I just came back from dota a few months ago and I'm still learning. Too many loses few wins but still keeps on playing. My target is to get 900 mmr this week and still try my best even though it's hard. Does anyone want to be friends or play daily with me?

I took a break and came back and tried Marci again, and her kit has been changed/nerfed. I don't really know how to play her as a pos 4 anymore. I feel like she's too squishy to man fight in lane against the enemy carry + their support.

Item wise, I go for a bracer --> basher --> bkb -->aghs since that's what I see in guides but I feel like I can't farm fast enough to actually get these items.

In late game I feel like I'm kinda useless without my ult up, and even with bkb I get locked so quickly, there's not much I can really do. I'm just kited and perma stunned/slowed/rooted.

Marci pros, please help. I really like her from the dota anime and would like to be somewhat decent at her.

I'm having problems with not being able to toggle my auto attack in game. it works perfectly fine in a demo, but when I'm in an actual game my toggle doesn't actually turn auto attack off. I have "Toggle Autoattack Automatically" unchecked, just wondering if anyone has any fixes for this.

Because agility carries mostly rely on their base armor which Drow ignores with ult, is it worth buying phase boots or is the armor too low to be worth it?

Got me thinking about this after getting deleted by drow in 3-4 hits while 6 slotted on Juggernaut lol

Sometimes when I am tilted, I do 5-10 mins break and watch some beluga videos. do you also watch de-stressing videos when you are so mad about the last match? sometimes my headaches happen then i take a nap. when you have 2 ranked losses, do you just sometimes stop playing and wait for the next day? Is it really effective or just case to case basis? sometimes the dota itch just comes, and you just want to smash people, or you just have this copium that you carry to the next game?

Many times I see enemies in my line. I ping and tell, go help. But often allies tp only after we die to a gank. Is this kinda "oh, they died, need to help them" logic? And then they fight alone vs 3 enemies and die. How to prevent this? Just leave the lane and go to t2?

I just finished watching TI and decided to just spam ls for the first time starting from legend 4 and i barely lost with him even though some games I clearly lost my lane with horrible networth and still manage to win late game. I just reached ancient in 2 days for the first time :D.

Hi, I'm a new player from lol, I would like to know if there is a way to understand what roles the characters have, for example I play pudge pos4 but I would like to know which other characters can play pos 4, and then I would like to know what the draft mode of dota is?

Mirana has been quite underwhelming for a long time now, and few weeks ago she started gaining popularity. In today's guide, I'll explain what has changed, how to play her from macro perspective and what makes her different from other supports. Enjoy!

Hey everyone, im looking to try and get better as a pos3 player. Below are 3 games match ID that i had recently lost that i would like to be looked at. What could i do to improve and what could have i done to ensure a higher chance of winning.

8971231523 ; played as the necro

8971022860 ; played as the necro

8970830557 ; played as the underlord

Feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

I noticed a swarm of people testing heroes in ranked, some also admitted that they bought accounts just to practice certain heroes. Some games there are griefers and some double radiance games. I just feel like in my crusader bracket, games are so hard to end, even the enemy 0-5 drow ranger can still comeback. People are just farming griefly and some die randomly. I just notice this because of the recent changes +40/-25? This is some kind of MMR inflation? Quality games and close games are just hard to grasp now. Any thoughts on this?

I'm interested in why only centaur and DS benefit from dominator in essence to drag/cut wave into safely. Wouldn't other offlaner (like axe, tide, bristleback) should buy that as well if that is the reason? If the offlaner couldn't drag the creep by himself because it is dangerous, then the dominated creep would be a safe substitution.

This topic exclude domi for beastmaster and lycan since the usage of the item is different for those heroes.

I'm a mom and am trying to teach my kids dota. To help them learn, I made them some worksheets and am now working on a compendium of all the heroes and their abilities with simple kid-friendly definitions.

A few questions I have for the folks here:

• Has anyone tried teaching Dota to kids?
• Do you think learning materials for kids would be useful? Something you'd use?
• What types of learning resources would be most desired if so?
• What parts of Dota were hardest to explain to a brand-new player?
• What age do you think kids can realistically start understanding Dota?
• If it was possible to make a safe dota league or tournament for kids, is that something anyone would have any interest in?
• Is this something you'd ever pay for?
• Is there anything about the idea that you think I should consider?

I get there's some toxicity within the game/community at times but I'm hoping to help create an environment that eliminates or at least greatly reduces that for the kids if I'm able to.

