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Uncommon Ward Spots (pt. 2)

Uncommon Ward Spots (pt.1)

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 expire...

Neat Penitence Abuse

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 debuf...

How to Spread Units Easily

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 a...

Percentage of XP Given By Neutral Camps and What To Farm Efficiently First

This is the updated and more precise table that I used 2 years ago. S...

Infinite Drum of Endurance Charges Bug/Abuse

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 a...

Mana Replenishing Items in Comparison /w Satyr Mindstealer (as of 7.31b updated)

Updated the previous post to 7.31b values. Didn't take into account small stats items like a Branch or ...

Skeleton Warriors Values Scale with Time

It's not obvious when you read 7.31 changelog but with lane creeps and other neutrals Skeleton Warriors...

Neutral Creeps (Updated as of 7.31b)

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...
  2022-03-06 16:07:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Real AoE of "Ogre Smash!" (Ogre Bruiser)

"Ogre Smash!" stated AoE is 200 but in reality it's actually 400 due to the nature of ...

Icefire Bombs (New Ancient Ability) Increases the Duration for Every Stack

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 damag...

Neutral Creeps New AS/BAT Explanation in 7.31

In 7.31 Valve changed starting attack speed and base attack time of neutral creeps. The starting attack...

Prospector Aura (Kobold) works on creep-heroes which doubles (Lone Druid + Bear) or triples (Visage + Familiars) the gold from the aura

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

Changed units' damage types and their attacking impact in 7.31

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 c...

Monster House (Roshpit)

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 pathfind...

The Importance of Getting Agh's Shard ASAP

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 st...

New Group Selection Console Command & Chen

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...

Infinite Ward Unit (Harpy Abuse)

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:

2022-01-06 12:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Hill Troll Priest Efficient Convertion Lifehack

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 c...

Non-standard Usage of the Kobold

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 her...

Ancient Rumblehide Accuracy Aura Against Evasion

Meet Your Creeps - Chen Presentation

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 (f...

Tradehit Calculator as of 7.30c (small Chen buffs)

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, Buc...