Proper Micro The concept of micro and macro should come extremely easily to anybody who had played WC3 in ladder at any point in time. Many people claim that DotA requires no micro at all, which I agree with to an extent. You only have one hero to control so that immediately takes away the [...]
Hero Killing In order to assist your assent to the enemy ancient, killing enemy heroes is advisable. However to do so, careful planning and making use of the current circumstance is required. Usually using a hero’s abilities to your advantage will help in hero killing. Certain abilities have certain affects on the enemy as listed [...]
Experience When enemy creeps die to either your attack or a friendly creeps attack you will receive experience. Depending on if you have a solo lane or a shared lane you will level up at different rates. Gaining experience is extremely important early game, even more so than gold. Early on a very large percentage [...]
In the game of DotA there are a variety of game modes which can be enabled by the host in the first few seconds of the game. Each of these game types presents a different way to play and all have their pros and cons. These game modes are with their respective advantages and disadvantages: [...]
There are very few “requirements” to play DotA outside of that fact you need players on both Sentinel and Scourge (the two teams in DotA). The most common format, by a large gap, is 5vs5 games. They provide a lot of variation in games because they usually are composed of a lot of skill levels [...]
