Corplen’s Blog

A new informal and easy way to decide who gets to solo? Unfortunately (i think) the roll is just for viewing only, it’s up to the people who rolled to follow up on their agreement (Ch

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Intelligence heroes are the most frequently used heroes in competitive matches such as CAL league games (viper and vengeful spirit are agility heroes for scourge and sentinel side respectively, and are also used frequently). (more…)

Dota has many agility heroes, which can be further split into multiple groups, such as nukers(e.g luna moonfang->lucent beam, venomancer->poison nova), melee hunters(e.g. gondar->track, shuriken toss, windwalk, jinada, bloodseeker->bloodrage, thirst, rupture, blood bath), ranged hunters (e.g. bone clinkz->windwalk + strafe + searing arrows, viper ->frenzy, poison attack, viper strike), image heroes(e.g. phantom lancer->juxtapose + phantom edge + dopplewalk, naga siren  ->mirror image) and many others such as anti-mage(mana burner and int hero hunter), faceless void(great late game hero),soulkeeper(sunder can turn the tables in many fights, through the swapping of hp bars) and spectre(haunt provides mobility(can teleport to any image generated) and ability to distract heroes in 5 vs 5 fights)

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The heroes in Dota come in three main categories, intelligence heroes, agility heroes and strength heroes (with the appropriate stat as their main attribute)

Strength heroes may be further split into two groups, hero killers or tanks or even a supporter(in the case of Omniknight). 

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The next most cost efficient items for 1 slot are probably wraith bands (because they’re 50 gp cheaper) then bracers and null talismans. These items provide +6 to their main stat and +3 to the other two stats (wraith bands give 6 agi, bracers 6 str and nulls 6 int)

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Ironwood branches, or otherwise known as GG branches are frequently used in competitive games such as in CAL league matches. Consider the cost efficiency of the item, for the price of 57 gp you are getting +1 to all stats, since a hero has 6 inventory slots anyway, you might as well use up around 5 slots at all times.

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Ring of Basilus is formed from two cheap items, Sobi Mask(provides 50% extra mana regen) and Ring of Protection(provides 2 bonus armor to the hero only)

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Dota, or otherwise known as Defence of The Ancients by its full name was designed with the hope that it would promote team-based play and is supposed to be generally played by everyone around the world, pro or newb, as shown by the usual line-ups of 5 vs 5 in competitive play (no 1 on 1 tournaments of Dota ^^”, sry folks)

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