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ahahh same i nevger rly understood how to play dota
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Jan 10 2010 03:31pm
The most important basic step in DotA is learning all the heroes and the items. Almost everything you need for starting/just pubbing is nothing more than simple knowledge. The things that you need to be "good" (coordination, instinct, map awareness, etc.) comes from experience so you can't really be taught these things.

My advice - download the AI map. Just -random every game until you learn all the hero abilities and get the hang of last hitting/denying with different attack animations. The AI is actually surprisingly decent at denying (better than a lot of pubs actually) so you can get some ok practice for it. Once you get a real feel for this, read up on a few guides (good ones ideally). Item builds are fairly basic and should be common sense once you get a feel for the game. After some experience, you can tell what aspect of the game a hero may excel at and choose your items according to their strengths/weaknesses/progress of the game. It really sounds more complicated than it is. Basically, just play a lot to get started.

I've been playing Aion as of late and haven't touched the game in some time, but send me a PM and I might have some time to play an AI game or two with you to give you a few pointers.
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Jan 10 2010 03:39pm
Quote (Spirit-Warrior @ Jan 10 2010 04:31pm)
The most important basic step in DotA is learning all the heroes and the items. Almost everything you need for starting/just pubbing is nothing more than simple knowledge. The things that you need to be "good" (coordination, instinct, map awareness, etc.) comes from experience so you can't really be taught these things.

My advice - download the AI map. Just -random every game until you learn all the hero abilities and get the hang of last hitting/denying with different attack animations. The AI is actually surprisingly decent at denying (better than a lot of pubs actually) so you can get some ok practice for it. Once you get a real feel for this, read up on a few guides (good ones ideally). Item builds are fairly basic and should be common sense once you get a feel for the game. After some experience, you can tell what aspect of the game a hero may excel at and choose your items according to their strengths/weaknesses/progress of the game. It really sounds more complicated than it is. Basically, just play a lot to get started.

I've been playing Aion as of late and haven't touched the game in some time, but send me a PM and I might have some time to play an AI game or two with you to give you a few pointers.


I can't download any AI maps yet, not on my own cumputer.

I don't even know how to use items or anything lol
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Jan 10 2010 03:47pm
Quote (Vampira @ Jan 10 2010 04:39pm)
I can't download any AI maps yet, not on my own cumputer.

I don't even know how to use items or anything lol


I'm bad too, third day of playing. Wanna have a 1v1 aremomshnp game? for fg?
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Quote (LikeMike69 @ Jan 10 2010 04:47pm)
I'm bad too, third day of playing. Wanna have a 1v1 aremomshnp game? for fg?


I only dota
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Jan 10 2010 04:00pm
-aremomshnp is one of the game modes in DotA. It stands for -all random, easy mode, only mid, same hero, no powerups. You'll learn the game modes easily enough. If you don't know anything at all about the game, I suggest starting here:

http://www.playdota.com/learn

The menu on the right side will teach you the basics of the basics.
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Jan 10 2010 07:35pm
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Jan 10 2010 09:22pm
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I only dota


So do yo want to play me in DotA with the mode -aremomshnp?
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Jan 10 2010 11:06pm
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So do yo want to play me in DotA with the mode -aremomshnp?


Stop trying to take advantage from him.
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