I’ve been playing a lot of DotA, well not recently, but for the last few months. Once you get familiar with the items and heroes, I think there is not much separating fools from pros. Of course, a lot of people play like fools. I don’t think it’s a matter of not being able to micro properly and not being good at Warcraft, I think it’s because the fools don’t play smart. So here are some points of how to play smart:

• Be constantly looking at the mini-map. I spend probably 50% of the time looking at the mini-map unless I’m trying to kill someone or creep deny.
• Call missing or healing opponents (they may appear elsewhere) because your teammates may not spend time looking at the mini-map (or it’s the other 50% of the time)
• If people are missing and you are pushing, more likely than not they are coming to gank you.
• If you are outnumbered, just pull back to tower unless you are god-like
• It’s better to not-die then to kill someone, but if you are going to die then you might as well kill someone.
• At the beginning, it’s better to just stand back and level than to run back to base to heal.
• Creep deny is useful until level 7ish, and especially if your opponent is solo-ing. I’ve had games where I’m hitting 20 creep denys by level 7.
• Creep block to fight closer to your tower, or to push away from the enemy tower.
• Saving towers (that aren’t in your base) once people are roaming is pointless, they will fall very easy under a push.

Wow, that’s many more points than I expected.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: warcraft