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Thought it would be cool to pull together small tips/tricks I've picked up over the years, many of which many of you will know already but hopefully a few that you don't, if you guys know of any small intricacies I've missed feel free to add them to the comments :)

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• Timing Terror Blade Matemophosis end with his summon illusion can make a meta illusion that outlasts the duration of Matemophosis. With a little practice this can be done reliably.

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• Axe is an amazing pick vs Morphling, an old counter that caught both casters and PSG offgaurd at TI8. Morphling wants to be at agi morph (low health pool, high right click) most of the time, with blademail call, it's a

Selfless Supporting vs Selfish Supporting

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Been watching Escaping the Trench series (thanks for starting this up again) with more emphasis on supporting over just outplaying people in middle and I noticed that this definition of supporting is massivly different to the classic 3-4k support you see in pubs.

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In these games, all henry is after is kills and almost all the support games he just ends up playing as a core via killing heroes. He doesn't sacrafice himself for teammates or gimp his own game in the hope his cores carry. Instead he takes over the game going wherever he can to grab kills. Few examples involve starting safelane pos 5 and just sacking the lane a

I created a few, published, added 7.20 tag. I either can't see the guide (from another account it isn't viewable, yet older guides show up) or/and it is tagged with unusual numbers (165.98 or something instead of 7.20). Also edited the name of an old one and it didn't update.

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It's not like they don't work because I can see some peoples just not my own anywhere on the list.

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Thanks in advance if anyone knows or is able to shed light

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1569305596&searchtext=ogre+7.20+midas

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Hi Guys,

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Theory crafting the new Ogre as a mid hero but I need some advice. I've played it some and it seems viable but I'm not entirely sold on my first few skill points. I feel as though bloodlust should maybe be taken early to ensure you can out CS your opponent but I couldn't figure out where that fits in. I'm also not sure about maxxing either Ignite or Fireblast. Ignite does reliably more damage pre level 6 but pushes the creep wave and allows the enemy to grab s

Hey guys, this is an old topic but frequently asked about and generally applies to the 'how to get better' posts.

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I'm just recapping from an old video I watched but it covers a variety of lane winning concepts:

Identify power spikes for lane

When you first enter lane, identify at which levels their hero is better vs your hero. If we take Shadow Fiend as an example, as he gains level 2, he gains Raze, which is esentially 90 damage. At level 3 he gains 2nd point in Necromastery, which at the moment its leveled is 0 +damage (it doesn't give him anything). So we can say at level 2 shadowfiend has a 'powerspike'. The same concept applies to level 3, he now gains +70 Raze dama

Seeing more and more posts about people being stuck at an mmr, and not wanting to repeat whats already been said before, I thought about the main things that's helped me over the last 5 years, and the one thing that sticks out is learning gamesense. (I know this might not apply to the majority on here so apologies if most of this is somewhat 'obvious')

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I would define gamesense as having a preconceived idea of how things will play out before they do, thus informing your own decisions based upon this. This is a vast topic so I will try and condense this thought to a few paragraphs.

Items: Have a preconcieved idea of what heroes build which items, thus, you will either be pre

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticBumblingFinchCharlieBitMe

Most of you maybe know about it already but it's a handy tool to have in your arsenal if you don't

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticBumblingFinchCharlieBitMe

https://www.opendota.com/matches/4022856494

Felt I played and did as much as I could, was this winnable? Thanks

Ignore the chatlog, I was Role Playing Maiden :)

Hi Guys, what heroes become the default 'carry' or 'pos 1' when they are in the mid lane.

Someone previously told me this and after trying to explain to a friend I started to doubt what I had heard. This discussion took place when he decided to pick safelane legion and I thought having a farm orientated mid would help make up the deficit for having a playmaking hero in the safelane. (I picked sniper and farmed my ass off)

To my understanding, if you have a sniper/OD/Am/Alch in the mid lane, they are still the position 1. Is this correct and if so what other farm heavy heroes would this encompass?

Hi guys, can anyone give me advice on how I could have won this or what I could have done better? I never felt safe enough to push alone. Ideally a replay analysis.

https://www.opendota.com/matches/3861341169/overview

https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3861341169

Felt like my farm was okay but team would constantly take horrendous fights without me, our mid ended with 300 gpm, did what I could to salvage farm but I felt like Pugna's 18 deaths really made it difficult. Team chose to blame me solely for the loss. I felt like I was doing everything possible to gain CS and not feed.

Thanks,

The basic principles of Dota 2 are something most of us 'understand'. The carry should farm, the supports should gank, the mid should make plays and the offlane should try their best not to feed :P. However, understanding and execution are 2 very different concepts.

So, in a perfect game of dota, the carry farms at an incredible speed – uncontested, whilst the 4 other players, make plays, create space, take fights, invade the enemy, put pressure on, all in effort to keep that carry farming. The longer this happens for, the better the end result. The faster this happens, the better the end result.

The problems arise when you factor in either: players who don’t understand this, players who d

A small bit of background before I start writing this. I’ve played dota since 2013 and whilst I have become proficient with the mechanics (to some degree) and have a good grasp of game knowledge and heroes, I have been stuck at around 3 and a half K since I started. I’ve won a few amateur competitions, I am capable of mechanically outiming/outplaying players, consistently had great damage for my specified hero, blah, blah blah, all the right metrics and yet still games were largely 50/50. After losses I’d look desperately at the metrics and try and figure out why I had lost. What did I do wrong? I didn’t feed, I had decent building damage or set up lots of kills for my carry or had a plethor

With constant changes to laning stage specific mechanics over the last year ever more emphasis has been put into the laning stage by OS Frog.

Occasionally on here I see thee old "how could I win this game" or "what could I have done better" or "everyone else fed" posts and sometimes it really isn't you're fault. Yes if you're alot better than the rest you'll win a higher percentage of games and gain mmr but there are those games that are just not winnable - and it's important to understand why. The route of my thinking came from something Waga said a few days ago on stream: some lanes are just not winnable. And it all follows from there.

The hard bit of this is the understanding. You hav

https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3802125770

I was the Ember spirit, go ham.

Things I noticed I did wrong:

CS could be higher in the first 10 mins, the mid tusk I played against was competent.

Linkins was a bad purchase as I quickly realised Tusk can just auto cast his punch

Any insight appreciated :)