toes.



Tips

  • Whenever your enemy is about to destroy any of your friendly units or towers, deny them by destroying them yourselves (you can only kill them when their life is very low)
  • Practice will make you good at dota.
  • Whenever your health is low and enemy is behind you, either escape or get killed by a neutral creep to avoid losing money.
  • Kill neutral creeps to increase your level faster or make them work for you by using Helm dominator- make sure you choose those who are at level 6.
  • Use arrow buttons to navigate and mouse to choose or attack. You can also use dota toolkit to fasten your movements and organisation by using keyboard keys.
  • In the starting of the game make the following items: Bracer for strength, wraith band for agility and null talisman for intelligence respectively to get a boost in early games. Later you can use them in recipes or simple sell them to purchase more items.
  • If your opponent has invisibility power then buy gem of true sight or dust of appearance to make them visible.
  • Heart of tarrasque is a universal item for a hero which gives instant generation rate and +1000 life to the bearer. Also Kelen dagger is next in the list.
  • If you are up against magic heroes, buy items which increase magic resistance.
  • Never go head on with enemy towers, let your creeps destroy them little by little and when its health is showing red, go and hit them to get the points.

Warnings

  • while playing one on one with computer, type this before you choose a hero -apnennngfr or just -apneng. (-apnennngfr will have faster respawn and -ap will have undistributed experience while -apneng will have equal experience)
  • Do not waste time buying things at home, you can buy them at shops away from home or you can make courier for easy purchase and transfer.

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