^you could use the branches to push yourself into cliffs. I saw someone play medusa on the usual radiant ancients but standing on the warding cliff with that trick.
1. If u have diffusal + manta spectre, and you want to burst down multiple targets in team fight, haunt in on a squishier enemy, diffusal, manta and aggro illusions on that enemy (this is of course assuming u dont want to save ur manta for a disjoint/dispell), then instantly haunt to another, more tankier/higher priority target and start hacking away at it with ur actual hero, meanwhile try to land a spectral dagger that clips maximum no. of enemy targets. With the diffusal and dagger slow, u are thus maximizing ur illusion dmg. Much need especially wen u dont hav radiance.
2. Drums + diffusal build and radiance build on spectre have been polarized. In all honesty, going treads/phase, urn and diffusal rush into radiance is not that bad. Radiance on spectre is not used just for farming. It's great for hero dmg throughout a large part of the mid game and later as well, so u can afford to make it later, and much more safely, now that u have a diffusal.
3. Battlefury jugger is a better investment than battlefury anti-mage, at least in pubs
4. Troll Warlord actually rapes the mid-lane, atleast in normal and high skill
if you are a carry and is 7 slotted already u may want to buy linkens as an 8th
theres a bug: your linken (used from a courier) will have an extra uptime of 3 secs
16 secs cooldown from a shared linken > 19 secs from linken block on inventory
not pretty sure on numbers lel i cant see it anymore on his feed
If you pick up aghs on Techies, All remote mines will have aghs upgraded damage
If you drop aghs, all mines will downgrade their damage
However, this is not the same when you level up your remotes, their damage stays the same
Get a half way sane buddy and pick Terrorblade, let him pick Necro.
Search an enemy and bait him into attacking you til you are low hp, otherwise go to rosh or ancients and lower your hp, then search an enemy. Buddy Necro waits in the fog close by
To all the carry players out there - in late game when u won a team fight and ur extremely low then TP to base once you return use a solo smoke of deceit while at ur fountain for the 15% increased speed this lets you get to their base faster and might help in getting a couple of racks/ towers more before enemy respawn. Also if you are concerned about limited smokes you can stack the smoke of deceit by buying it early game and dropping it in base.
you can explode and yet dodge damage from land mines with blink, if u correctly time it. they have a certain delay - just walk in and blink away immediatly.
also, you can timberchain across the place where you know there are land mines. you will explode them, but wont get any damage (as long as the target tree you are hooking to is far enough).
you can attack, and pick up items and runes when timberchaining.
HoT is broken with oracel ult
-it doesn't stop
-double heal
Sometimes you get a perma ult charge with bb if u die..still didnt get when but I think u need to die because of a dot (not shure) but thats more a bug that is there for years :D
seeing as 100% of these posts aren't even advanced tips, here's a more basic but still useful one.
windrunner's windrun only gives her +50% move speed, not max speed (which obviously almost always gives her max anyways) point being slows can still catch her, primarily diffusal blade is very good at catching her.
Saw RTZ doing this:
Pick mud golem with Helm of Dominator. When mud golem stun is on cooldown and you really need a stun, disassemble Helm of Dominator and mud golem will die and you get 2 mud golemlings with offcooldown stuns. Pickup the disassembled helm of dominator afterwards.
Look for the good things in life. Keep a journal, and everyday write the nicest thing you've seen today. It's just might be a flower in the snow, or the cashier smiling and wishing you a good day. Doesn't matter just do it. If you feel down one day just read your notes.
You can turn during Phase Shift as Puck. You need to click move command and then use Phase Shift and Puck will turn while invulnerable. This will allow you to Blink to desired location even if under Ice Path, Static Storm or even Chrono.
bind "MOUSE4" "+dota_camera_follow; +dota_camera_follow"
switches the camera to your hero with one click.
bindtoggle "F5" dota_player_auto_repeat_right_mouse
pressing the selected button will activate holding right click that will alow u to easily snatch runes. to de-activate it, just press that button again.
You can attack enemy clockwerk's cogs instead of AFKing for 8 seconds.
