Meet The Meta | Patch 7.09

Heroes Trends after Patch 7.09

Latest Dota 2 Patch 7.09 did not bring anything new in the game, and therefore it did not touch the meta at all. All supports are still benefitted from a reduced courier price.

Huskar – The Burning Spear

Huskar is still climbing up to the top of the most popular champion in the last couple of months, and now he is on the 3rd place in the Very High skill bracket with 57% win rate.

Bounty Hunter – greed is good

Early we all predicted that all invisible heroes in dota 2 will become weaker because supports now have extra gold for sentry wards, but Bounty Hunter became only stronger. He is slowly returning to the pro scene, and pub players now picking him much more often. All thanks to the Spirit Vessel, that is 45% cheaper than Guardian Greaves and counter such meta champions as Dragon Knight.

Chen – leader of the pack

Impressive 55% win rate in the 5k+ MMR bracket, making Chen one of the most successful support in the Dota 2. His power is fully opened in the fast win strategies. At the 20 level, Chen’s creeps became really powerful and not every team could quickly exterminate all of them.

Terrorblade – a guest from hell

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Terrorblade is now the prime core of every game. His amount of Armor making him very strong against physical damage, and his ability to farm with abnormal speed gives him a throne in our Meta Rating of 7.09. Only a few champions could opposite Terrorblade in the end-game, but right now all of them are not popular.

Three OP heroes in the 7.07 patch

Heroes, which, in recent times were not particularly popular, can again become relevant. The popular analyst Shane in his tweet lists the characters that we’ll probably see next month.

Doom | Reborn in fire

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Recently Doom increasingly appears on the professional stage. Players of the Team Empire Miposhka and Chappie played as Doom on the DreamLeague introductions early. Zai also played as Doom during his speech yesterday at WCA Qualifiers. The hero’s  win rate in high-skill is 52%, but low-skill player nearly forgot about this hero and Doom has a low percentage of winrate.

The tree of talents gives a special impression in comparison with other heroes. At the 20th level, Doom can devour ancient creeps. “His Infernal blade has a divine power,” Shane said.

“The hero sets the enemy on fire with his burning sword, stun for 0.3 sec. Target is on for 4.0 seconds. and gets 40 + 1.25% / 2.5% / 3.75% / 5% damage from maximum health per second, and the cooldown on level 4 is only 4 seconds. “

The presence of the game character on the pro-stage grows the same as in the pub, just think about his capabilities. The absence of Doom in games does not give the right to forget about him.

Chaos Knight | From Chaos we born to Chaos we will come

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Recently, the Chaos Knight was been performed well by Resolut1on and Crystallize on the qualifications WCA EU. His winrate is 54.8%, and over the past week, it has grown to 55.5%, making him this month the seventh on the list of the most successful heroes. At the moment, the “knight” is on the rise. The slowly growing popularity of Chaos Knight is part of a new trend for heroes based on illusions that can end the game and rise to enemy high grounds, which has become more difficult since the appearance of the shrines.

CK pick rate patch 7.06

Manta Style & Heart of Tarrasque make illusions harsher, and they are quite difficult to kill without a good counter in the opponent’s team. Chaos Knight absolutely destroys single heroes, such as Viper, Wraith King, Ursa, Huskar, etc. To deal with Chaos Knight, you need heroes such as Earthshaker, Jakiro,  Sand King or other heroes with good AoE damage. Omniknight is also a good counterpick to the Chaos Knight.

Spirit Breaker | He will chase you until you dead

spirit breaker dota 2

The current meta-game is very focused on all stages of the game. The best hero for this need is a hero who can attack among the entire map. The Spirit Breaker has a great mobility.

The hero does not need to be constantly present on the lines, he is too cool for this, just give him the opportunity to run around on the map. He gives visions, can handle most of the characters one on one, and his abilities have short cooldowns, which is the key factor why the Spirit Breaker is deadly. With the recent hero again begins to gain popularity.

The hero is easy to learn, and the thoughts about the bombLifestealer Naix -Spirit Breaker” make you shudder enemies. If the Spirit Breaker plays against you, then you need to focus on the wards as much as possible. Eul’s Scepter cancels Charge of Darkness and makes the character look like a fool. A firm purchase.

“If my team has a Spirit Breaker, the chances of winning increases up to 80%, he just kills everything that moves,” Shane joked.

 

Dota 2 | Meta 7.06f | Best heroes to rise MMR

Best Champions for MMR Boosting in 7.06f

As we all know, Dota 2 is developing every day, and every new patch brings something new to the game. That’s why our portal wants to please you with another article on the topic: how and on whom to raise MMR in patch 7.06f.

Windranger

Windranger Dota 2

This month, with the 7.06f patch Windranger, has a win rate of 49.62% and a pick rate of 14.72% on average on all ratings. Over the past two weeks, we have seen a rise in popularity and share of victories – and there are reasons for this. In the new patch, the character changed the Shackleshot’s ability a little, namely, increased the duration from 1.5 / 2.25 / 3 / 3.75 to 2.0 / 2.6 / 3.2 / 3.8, but also increased the recharge time from 12 to 18/16/14/12.

It is worth noting that Windranger was not popular in the past The International 2017, but the hero is quite popular on all ratings. With a nice attack animation, escape, a good ability to deal damage and no less useful ultimacy, with the proper assembly of artifacts and the pumping of the right talents, this character can become the cause of many of your victories.

