Originally Posted by
Hyde
I'm still trying to figure out the roles and what a team composition should look like.
I've been playing champions which look interesting to me so far only.
I'm a fairly experienced moba player, and I have had no trouble mechanically at all. I consistently have the most farm in games by a long shot, although i'm still trying to get the hang of denying.
Dota seems to be a bit more forgiving early on than League, although that may be down to me playing a lot more cautiously than I would in league.
I haven't gotten the hang of harassing/trading yet(or if it's even a thing), my lane opponents don't really attack me for some reason.
I'm glad you're taking the plunge in playing Doto. Stuff that I recommend you learn really easily:
- How runes work, when they spawn, what they do
- Protip: Bottle is a good item for mid laners, it's basically a health & mana pot with 3 charges. It recharges automatically when you enter the fountain, or if you pick up a rune! When you pick up a rune if you have a bottle, the rune is stored in the bottle. Next time you use the bottle, you use the rune (no bottle charge is used).
- Learn how to use the courier. Really. You can switch to courier with the F2 button. F1 changes back to your character, double F1 centers cam on your hero. The courier has abilities, e.g. going to the secret shop, or back to the fountain. You can also give your empty bottle to the courier, have it go back to the fountain, and then bring the recharged bottle back.
- Learn the day and night cycle. Be more careful when in night cycle, because vision range is abysmal
- Learn how to ping on the map, and how to do automated voice scripts. I think the normal key is the Y key. Keep y pressed, then move your mouse in the direction of the message you want. If you pick 'missing', it automatically adapts the message to which lane you are in!
- Alt+clicking enemy heroes on the top of your screen will ping them as missing
- Alt clicking items in shop you don't have, will give a message along the lines of 'I'm going to buy item X'
- All heroes have a color code that is sadly different every game. You can see which hero has which color on the top of the screen, at the hero portraits
- Learn how to deny! I edited a notepad file somewhere a while ago which enables me to deny my own creeps by just right clicking them. Your enemy doesn't get gold, he does get exp
- You can deny your own buildings.
- You can deny yourself. Suicide!
try to convince some of your lol friends to try it too
also, i think doto is actually less forgiving and much more difficult than lol.
Lol is basically spellspam madness, spamming spells on minions to farm, everyone constantly dashing through walls etc etc. In doto, mana is much more important. also, farming more difficult because you can't use spells (unless you want to waste mana and get killed) + you do a tiny fraction of the creep health
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p.s. i am ready to play now
Last edited by Arglax; Apr 13, 2014 at 09:34 PM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump