[0:00] so I wanted to explain DOTA to this one
[0:02] guy I don't know if he's still there but
[0:04] I know there's probably some yeah I'm
[0:06] here I stayed okay great Oscar fan Oscar
[0:09] fan said he's interested in Dota
[0:12] preliminarily but doesn't know left from
[0:14] right yet and he normally watches
[0:16] Warcraft 3 Dota 2 is a very complex game
[0:19] and if someone teaches you how Dota 2
[0:22] works you will start playing and you'll
[0:24] realize it doesn't always go as you've
[0:26] been taught which can be confusing it
[0:29] took me like 1500 to 2,000 games in Dota
[0:34] to be able to start doing independent
[0:37] thinking when you start playing a very
[0:39] complicated game it can be really good
[0:41] to initially copy from others to copy
[0:44] guides tips Frameworks for how to
[0:48] play and then in 1500 games you'll
[0:51] realize that people don't always follow
[0:54] this like I just had a bad support that
[0:56] you've heard me rant about a bit that
[0:58] he's not doing what he's supposed suppos
[1:00] to
[1:00] do it's kind of like playing basketball
[1:04] and learning that it's not a contact
[1:07] sport that you can block each other
[1:09] without touching each other and then
[1:10] they're not allowed to shoot and then
[1:12] you start playing and you get like
[1:14] bumped around in street basketball and
[1:15] like people are like bumping into you
[1:17] with their shoulder check and stuff you
[1:19] realize hey this is not how I've been
[1:21] taught the rules of the game so not
[1:25] having any physical strength and just
[1:26] aiming well is not enough so you work on
[1:29] your physical strength DOTA two you work
[1:30] on your mental strength and you try to
[1:32] be resilient when things don't go as
[1:35] like how you've expected them to be
[1:37] Tower okay let's give a little bit of a
[1:40] quick rundown on how Dota 2 works for
[1:41] those that don't
[1:42] know the green side on the bottom left
[1:46] as you see over here is called radiant
[1:48] and this is your ancient if the ancient
[1:52] blows up you lose the
[1:53] game the top right side is red and
[1:57] they're called dire it's radiant for
[1:59] versus dire the map is roughly
[2:02] symmetrical but actually not totally
[2:05] symmetrical at all if you notice this
[2:07] Tower is surrounded by scragged wood but
[2:12] here it's more dense and here there's in
[2:14] fact a ramp that isn't around here at
[2:16] all so the map is not symmetrical and in
[2:19] fact right now it's a little bit like
[2:21] chess and that white has an advantage
[2:23] over black and DOTA radiant the green
[2:26] one has an advantage over red but these
[2:29] things change what never changes is that
[2:32] it's radiant versus
[2:33] dire DOTA gets patches small and big
[2:36] throughout the year so how the game is
[2:38] played changes a lot but there's a
[2:39] couple of things that are currently true
[2:44] you have five versus five and these
[2:46] heroes are called 1 2 3 four and five
[2:51] one is also paraphrased to be called
[2:54] safe lane two is mid lane three is off
[2:58] Lane four is soft support and five is
[3:01] hard support very roughly what it means
[3:05] one is someone that can kill everyone
[3:07] that may have a weak early game but it's
[3:10] a monster mid to late
[3:12] game there are different definitions
[3:15] possible but that's kind of how you
[3:16] should see them they build to kill
[3:18] everyone and how is this done most of
[3:21] the value that the team can acrw on the
[3:23] map is tried to be funneled to them they
[3:26] are protected they are given space
[3:29] they're given money and
[3:31] experience and they're given time that's
[3:34] everything that the safe Lane the carry
[3:37] the one is given to ATT two is the mid
[3:41] lane mid lane in Dota 2 right now at
[3:43] least it wasn't always the case plays
[3:46] solo it's a 2 one2 formation two top one
[3:50] mid two bot and what that means is that
[3:53] you're not sharing experience with
[3:54] anyone else in this one-on-one matchup
[3:57] that means you'll be leveling up faster
[3:59] than other other people and because of
[4:01] that you're the first to reach your
[4:03] ultimate at level six and that ultimate
[4:06] can be used to bully people to get ganks
[4:08] and to get kills a gank is when you go
[4:10] to another Lane and you kill people that
[4:12] are there you help your two people that
[4:15] are there and you kill one of the two of
[4:17] the opponents it's not just your ult
[4:20] that you get earlier right because
[4:22] you're leveling faster on account of
[4:23] being solo you get all of your abilities
[4:25] at higher level than
[4:27] others your net worth growth is not
[4:30] necessarily better than other net worth
[4:32] being the amount of gold you get from
[4:33] creeps or hero kills it's not
[4:36] necessarily better but your levels