OPERATING PRINCIPLE

On the example of the professional player Ludwig ‘zai’ Wolberg, we can consider how to win on this hero. Of course, in the process of the game you can, and sometimes even need to bring something of your own, but for the template, you can take this particular model. zai from the very beginning of the game actively moves around the map and tries to help his teammates. With pumped to the fourth level Powershot zai literally destroys his enemies one by one, thereby capturing the superiority at the beginning of the game. Lovely in the meta of the present time, Linken’s Sphere artifact is perfectly combined with the mobility of this hero, especially with an abundance of opponents with targeted abilities.

The talent that appeared in Windranger in patch 7.06, giving invisibility to Windrun is almost the best talent in the game, and, undoubtedly, it is worth paying attention to. Even if the enemy will actively use items that help overcome your invisibility, a short recharge of Windrun in combination with the above Linken’s Sphere is unlikely to leave them any chance to defeat you. To sum up, I’d like to add that by the 30th minute of the game Windranger is able to defeat almost any opponent one-on-one with appropriate artifacts and with the help of Shackleshot and Focus Fire.

Sven

Sven Dota 2

This hero was and remains one of the strongest carry in Dota 2. Along with the other heroes of this position, Sven is the most stable and easy to implement character. The ability Warcry in the aftermath of the last patch has received increased recharge. This change can not make Warcry, giving at the last level of pumping 20 units of armor, bad for the implementation of the ability, so that Sven did not become the less dangerous hero.

With his Great Cleave ability, a character with the help of allies can easily obtain the necessary artifacts to complete the game. At the moment, Sven Sven has a win rate of 52.77% and with the correct use of this hero, you can literally win alone.

OPERATING PRINCIPLE

It would seem that everything is so easy and understandable when playing on this hero, but it is worth taking into account a couple of points in order to win. In its swing of ability, preference is given to the Great Cleave, because it is this ability that allows you to quickly farm your line and the forest. Ideally, you should ask your allies to make stacks in the jungle, in order to quickly acquire the necessary items. Do not be greedy with skills when killing ancient creeps, so you can quickly deal with them and return to the farm on the line, or even join your allies in killing an enemy hero.

On the example of the Jordanian champion of The International 2017, Amera “Miracle” al-Barkawi, you can see that he mines gold for twenty minutes and then destroys two heroes of the opposing team alone. Mask of Madness in the absence of a lot of instant damage from enemies, combined with God’s Strength simply does not leave a chance for your enemies. And if your team has a hero like Enigma or Magnus, you can not only have full domination over the enemy throughout the game, but you can also turn almost lost matches. All in your hands!

 

Lion

Lion Dota 2

If the above characters are only suitable for players who prefer the main roles in the game, then Lion will be a pleasant surprise for those who prefer to play the role of support in the game. Win rate of this character at the moment has a weak indicator – 47.56%, but it has grown very much in comparison with the indicators a month ago. In patch 7.06f, Lion’s 20 level talent has been changed from + 8% to +300 damage from Finger of Death, which gave to the already strong ability a good boost.

OPERATING PRINCIPLE

Considering Lion as an independent support it’s worth noting that it is able to keep the enemy hero under control as much as 6.6 seconds with Earth Spike and Hex, which can become a critical time for many enemies. Often and without the help of the team, Lion quite successfully copes with the enemy hero and can kill him alone, but the participation of your teammates will not be superfluous and you can turn the game in your direction without any problems. The aforementioned Finger of Death in combination with Aether Lens and Aghanim Scepter without magical protection can inflict 1500 damage to the enemy on the area, which is simply unbelievable.

Also, Lion is very mobile and useful at the beginning of the game thanks to the assembly of Tranquil Boots and its Mana Drain abilities. Do not forget that the presence of support in the game, and in particular such as our hero contributes to your unconditional victory over the enemy. In support of all of the above, I would like to show you the game of ex-player, and now commentator Nicklas Wagamama Hegstrom, with the exception of his assembly of Mask of Madness, which in a serious game is not suitable for Lion.

Necrophos

Necrophos Dota 2

Finally, it was decided to leave, perhaps, the most successful example of the hero, on which it is easy and pleasant to raise MMRNecrophos. I want to start with the fact that the hero in patch 7.06f suffered a change in the recharge of his Ultimate – Reaper’s Scythe from 90/80/70 to 100. To immediately relieve tension, it is worth saying that it did not in any way affect the utility of the hero. Excellent abilities and a large abundance of suitable artifacts when combined give Necrophos a win rate of 56.29% at the moment. This is a brilliant indicator and currently, it is only growing.

OPERATING PRINCIPLE

Necrophos is a hero who shows himself from the best side in any of the roles. The hero perfectly stands face-to-face with the enemy character on the central line, is able to endure the beginning of the game on a complex and in the extreme case suitable for the farm on an easy line. That’s why it’s suitable for most Dota 2 players.

The hero fits perfectly into the meter of aggressive play and is capable of destroying opponents on a cooldown of the Ultimate. The disadvantage with the long recharge time of Reaper’s Scythe is corrected by the purchase of Aghanim Scepter. Incredibly strong ultimacy and ability are complemented plus a whole good tree of talents. +40 Damage at level 10 is an excellent improvement in order to quickly inflict the necessary amount of damage to use Reaper’s Scythe.

