Introduction:
Hey everyone i'm Ebad and welcome to guide for dota 2.
About Post:
In this post is going to be for anybody
who's new or who's trying to get into
dota from scratch from ground zero who
hasn't really ever played the game or
has only played the game a little bit
i'm going to show you how to get into
the game how to start learning the game
and what to do after you've you know
mastered some of the basics but then how
to get to like progressing getting
better ranking up all of those things.
Start from here:
The general mindset that you want to
have and all of those kinds of things
but just we're gonna start out what to
do when you boot up the game for the
first time or you just you know start
the game you don't have any idea. well when you start the
game it might just put you in straight
to the tutorial depending on some of the
options you pick but if it doesn't you
can just go to the learn tab here and
you can find all of the new player
experience stuff from here and even if
you kind of know a little bit about dota
or you've played another similar game
i would still play through all of this
because dota's going to have some
mechanics that you may not know even if
you think you know some of the mechanics
or a lot of the mechanics just go
through all of this it doesn't take that
long you know some of these are three
minutes three minutes five minutes that
kind of stuff and it'll just show you
all of the basics and once you have that
then you'll have kind of a basic
understanding of all the things like the
towers and the ancient and all of that
kind of stuff purchasing items leveling
up your hero teleporting anything like
that and so i don't really have to go
through that because thankfully valve
has that here for you but then
once you're done with this you might be
asking okay well what do i do now well
if you ever want
to learn anything or you have a question
this learn tab is always here has a
glossary of different mechanics there's
a lot of mechanics here in dota it also
has all of the items listed here as well.
So you can see what they do and you know
what they build into and everything when
you select one you can see the
components and what it builds into and
all of those different things and then
the other important obvious one is all
of the heroes so if you select the hero
tab you can see all of the heroes here
and you can select any of them and see
their abilities and what they do and
have like you know here's your uh
cosmetics and all of that stuff and so
this is important that you obviously can
start learning some of the heroes but
the way that you do that is by clicking
play
and going up here
either to practice with bots or the new
player mode whichever kind of one i
would say
this is just default but then you can do
practice with bots if you find that you
don't like this
as much or you're playing with other
people or whatever it is you can just do
the practice with bots default so you
know you're practicing with bots and you
can select the difficulty and everything
and this is how you can kind of get into
your first game you can try out a hero
you can try out the movement you can try
out everything that you learned and
that's what i would suggest doing you
can play as many of these as you want
until you're like you know ready to get
into playing with real people it's up to
you i would say you should at least be
able to like beat easy you should be
able to beat passive maybe easy before
pretty consistently before you jump into
a real game because you know there's all
kinds of crazy levels of experience um
and ability with this game but if you're
really that new and you don't have the
ability to beat you know easy bots you
should at least do that.
Um and this is where obviously you can
experiment with all kinds of heroes and
all that kind of stuff but if you really
want to learn what a hero does and
you're just interested and you don't
really know what the heroes do you can
always click on them and just click demo
mode
so you can do this with any hero and
it'll put you in a kind of small little
lobby it's not a full game this is how i
make hero guides it's pretty simple you
can have you can kind of do anything
here you can spawn enemies you can level
the enemies up you can spawn dummy
targets give yourself free spells level
yourself to max do all of these things
and then you can just experiment with
what all of the abilities do with the
attack animation with the damage with
the walking everything about a hero and
this is the best way to just learn the
basics of a hero if you're you know
curious about what the hero does so
those are all the ways to start learning
the heroes and you know learning the
game um do the tutorial you know look up.
Some of the items look at some of the
heroes play some bot matches and all
that kind of stuff so let's say you have
that all out of the way you know some of
the heroes you know some of the items
you played against bot matches you're
sick of that you're a little bit bored
well
the first thing that you're going to
want to do is you're going to want to
play unranked all pick
and when you do that you're going to
want to pick
one hero and spam that hero maybe two if
that hero gets picked or that hero is
like banned or whatever um then you can
pick another hero basically you want to
have a main hero
that you're gonna spam and how you pick
that hero is by going down here and
clicking complexity
so you click this little one thing and
it gives you all of the pretty simple
and straightforward heroes that you can
play so i would say just pick one of
these heroes whatever one you think is
coolest it doesn't even matter if it's
just because it looks cool or you mean
or i mean you look at the abilities or
you played with it a little bit or you
played against it and you think it's
like interesting just pick one whatever
one it is and just play that it can be
mid it can be support it can be carry it
can be literally anything but just play
this hero.
for about 100 200 whatever games a few
hundred games and the reason why you're
going to do this is because it's going
to allow you to understand that hero
what it does but it's also going to
allow you to learn every hero
in the context of that one hero so i i
actually started out the game many many
years ago
playing drow i basically picked a drow
and i went mid every single game i
played with some friends and stuff and i
just did this for about 200 games maybe
maybe even 300 i don't know it was a lot
of games that i played drow mid and what
this did for me is this allowed me to
learn not only how she wins games and
what she does and all of her abilities
but it also allowed me to learn what
every other hero does because i learned
you know well if i'm against an earth
shaker this is what the earth shaker
does because the earth shaker stuns me
and can jump on top of me and all those
things with a blink and this and that
and it's harder for me to get away i
need to buy bkb or whatever it is i
learned about earthshaker in the context
of playing drow
and the same thing will be true for any
hero you'll learn what another hero does
so when you pick jug for instance
and you have this built-in magic
community bkb you'll learn what that
means you'll learn what abilities go
through that you'll learn what abilities
don't go through that what things can
kill you what things can't kill you and
all of that kind of stuff you'll learn
like how to position your hero where
it's very vulnerable that you'll die
like obviously if you just run into a
tower and you're gonna get killed by a
bunch of heroes you'll start learning
that all of those things and uh the
problem is a lot of times where you're
gonna die who kills you all of that
stuff is very hero specific so to start
learning that that's why you need to
pick that one hero and spam it because
that's how you're going to learn what
the other heroes do in the context of
that hero and it's very very important.