[0:00] hello and welcome to another Dota 2
[0:02] introductory video in my previous video
[0:04] I introdu to the Lane setup the
[0:06] positions of radiant and dire and talked
[0:09] about smokes and ws and game objectives
[0:11] and how to win and so on in the lane
[0:14] setup and you can see the link in the
[0:15] description below for this next video
[0:18] I'm going to be talking about how to
[0:19] actually start playing uh things like
[0:21] the career how to start like an actual
[0:24] game of Dota 2 how to farm the different
[0:26] game modes like unranked ranked and I
[0:29] want to talk a little bit about like the
[0:30] the beat the content beat of the game
[0:33] how often do new patches come out what
[0:35] kind of fun events are there and what
[0:37] about the currencies and the resources
[0:39] in the game and also maybe a little bit
[0:41] into hotkeys camera control settings and
[0:44] quick ass so let's begin when you open
[0:47] the Dota 2 client this is the screen
[0:49] that you are greeted with you've got the
[0:50] play DotA button and there are many
[0:52] options custom Lobby is where you start
[0:54] a custom game and you can play with
[0:56] friends or this is how tournaments are
[0:58] created play play versus Bots I think is
[1:01] a pretty decent way to get started
[1:03] without being exposed to the duress of
[1:06] playing with allies and against
[1:08] opponents the blls aren't very difficult
[1:10] and it's kind of an Stressless way to
[1:13] try out builds to figure out Champs
[1:16] Heroes h i play League 2 these days to
[1:19] figure out Heroes uh and so on and so
[1:22] forth so I find this a pretty good way
[1:24] to kind of get a feeling for the game
[1:26] and if you want to you could play this
[1:27] cooperatively as well ranked will
[1:30] actually be locked until you get 100
[1:34] hours of game time in so that's tucked
[1:37] away quite far
[1:39] away and once you do start ranked you've
[1:42] got two options you can either play Roll
[1:44] queue where you actually pick the role
[1:46] that you would like to play as and
[1:48] you'll be expected to reprise that role
[1:50] be it hard sport which is 5 4 3 2 1 or
[1:54] you can go with the classic style at
[1:57] very high rank which is probably not a
[1:59] concern for you if you're watching this
[2:01] video everyone is playing classic style
[2:03] which pretty much means you just group
[2:05] up I mean you just search a game and
[2:08] when you get into a Lobby there's 10
[2:10] players and then five players will be
[2:11] drafted on either side and once it's 5v5
[2:15] you figure out what role do you want to
[2:17] play what role do I want to play and
[2:19] then you parlay and sometimes if both
[2:21] players want to play position one you'll
[2:24] actually type slash roll and it'll roll
[2:26] a die and it'll look like
[2:28] this and well it actually doesn't work
[2:31] in this one apparently uh but it'll
[2:33] randomly R roll from one to 100 and the
[2:36] higher number gets to have dibs shotgun
[2:39] on the roll that is uh desirable this is
[2:42] true at high rank or if you pick it but
[2:45] to me my chat recommended me to play
[2:47] Roll q and I've never regretted it I've
[2:49] never played classic I like to know who
[2:52] I'm going to be playing as now the roll
[2:55] system is interesting because it kind of
[2:57] forces everyone to take less desirable
[2:59] role
[3:00] the most desirable role in Dota 2 right
[3:02] now is safe Lane safe Lane is the carry
[3:06] they are the ones that have the greatest
[3:07] power fantasy potential in that you
[3:10] could one V5 essentially if you become
[3:12] strong
[3:13] enough though of course it doesn't
[3:15] always materialize that way and this is
[3:17] the most desired uh and let's leave out
[3:20] the reasons just based on experience
[3:23] safe Lane is most desired so let's say
[3:26] if you queue up as all five rolls you
[3:28] will pretty much never get get safe
[3:30] lanee but you want to do this anyway why
[3:33] it's because by selecting all rolls
[3:34] you'll earn four roll queue games for
[3:37] future use if you win only two if you
[3:40] lose and as you can see I've got 29 roll
[3:42] que games left and those can be used for
[3:44] a preferential roll so let's say if I
[3:46] prefer safe Lane then I will be spending
[3:49] one roll queue game and in doing so the
