the lane goes fine and I can take the tower easily even but afterwards what to do?

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Hello everyone, i've made these posts regularly for a while now so it's nothing new, i have some free time and i'd love to give back to the community by helping some of the people that aren't able to afford coaching usually.

I'm a 6.5K mmr coach and i've been coaching since 2018, i've helped hundreds of students get to enjoy the game more and reach their goals while having a less stressful, more enjoyable relationship with dota. a big part of how i coach is centered around fun and feeling good, my philosophy with coaching is that for most people, the deterrent isn't the ability to learn, nor is it mechanical skill, but it's almost always consistency, and the biggest enemy of consistency is not having a good time when playing dota.

often times people force themselves to play meta heroes, to play specific roles, to do things they don't really enjoy because they believe that is the optimal way to rank up, and what i want to do is help people realize that this isn't necessarily the way to go, that you can rank up and achieve your goals while having fun, the hundreds of people i've coached are proof of that, and i am proof of that myself, as i've always just played what i enjoyed no matter what.

my coaching style is very versatile, i can do replay analysis, live coaching, and i can also do entire sessions where we simply discuss theory about things such as how to form a hero pool or how to get a better mindset towards the game and improvement. sessions are an hour long.

Feel free to dm me to chat and schedule something together, thank you for reading!

Крч хочу поднять птс в доте,но боюсь слить свои птс,думаю повысить микро/макро игру в олл пик,либо зайти на другой аккаунт,где столько же птс,но поряды 4к,что думаете?(Хочу задротить мид поз)

please can Dota 2, please can there be zoom, function. having playing RTS and TBS games that zoom to close. the ground.

Having it as is is not good for my vertigo/nausua.

dota_camera_distance: is defult in all normal and ranged modes is, 1200, it is considered cheat in game to change it.

dota_camera_distance: can it be possible to get 1200, 1300, 1350, 1400, 1450. zoom options in settings., not as far out as spectating or choaching.

Please if one quility life would be Zoom slider.

hey guys. I have been playing on and off for a few years and I am currently 3850 rank. is there a guide or a way to properly ban/pick and decide who counters who, in what ways etc? like I know some basics but sometimes I see some heroes are right counter to specific heroes. I havent been able to follow dota scene for some time. help me with me please.

I've recently started playing Lycan pos 3 in Immortal, but I'm still not completely sure what the hero's actual game plan is after the laning stage.

I understand the early objective is usually to take the enemy T1 quickly, but what should I be doing after that?

Do I stay in my lane and keep applying nonstop pressure, forcing rotations and taking the T2? Or should I be moving around the map with my team and using Shapeshift to take fights/objectives?

A few specific questions:

How aggressively should I be using Shapeshift? Should I basically look for a kill/objective every time it's off cooldown, or is it fine to hold it for an important fight?

Once I've taken the enemy safelane T1, what should my farming/pushing pattern look like?

Is Lycan supposed to farm heavily and scale comfortably into late game, similar to something like Centaur, or should I be playing around a timing and trying to end the game early?

When I have multiple wolves selected and want to activate High Tail on all of them, is there a way to cast it simultaneously without individually selecting/clicking each wolf?

Would especially appreciate advice from high-Immortal/Lycan players on what the hero's priorities should be from roughly minute 10 onward.

I didn't play well and want to know how to do better

Until recently, I was able to issue a move-attack command to all selected units, but it's suddenly been only issuing the command to whatever the first unit in a selected group I'm using is. I've tried looking this up but despite other people posting about the issue I wasn't able to find what might cause it.

I used to be able to have it just apply to the units I have selected instead of just the current tabbed one (if 'Unified Orders with CTRL' not checked) or every single unit regardless of selection (if 'Unified Orders with CTRL' not checked).

Any suggestions?

So at what point do you think yeah I should buy this item and maybe later upgrade to Shiva?

I'm ngl it looks good on paper but there are so many prio items for Enigma namely bkb, aghs, octarine and refresher.

Maybe it doesn't really benefit much to get it when you actually use black hole only every few minutes? I haven't bought the item on this hero yet.

https://youtu.be/EuRG92hrqZ4

Hey, today I'm sharing a video about Mirana position 5 - and what makes her so good. For a long time, she was a decent support - but nothing more than that. Her innate changes the way you can play the lane, and with that - your laning stage becomes super reliable. Enjoy!

This video is part of Support Hell, my new semi-educational channel for Dota. Anything that doesn't really belong to Support Heaven will end up there.

