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I went 7/7/25 as lock, warded all game, right item build for support, healed and kept most people up in a close game (at least until the last 5 minutes) and not a word :(

Well played support is appreciated in a team I find but in randoms no one cares about you, unless you make mistaks then they all blame you :p
 
Worst night of Dota ever tonight.

Not really in a good mood now :(

Last game I just had.. Batrider insisted on laning with Shadow Shaman in bottom lane while me as Bounty Hunter, paired with axe in top lane against Sniper and ranged support.

I asked them to swap lanes but Batrider guy called me a noob and other moronic names and they stayed together, lost the lanes and got totally spanked. Rage inducing!
 
I had my first decent game in about 5 days last night.

Got sniper in random draft and just smashed their whole team until their best player (pudge) rage quit. Was like 16/3, sniper is stupidly OP. Plus have manta and smoke and survivability goes up hugely too.
 
I've just started playing this with a few friends. The number of different heroes is a bit overwhelming. Played as Zeus, sniper and skywrath knight only against bots so far and am learning.

I've watched quite a few replays and am aware of the mechanics of the game. Does anyone have a few tips for starter hero selections and general gameplay? How much should we practice against bots before we jump into pvp?

Cheers
 
Gruber said:
I've just started playing this with a few friends. The number of different heroes is a bit overwhelming. Played as Zeus, sniper and skywrath knight only against bots so far and am learning.

I've watched quite a few replays and am aware of the mechanics of the game. Does anyone have a few tips for starter hero selections and general gameplay? How much should we practice against bots before we jump into pvp?

Cheers
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Just jump straight in, and don't worry about receiving a lot of abuse. The bot games are not that realistic in terms of learning the game.

I've not been playing that long myself (4 months or so), but from what I'm learning - surviving is as (or more) important than dieing to the enemy. When the enemy is down to 10% health its massively tempting to charge forward - and that's usually when I die horribly - its just not worth it.
 
Bluelion said:
Just jump straight in, and don't worry about receiving a lot of abuse. The bot games are not that realistic in terms of learning the game.

I've not been playing that long myself (4 months or so), but from what I'm learning - surviving is as (or more) important than dieing to the enemy. When the enemy is down to 10% health its massively tempting to charge forward - and that's usually when I die horribly - its just not worth it.
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Listen to this guy. To start with make keeping yourself alive the top priority, if somebody pushes out too far and is going to die then dont just die with them to be a 'teammate' just leave them to it.

Once you are better at the game you will know how/when to join them and turn the fight around, but whilst you are new its better to just play it safer and avoid feeding the enemy team.
 
I need to create myself a regular team of folk to play with. I have had such a crap run of random games. Just had a game this afternoon. Some guy playing Earth Spirit screwed up his lane and started just going afk at random periods. I finished on lvl 16 or so and he was about lvl 7. I dont mind people being new. But this guy was totally lost in the pool I was playing at.

So frustrating knowing your team is goin to lose within the first 5 minutes
Seems to be a lot of morons on it at the minute :(
 
Used to hate Slardar but actually used to him now and had a decent game with him.

Went 10/9/20 he's perfect for disabling and getting the teams main hard hitter in a team fight, really easy to completely turn a fight with him.

Was a good game and I admit to whinging when our setup was BS, Spectre, Mag, Slar and WD but we worked really well together and won a close game. BS dc'ed near the end and last 5 minutes was playing 2 heroes :D
 
Any Meepo players?

Had my first game and really liked him, very powerful but struggled at times with dying due to leaving a Meepo in combat too long. I ended around 9/4 and when I cod pull it off correctly I was taking out 2/3 heroes solo but the finer points escaped me at times.

Any tips?
 
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