Depending on the course of the game, Necrophos can easily become a good tank or someone who can quickly get the enemy hero out of action. In the first case it will help Blade Mail and Hood of Defiance, and in the second one you can try to assemble through Dagon. Situations are different, but from what you choose – it may well depend on the outcome of the battle. And to convince us again will help Wagamama:


How to rise Elo in SoloQ | Jungle

Hello, my dear friends, the first thing you need to know, that this guide is created for the Junglers, here you can find something new.

Jungle | SoloQ

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This is a guide, where I tried to concentrate all available information, that is needed to rise Elo, playing as a Jungler. In this guide, I will focus firstly on players of Bronze and Silver league, but I’m sure that many players of greater divisions can find something interesting here.

Introduction

We all love to play in League of Legends, this is interesting, fascinating and funny. But sometimes SoloQ ranked matches is a real pain in the ass. All that I will write down here, is focusing on the one main purpose – raising Elo. To reach this goal you need to play mostly on one role, and play a lot. You need to carry four more guys, that probably even does not know how to play in LoL, You need to take a responsibility for all that is happening in a game, correct others’ mistakes, play not only for yourself but for the whole team.

SoloQ | How to rise Elo playing as Jungler

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Everyone set their own goals when they start LoL. For someone, this goal is just to gain pleasure from the game, for someone – to add salt in games. They play normal games, or ranked, solo or in a team, but they play mostly for fun. But we need to chase another goal – to rise Elo.

Basic advises

After you set a goal, you need to focus not only on the game but also on your behavior. Behavior is the most important thing in all kinds of activities. Never start a game, if you upset, have a bad mood, or some problems in real life. If you feel unusual, but still want to play, then play in any other game mode, like a normal draft, ARAM, dominion and else.

Never start games when you tired. Every man has their limits, after what you start to play significantly worse. Try to notice when you starting to think out of the game. If you see that you starting lose focus on LoL, then try to change activity. Just know when to stop. Many players just lose a freaking lot of games, only because they do not know when to stop. If you lose 1-3 games, then just take a break. Most of the players just fall in rage and start to spam games, dramatically increasing their losing streak. And in the worst scenario, you may start to troll in games.

Remember that if you decided to play League of Legends then you need to be chill. Take a break if you feel tired and you will reach new heights.

Why jungler

Jungler is the most independent role, where everything depends only on you. Playing as a Jungler you free to choose where to gank, when to gank, when to aim a Dragon. I prefer a tank-initiators type of junglers, so I choose where and when all team fights will start. And the right initiation of the team fight is the half of success.

To carry low elo games, you need to play on strong champions. Always follow the Meta, learn new champions. Your task – to find which champions are strong at this moment and to master them. Strong champion is not always popular, strong champion – is that kind of champion that can carry games almost by himself. Take Shivanna as an example. Many think that she is weak because she is not popular, but with the right items she is able to deal freaking lots of AoE damage and can fight almost 1 vs 3.

With the new patch, your favorites may meet some nerfs, so you need to quickly learn a new champion. This is an infinitive process, and you need to adapt to it.

Understand your team

Adapt to your team. Watch how they play, and how they act. In most cases, you can locate an idiot just in the lobby. Never focus on bad players in a game, do not even try to help them during the game. Idiot with a 4-0 stats can still lose a lane.

Focus on good players because you need allies in a match. Help him, gank his lane and you together you will be able to win a match. Even if he does strange things, it will be better to risk and assist him.

Many peoples, especially from Bronze, just loves to whine at the team. “I have a great CS and KDA, that means that I am a King and you all are Losers!” This is incorrect. You need to understand that if you want to break through low Elo you need to carry games, carry the whole team. If someone was killed by gank, then be sure that he buy and place a ward. If he did not bought it, then buy it by yourself, go to him, and place it.

Remember that you do not need /all chat. So go and disable it right now. Enemies, allies, all players of League of Legends use this chat to whine, flame and troll. If you here to start a conversation with some new peoples, then try something else. League of Legends is a competitive moba game, not some personal chat service. When someone starts to whine, flame then just add him to the ignore list.

Jungler champions | SoloQ

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Personally, I divide all jungler by 2 groups – farmers and gankers.

Farmers – those junglers which full potential opens only in middle and late game. They do not that good at ganking, but they able to quickly farm jungle minions. Shyvanna is a great example, that can so effectively farm jungle that she can have the same level as the other solo laners. Other great farmers are Dr. Mundo, Amumu, Nasus, and others.

Gankers – junglers that really strong in early stages of the game. These champions are quite bad at farming, but they can deal great damage already by the 3rd level.

But this does not mean that playing on farmer you need to focus only on farm. You need to open the potential of a champion on all 100%.

Conclusion

This is the end of the First part of my guide, the second will be released probably in the next week. Summing up all that I wrote above, I want to say that it is easy to leave Elohell solo, all you need to do is to put some efforts in it, and you will quickly see how your rating is growing up. But if you feel that all this is pointless, then you can always use elo boosting services.

Most popular boosting services

Popular Boosting Companies

Hello and welcome! Many of you think why you need to boost your account? Well, most toxic player lives in the low MMR or Elo, so if you want to play for joy, then you need High reliable rating in your game. The higher rating you have the more skillfull players you will have in your team. And your games will be full of precious moments, amazing comebacks, or just bring satisfaction to you. So let’s look at some most popular boosting services in such games like:

  • Dota 2
  • Counter Strike: Global Offensive
  • League of Legends
  • Overwatch

Dota 2 boost MMR

The best choice to boost your personal match making rating in popular moba – Dota 2, is a boosting service BoostMMR.

