The game has such a huge learning curve, but it's worth it to take the time to read "noob guides", one of the best being Purge's "Welcome to Dota, you suck". It's worth taking the time to read up on heroes and their skills so that you might better understand them. It's worth logging on to the Dota 2 website and playing a fun little mini-game called the "Shopkeepers Quiz" which is actually mentally training you for instinctive crafting in-game & teaching you what various items do, and their costs. It's worth playing the "optional" portion of the tutorials and practicing certain techniques against bots such as last hitting, denying, and ganking (expect a guide to some of the terminology of Dota 2 in an upcoming post).
Why is it worth it you ask? it's worth it when you have games like I did last night. My 18th and greatest game.
In my game last night, within the first 5 minutes, 3 of my 5 teammates quit. We went several kills and towers down very early, which resulted in my 4th and final teammate also quitting. Doesn't sound look a good game huh? It was for me. I came within mere seconds of clinching a win in a game with myself vs 4 Radiant (they had a quit too).
The game was a Single Draft, which is where you get a choice of three heroes (one of each attribute type, Strength, Agility and Intelligence) instead of being able to choose from any of the games massive selection of vastly differing heroes. I drafted Bloodseeker. I'd never played him before but liked the look so I picked him.
By the end of the game, I felt as though i'd instilled a permanent fear of Bloodseeker and the name chocobojockey87. The image of Bloodseeker will haunt their dreams. I had a massive kill streak, and at times had 3 heroes running from me, just little old me on my own. I played it smart, and unforgiving and the results were incredible.
I had Broodmother too terrified to show herself whilst in her webbed territory. I had Undying running from me even when he'd transformed in to UberZombie. I had sniper taking potshots and then legging it. And Nyx, I don't even know why Nyx bothered trying.
So you may think "Ah, this is all a load of b*llocks". But the best thing is this - I caught the vast majority of the game on video :)
The quality isn't great, but compromises had to be made regarding file size, even at 360p this video was 4GB.
The game's stats can also be found at http://dotabuff.com/matches/275539415
So, it was a great game, the best form I've ever been on. But I'm still a total noob. I showed this video to a friend who kindly pointed out that had I simply pressed the "Fortify Structures" button in the bottom right corner, I would have most likely won. Frustrating, but still an all round epic game regardless of noob errors. I was too busy harassing the Radiant to be pressing buttons.
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