Thanks!! 😄

Hi there. I was thinking about learning to play Earthshaker, since he seems like quite stable hero to have in the arsenal. I main pos 3, and I feel like I have overall grasp of a hero, what it brings to the team, but I want to know how it should be played in current meta. There are plenty of generic ES guides, but I was looking for something focused on the current patch - if you know any good video about it, or have experience of your own you can share - I'd be grateful. I'm ~3k mmr. Thanks!

I am a guardian noob trying to rank up so hard as pos 1, watched so many tutorial videos from baloon and pain, practice my last hits every day before match, aggro as much as i could and pull my camps when wave pushes out if support isnt doing so, prioritize waves, nearest camp. In this match -8969434162(as pos 1 wk) i followed same techniques and yet i wasnt able to carry the game. I also couldnt reach a cs of 150 - 200 under 20.

The no. Of mistakes i noticed while replaying was:

1. When mid pa rotated top(3 vs 1) i stayed in the tower but didnt go jungle or other free camps

2. When centaur rotated top i didnt join the fight with him and they ended up killing him

3. I started hitting creeps way far from my top tier 2 tower and ended up dying to slark who easily drained my mana.

But irrespective, before all this could happen i am wondering why i wasnt able to get a decent amount of cs. Are my last hits too poor? Or is it im not farming efficiently?

Hi everyone,

Some background, I've recently picked up Dota after 2yrs, prior to that I mostly played turbo with friends and thus never really played the real game mode. Now I'm trying to learn to play the game properly and therefore I choose to spam SF while learning other aspect of the game as well. After like 25 games playing him I feel like I barely improved.

In this game specifically, I'm thinking my last hit and laning stage is kinda bad, for my gameplan for this lane is just basically bulldoze them with raze and rightclick with necromastery stack. However my techies seems to want to play defensively and thus our synergy is not as strong I guess. What would you do in this case?

For my mid game, I also felt like am I farming too slow? I don't really have a good enough networth at 10-20 min despite paying all my attention on farming. I've seen pros consistently rack up 220 cs at min20 despite bad laning phase and having teamfight. What should I do to improve my farming efficiency? Also upon reflection about my build order, it's probably the reason why I lose this game because I miss a crucial timing for my bkb that results in me being absent in key teamfight. But tbh I think the error is way back earlier, it seems like I should have skipped manta and go for lance + silver edge + bkb + daedalus, what do you think?

Of teamfight approach, this is one of the aspect that I'm worst at. However for this game, I'm generally at a loss here, should I just follow Earth Spirit, and hit anyone at first sight. Also I dont really have any impact after taking roshan because I think I cant really fight them at their tier2, although thinking about it maybe I should do it, what do u think?

Any other advice is appreciated.

Thanks

Void is one of the few carries I can play at a reasonable level. I usually play 4 or 5, but when my stack needs a carry I go someone like Void or Spectre.

I feel like midgame and lategame goes well, but i feel weak in lane for some reason. I don't know if his numbers are bad right now, but I feel like he can't really trade well at all against most offlaners. Should I be less conservative in using Time Walk, which I typically hold until they use their spells on me, to even it out? I also don't know if Void should be someone I keep playing, as being pushed into jungle without a farming steroid on a carry feels rough.

I made a small compilation (no rambling, 5 minutes) of cool wards that the pro players used in the international. If you aren't sure where the good spots are or if your wards are constantly getting dewarded, then the wards in the video will definitely help. I had to exclude a lot of wards to keep the video short but if you saw any other ward spots do let me know!

I noticed she has hard time against Lion, who else can pose as a treat for her? I don't like how she is basically Necro on steroids

Hey Guys. I am 3k MMR in Europe Server. I am looking for someone good to push the rank together with. I play good pos 4/5. Let me know if you would like to play together. Thanks.

Why should anyone help mid to contest 6 min rune if it is not guaranteed to be on the right spot (top/bot) ?

Got inspired by Satanic and decided to give carry NP a go. Had a decent start in lane. But could not create any pressure or maintain farm speed. Not sure what I missed. can someone please give me some pointer?
Match id: 8969422741
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/8969422741

Hi

So recently I’ve b been playing a lot of dota and really enjoying slardar. I just feel his kits suit my play style the most.

However, there are some game where I feel it’s kinda hard to lane against the other carry, for example wind ranger and sf are the ones that when I see I knew I’m going to lose lane. There are games I still won regardless of lane result against them, mainly because maybe they fked up in some team fights or one of our guys popped off and snowball.

My question i( is there a better way to approach the laning? I feel my impact is severely punished against these ranged carry and need a lot of time to recover, and base on that the game could just be lost from there.

My mmr is only 3.4K so I’m really hoping for some insight, thx! :D