BoostMMR Dota 2

BoostMMR – is a boosting service that is one of the most popular and top rated in Dota 2 community. There is a few reasons why customers prefer BoostMMR over other competitors, and i try to tell you about all advantages of this boosting service.

They provide a great variety of services to increase your MMR in Dota2 like:

  • MMR Boosting
  • Calibration
  • Coaching

So why you need to boost you MMR? If you ever dream about playing games above your current bracket in Dota 2, but you just can not find time to play, or you just can not rise it due to the bad players, then BoostMMR can help you. Dota 2 MMR boosting service can offer a many professional players that will log into your account and will win almost every game until you reach a desirable plank. Do not fear about someone will notice that it is not you playing at your account.

So what advantages over other boosting services BoostMMR have?

Live Stream

Watch how your account is boosting and learn a few or more tricks that will help you in future. Just look closely at their games and remember all their moves.

Anonymous

BoostMMR employers always use “appear as offline” aka invisible status while boosting accounts, so nobody will not notice that you are in Steam right now, and playing Dota 2.

Match History

Boostmmr stat

If you can not watch a live stream, then do not fear about your account, you can always check your match history from the order in your personal area at BoostMMR website.

Only experienced professionals

If you afraid that some amateurs may boost your account, then do not! They have only experienced boosters, and every one carefully chosen.

Secured Payments

All your transactions is protected with 256 bit Secure Sockets Layer encryption.

Money Back Guarantee

If you not satisfied with their service, then you allowed to request a full refund.

Fast Service

Many professional boosters just wait for YOUR order to take. Your order will go in work in less than 24 hours.

Members Area

After a purchase you will be able to enter in your personal area, where you can find your order, chat with your booster and more.


Counter Strike: Global Offensive ranked boost

If you tired to play with a low skilled team mates, then you will definitely need a boost from a Boosting24. This company is the most popular in the Counter Strike Community. They have only professionals in their team, that never use cheats or 3rd party software. All your orders will be completed by a genuine players, and all wins are based on hard human work. The chance that you will be banned is incredibly low, they play in accordance with the rules.

Boost24 CS:GO

Boosting24 is a legally worldwide company registered in Europe. That company was founded by a group of talented Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players, who reached Global Elite rank, and after reaching that plank they decided to help other peoples to break through Silver in the top, where interesting games only starts.

Boosting24 offer the most reliable and legitimate CS:GO rank boosting, and let players to get ranks that they desire and deserve, without hard work and frustration.

And what makes CSGO Rank Boost so great?

  • Guaranteed rank. After purchase you may be calm about your account, NO ONE will know that you buy boost, NO ONE will steal your data, and you will get your desirable rank.
  • No Cheats. They have only professional boosters, so do not fear about your accounts fate. Boosting24 boosters never use cheat programs, they are so high skill players that they even did non need them.
  • Fast boosting. They start to boost your account right after you pay your money.
  • Experienced Company. The work more then 3 years in that sphere, so they know what customers need. This is the mist reliable service that you can find.

Boost24 statistic

So why you should choose them? Because their main priority – fast and secure boosting. They offer almost every kind of service that you can desire. Coaching? Yeah for sure! Their professional players can teach you a few tricks, and just you may learn some new tactics in various maps.

So if you feel like you stuck at some stage of the Counter Strike: Global Offensive game, then you know where to go.


League of Legends Elo Boost

Boosteria.org one of the best boosting services in the world, so if you want to play games with professionals players with high skill, then you need a good Elo rating in the League of Legends. And in this paragraph i will tell you about all advantages of this company.

Boosteria LoL

Boosteria is company that have a great number of professional players, and the lowerest prices that you can find in the internet. Many peoples used this service, and all of them are stayed happy. So why they choose such company as Boosteria?

  1. They hire only Challenger players. Minimum requirement that you need to became a booster is a Diamond 1 Elo rank or higher. So do not afraid about your account, it is in the good hands.
  2. All employers have a good manners, so your account will never be banned by Tribunal. Boosteria always check employers to be sure that they were not suspended.
  3. 24/7 Support Center. Fast and customer oriented support will always here to help you if you have any troubles or unasked questions.
  4. Great speed of orders completion. Boosteria always looks for some ways to increase speed of completing orders, so you will receive your account as fast as you can.

Boosteria discount

Also Boosteria have a great discounts. So if you want to order a league boost, then it is a great time to check their offers. Right now they have a 10% sale on various boosting services.

When you visit this website in first time you will see:

  • Friendly interface. You will easily find all that you need at Boosteria.org.
  • Personal area, where you can easily find or cancel orders, or order another one.
  • Discountes, Boosteria provides stackable discount, that mean the more you order, the bigger will be your discount.
  • Payment. All available methods! Boosteria using G2A pay service and due to this you can use ANY POSSIBLE method.
  • Extra options for extra money. You can choose preferable champions, choose a booster by yourself and much more.
  • On-line chat window, where you can speak with support, or with your booster.