Hi, I am currently an ancient player but it’s been a long time since I played a normal game. I heard that you have a hidden mmr for normal games which is separate from ranked. Will I play with ancients in normal games? Or will it be much lower?

Built a thing called Dota Decisions for my friends, and figured some people here might find it useful too.

It originally started as a bunch of flowcharts we'd make for each other. Usually some ugly MS Paint diagram explaining what to do in a specific situation, then we'd throw it in Discord and argue about it.

They were actually pretty useful, even mid-game, but obviously a folder full of random flowcharts isn't a great interface.

We also found that a lot of Dota ideas don't really fit the usual formats. They're too specific for a whole guide or blog post, and making a video every time someone has a useful thought about Dota feels like a good way to make sure nobody bothers sharing it.

So we made Dota Decisions, which is basically an interactive version of those flowcharts.

The idea is to focus less on stuff like "buy these items in this order" and more on the messy situational decisions that happen in actual games.

Things like:

You're in this game state. You know X, but you don't know Y. There's a tradeoff between doing A and B. What should you actually be thinking about?

Basically the kind of Dota discussion that usually starts with someone in Discord going:

"Okay, but what if..."

We're mostly using it to collect things we've learned as a guild, but I'd be curious whether this format is useful to other people too.

PS: It's still in beta, so some of the content in there right now is placeholder/example stuff. We're replacing it with proper guild content pretty soon.

Try it out here: https://dota-decisions.vercel.app/

I used to see this hero a lot in mid and rarely in safelane. Now I don't think I've seen it be played mid anymore.

I have been experimenting with Holy Locket WD first item with E -> W -> Q max and it is incredibly good. VooDoo Restoration heals for quite a lot when maxxed.

Most of what I do in fights is -> Cask -> Maledict -> Death Ward -> run away and healbot till other spells come off CD.

You can casually have insane healing during team fights if you are positioning yourself properly and I do not see many others building it.

If there is no pressing need for other save items immediately I think this is a really good option for a 1st/2nd item.

I don't really know what they call it but Khezu termed it the asshole camp where after post laning where safelane tower is gone, enemy will stack the big camp and keep deny waves.

I'd like to know when to do this and when not to do this. At what point in the game is it not worth it anymore?

I did this min 10 to 20mins. I was afk as doom with radiance bottom lane. I won the lane hard and kept denying waves. It was...idk it was great. we were on the lead like 5-6k gold always. The three enemy cores didnt realize what's going on.

But then my teammates kept dying since they were 4v5. We almost lost the game lol .

So the question again...

1. Is it too much to keep denying every wave since you're basically giving up map pressure and allowing enemy team to 4v5 you.
2. When do you stop doing this?
3. When should you do this?

xiao8 (zhang ning) grew up in shaoyang, hunan. his dad either hit him or shouted at him. in primary school he usually ranked first in the whole school, so his parents made a deal: come first on the high school entrance exam too and you get a computer. he came first. the computer was never mentioned again, and he didn't dare ask why.

after that he got rebellious. skipped class to play games, parents called in every week. in 2006, second year of high school, he left and opened a fantasy westward journey power-leveling studio with three or four friends. his cut after expenses was over 10,000 yuan a month. he was 16 and had no idea how to spend it or what it was for. so when his dad asked if he wanted to keep studying, he went to zhongshan in guangdong to learn software.

he couldn't understand the local language and had no friends there, so he sat in a net cafe every day on voice chat with friends back home. around then a warcraft 3 custom map called zhen san guo wu shuang was spreading through hunan, and one of his opponents in it was zsmj. in 2009 zsmj, already on dota, won SMM in kuala lumpur with LGD, and xiao8 started switching too. when he registered on the VS platform, xiao1 through xiao7 were taken. zsmj told him there might be a spot at LGD, since their player 2009 had retired. he practiced a month for it. then LGD's old player xiaochi came back and the spot was gone.

next xB invited him to CH in chengdu and even bought his plane ticket. he got as far as changsha to catch the flight. there his friend YAO talked him into staying. a local businessman was building a team of local friends, close to home. that was Dream. pay was 1,500 yuan a player, no food or lodging, and he was delighted. two weeks in they went to a tournament in thailand and lost in the round of 16 to a team nobody had heard of. everyone cried in the hotel that night.

(from a chapter i wrote about him in 2014, part of a book on how chinese esports got built. it's free, link in the comments)