You can attack the enemy ancient without having mega creeps.
You can buy your own wards if you're not playing a support.
Comparing two heroes' single spells doesn't make one hero better than the other.
If you have a diffusal against omni it doesn't mean you already won.
You can cast/attack/use items during the fade time on invisibility and you won't lose invis.
Illusions kill tombstone in 7 hits.
Do we have a 7k dotabuffer though? I guess there's Wagamama, who posts twice a year.
I don't know how Sam Peckinpah and Matrice (the most likely candidates) are faring and I know DDsama has run just a bit short of hitting 7k.
^ that actually sounds like it could work if people actually tried
This guy is trying to steal our tricks that we accumulated for 7 years or more in one post :( I am leaving this ST xD
Well I just threw a number in the air, I do know we have a handful of 6k here.
Matrices was 7k for quite awhile
As an offlaner and initiator myself, always be patient. Don't jump in the middle of nowhere to cast your ult. Always look for a good space.
U can try to find out where their mid sentries are placed by drawing aggro, same for finding if they have a mid hill ward
Also there are certain trees that u can eat as safelane to access the sideshow safely, learnt it from demons stream
trees can be used for hiding
not a single actually useful post
I never see anyone planting an iron branch and tangoing it for double regen. They should...
^you could use the branches to push yourself into cliffs. I saw someone play medusa on the usual radiant ancients but standing on the warding cliff with that trick.
1. If u have diffusal + manta spectre, and you want to burst down multiple targets in team fight, haunt in on a squishier enemy, diffusal, manta and aggro illusions on that enemy (this is of course assuming u dont want to save ur manta for a disjoint/dispell), then instantly haunt to another, more tankier/higher priority target and start hacking away at it with ur actual hero, meanwhile try to land a spectral dagger that clips maximum no. of enemy targets. With the diffusal and dagger slow, u are thus maximizing ur illusion dmg. Much need especially wen u dont hav radiance.
2. Drums + diffusal build and radiance build on spectre have been polarized. In all honesty, going treads/phase, urn and diffusal rush into radiance is not that bad. Radiance on spectre is not used just for farming. It's great for hero dmg throughout a large part of the mid game and later as well, so u can afford to make it later, and much more safely, now that u have a diffusal.
3. Battlefury jugger is a better investment than battlefury anti-mage, at least in pubs
4. Troll Warlord actually rapes the mid-lane, atleast in normal and high skill
play supp to be better carry play carry to be better supp
i have a good tip from matrice
if you are a carry and is 7 slotted already u may want to buy linkens as an 8th
theres a bug: your linken (used from a courier) will have an extra uptime of 3 secs
16 secs cooldown from a shared linken > 19 secs from linken block on inventory
not pretty sure on numbers lel i cant see it anymore on his feed
abuse your teammates if they're bad
* best strat
Abbadons Apothic Shield cancels most op single target stuns or disables eg. Banes Fiend's Grip.
are u sure ur courier can cast linkens i dont get it
If you pick up aghs on Techies, All remote mines will have aghs upgraded damage
If you drop aghs, all mines will downgrade their damage
However, this is not the same when you level up your remotes, their damage stays the same
Get a half way sane buddy and pick Terrorblade, let him pick Necro.
Search an enemy and bait him into attacking you til you are low hp, otherwise go to rosh or ancients and lower your hp, then search an enemy. Buddy Necro waits in the fog close by
sunder
scythe
--> Profit
MOST ADVANCED TIPS AND TRICKS Kappa
If you're affected by Ice Blast, and have Oracle as an ally, he can deny you with his Purifying Flames.
If you can see Techies bombs on ground and you are Batrider, you can avoid explosion and damage by activating Firefly and walking right over them.
Enigma can activate Shiva while in the middle of Black Hole.
You can stop PA's Blur and Coup de Grace with Silver Edge but she can still crit with her Stifling Dagger.
That Ice Blast thing sounds like a nice way to troll your friends/throw on purpose.
Nothing stops Song of the Siren. Activating BKB and stunning, Euling, disrupting, Astral imprisoning her would be a mistake.
