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…

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…

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…

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…

Playing With Purpose

Ideas For Improvement

For a very long time, Dota 2 games seemed very haphazard to me. Some games would involve non-stop fighting while others would end up in staring contests across the river. Sometimes ganks would go smoothly; othertimes they’d fail…

Tinkering About

The Basics of Playing Tinker

As Tinker is becoming more popular, I thought I’d go over some key points about how to play him. We’ll talk about farming, laning, and itemization. I’ll assume that you already have a general familiarity with Tinker and his…

Enigma In The Jungle

I wanted to try something different and write up a challenge: in a single player game, farm a soul ring, brown boots, and 900 gold by 7 minutes as a jungling Enigma. More specifically, here are the rules:

• Create a custom lobby and join on either team. Cheats are not…

6.82 Warding Changes

With the 6.82 map changes come new ward positions. There’s not too much of significance, but I spent a bit of time exploring the new map. The overarching trend is that the map changes allow for a lot more wards to be placed without being seen.

Tower Wards