[4:38] higher so three is your offlane in the
[4:41] current meta but not always true offlane
[4:44] is someone that initiates
[4:46] fights that is also a strong farming
[4:49] core a core being one two three they are
[4:53] the Networth
[4:54] gaers and farming means when you hit
[4:56] neutral creeps or jungle creeps or and
[4:59] so on so the offlane is someone that
[5:02] also is a core but they are more
[5:06] subservient in some way to the mid lane
[5:09] and the safe Lane they often initiate
[5:12] start uh fights together with their
[5:14] supports and then the one watches from
[5:16] the Shadows until it's safe to go in and
[5:19] then strikes it's not always like this
[5:21] there are so many exceptions but this is
[5:24] often how it feels a bit number four
[5:27] Saft support three and four four go
[5:30] together to one lane they're quite close
[5:32] in their net worth acrel three is
[5:35] allowed to get net worth before four and
[5:38] that means if there's a last hit on a
[5:39] creep or a hero three should get it
[5:42] before four and the difference between
[5:45] these hero sometimes isn't big in their
[5:48] hero
[5:49] design but what is usually different is
[5:52] that the type of Heroes that play on
[5:54] three benefit a lot from the extra net
[5:56] worth as it gives them tankiness
[5:58] Mobility Dam damage and utility and the
[6:01] four usually and again this has
[6:04] exceptions the people that play support
[6:07] they play Heroes that are slightly less
[6:09] net worth Reliant than three that means
[6:12] their abilities are good even without
[6:15] adding a lot of gold items to it again
[6:19] major
[6:20] exceptions but four is supposed to be
[6:22] able to get things done without a lot of
[6:24] money compared to the
[6:26] three and there are a lot of exceptions
[6:29] but the idea is that at least in the
[6:31] first 10 minutes four is supposed to
[6:35] give a bit more space netw worth and
[6:37] comfort to the three so if the four is
[6:40] doing a very bad job then three will
[6:42] have a bad start then three cannot start
[6:44] to front line for the team or or create
[6:47] space for the team and then has to
[6:49] become more passive and become kind of
[6:51] like a second safe Lane carry Comfort
[6:53] player and that means there's very
[6:56] little pressure on the enemy team but
[6:58] this goes a little deeper
[7:00] understand at least that three and four
[7:01] go together and five heart support goes
[7:04] together with one the best metaphor for
[7:06] this is that five is the babysitter and
[7:09] one is the baby and you often find that
[7:11] this is also emotionally true for people
[7:14] that play safe Lane they usually have
[7:16] the emotional maturity of a baby and the
[7:18] five is supposed to feed them GRL in the
[7:22] form of Tangos they're supposed to feed
[7:25] them en Vision create space sacrifice
[7:28] themselves jump in Fr of a bullet right
[7:31] hand feed them kills like a mother Lion
[7:34] to their cups already a half mangled
[7:37] deer and like here go ahead you did it
[7:40] good job ruffle their hair so what kind
[7:43] of Heroes are fives fives usually are
[7:46] heroes that have good
[7:47] lockdown right they have some form of
[7:50] lockdown uh slows Roots stunts redirects
[7:54] silencers
[7:55] Etc and this lockdown helps the one in
[7:59] lane and even late game to uh get the
[8:03] kill or they can be safe supports which
[8:06] is to say when someone on your team gets
[8:09] engaged upon you can save them with a
[8:12] button that makes them invulnerable to
[8:14] damage makes them face out of existence
[8:16] makes them have a lot of armor a lot of
[8:18] healing Etc so in five you'll most often
[8:21] see Heroes that in other moas are
[8:22] considered a Healer like an Uther or
[8:25] brightwing and
[8:26] Huts or you'll see Heroes that have a
[8:29] lot of lockdown like Shadow Shaman you
[8:32] know lion a lot of stunts so that's kind
[8:35] of the rundown on what every hero is per
[8:39] role and then let's talk about why they
[8:41] go where they go if we go back to the
[8:44] start of this replay we see this I pause
[8:48] the game note where my camera is over
[8:50] here at the red face and the gray face
[8:53] right so this is called the red the dire
[8:57] safe Lane Tower actually I think it's
[9:00] better to go to a new replay and it I'll
[9:02] make it a little bit clearer we don't
[9:03] want as many hero clutter
[9:05] there all right
[9:08] so we pause for a bit and we see the
[9:12] following take a look at the mini map
[9:14] right if you see over here this is the
[9:18] safe Lane tower for red the dire this is
[9:21] the middle
[9:22] line on the map right this is the Middle
[9:26] Line This is where all the creep waves
[9:28] meet
[9:29] me so if the creep wave meets here and
[9:34] the tower is here which offers