[3:52] system kind of stimulates for you to
[3:55] explore all the roles and to make sure
[3:57] that the Matchmaker has a fair
[3:59] representation of different players that
[4:01] can you know play every role otherwise
[4:03] if everyone queed up a safe Lane it
[4:05] would get gridlocked and no one would be
[4:07] able to find a game so I've quite
[4:09] enjoyed the versatility and the variety
[4:11] that this system has brought the shared
[4:13] responsibility of reprising different
[4:15] roles and personally I really like the
[4:18] support roles so it has never felt like
[4:20] a punishment to me though from
[4:22] witnessing other players sometimes
[4:24] people do feel it as punishment and
[4:26] anytime you watch one of my videos and
[4:28] I'll call them a pretender or fraud or
[4:31] whatever in the support role or we call
[4:33] them the rooll Q system supporter that's
[4:37] pretty much like saying they're not
[4:39] really doing a good job as a support
[4:41] based on the level that they're playing
[4:43] at they're kind of phoning it in and
[4:45] doing like 12 to 20 games where they're
[4:47] kind of bad in the support role but
[4:49] they're just making ends meet and then
[4:51] they're looking forward to another 60
[4:53] games in their preferential role so
[4:56] that's the rank system not relevant for
[4:58] you as a beginner yet but eventually you
[5:00] may want to play ranked though no shame
[5:02] if you never want to do and then there's
[5:04] the unranked system with both all pick
[5:07] which is just like ranked except uh not
[5:11] ranked this is where you generally start
[5:13] with and where you'll spend most of your
[5:15] time and then there's the turbo mode
[5:17] which is a shorter version some people
[5:19] swear by this and they become massive
[5:21] turbo fans everything is faster you get
[5:24] more gold more XP I don't recommend this
[5:26] for newer players I personally don't
[5:28] enjoy the mode but I can see the appeal
[5:30] for others and usually most people will
[5:33] either only play normal modes unranked
[5:36] opic and ranked or they'll only play
[5:38] Turbo you've got really strong fans on
[5:40] either
[5:42] side uh and then there's some other
[5:44] modes as well which are also interesting
[5:47] but I haven't got a lot of experience
[5:48] and I won't be talking to you about it
[5:50] and then there's the new player mode I
[5:52] actually introduced Dota 2 a little bit
[5:53] to my brother who had never played
[5:55] before and I found this to be actually a
[5:58] really good way to start not a lot of
[6:00] people talk about this because most
[6:02] people that know DOTA are more
[6:03] experienced already so it never even
[6:06] came up I never played this myself as
[6:08] chat never recommended me to play this
[6:10] but it exists and it's okay it's a small
[6:12] limited hero pool with easier CH uh
[6:15] Heroes to play and also there's
[6:17] automatic item delivery and a bunch of
[6:19] other nice
[6:20] advantages so that's the new player mode
[6:24] and uh the kind of different game modes
[6:26] that you have so how do you actually
[6:28] start playing like what do you actually
[6:30] do in a game of DOTA there's a couple of
[6:32] in-game tutorials and I do recommend
[6:35] trying them out they teach a bunch of
[6:37] basic mechanics though a few of my
[6:40] followers have said not all of them have
[6:42] a conclusion that will end up giving you
[6:44] the tick mark saying you're done with it
[6:46] it's not so important to get the
[6:47] achievements here as it is to learn a
[6:49] bunch of different concepts you'll click
[6:52] on one of these missions and you'll
[6:53] start to learn some things about you
[6:56] know how to use the Courier which is
[6:58] actually a little animal that will bring
[6:59] you your items but in a normal game
[7:02] you'll need to start learning how to use
[7:04] it yourself you can use hotkeys to
[7:06] control them or you can just drag box
[7:08] select select click it and make it do
[7:11] what you want it to do I recommend
[7:13] playing all of these they're pretty fun
[7:15] and short they don't feel like a dull
[7:18] tutorial uh thing it's no longer than it
[7:21] needs to be it respects your time and
[7:23] it'll teach you a bunch of different
[7:25] concepts that will be incredibly useful