Boosteria service is available almost at all world except South Korea and China, so if you want to play with comfort, with skillfull team mates, then you need a really high rank. Of course you can boost it by yourself but it will be a real hard road with many toxic players on your way that will whine all game (or feed enemies that even worse). Remember that this way requires much time, so if you want just to relax after a hard day, then you need to take another way. Another way – you can pay your fee for a lol ranking service (just click here) and wait for a few days, until you account will be boosted to a desirable league. And Boosteria service will be the best choice you can find.


Overwatch Ranking Boost

This game is only 1 year old and also win the Game of the Year 2016 reward, but there is one boosting site that i highly recommend to all. Overwatch-Boosting.com is young service but it already make a name to himself in the Overwatch sector. There is no surprise that Overwatch Ranked Boosting became such popular in a blink of an eye. What can offer Overwatch Boosting?

Overwatch rank boost

Overwatch Rank Boost

Many professional players will boost your account to the desirable league, and the main pros of this, that in Overwatch ranked system you just can not be de-promoted. So if you reach Diamond league for just 1 time, then you will have Diamond icon until the Season end. At the end of the Season Blizzard provides some good rewards. And the higher your rank, the coolest thing will be in your present. Choose this method if you only want get rank.

Overwatch DUOQ boosting

Or you can choose DUOQ boosting, where you will play games in pair with a professional booster. He will win games, and you can sit and learn from him. Play on your own account and enjoy the game!

Overwatch Coaching

Overwatch Boosting hire only professionals that know how Overwatch’s world works. They know literally anything. How much damage increase Mercy? How many damage deals Soldier’s bullets? What the best way to rush on map Volskaya Industries. They know all of this. And they can easily teach you. Just choose this method and you will be surprised with all that hidden mechanics.

Overwatch Level Boosting

Also you can always order some new levels to rise. As you know with every 100 levels you will be rewarded with a Star in your in-game portrait. And of course containers! All of us love that shiny boxes, and even more the Legendaries that lie inside. So if you just want to open a few containers and power level your account, then choose that way.

Overwatch’s Guides

And of course guides. What class-based game have not guides? All that great variety of unique heroes, all that different abilities and much more. Overwatch Guides will help you to learn some new cool moves and interesting tactics. So if you want to master another hero, then firstly read guide about him, and practice him in 3×3 arena, where games are fast and you may practice the basics.


Recap

There is just a little bit of a great variety of a boosting services, but they are the most legit and they will never deceive you. If you use that services you can always ask for money back if you will be disappointed by your order. Also these companies are the cheapest in their sphere, so if you want to keep your money then choose them. I hope i helped you, and see you soon in my next articles about Boosting.

Dota 2: Sometimes it is better to suicide

Suicide Squad in Dota 2

Suicide Squad Dota 2

More and more often we see how professional players decided to suicide themself the run to the base. And they do it not without a reson, in current Meta sometimes it is better to commit suicide and almost immeadetly respawn at base. We try to figure out how this is possible and in when this move will be awfull.

For those who do not know: Support, jungler, hard liner that lose almost all hp and/or mana just need to go to the fountain to restore himself. Calculated that it take from 30 sec to 1 min. Of course you can use teleport, but then you must go back on your two (or four?.. depends on Hero).

And now Icefrog made an Alternative Way: Player kill himself and respawn at base with full hp and mana. In the early game that trick is just a miracle to the support, because on low levels respawn time is a few second.

Some statistic: At The Summit 6 in 74% (26 from 35) of games some one use that ability and just deny themselfes.

Let’s check it matematically. In our researches below we try to calculate all factors that affect on the death of hero and his movement speed. Our goal – check time that hero takes to go to the base and restore his hp. We found 2 ways to do it:

On your two.

First thing that you need to notice that we calculated only time when you run to the base, and do not forget that you will lose additional 10-15 second to refill your mana/hp bars.

Main thingMovement speed. We devided map on 3 main zones, where heroes appear after they lose some hp. Path from Red zone to the tavern takes the most of your time, from yellow a little less, and from blue – max fastly. We created some kind of table how much time heroes with different movespeed will appear at base:

Dota 2 map

  • MS: 280-290 ; From red zone – 58-70 sec; From yellow zone – 42-46 sec; From blue zone – 33-37 sec.
  • MS: 330-340 ; From red zone – 50-55 sec; From yellow zone – 38-42 sec; From blue zone – 30-34 sec.
  • MS: 370-380 ; From red zone – 42-45 sec; From yellow zone – 33-36 sec; From blue zone – 26-30 sec.

And with the help of this table you can calculate time what you need to reach the fountain.

Through Suicide.

Techies Dota 2

As we see path (wtihout some artifacts that increase movement speed) is quite long and it may take a time to reach home. So let’s calculate how long heroes will respawn after deny?

That time contains: Finding a path to deny, Killing your hero, respawn. Respawn is the easies to calculate, so let’s start with it:

Respawn time = 3.8*level of your hero + 5 sec.

So heroes with 1 level spent 9 second in tavern, 2 level – 13.6, 5 level – 24 sec. As we see it is much lesser then traveling time. But remember that you also need to find a way to commit suicide.

To kill Hero with 500 hp and 2 armor Big camps waste 8-10 sec in general, medium – 12-13 sec. Do not forget to sum time while you run to the camp.

Recap.

So we made researches and decided that it is more efficient to deny yourself on low levels, so do not hesitate to ask jungle creeps to throw you back to home!