[9:35] protection and it also offers armor ARA
[9:38] and regeneration of life then this is
[9:41] very close to this indeed and that makes
[9:44] it
[9:45] safe by comparison this Tower is much
[9:48] further from the Middle Line it makes it
[9:51] further away they call this the radiant
[9:53] green is radiant off Lane so part of the
[9:57] goal for green radiant is to pull this
[10:00] wave back here so that they continue to
[10:03] meet here instead of here which makes it
[10:06] far more risky for dire red to farm here
[10:10] as you can get reinforcements from your
[10:12] Tower you can get the tower shots you
[10:14] get the Regeneration and the armor from
[10:16] the tower and this is kind of like a
[10:18] little mini game but initially off Lane
[10:21] starts at risk and that influence the
[10:23] type of Heroes that are valid to be
[10:25] picked for radiant in the off Lane
[10:27] because you're more at risk
[10:29] the way back to the safety of your Tower
[10:31] is further the Symmetry is real on this
[10:35] side the green radiant Tower is near the
[10:37] middle point of the farm uh meeting the
[10:41] creep wave meeting and that's why the
[10:43] safe laner the carry the baby right the
[10:45] the lake game Insurance the the major
[10:47] Farmer they start position one starts at
[10:51] your safe Lane so that you're at a safer
[10:54] place to be at least initially later
[10:56] nothing is safe anymore right so the one
[10:59] and the five go here that means that the
[11:01] red dire three and four go here the twos
[11:05] meet in the middle and then on the other
[11:07] side it's flipped dire one and five
[11:09] against three and four so now you kind
[11:12] of know what kind of Heroes are picked
[11:14] where and why and that initially this
[11:16] Tower secures safety as the wave meets
[11:19] here and the tower is right here right
[11:20] and the tower can fire until
[11:23] here now you know why people go where
[11:26] they go and that's the initial DOTA
[11:30] supports are also in charge of buying
[11:33] Vision Vision can be purchased via
[11:35] observe rewards and Sentry warts
[11:38] Observer warts see things but they don't
[11:41] see invisible things but they see a lot
[11:43] of normal vision entry warts see
[11:46] invisible things but offer no natural
[11:49] vision so the combination of an observer
[11:52] and a Sentry W together in the same
[11:54] place offer invisible true sight and
[11:58] actual Vision so when you place the two
[12:00] of them you can be sure that there's no
[12:02] enemy there this is an example of an
[12:05] observer wart but some people did some
[12:07] trolling and they renamed their Observer
[12:10] W which you can do in
[12:11] gabes in dota's client you can rename it
[12:15] to Sentry wart but that's trolling it's
[12:17] very confusing for nublets but this is
[12:19] an observer wart and it took me a long
[12:21] time to recognize one from the other and
[12:23] then that's without that trolling yes so
[12:26] anyway this is an observer you see the
[12:28] eye and if you see like a Sentry word
[12:29] it's like more muted it's like a kind of
[12:31] a purple Dark Night Color glow this is a
[12:35] Sentry I mean I don't think it's very
[12:37] clear but I know this is Sentry you see
[12:39] like the little eye the purple eye above
[12:42] it Sentry this one doesn't have the
[12:44] purple it's an observer
[12:46] Ward but there's one exception to the
[12:49] whole Vision thing this Vision Ward is
[12:52] green as you see on the mini map it
[12:55] means it's a radiant Vision
[12:57] Ward dire will be seen if they're here
[13:01] but there's one exception there's a very
[13:03] special tool A Very Special Sauce in
[13:05] Dota to It's called The Smoke of the
[13:07] seat smoke of the seat is a team
[13:12] invisibility you you buy it it's very
[13:14] cheap you make your whole team
[13:16] invisible and you can move around very
[13:19] fast and invisible even invisible
[13:22] towards and there's only three things
[13:24] that make you visible four one it times
[13:27] out after 40 5 seconds so you got 45
[13:30] seconds to do a major incursion a major
[13:33] Invasion the second thing is if you're
[13:36] in proximity to an enemy hero suddenly
[13:38] boom smoke is gone right The Jig Is up
[13:41] you are seen the third one is if you're
[13:43] near to an enemy Tower you cannot go
[13:45] here with the smoke of the seed and
[13:47] still be
[13:49] unseen and the fourth one is if you
[13:52] perform a basic attack you do a basic
[13:55] attack you are allowed to cast spells
[13:58] and remain invisible though the
[13:59] opponents may catch the spell effect
[14:01] like seemingly out of
[14:03] nowhere those are the four things that
[14:05] will end it
[14:08] right so the smoke is a whenever you
[14:11] hear people about we should smoke can we
[14:14] smoke it always it never means tobacco