[7:27] once you start playing Dota 2
[7:29] some of it may be a little outdated
[7:31] since there have been new patches but I
[7:33] think it gives you a good running start
[7:37] right additionally if you're looking to
[7:39] learn more about how how DOTA to works
[7:42] you can press the learn tab on top of
[7:44] the screen you can go through some of
[7:46] these uh Basics that are here there's a
[7:49] search function so you can learn more
[7:50] about the thing you're looking to learn
[7:52] about and the basics are also explained
[7:54] by clicking all these tabs this is not a
[7:57] well- hidden glossery but nobody talks
[8:00] about it and it took me a long time to
[8:02] find actually as well but I think it's
[8:04] useful it'll tell you things like how
[8:06] many Heroes there are the different
[8:07] attributes that they come in though by
[8:09] now there's a fourth basic category
[8:13] Universal heroes are either ranged or
[8:15] melee and you unlock your ultimate
[8:17] ability at level six then about items
[8:20] which I want to talk a little bit more
[8:21] about as well soon as we jump into a
[8:23] Game Heroes equip items that improve
[8:25] their stats and they also change how a
[8:27] hero is played and in this way I think
[8:30] Dota 2 is quite different from Heroes of
[8:32] the Storm and partially from League of
[8:35] Legends most items in League of Legends
[8:38] amplify your power but of course there
[8:40] are also play style modifiers in League
[8:43] of Legends items in that they can offer
[8:46] a slow a movement amp to your team they
[8:48] can have Global effects like a global
[8:50] nuke or a global heal Etc so there are
[8:53] play style modifying items there but I
[8:55] think none of the mobas have it quite as
[8:57] big as Dota 2 where someone that might
[9:00] normally not do a lot of damage suddenly
[9:02] will do loads or someone that is very
[9:04] immobile suddenly becomes a Mobility
[9:06] Queen
[9:07] Etc items are purchased either at the
[9:10] shopkeeper which is in your starting
[9:12] Fountain where you start the game but
[9:14] there's a secondary shop where you can
[9:16] buy items it's called The Secret shop
[9:18] roughly in the middle of the map one on
[9:20] the left one on the right one kind of on
[9:22] your side one kind of on the
[9:25] ears and and then it will explain you
[9:27] about the basics like the lanes the
[9:29] creeps the towers every 30 seconds a
[9:32] creep wave will spawn across all three
[9:34] lanes and you get golden XP from it you
[9:37] know basically some of the stuff that we
[9:38] covered you go to the mechanics it's
[9:41] like Heroes can get up to level 30 you
[9:44] get new abilities at various levels how
[9:46] you get gold how experience works so
[9:50] very interesting you can read about
[9:52] everything at your leisure and you can
[9:55] do this while searching for a game or
[9:57] before you go into a game the mechanics
[9:59] of death and how long it takes you to
[10:02] respawn uh so actually a lot of
[10:04] interesting uh interesting stats if you
[10:07] like numbers this isn't essential to get
[10:10] started but if you like numbers you can
[10:12] go through these and there's a lot of
[10:13] info there so then let's talk a little
[10:16] bit about the events before I teach you
[10:18] about how to control the things that you
[10:21] want to do inside the game valve is
[10:23] actually the original creator of the
[10:25] battle pass system which is now
[10:27] ubiquitously known
[10:29] uh gaming system that basically measures
[10:32] progress in different ways than just MMR
[10:35] right it's an activity stimulating
[10:37] system that uh makes people feel like
[10:40] there's extra meaning to every game that
[10:42] they play so that you can unlock
[10:44] different skins if we go to the Armory
[10:46] and you see all these different skins
[10:48] some of the unavailable ones like this
[10:51] kka skin might only be able to be earned
[10:55] through some battle pass from many years
[10:57] ago it creates a level of scarcity and
[11:00] Rarity that I can never get this anymore
[11:03] except if I buy it on the marketplace
[11:05] but someone else earned them through the
[11:07] uh battle pass the battle pass as of
[11:10] this year 2023 has been
[11:12] discontinued this used to be an event
[11:14] that ran around as a story beat around
