Hello everyone.

I’d like to share with you guys some facts about Dota 2 as well as give you some guides on how to win a match of Dota 2.

Dota 2 is a very versatile game where there are many ways to win a match. There are some issue for some players when it comes to being put with bad players or new players in a match that can’t be helped for player who play alone. So, the most efficient way to win a match of Dota 2 is to have 5 men team with mic for communication during the match.

Communication within the team is Dota 2 is very important where you can ask for help or warn a team mate about potential threats.

1 - The most important thing and the fastest way to getting good at Dota 2 is by watching Pro games. These are people who have been playing Dota 2 for years and have acquired great amount of experience as well as ideas and mechanism that helps them win a Dota 2 Match.

2 - It’s important as well to learn the basics when forming a team. Every team there must be at least one Hardcore support; at least in order to Ward or DE-ward the map for the team. Vision is very important in every match in order to push, farm, attack, defend, etc. If you have vision about how many enemies are in certain position, it’s easier to know what you can do next according to your position and your team’s position.

3 - Every team there must be a Strong carry. A team without a strong, stable carry, will always suffer the whole match. The farming and leveling up must be always be given the preference to the carry of the team. That’s why some players prefer leaving the carry alone in a lane in order to let it receive the whole exp and gold for itself. However, even when doing that, you must consider whether it’s a wise or not. Because most of the time, players just let their carries alone on the lane and then the carry ends up being harassed and destroyed by the enemy team.

4 - It’s important not to feed the enemy team. Feeding means giving the enemy advantages. Learn the time to fight and the time to retreat. Don’t go all out in a full attack if you’re not certain you can win and stay alive.

5 - Remember to always keep pushing the lane, but do it wisely. Keep yourself aware of the enemy team on the map.

6 - Learn what each hero are capable of in Dota 2. The Dota 2 hero pool is vast and each has it’s own feature to be played on a match.

7 - Once you learn about that, you can all apply the most important rule to winning a match: A good Draft. For those who don’t know, Draft is what we call the hero selection before every match. Your team must pick/ban heroes according to the enemy team’s. If learned well about the hero’s pool, you will know which hero is good against other or vice-versa.

The next phase, which is in-game. The first goal is to level up and acquire gold in order to get stronger.

Here, it’s important to learn the items you will need for the match according to your enemy’s team as well. There are items that will directly help to fight, counter, disable, debuff, etc, against your enemy’s team. Don’t start building your items blindly or just followed by the guides in the game made by other users.

1 - The farm must be preferentially given to the heroes that can carry the match or play the most important part of it. If you’re playing as a support, it’s important to learn how to stack creeps or to push your or your enemy’s team to the side lane’s neutral creeps to your team’s favor.

The pushing of Creeps to the Neutral Creeps(NC), or vice-versa, must only be applied when your lane is in risk because your enemy is too aggressive trying to get you killed in the lane. So you can go let the creeps get nearer to the enemy’s tower or your enemy will certainly kill you or your team mates. Having the Creeps near your tower is the safest way to farm in early game.

2 - If you’re playing as carry or a core hero in the match, focus at farming to level up and get gold. Don’t teleport to another place to get yourself in a team’s fight every time it happens. You must learn when you can do it and when you can’t do it. I see most people doing that when they could’ve known that there was nothing they could’ve done but they do it anyway and get themselves killed for nothing. Most of the times it’s better to keep pushing the lane while the enemy’s team in fighting, take their tower/towers, or to just keep farming to get yourself strong in order to do something in late game.

3 - Your team doesn’t have to always defend towers. Most of the times I see players stopping pushing or taking a tower or even farming to defend their own tower that can’t even be saved. Remember, when the enemy’s is doing something which’s not attacking you, you can do something else to in another place in the map. Many matches were won by players that instead of getting back to defend their own base, they decided to attack the enemy’s base because they knew they could do it faster than the enemy’s team. In these cases, the enemy is forced to teleport to defend and then you your team can just get back to push their own lane.

4 - Trap your enemy as many times as you can. If you see 1 or 2 of your enemy’s team alone that your team can easily move to attack and kill, do it. For that, it’s important to have Wards placed in order to see where the enemy is on the map. Vision is the second most important thing in a match of Dota 2. If you don’t know where your enemy team is, you basically can’t risk to do anything. If you try to farm, you will get killed by them. If you try to push lane, you will get killed by them.

As a carry, I suffered a lot with team mates playing support that didn’t Ward the map and couldnt do anything on the map. For a carry to start Warding the map is ridiculous. It just doesn’t work out. As a support, I suffered as well with carries wasting time with those things as well.

So, sometimes, that only thing you can do in a match, if you’re playing with random team or you just can’t use a mic or dont even speak the language the region you’re living does, is to get yourself better by doing what you’re supposed to do and acquire more experience and keep trying new mechanisms and tactics.

The most important tip and can share with you, guys, is to watch some Pros playing or Streamers like Sumiya, the Kael’s best player.

Learn how they farm and operate in a match as a Carry, a Core, a 4th position, a Support, or a Hard Support. That’s the fastest and more fruitful way to learn how to truly play Dota 2 with efficiency instead of just playing it like a dumb playing by luck being carried by your team mates.