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:
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.
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. F...
2022-03-28 14:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 p...
2022-03-28 12:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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 View Post
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 displa...
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 View Post
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 ...
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
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 2022-03-12 05:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Dr...
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...
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 value...
2022-03-06 16:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post
What's new:
"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.
Prev...
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...
2022-03-03 14:11:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 high...
2022-03-03 14:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 View Post
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 View PostIn 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): &nb...
2022-01-15 08:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostNot 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 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 a...
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:
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 an...
2022-01-06 11:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne 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...
2022-01-06 11:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostOutdated 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 requ...
2021-11-19 17:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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, a...
2021-11-19 17:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