[11:17] the international which is a big
[11:18] International Tournament for Dota 2 with
[11:20] a very large price pool though a little
[11:22] bit smaller this year than in the
[11:23] previous 8
[11:25] years and a lot of people liked it and a
[11:28] lot of people hated it and a lot of
[11:30] people likeed to hate it battle pass was
[11:32] a season Achievement System with lots of
[11:35] skins and so on and cosmetics that made
[11:40] people feel like they're part of a
[11:42] greater hole in the world but it also
[11:45] was very good at extracting a lot of
[11:47] extra money from people that weren't
[11:49] just able to grind up levels to get
[11:51] extra rewards but they had to buy extra
[11:54] progress in order to get to their next
[11:56] reward tiers to get certain desirable
[11:58] Rewards
[11:59] so people are basically somewhat
[12:01] complaining that it's not there anymore
[12:03] so that they can't give money to Val
[12:05] anymore even though Val said they wanted
[12:07] to spread out its content density across
[12:10] the year to many different events Frost
[12:12] ofus that we see here is um a event that
[12:17] is part of the more disintegrated battle
[12:20] pass we had another event recently which
[12:22] was called uh event Frontiers or long
[12:25] Frontiers or something and then they
[12:27] actually made a massive change to the
[12:28] map as we know it making it bigger what
[12:30] you can expect now is probably slightly
[12:33] less price money funneling towards the V
[12:35] the battle pass but more events across
[12:37] the year usually probably about three
[12:39] months apart and then uh you there'll be
[12:42] like fun things to reward if that's your
[12:44] kind of thing I don't spend as much time
[12:47] trying to earn emoticons sprays and
[12:48] stickers but for some people that's a
[12:50] fun little extra aspect of the game
[12:54] right as for actual balance and gameplay
[12:57] changes I have been playing for one year
[12:59] and 4 months and I've probably gone
[13:01] through what I would categorize as
[13:04] eight massive patches some
[13:08] people some people are like oh this
[13:10] patch is small to me it's the biggest
[13:11] patch I've ever seen in a multiplayer
[13:13] game that I've played eight massive
[13:15] patches probably about eight small
[13:17] patches if I had to estimate or so
[13:19] almost every month there's some kind of
[13:21] gameplay balance patch that has small
[13:22] interesting changes that keeps the game
[13:24] fresh so it's been very fun for me to be
[13:26] a part of the game so far all right so
[13:28] that's about patches now let's talk
[13:31] about how to actually start a game so if
[13:33] you start a game of Dota 2 and you play
[13:36] against bots for instance you start a b
[13:37] match you can pick one of the Champions
[13:41] one of the heroes let's say I pick
[13:43] bloodseeker you lock it in now you get
[13:47] 30 seconds to pick your items before
[13:49] actually starting the game bloodseeker
[13:52] is most often seen as a position one
[13:55] hero safe Lane hero also called the
[13:57] carry and and he starts over here if
[14:00] you're on radiant side you'll buy some
[14:02] items for instance double Branch a ciret
[14:05] slippers Tango and quing more on that
[14:08] later when I later on do a deep dive
[14:10] about items we're not going to get too
[14:11] deep into that but suffice to say that
[14:14] in the 30 seconds of the at the final
[14:16] end of a draft you can buy items already
[14:19] instead of having to wait till the game
[14:21] actually
[14:23] launches after this loading screen and
[14:25] then having to do it in the scramble of
[14:27] running out the game
[14:29] some games like Heroes of the Storm will
[14:31] gate you inside your base so in Heroes
[14:34] of the Storm this will be stuck for 30
[14:37] seconds so you cannot leave the gate and
[14:39] that's how you create an artificial time
[14:40] where people can think about things and
[14:42] they can worry about who goes where and
[14:44] so on in League of Legends you're stuck
[14:47] in the fountain for like five or 10
[14:49] seconds before you can leave and that
[14:50] might be the time that you use to buy
[14:52] items but in Dota 2 it's before the game
[14:54] even starts that you can buy your
[14:56] opening items as you can see in the