Try to read our other boost advices and stay with us:

Dota 2: How to boost mmr with Pudge in 6.88 patch

Pudge – is the most universe hero, you can play at all roles with him, buy to him almost all artifacts and be useful at any stage of the game! Variety… This is what you missing on the most of the characters. He is not tied to specific artifacts and therefore, playing for him again and again, you will not get bored and also can easily boost your ranks! 🙂

Pub Stomper Pudge

Valve Pudge

In this guide i will not tell you any thing special, i will just show you few paths and you will choose by yourself which build will be the most useful.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Pudge

Advantages:

  • Have 700 hp pool at 1st level.
  • 2 his spells break through spell immun like Black Kings Bar.
  • We will receive 50 point of hp for every death of enemy in 450 radius.
  • 34% magic resist with the help of Flesh Heap.
  • We can perform suicide with Rot, and take all exp and money with ourself.
  • In solo fights win 50% of all Dota 2 heroes.

Disadvantages:

  • Movements speed – 285 and this is slow. Very slow.
  • Have big problems with mana pool at all stages of game.
  • Have no escape.
  • Have a low base armor, need to buy something to compensate.

Pudge Abilities

Pudge

Meat Hook

The most powerful spell of Pudge. You can destroy formation of enemy just by hooking one of them under tower. Other will run to save him, or just leave him be.

At 25 level with Aghanim’s Scepter and Aether Lens hook deal 500 pure damage even through magic immun with 4 sec cooldown and 1500 range.

Rot

Slow for 30% at all stages.You can not both attack enemy and go after him due to your low movement speed, so best way will be running around your enemy but do not attack him until he almost die (other way creeps will attack and can block you) and then kill him with hook or melee attack. Remember that rot do not cancel teleport and ultimate.

Flesh Heap

Useless in early game so do not take this until 10 level. Stacks will accumulate even if you do not take this ability. So do not afraid to loose some stacks in early game, go ahead and kill somebody.

Dismember

3 second stun on enemy hero that also deal good damage and works through Black Kings Bar, what can be better? Also it will heal you, so do not afraid to use this ability on fat creeps like Golems, Catapults just to restore your health.

Strategy

Poison pudge

Gank is divided at 2: Heroes with escape like Phoenix, Anti-Mage; Heroes-food like Sniper, Crystal Maiden. In first case you need to use your ultimate while target stunned by hook, to perform insta ultimate, in other case – Hook -> 1-2 melee attacks -> Ultimate.

Play style described in this guide – aggressive, kill heroes everywhere and always.

Different roles of Pudge boil down to two things: get the 7 level and Arcane Boots, as soon as possible. Which way you’ll get it – you decide.

Do I need to gank level 6 without Arcane Boots? Basically – NO. I explain:

Pudge Mid: gank until 7 min and you will be noticed by opposite ward with high probability. Even if enemy did not have wards, we will have only 1 attempt to Meat Hook. Obviously, then enemies will know that we near and they will try to hide And now let’s get back to the Middle. Well, it will be good if your Tower will still be there. However, in any case, the opponent will be 1-3 levels above us. It is a failure.

Helping via Town Portal Scroll, only if the enemy dive under Towers, and we see that we can make a frag with a high probability. In general, at the beginning of the game we do not create moments and wait for the enemy mistake.

Pudge Support: gank mid Only if you are invisible rune. Usually enough to use Rot close to the opponent, everything is simple. You can gank in Smoke of Deceit, but the chances will be smaller, about 50 to 50. In the worst case, we lose a lot of experience, it would be better stack creeps. At best, the team won mid lane. Make the save-TP always, even if you can not Save anyone, in the worst case, get experience in the lane of our comrade, resting in a tavern, and this experience we really need.

Pudge Hard: look at experience farm if it possible. If the enemies zone us and we do not reach creeps, then every 2nd minute walk to the rune. Subject to Midder, so he fill his Bottle and did not lose the center line. In the pocket you must always have Town Portal Scroll to the case of dives from an opponent in another part of the map.

After receiving the 7-9 level and Arcane Boots comes the fun: buy Smoke of Deceit, fly on the line, where we can make a frag with an ally, it is desirable to kill or try to kill the enemy carry. Do these attacks on the CD: buy wards, fly, fight, and die again and again, and again.

Recap

So where is IMBA, you ask? Hmmm .. In your hands and mind of course!

Even all this knowledge will not help you win, if you making decisions too long. Pudge – hero of reaction, micro moments, and mini-map.

Mini Map allows you to collect a huge amount of information: movement on Wards, the destruction of our wards, installation of enemy wards, diving under Towers from enemies. All this should be monitored every 20-30 seconds.

It does not matter if we lose line, Pudge is weaker than many heroes in this part of the game, remember the task at the beginning of the game? Arcane Boots and 7 level. Then go gank with allies, we will be able to kill by themselves or the wounded heroes, or when we receive at least some benefit. And with that knowledge we can easily boost our MMR to around 5k.


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Dota 2: Easy boost with Slark in 6.88 Patch

Hello and welcome to my guide about Slark. In my humble opinion he is one of the best heroes for solo boosting. With him you can easily win games solo and rise your rating very fast.

Murlock Nightcrawler – Slark guide for solo boosting

Slark dota 2

 

Slark – Carry / Escape / Disabler / Nuker

His main stat – Agility, and this mean that in late game he will have a high attack speed and a ton of armour.

