Hi! Sorry for not saying anything. I hope you will understand why I have been silent for so long recently. There were a few things:
- I had to find a job to scrap a living. Actually, I managed to find two jobs to do so due to the recent situation in the country.
- One of the job is connected with Dota - I will be in a tier-one team (not as a player) and I will gladly announce it when it's time. I have high hopes that I'll make an impact on the team. You all k...
2022-05-29 20:50:15 +0000 UTC
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If you are fond of testing as I am these commands might be of use to you. To make them work you need to type "sv_cheats 1" into the console first.
- dota_show_object_obstructions 1 - shows trees on the map grid as green tiles
- dota_show_nav_obstructions 1 - shows objects as obstacles (yellow tiles) and units (blue dots) as well as their changing positions
2022-04-01 06:41:24 +0000 UTC
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There are two planes in Dota - horizontal and vertical. There are spells that interact with these planes which is called "forced movement": Toss (Tiny), Spear (Mars), God's Rebuke (Mars), Earth Spike (Lion), Hook (Pudge) and other spells that move or toss heroes. All of them, in addition to moving the target, also have their own effects. For example, while the target is flying from the spear of Mars, it cannot do anything - consider it a stun mid-flight, and then upon landing it also re...
2022-03-28 14:09:08 +0000 UTC
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With Aghanim's Dazzle can refresh all allies' items (or own items). During the disassemble time you can click on the Good Juju and instantly disassemble Aghanim's Scepter - Dazzle will go towards the hero and refresh their items. The ability won't go on cooldown. You can repeat that as many times as you want and then sell the item for the full price (4200) afterwards.
Edit: was fixed 31-st of March.
2022-03-28 12:35:23 +0000 UTC
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Warpine Raiders' spell "Seed Shot" can be used on spell immune units (BKB, Naix's Rage). It does nothing, but you are able to click on a target under BKB effect and the shots will bounce off the target even if other targets are also under BKB. Again, there will be no damage nor slow from the spell but it's still a neat detail.
2022-03-27 17:19:36 +0000 UTC
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Valve added the hotkey to open the Combat Log (that was actually my suggestion posted on Reddit among with half a dozen more that were implemented into the game).
Tl;dr: the Combat Log doesn't care if the target is invisible or smoked. If they were affected by any sort of debuff or damaged the event will be displayed in the log. Perfect when you have an AoE damaging spell as Clockwerk's rocket or Ember's ultimate with the Shard. You can just spam it somew...
2022-03-27 15:02:01 +0000 UTC
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2022-03-25 20:20:50 +0000 UTC
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These are the spots I used half a year ago but some of them require 1-2 trees to be cut. Don't worry, the wards are placed right on top of those cut trees and trees won't grow until the ward expires.
2022-03-25 20:19:11 +0000 UTC
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Penitence works when you issue an attack command not when the attack projectile lands. It means that if an ally is a ranged unit they can abuse the skill by rightclicking the debuffed enemy and switching to the desired target with refreshed buff.
To put a long story short: Chen casts Penitence onto an enemy, any ally or Chen rightclick on that enemy.They don't attack it and switch to something else with the buff. Repeat to refresh the buff. It's actually rare but rath...
2022-03-24 21:02:05 +0000 UTC
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This is one of those many tricks I share that 99% of pro players don't know exists. The trick can also be used by Nature's Prophet players.
The whole concept is relevant if you are running away and want to split the creeps to avoid feeding the whole pack (or in the NP case you want to block a lot of enemy camps).
Don't select creeps individually and don't single out everyone by shift-deleting one creep at a time. Just deselect everything and press ...
2022-03-23 07:32:45 +0000 UTC
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This is the updated and more precise table that I used 2 years ago. Some Valve worker finally realized that there are problems with the neutral camps experience. Previously, Ancient Dragons gave THE SAME amount of XP as the Dark Troll camp (if you count skeletons). Why even bother killing some dragons that had almost 5k HP (physical EHP) when you cou...
2022-03-12 05:42:32 +0000 UTC
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This is not stated in the patchnotes! Since 7.31 you can no longer replenish Drum charges (they make you upgrade it into Boots of Bearing). But there is one abuse or bug one might say.
Use all Drum charges and buy Boots of Bearing. Then disassemble within 10 seconds window. Now you have Tranquil Boots, Boots of Bearing recipe and Drums with 8 charges. You can do it inifinite amount of times.
Note that if you use Boots of Bearing you won't have a disassemble button.
2022-03-11 11:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Updated the previous post to 7.31b values. Didn't take into account small stats items like a Branch or a Robe.
Items go from smallest mana per minute to largest. The second column indicates how much gold is worth 1 MP, the third - how much MP can be bought for 1 gold. This is neat to find the best item for mana regen.
The most significant nerf of the patch is Refresher Orb: it u...
2022-03-11 07:43:54 +0000 UTC
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It's not obvious when you read 7.31 changelog but with lane creeps and other neutrals Skeleton Warriors also become stronger every 7.5 minutes.
Every 7.5 minutes an upgrade happens and all creeps increase some of their values. A single skeleton receives: +30 HP, +3 attack damage, +5 AS, +0.5 armor. Note that a Troll Summoner spawns 3 skeletons. In the end, a skeleton will...
2022-03-06 16:20:20 +0000 UTC
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What's new:
- Added all new values : basically, the creeps now hit faster, have more armor, have less attack damage (but the attack damage type compensates that). Creeps are also now more resilent to AS slows. Both gold and experience bounties are also changed - I will post a graph about that later.