[14:57] bottom right here there 15 gold left
[14:59] I've got everything I need so I can
[15:01] theoretically immediately go into the
[15:03] map and start uh you know with all the
[15:06] items that I want so in a game of Dota 2
[15:11] you can uh you can walk to the Lane and
[15:14] and just wait for the creeps to meet but
[15:16] there's many other objectives which
[15:18] we'll cover in the next video that you
[15:20] may go towards first suffice to say that
[15:23] before the creeps meet there are four
[15:25] Bounty runes here here here and here
[15:29] they give a little bit of extra gold and
[15:31] they provide a chance for teams to
[15:33] Skirmish and to show their skill
[15:36] difference and they're fighting
[15:37] difference you go there before the
[15:38] creeps meet and it's the first objective
[15:40] of the game essentially they give gold
[15:42] to your team or to the enemy team and as
[15:44] you see the AI are fighting for it
[15:47] picking up those B runes and then it
[15:49] leads to fun little skirmishes after all
[15:52] that is said and done you end up going
[15:53] to the Tower and you'll try to start
[15:55] hitting the creeps to last hit their
[15:57] creeps and and it's also possible in
[16:00] Dota 2 you can kill your own creeps to
[16:02] deny them to the opponent which will
[16:04] deny golden experience but it's only
[16:06] possible when they're half life or less
[16:08] again complicated mechanics we'll get
[16:10] into them in a deep dive later but I'm
[16:12] just showing you kind of the process of
[16:14] the game so let's say here the two creep
[16:17] waves meet as you notice it's very close
[16:19] to the tower that's why this Lane is
[16:20] called the safe
[16:22] lane and then you just wait till like
[16:25] creeps drop low and then when they're
[16:27] really low you hit them
[16:29] you get the satisfying gold
[16:31] sound 36 gold you start getting
[16:34] experience and that's pretty much the
[16:36] bread and butter of generating net worth
[16:38] in Dota 2 you can get net worth via
[16:41] objectives net worth meaning gold you
[16:44] can get it fire hitting
[16:46] creeps you can get it VI hitting jungle
[16:49] creeps and you can get it VI killing
[16:52] enemy hero or even enemy buildings so
[16:55] lots of different ways to get gold and
[16:57] lots of different ways to lose it if you
[16:59] die you can lose gold so this is pretty
[17:02] much how games will look like you'll
[17:03] fight your opponent Heroes you hit your
[17:06] own creeps you hit their creeps and
[17:08] that's pretty much all you need to know
[17:09] for now for this explanation but how the
[17:11] hell do you control your units how do
[17:13] you control your Heroes Al DOA 2 is
[17:16] perhaps the most complicated and uh
[17:19] difficult uh MOA at least in terms of
[17:22] all the different things you can and
[17:24] need to do leak is difficult because you
[17:26] need Lightning Fast reflexes and there's
[17:28] a lot of mechanics and skill shots Dota
[17:31] 2 is more of a a strategical uh
[17:35] focus and the hard part is to know how
[17:37] to do all the things so I hope that
[17:39] these videos will help you a little bit
[17:41] how to do things more so if you if you
[17:45] um take a look here at my
[17:49] hder there are a lot of different
[17:52] settings in Dota 2 and they're super
[17:54] complicated to begin with if you don't
[17:57] know
[17:59] if you don't know what you prefer and
[18:01] you're not as experienced in them what
[18:03] you could do is just to copy everything
[18:05] that I have to that note I'm going to go
[18:08] through all my settings so that you can
[18:09] see what I have and your starting point
[18:12] could be to copy all of it I think I
[18:14] have a pretty good setup for settings
[18:17] and of course you can change things as
[18:19] you like but at least you'll have one
[18:20] template to build off of so I'll show
[18:23] all the different pages you can pause
[18:25] the video so I'm not going to show them
[18:27] for too long and you could copy all the
[18:28] settings this is hot Keys here are the
[18:31] advanced
[18:33] hotkeys these are the
[18:36] options and the advanced
[18:38] options social settings here are the
[18:42] video settings that I
[18:44] have audio settings with voice chat
[18:48] being enabled and I recommend as a new
