Dota 2 Notes

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…

Night Stalker Primer

Balanar the Night Stalker has changed over the years. Once played as a mid that held a reign of terror during the first night, he fell into obscurity when players didn’t quite know how to run him with the 6.79 night time changes. Since then, pro teams discovered that he had a niche role as a…

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…

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.

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.

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

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…

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…

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.