- Neutrals now only have either "default" or "piercing" attack damage types. Say no to a hundred damage types crap you had to remember before the patch. Other damage type...
2022-03-06 16:07:45 +0000 UTC
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"Ogre Smash!" stated AoE is 200 but in reality it's actually 400 due to the nature of the damage outcome. The skill comes from the center in front of the Ogre, not from the Ogre's position as happens with most of the skills.
Previously I thought that the creep was only useful on the lane at level 1 as a farming tool at the enemy mid jungle (basically killing small camps all th...
2022-03-03 17:49:51 +0000 UTC
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It works the same as Ogre's Ignite - the more stacks you have - the more their durations are. The first effect lasts 8 seconds, three stacks make it to 24 seconds. In terms of damage it's 300 damage within 24 seconds to the tower. The creep is shit and the damage is ludicrous but if you managed to take 2-3 of said creeps - you don't need to wait for Icefire Bomb effect to wear off to apply the new one - just throw all the spells and retreat.
2022-03-03 14:11:06 +0000 UTC
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In 7.31 Valve changed starting attack speed and base attack time of neutral creeps. The starting attack speed was used to be 100 (mostly) and they doubled the amount to 200. It sounds cool but the BAT (base attack time) was changed too. The higher the BAT the lower advantage you get from attack speed buffs. Let me explain it one by one:
- 1. New starting attack speed ma...
2022-03-03 14:02:40 +0000 UTC
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Probably a bug since for Visage it's a free Philosopher's Stone with 60 GPM.
EDIT: fixed as of March, 2022 - Spring Cleaning Update
2022-02-27 10:44:16 +0000 UTC
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Damage types in 7.31 made creeps stronger against heroes and towers (also, Roshan is now triple as vulnerable to piercing damage creeps but I will post it later). Here's the spreadsheet where you can compare what units deal what damage as compared to the patches before.
2022-02-27 10:06:15 +0000 UTC
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In this post you will know what Roshan's pit is made of, and how some heroes take advantage over it in their games. First off, let's project how the game itself sees the Dota map: to build pathfinding routes, fog of war, and more. To do this, we need several commands (besides sv_cheats 1):
1) dota_gridnav_show 1 - shows a navigation grid;
2) cl_dota_gridnav_show_size 2
2022-01-15 08:10:21 +0000 UTC
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Not only by my own feelings but statistically approved that getting Aghanim's Shard as soon as possible is crucial in terms of winning. Below is the screenshot of a Russian stats site similar to stratz.com - there are 405 Chen games played above Immortal rank.
Yelow box is the winrate boost of 5.84% if you get shard early on: 20:00-21:05 as the earliest timings.
Red box shows the decreased winrate by 1.11% over every minute after 20:00. I.e th...
2022-01-10 13:54:54 +0000 UTC
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On January the 5, an update was released - Valve added dota_selection_groups true/false command. With its help you can select identical units separately if set false and as a group of identical units if set true (which is set by default).
For example, if it's set true - all Nature's Prophet's treants and all Brood's spiders will be selected at once because they are just the same unit but copied. If the command is set false, then the...
2022-01-10 07:13:51 +0000 UTC
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Decent abuse early on or in a game where you rely on 2-3 creeps tops with one free creep slot left. Shortly - you recall your harpy onto a cliff. Let's put the idea into points:
- Every harpy has 1400/1400 day/night vision. In comparison, an Observer Ward provides 1200/1200. Since you have no obstacles on the cliff being on top of every terrain object you recieve full potential of that vision.
- On some cliffs you can cast Ch...
2022-01-06 12:46:39 +0000 UTC
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When you just persuade the Hill Troll Priest (aggring all neutrals beforehand) you are to set "Heal" on autocast and hold rightclick without releasing it. In the end you have the creep that both heals Chen and attacks creeps with the most efficient timings inbetween those actions. You don't waste time on switching autocast on and off or pressing "Q" (or whatever is set) all the time to heal and issue attacks after that like I used before. Instead you save quite some time and ...
2022-01-06 11:31:04 +0000 UTC
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One of a few Kobold usability is to issue a follow command on the courier as the creep itself is not that useful at level one outside of scouting and stacking or as a boot to an aggressive core hero (Ursa, Slark).
Based level one courier has 290 MS, the Kobold gives +34 which is significant. If you haven't noticed yet - there is a rule in the game that says: if your courier carries any number of consumables - the courier is slowed by 1...
2022-01-06 11:01:34 +0000 UTC
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2021-12-16 18:41:23 +0000 UTC
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Outdated a bit as for 7.30e but is still reliable source of information. I'm making a separate guidebook with more information and as a PDF file with comfortable colours and other detailed stuff (first in Russian) but if you don't want to wait this is a good read for you. My ex Magnum Opus.
Please, after requesting the access PM me your e-mail so I could give it to you.
2021-11-19 17:32:31 +0000 UTC
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If you ever wondered how impactful an item on Chen is - this is your chance. I compared a few most common items you see on Chen with most common position 4 enemy items.
Headdress, Buckler, Ring of Protection, Blightstone against Blightstone or Ring of Protection.
In the table I put such data as the starting damage, armor, attack speed and regen and bonuses from above-said items. This is all for you to decide how to be more viable on the lane as it is known, if you...
2021-11-19 17:16:22 +0000 UTC
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