[18:50] player to have it disabled so that you
[18:52] can't hear anybody I did that for my
[18:54] first 100 games and it prevented me from
[18:58] perhaps s being distracted by teammates
[19:00] or maybe suffering the worst of
[19:04] potential toxicity for people that don't
[19:06] understand that new players are new but
[19:09] right now I have it at 100% so these are
[19:12] my audio settings and here is my account
[19:15] settings not much there so why do I do
[19:18] the things I do and what do you need to
[19:20] know in League of Legends and in Dota as
[19:23] far as I know you cannot deselect your
[19:25] hero it is always selected this is a
[19:28] friendly way to not lose track of your
[19:31] hero but in Dota I could select an ally
[19:35] and not know where my hero is and for
[19:37] that you need a hotkey and if you've
[19:39] seen if you've gone through my hot keys
[19:41] and you've seen it you'll know that I
[19:42] press space to recenter on my hero that
[19:45] can be a useful thing to do Dota 2 came
[19:48] forth from an RTS and as
[19:51] such it follows many of the rules that
[19:54] Warcraft 3 had and what many rtss have
[19:57] is that you can do control groups
[19:59] control groups is as follows if you use
[20:02] the hkey control and at the same time
[20:05] you also use the hotkey one you
[20:08] are essentially creating a control group
[20:11] that later you can refer to so if then
[20:14] later you press the hotkey one you will
[20:17] refer to the group that you had
[20:18] previously saved so if I take this
[20:21] bloodseeker and I say control one he is
[20:23] now group one then if I go here and I
[20:25] press one it selects blood seek here and
[20:28] if I double tap it it highlights him in
[20:31] the middle of the screen likewise space
[20:34] Also brings me to my hero and highlights
[20:36] him in the middle of the screen as per
[20:38] the hot keys that I've set up I smell
[20:41] you sometimes have secondary heroes or
[20:43] summons in DOA you can pregroup them on
[20:46] cons group two or three as you like and
[20:49] the really neat thing about DOTA is next
[20:51] time you start a game it remembers Miss
[20:54] even if it's like a water Elemental that
[20:55] you could only summon when you get level
[20:57] six or when you're level two or whatever
[21:00] by the time you summon them it's
[21:01] automatically still remembered that
[21:03] that's your consol group two which is
[21:05] really neat so there you be like one
[21:07] goes here two goes here missing so
[21:10] that's pretty cool the next thing I
[21:12] wanted to show you is basically how you
[21:15] use the hot keys that I showed in the
[21:18] hotkey section in an actual game so
[21:21] let's jump into a custom Lobby and I'll
[21:24] talk to you about some of the hot keys
[21:26] that I've chosen so I'm going to buy
[21:28] some items and then we're going to jump
[21:31] into a game right so I've gone with
[21:34] death profit and I walk out of the
[21:36] fountain so how do you play a regular
[21:39] game of Dota 2 well you go to the Lane
[21:41] that is assigned to you or that you
[21:43] think you should be going
[21:45] at and then the way that I've set up my
[21:48] hotkeys which I which I showed you in my
[21:50] hotkey overview is by pressing F2 I can
[21:55] control my Courier The Courier is is
[21:58] this little thing here in the fountain
[22:00] that can carry items so what happens
[22:03] when you buy an item is it will go onto
[22:06] the Courier here and you can then press
[22:08] a hotkey to bring the Courier and have
[22:11] it deliver items to you yes so say for
[22:14] instance that this
[22:15] career I'm I'm fighting and I've got
[22:18] these items and I want to buy a null
[22:19] Talisman which I need money for let's
[22:22] say that this is the null Talisman and
[22:24] The Courier in the fountain waiting with
[22:27] certain item
[22:28] the way I've got it set up is that my
[22:31] mouse buttons where my thumb rests on
[22:33] the mouse the the button that's higher
[22:35] up will make me automatically deliver
[22:39] items from The Courier to the hero
[22:42] whereas the button Mouse button three I
[22:46] think it's called the one that's closer
[22:47] to my uh wrist that one purchases items
[22:51] on the quick bar so how do you put an
[22:54] item on the quick bar you hold down