To all the carry players out there - in late game when u won a team fight and ur extremely low then TP to base once you return use a solo smoke of deceit while at ur fountain for the 15% increased speed this lets you get to their base faster and might help in getting a couple of racks/ towers more before enemy respawn. Also if you are concerned about limited smokes you can stack the smoke of deceit by buying it early game and dropping it in base.
I have a lot of tricks and tips in a journal which I gathered and collected from DotA laboratory videos. But, I find these relevant in current meta.
you can explode and yet dodge damage from land mines with blink, if u correctly time it. they have a certain delay - just walk in and blink away immediatly.
also, you can timberchain across the place where you know there are land mines. you will explode them, but wont get any damage (as long as the target tree you are hooking to is far enough).
you can attack, and pick up items and runes when timberchaining.
Buy smoke, most OP item in the game (Game winning item!!!)
if you're not an asshole to your team you're more likely to win
HoT is broken with oracel ult
-it doesn't stop
-double heal
Sometimes you get a perma ult charge with bb if u die..still didnt get when but I think u need to die because of a dot (not shure) but thats more a bug that is there for years :D
helm of the tominator
lel
heart of tarasque
seeing as 100% of these posts aren't even advanced tips, here's a more basic but still useful one.
windrunner's windrun only gives her +50% move speed, not max speed (which obviously almost always gives her max anyways) point being slows can still catch her, primarily diffusal blade is very good at catching her.
i thought ud come with some okish input but thats just the same bullshit as everyone else posts ;(
i mean i did say here's a basic one
whoever said you could get double tango duration for eating your gg branch, you are my hero.
daily reminder to stay hydrated
@sit down: you are welcome, I accept all major credit cards and dotabuff subscriptions ;p
Saw RTZ doing this:
Pick mud golem with Helm of Dominator. When mud golem stun is on cooldown and you really need a stun, disassemble Helm of Dominator and mud golem will die and you get 2 mud golemlings with offcooldown stuns. Pickup the disassembled helm of dominator afterwards.
Look for the good things in life. Keep a journal, and everyday write the nicest thing you've seen today. It's just might be a flower in the snow, or the cashier smiling and wishing you a good day. Doesn't matter just do it. If you feel down one day just read your notes.
After a few days you'll see how pathetic your life is and you'll cope easier with suicide
You can go blade fury then go TP so they cant stun you.
You can turn during Phase Shift as Puck. You need to click move command and then use Phase Shift and Puck will turn while invulnerable. This will allow you to Blink to desired location even if under Ice Path, Static Storm or even Chrono.
you can stop heroes from teleporting with witch doctor's 1st skill
Console commands.
bind "MOUSE4" "+dota_camera_follow; +dota_camera_follow"
switches the camera to your hero with one click.
bindtoggle "F5" dota_player_auto_repeat_right_mouse
pressing the selected button will activate holding right click that will alow u to easily snatch runes. to de-activate it, just press that button again.
^
this is better
^RButton::
Loop
{
SetMouseDelay 1
SendPlay {RButton}
If (GetKeyState("RButton","P")=0)
Break
}
control+right click will auto click.
this is cool too
it beeps every minute to remind you to stack. just start it at X:00
^+S::
SoundBeep, 300, 300
Loop, 60
{
Sleep 48000
SoundBeep, 2000, 200
Sleep 11800
}
SoundBeep, 300, 150
SoundBeep, 300, 150
Return
You can attack enemy clockwerk's cogs instead of AFKing for 8 seconds.
You can attack the enemy ancient without having mega creeps.
You can buy your own wards if you're not playing a support.
Comparing two heroes' single spells doesn't make one hero better than the other.
If you have a diffusal against omni it doesn't mean you already won.
You can cast/attack/use items during the fade time on invisibility and you won't lose invis.
Illusions kill tombstone in 7 hits.
Download an interval timer app on your phone and set it to go off every 1 min at x:38 for stack times and rune.
If you are in a party on Skype or team speak your teammates will also hear the sound if your phone is close enough.
If you get to the runes before a game starts go to where you think the enemy team will place wards then eat them all with your tangos.