Slark Abilities

Dark pact

After a short delay Slark sacrifices some of his precious blood, and remore all negative effects from himself, and deal damage to nearby enemies. Slark recieve 50% of damage that dealed by this ability

Mana cost: 55/50/45/40

Recharge: 9/8/7/6

Delay: 1.5 sec

Radius: 325

Damage: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300


Pounce

Slark jump forward and catch first hero that appears at his path. Enemy recieve damage and became rooted to Slark. That mean that he can move only in short radius around Slark.

Mana cost: 75

Recharge: 20 / 16 / 12 / 8

Range: 700

Damage: 40 / 80 / 120 / 160

Time of root: 3.5 sec

Range of Root: 325


Essence Shift

Slark steal life essence from enemy heroes. He steal all atributes from enemy and transform it into agility for himself.

Passive ability

Gained agility: 3

Steal atributes: 1 of each

Duration: 15 / 30 / 60 / 120


Shadow Dance

Slak hide himself in a cloud of shadow, becaming invisable. This invisable do not reveiled be anything: attacks, using of items or spells. Also it have Passive effect, when opposite team do not see him, he moves faster and has a great HP regeneration.

Mana cost: 120

Recharge: 60

Duration: 4 sec

Additional movement speed: 30% / 35% / 40 %

Hp per second: 3% / 5% / 7%

Slark Skill Build

Slark boost mmr

Preface

There is so much pain in Slarks name. From the appearance in patch 6.65 Slark became a great pub stomper, and still he is. Meta comes and goes, but Slark is always at the Top. His abilities allows him to be actual at any stage of the game.

Slark Skills Preview

Lets highlight his abilities a little:

Dark Pact – Univesrsal ability, that allows you to deal 300 magic damage with 6 sec cd, also do not forget about it ability to dispell all harmfull effects.

Pounce – looks like a Miranas leap, but pounce deal 160 magic damage, and bound enemy hero to Slark for 3.5 sec with 8 sec cd.

Essence Shift – That whats make us one of the strongest carry in Dota 2. With it Slark steal 1 of each attributes from the targe, and transform it into Agility. Duration in Late game – 2 minutes or 120 sec.

Shadow Dance – Main ability of Slark that make from him an unstopable machine of death and best choice for boosting accounts. Ultimate give us 3%/5%/7% of hp per second while opposite team do not see us, also with it we can run with 522 movement speed fo 70% of the game. Active of this Ultimate makes us Invisable that can not be revealed for 3 seconds.

Slark Gameplay

Boosting guide Slark

First thingh you need to do – learn how to escape from the most compilated situations. All Slarks boosting power is in HP regeneration, so use this ability wisely.

Start as many fights as you can, Farm lines as BurNIng in his best ages, and let the PTS be with you.

Starting Items: Tango x2, Quelling Blade, Ring of Protection.

You main goal at early stage – gain as much exp as possible. Even if enemies are harrasing you, sent you to the tavern you must bear all of this until you gain 7 level When you get your ultimate you can farm anywhere at map, and gank anyone tries to ruin your early game.

With your fist money buy Stout Shield and then Ring of Basilius. Next our step is to upgrade our shield to Poor Mans Shield, after that we buying Boots of Speed and Ring of Aquila. I will not say anything about early game, becouse in pub anything can happen, and in the most cases everything will go terribly wrong. That means that your main goal must be accumulating enogh exp for 7 level. Right after that point we will accumulate our critical mass to destroy entire enemy team, and throne aswell.

By 7 lvl we need :

  • Ring of Aquila
  • Quelling blade
  • Boots of Speed
  • Poor Man’s Shield
  • Infused Raindrop
  • Town Portal Scroll

Thank to the Raindrop and aquila we can farm 2 jungle camps without any lost of mana or hp and push line when camps are respawning.

With our first money we must upgrade our boots to Power Treads, and next step is to decide what will be better in our case : Shadow Blade or Echo Sable. If you play at rating that below 4000 mmr, then you can bravely choose Shadow Blade, in other case – Echo Sabre, because the highter the rating, the biggest are chances to meet 5ManDoto. For more stable game for boosting your MMR in that case you must buy Echo Sabre. With this Artifact we can faster our farm to 4 camps per minute, and increase our push potenrtal and hp pool (plus quite good mana regen).

Right after Sabre we rush for Shadow Blade and then upgrade it to Silver Edge.

At 11-14 level we must have :

  • Power Treads
  • Ring of Aquila
  • Echo Sabre
  • Shadow Blade OR Silver Edge

With this setup we will have about 1500 hp, 700 mana, 130 damage, 8 armor and 0.8 attacks per second. Our full burts from invis will deal about 450 phisical damage (if enemy has 10 armor) and 345 magical in 1.5 second. After all of this we buy Eye of Skadi, Linken’s Sphere, Abyssal Blade and win the Dota 2.

What makes you a real Slark pro

  • Pact has a 1.5 delay, and after that for 1 second all negative effect will be dispelet with 10 ticks
  • Slark has a great vision, and his range of view – 1800, and at night you can deal namy bad things with enemy, because you have a lrger distance of view then them.
  • At team fight you must soak as much damage as you can, to do so you must leave the battle often, regen your HP and then dive in again. Repeat until victory.
  • You must use Pounce very accurate. In the professional hand Pounce can make miracles.
  • For the entire game tell you team where enemies ward are, due to your ultimate passive effect you can predict where they are pretty accurate.
  • Use your Ultimate only as an emergency button in critical situation.

