Creep Aggro

At all levels of play, you can improve your laning by understanding and utilizing creep aggro to your advantage. In this article, we’ll…

Anti-Mage Primer

Anti-Mage is an agility hard carry known for his ability to flash farm. When in the hands of a good player Anti-Mage can be quite…

Camera Control

An issue that many beginning players don’t realize that they have is their poor camera control. This article is intended to be a quick primer on camera basics. Some of these things could perhaps be better demonstrated in a video, but I’m a text kind of person.

The Art of Warding

An Advanced Guide to Warding

Introduction

The art of warding is crucial to winning Dota 2 games. Many players understand that gaining vision through wards is important. In fact, to improve their warding, some players…

Starting Items

Picking out starting items in Dota 2 can be deceptively simple. Although you generally can’t go too wrong, proper itemization can sometimes be the sole factor in winning or losing your lane. In this article we’ll take a look at various concepts that might affect your starting and early game items.

Efficiency

At the heart of every Dota 2 game is a fight to effectively utilize your resources. Some of these resources you aim to acquire over time, such as gold and experience. You aim to minimize losses of other resources, such as health and mana. Although there are many other resources in Dota 2, these are the four…

Disruptor Mini-Guide

Let’s take a look at Disruptor. This support hero struggles without a handful of levels, but is capable of bringing quite a bit to the team. In this mini-guide I’ll be focused primarily on effective usage of Disruptor’s spells.

Beginner Warding

Although frequently overlooked by beginners, warding is a crucial aspect to winning games. The main purpose of warding is to…

Understanding MMR

Ever since ranked matchmaking came out, it seems like MMR has become a pretty big deal to a lot of players. Although it’s nice to be able…

Improving With Sandbox Mode

One of the most overlooked ways to improve quickly at Dota 2

Dota 2 has not only a steep learning curve, but a seemingly endless one. There are so many things to learn, and it might seem like it takes an endless…