Sunday, June 28, 2009

Dota Double Team Combo

Here are some double team lane combos which I have try:-

zeus + harbinger

When the harbinger aura gets to lvl 3 it procs on zeus sickingly. Zeus can spam his skill non stop but still have a full mana pool. This combo is very easy to play, and is good against opponent which has 3 or more lategamers. It is not easy to go near them at all.

Techies + darkseer

Both this hero are not strong heroes. But when they team up they could create miracle. There is 2 main strategy which are:-

1) Pull them to the mines - techies put mines at the corner of the map. Usually enemy will not go near the mines. Hence is darkseer will suck them to the mines.

2) chase for suiciding - this is easy, darkseer give haste to techies for suicide. This is fun to play.

Huskar + Drow ( Fire + Ice)

This is both strong heroes. But they are stronger if they are team up. I call it fire + ice strategy. Awesome combination of ranged orb walkers. The tactic is using orb walking. Orb walking will attack the enemy but the enemy creeps will not attack you.

Warlock + Axe (creep intercepting)

This is classic. This phenomenom has occured alot times and it seems pretty hard to counter, the thing is axe and warlock intercept your creeps between the towers and their own creeps will attack tower straight away. So you pull the creeps away from the tower but you will eventually run into axe. It is deep shit from both side.

There is a counter to it which is mirana since her arrow can stun for max duration and ranged heroes with nukes.

Pudge + Omniknight

This is another classic. Total ownage with repel and heal on pudge. Both has a slow aura which make killing easy.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dota winning strategy

Many ask me to blog about dota hero guide, but i feel dota isn't a solo strategy. Every hero must buy different item depending on gameplay.

I am more focus on team strategy because this is what we are lacking among public players. So, what are the heroes which when team up can produce excellent result

1) Nerubian Weaver + Dark Seer

This strategy is 3E killing. 3E = easy , early , excellent

Nerubian weaver first skill is watcher.
Dark seer skill is ion shell.

Strategy to kill:
1) After there is a creep kill, nerubian weaver cast watcher skill to produce a watcher
2) Nerubian weaver must share unit with dark seer
3) Dark seer cast ion shell on watcher
4) Dark seer control watcher and follow the enemy hero. Watcher is invisible and move at top speed. Your enemy will not know what is killing them.
5) When enemy life is 300 below. Dark seer and nerubian weaver can pawn him easily.


From the picture, the red circle is the watcher with ion shell. Rylai is running back because her life is getting less even though no one attack her.


It reduces rylai life fast until she die

Notes:-
1) ion shell stacks means if enemy get close to 2 ion shell, it will get both damage.
2) ion shell level 1 causes 337 damage after magic reduction for 15 seconds. This is enough to kill any enemy early game. Having 2 ion shell will cause 660 damage. You can say bye bye to them.
3) when your enemy realise you are using this trick, they will buy ward. Hence it is recommended dark seer to buy ward early game.

2) Huskar + Necrolyte

This strategy is call SK. Not steal kill. It is Super Killer

Both their ulti can kill any one even a tanker with 10000 life.

Killing strategy:-
Huskar ulti can remove 50% of enemy life
After that, Necrolyte ulti can remove about 40% enemy life. With Aghanim's Scepter it can remove about 52% life
Necrolyte third skill which is Heartstopper Aura remove 1% of enemy life every second


Curing strategy:-
Beside that, both also can cure each other.
Huskar Inner Vitality can cure about 20(60*)% of main attrib + 8 hp regen per sec which is about 20-30 hp for 16 seconds = 400hp in total
Necrolyte Death Pulse can cure 130hp around him every 5 seconds

This is super killer and super cure strategy

Where best to play DOTA online?

You have internet, laptop and warcraft program at home. But there is no one else to play dota with.The best would be playing the dota AI map game which will get boring after playing for a while. So, there is places where you can play it online with friends. There is a big community of dota players out there. Here are among them:-

1. Garena


It is a worldwide gaming platform. Easy to install, fast to configure and easy to connect. The good thing there is many noobies. But many leavers too. Our malaysia players usually use warcraft version 1.21 to play online.

Download garena client program at www.garena.com

2. UCPRO



If you like to play with professional players, there is a place call UCPRO. There is tighter rules to play in this server. If you leave the game 3 times, then you will get ban. They are using warcraft version 1.23 which do not allow cheating or collided maps.

Go to www.ucpro.my to install the program

3. Battle.net


This is blizzard platform for playing warcraft online. There is 4 gateway which are Lordaneron (US West), Azeroth (US East), Kalimdor (Asia) and Northrend (Europe). This is the easiest and fatest way to play online. Do not need to install any program. However, it need the original warcraft program.

4. dotapod.com


This is a web version of dota. No installation needed. You just need a web browser. Go to www.dotapod.com and select the game. Then open your warcraft 1.23 and play it. I can tell you that this is very much faster than other engine. The good thing is that they record all your total game kill , death and assist. Even your creep kills are recorded. This dotapod can be played in macintosh computer.

Go to www.dotapod.com and try it out

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

DOTA 6.60

dota 6.60 is out!!!

Biggest changes in dota history. 2 new hero. Changes to 30+ heroes skill. 8 new item. Changes to almost all item. Travern and shop has been change

Get it at www.getdota.com

Change log at http://www.getdota.com/changelogs

The creator of dota has his blog at www.icefrog.com

Update 1:
Currently the getdota.com site is down because too many people downloading. You can use this alternative link at

Dota 6.60 map at MediaFire

Enjoy it

Monday, June 1, 2009

Dota Calculator

For those who really wanted to know what is the best build come to www.dotacalc.com .

This is a great website which help to calculate your hero damage, armor, attack speed, blah blah blah. It will include the calculation from your items and skill. So, you can configure your own item and skill to know the attack speed, damage and etc.

This is my favourite hero with his favourite items:-

You can see it at http://www.dotacalc.com/40y37-6-49-40-48-35cacacdae7dedecb3a

Try it for yourself