Final of the Slark Guide

In that guide i do not talk about things that every body knows, i just shared my thought about this hero and how easily you can boost MMR and PTS at him


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Dota 2 Boost advices – Visual Control of Map

Visual Map Control in Dota 2

Unlike the newcomers, hardcore Dota players can play blindfolded and know where on the map probably is one or another enemy hero. I think in many head flashed the thought “they are in Rosh pit” in just a few seconds to notice the attention. But the point is in the word “probably” and that a pair of seconds. It is dangerous to go in the enemy forest, or try to push the tower, or take away Aegis of the Immortal from that stoneheaded without vision. And I’m not just talking about Wards. You should use all available metods: an illusion or controlled creatures, spells of some characters, friends who play on a support; In other words, the visual map control – the key to victory.

Dota 2 Ward

Dota 2 Best places for Observer Ward

I will note here a couple of tricks. You can recieve view in the Roshans den with usual Observer Ward, and even ward at the entrance can be fooled with the invisibility spell or Smoke of Deceit. Versatile, but expensive means – the courier. In the very overextended games loss of courier does not have a major impact on the economy, but an exact knowledge of the moment of the resurrection of Roshan can decide the outcome of the match. Also, that can be done by such popular characters as Invoker with using Sun Strike or Forge Spirit, Beastmaster with his hawk, Vengeful Spirit, Templar Assassin and many others. However, all these methods are not as effective as the ability Eyes In The Forest from Treant Protector, which gives a constant overview of the den, and an excellent, and most importantly, a sudden opportunity for initiation. To do this you must purchase Aghanim’s Scepter and enchant one of the trees, highlighted in the picture below.

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Back to main viewing tool – Observer Ward. Let me remind you that the range of viewing Observer Ward is 1600 units. According to statistics, even at a low ranking wards very quickly disappear from the shop, but where they usually placed? The most popular places are the points on the river near the runes approaches to forests, Roshan Pit. This is understandable, and rightly so. But we must always keep in mind these banal position and do not wait for 20-30 seconds until the next runes. Places where most likely located Vision from opponents should get round, especially when you juking.

In some situations, you should pay attention to the following wards.

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It may seem that they will not bring significant benefits and generally will serve as the cause of severe criticism and reports. In a normal game it will be so, but even in the pub practiced tactic of split-pushing. Against this strategy, these wards will be extremely useful. From personal experience, I can say that they also help to detect those elusive characters like Tinker, Nature’s Prophet, Ember Spirit and similar.


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Dota 2: Even More Jukes

In our last article we talked about various types of juking, and we look at some interesting examples. In this article we will talk about various items, micro moments, mechanics, and Dota 2 mechanincs, knowing of which will allow you to perform an ideal juke. Sometimes to run away from a tail you need only a little piece of luck, but you can avoid that unpleasant situations, simply understanding what may cause these or other actions. This time, our target is to understanding the logic of jukes, understanding of the causes and reasons.

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Usually for the successful juking you need some sort of advantage over the opponent. For example, a large movement speed or distance viewing. Of course, rarely a support can afford to buy Boots of Travel or Manta Style, but developers still think of the balance. Therefore, there are such wonderful artifacts as Glimmer Cape or Lotus Orb, which even the poorest support can afford.

Today we will focus on a Movement Speed.

Movement speed

Why is the first thing every player tries to buy is a Boots of Speed? The question seems absurd, but many rarely think much about why they buy this or that object, and how the artifact will show better in a given situation. This problem that is even professional players suffer. Recall the scandalous tandem of player EternaLEnVy and Eye of Skadi.

Increased movement speed, it is valued at all phases of the game. For example, competent Carry probably will get Phase Boots, and after, and Yasha, instead of Power Treads and Sange. It is clear that there is no universal itembuild for all characters here, but even a few patches ago Sven began his victorious farm with Yasha, that at a accelerated the farm of gold.

For supports there is ideal starting item 0 Wind Lance, that can be easily transformed into Eul’s Scepter of Divinity, or in Drumm of Endurance. Those both artifacts are ideal items for any support hero.

Item priority

Trader dota 2

Base movement speed ranges from 270 characters (Techies) and up to 335 (Enchantress, Keeper of the Light, Luna), and yes, Crystal Maiden is not the slowest character in Dota 2. This information should be used and, for example, if you play as Dark Seer in a hard line, and against you is a couple of slow and clumsy characters, make a double kill, conquer the line and destroy morale of the opponents. The difference in speed even at 20-30 units determines the success or complete failure of the chase. But what if we are playing on the ill-fated Crystal Maiden? Tranquil Boots – a good choice, it provides 85 additional units of the speed of movement, and in combination with the aforementioned Wind Lace all 105.

Separately we will examine this artifact – Phase Boots. The ability to pass through the units, which have these shoes, is not unique. But what gives to us this effect and how to use it for juking?

Some tricks

Anti-mage dota 2

There is a standard trap in the forest, which has many variations. The simplest situation can happen even on the stage of Lining. Running from the opponent’s hero, with luck, you can hold it in your crowd creeps. To do this we need to come in hide spot in the forest. The enemy will follow us and our creeps for him. At the time of the crowds, using Phase Boots, we pass through the opponent, our creeps and find ourselves outside our deadly trap.


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