[22:56] shift and then you click an it item in
[22:58] the shop I know the shop looks really
[23:00] intimidating right now and it's
[23:01] partially covered by my chat but just as
[23:04] an example say I want to buy a Vitality
[23:06] booster I hold down shift I left click
[23:09] it and then it puts it in the quick bar
[23:12] now when I press the initial Mouse
[23:14] button on the left it is going to
[23:16] purchase that item once I have enough
[23:18] money for it I'm 850 gold short and then
[23:22] I can use the other Mouse button Mouse
[23:24] button three and four to send the item
[23:26] towards me and that's generally how
[23:28] you'll play the game you'll get gold and
[23:30] then you buy items on The Courier and
[23:32] then you'll send the items to you and it
[23:34] delivers it to you but there is one
[23:36] catch your Courier can die on the way so
[23:39] you might want to control it uh manually
[23:42] and that's where the F2 comes in F2
[23:44] being the uh control of The Courier so
[23:48] now I can use shift commands and say
[23:50] walk here and then here and then here
[23:53] and then here and so it's going to take
[23:55] this this path and avoid what I perceive
[23:58] could be certain dangerous areas F4 for
[24:02] me is opening up the shop so that I can
[24:04] look what there is and pressing F4 again
[24:05] will'll close
[24:07] it then F9 is pausing the game for me
[24:11] and F1 is holding open my push to talk
[24:14] microphone button my items are used with
[24:19] zxc vbn which is actually the default
[24:23] way that DOTA sets it up but some people
[24:25] like to change these to 1 2 3 4 5 six
[24:29] instead if you do that then you can't
[24:31] use control groups the same way that I
[24:33] do so that's going to be a very personal
[24:35] option that you will have to calibrate
[24:36] yourself I enjoy the zxe vbn system but
[24:40] there's lots of different possibilities
[24:42] and you should find what works for you
[24:44] very good a is attack move s is stop H
[24:48] is hold and make sure that you don't
[24:49] even engage anyone in
[24:52] fight and as you get certain new
[24:55] abilities via sometimes the Agony
[24:58] scepter and Shard upgrades which I'm not
[25:00] going to get into yet the D and F hot
[25:03] keys will also be used to activate those
[25:05] abilities so you'll have your qwe your R
[25:09] and then d and f as well for me holding
[25:12] the Y hotkey brings open an emote window
[25:16] which is very important after you kill
[25:18] someone you hold down Y and you click
[25:21] this twice in a row if you want to be
[25:24] really
[25:26] obnoxious holding down you has other
[25:29] voice lines for me like this one oh I
[25:32] can't there's a Spam anti- spam and then
[25:35] holding down I has other hot uh emotes
[25:38] as well and you can calibrate these via
[25:41] this setting the customized chat wheel
[25:44] and also this one customize the Ping
[25:47] wheel then you've got also the um the
[25:52] phrases that you can go into and check
[25:54] as well and assign to certain hot Keys
[25:57] really really useful I haven't got into
[25:59] it yet but I
[26:00] should uh that's about control groups
[26:03] and then abilities I have mindset on qwe
[26:07] and then this is R this is your basic
[26:10] abilities this is your old unlike in
[26:12] years of the storm you do not start with
[26:14] all your basic abilities unlocked you
[26:16] will pick one per level when you level
[26:18] up and you can either choose to go with
[26:20] the quickcast system or the slow cast
[26:23] the normal default setting is that you
[26:25] press W and and then you aim within the
[26:28] green circle and it'll put a blue circle
[26:31] worth of area of effect that is the
[26:34] normal uh default setting slow cast so
[26:37] if I do this for instance it's going to
[26:40] cast blood right
[26:41] there but the way that I have it set now
[26:44] is quickcast that means that triggered
[26:47] on key press the moment I W the system
[26:52] automatically applies a left click for
[26:55] you and I don't even have to do the left
[26:57] click myself that's why it's called
[26:59] quickcast This is faster and
[27:02] theoretically it's better for a perfect
[27:05] human being and a perfect player you
[27:07] would
[27:08] know you would know the exact potential
[27:11] range for your blood R so you wouldn't
[27:13] need to know where that green circle is
[27:15] cu in your mind's eye you see it so I
[27:18] don't need to First click this and then
[27:20] aim I would just use Quick cast and cast
[27:22] it automatically but we are not perfect
[27:25] players we are potentially newbies or we
[27:27] are fallible humans and because of that
[27:30] I recommend everyone not to use
[27:32] quickcast when they are beginning in the
[27:35] game this way you will learn the
[27:38] settings
[27:40] that uh you will learn via the settings
[27:43] missing top how far the range of your
[27:46] abilities is everything will take a
[27:48] little bit longer to do but without that
[27:50] you would never even realize the range
[27:53] that some of your spells have if you
[27:55] start with quickcast in a game you you
[27:57] end up using spells next to you never
[28:00] realizing that they're
[28:02] Global because you've never seen the
[28:04] range and you didn't go through the
[28:05] effort of hovering over your ability to
[28:07] see their
[28:08] range quickcast is better but many
[28:11] players will prefer to do it differently
[28:13] and ultimately it is preferential but I
[28:16] recommend for the first few hundred
[28:17] games or at least a few dozen games with
[28:20] a hero is to not use it
[28:26] yet
[28:29] then when it comes to camera control you
[28:32] can move your camera in multiple ways
[28:33] you can use your arrow keys to pan the
[28:37] camera you can Edge pan by moving the
[28:40] cursor to the edge of the screen you can
[28:42] also hold the middle Mouse button which
[28:44] means that you essentially drag the map
[28:48] as if you're holding it in this one
[28:49] place just like if you grab a map or and
[28:53] move it over the wooden table when I
[28:55] started playing DOTA I used Ed spanning
[28:58] which was most common for me in rtss
[29:01] Edge spanning is pretty nice you move
[29:04] your cursor to the side and then your
[29:06] camera goes there it's fast it travels
[29:08] notably faster than Mouse wheel pressing
[29:13] but the problem with Edge Banning is
[29:16] your cursor is on the side of the screen
[29:18] and theoretically in a MOA with your one
[29:21] hero being so important you usually want
[29:23] to keep your hero somewhat Central in
[29:26] your camera view
[29:28] and you want to keep your cursor
[29:29] somewhat Central next to your hero as
[29:32] that is going to be the most relevant to
[29:34] dodge enemies run away from people or to
[29:37] click them because of this the dominant
[29:39] camera control system in in Dota has
[29:42] become to use little drags of mouse
[29:45] wheel that's why you sometimes see
[29:47] people do this and it looks very
[29:50] jerky but it kind of keeps your hero in
[29:53] the center and it also allows you to
[29:55] keep doing right clicks where you're
[29:56] moving see
[29:57] I'm doing right clicks and I'm moving
[29:59] there even as I'm also using my index
[30:01] finger to press on the mouse wheel
[30:03] button try to do the same with Edge
[30:06] Banning and it's not very easy is it cuz
[30:09] it it it just keeps moving back and
[30:11] forth has been killed so now you see why
[30:13] that's a popular system you could also
[30:15] use the the mouse cursor uh you could
[30:18] also use the arrow keys on the keyboard
[30:20] to move around but it's also a little
[30:22] bit jerkier though you can adjust the
[30:24] sensitivity but then your left hand
[30:26] wouldn't be
[30:28] available for
[30:30] qw
[30:33] yes so that's kind of the about the
[30:35] camera control system double
[30:37] damage we've talked about quick ass I've
[30:40] shown you the settings I've talked about
[30:42] hot Keys uh you can level up your
[30:44] abilities by pressing control Q when
[30:46] there's a level
[30:48] up so that's mostly what you need to
[30:50] know to get started with a game of Dota
[30:53] 2 in my next video I'll be going through
[30:55] a list of Heroes that are quite valid
[30:59] per role that are common per role that
[31:01] are playable per role and we'll talk
[31:03] about improving ad DOA we'll talk about
[31:05] things like positioning fighting farming
[31:08] defending splitting cutting ratting
[31:10] ending comb backing and maintaining
[31:12] advantages when you're ahead I hope you
[31:14] enjoyed this one I'll see you next video