[14:17] it always means can we group up as a
[14:20] team either three people or two people
[14:22] or four or five and go somewhere
[14:26] invisibly and try to get a surprise
[14:28] attack on the opponent and it's
[14:29] sometimes the only way to travel the map
[14:32] especially a hostile
[14:34] map and and retain the element of
[14:37] surprise so now you understand a bit
[14:39] about the vision and then finally let's
[14:42] talk about how to win the game you win
[14:44] the game by killing the throne the
[14:46] ancient I should say the ancient can
[14:49] only be attacked when these two towers
[14:51] are dead these are called the tier four
[14:54] Towers both must be dead before you can
[14:56] attack the
[14:57] throne these towers are only attackable
[15:00] once one of these three towers is dead
[15:04] these are called the tier thre these are
[15:08] the tier
[15:09] fours you can only attack these towers
[15:13] if one of these three tier three towers
[15:15] is dead right these tier three towers
[15:19] are invincible until one of
[15:23] these Tier Two Towers is dead you get
[15:25] the point right there's layers to this
[15:27] onion and in finally those tier tws are
[15:30] invincible until one of these outer tier
[15:33] one starting towers are dead so the way
[15:37] to Victory is to get a tier one then a
[15:39] tier two then a tier three then get both
[15:41] tier fours and then the throne but
[15:44] there's a little bit more to it than
[15:46] that DOTA has comeback and slowdown
[15:49] mechanics every 5 minutes someone is
[15:52] allowed to use the glyph of
[15:54] fortification it will last 7 seconds on
[15:57] structures and 4 seconds on creeps it
[16:00] will make all buildings Invincible for 7
[16:05] Seconds you can use this once every five
[16:08] minutes and it makes every Tower except
[16:11] the first one multi-shot six
[16:18] targets it will respawn after 5 minutes
[16:21] but there's additional respawn
[16:25] reasons the first time you lose a tier
[16:27] one Tower any one of the three you gain
[16:30] a free reset on the cool down for Glyph
[16:32] of fortification that means it what it
[16:35] avoids it has many conclusions after
[16:38] that but what it avoids is that someone
[16:40] will kill your tier one Tower and
[16:42] immediately with the surge of momentum
[16:43] that they have also kill your tier two
[16:45] Tower this cannot happen because well
[16:49] you glyph this one once 7c delay they
[16:51] kill it they move here you have another
[16:53] glyph and usually that's enough to uh
[16:56] take the wind out of their sails
[16:59] and that's also true for the first time
[17:00] you lose a tier two Tower and it's true
[17:03] for the first time you lose your tier
[17:05] three Tower so you are guaranteed one
[17:08] Cliff at the start one after tier one
[17:10] that's two one after tier two that's
[17:13] three and one after tier two so you are
[17:16] guaranteed four glyphs per game but
[17:18] usually you'll see like five to 10
[17:20] glyphs used per game because of the cool
[17:22] down regeneration so that's a lot of
[17:24] slowdown on your opponent having some
[17:25] kind of push
[17:27] comp
[17:29] finally one of the most interesting
[17:31] things about Dota 2 is the uh Glyph of
[17:36] fortification minions are like walkers
[17:39] in The Walking Dead Lane minions Lane
[17:42] creeps I should say Lane creeps this
[17:44] green one and this red one they're like
[17:46] walkers in The Walking Dead every now
[17:48] and then they'll get a kill but mostly
[17:51] they serve to be killed in great numbers
[17:55] Cannon father a plot armor to show the
[17:58] drum of the show it would have been the
[18:01] same here initially creeps can do damage
[18:03] when you're level one and two but
[18:05] eventually you end up just blazing
[18:08] through the creeps look at the mid game
[18:10] the late game oh man you know those
[18:12] creeps they give you gold they give you
[18:13] XP and they give a lot of it actually a
[18:15] lot of gold and XP but you kill them
[18:18] with an afterthought you don't you
[18:20] certainly don't need them to kill a
[18:21] tower you could kill this Tower late
[18:23] game in 10 or 20 hits however there is a
[18:26] thing called back door protection
[18:30] structures take greatly reduced damage
[18:33] incredibly reduced damage and quickly
[18:36] regenerate any damage taken if there are
[18:40] no enemy creeps
[18:44] nearby and that means it is it is not
[18:47] impossible but it is virtually
[18:49] impossible to kill this Tower without
[18:53] Allied creeps nearby what's nearby like
[18:56] here like here or here or something when
[18:59] the creep when the creeps come here this
[19:01] Tower loses that insane regeneration and
[19:04] armor so what is that mean actually for
[19:07] how the game is played
[19:09] out well it means that you must kill the
[19:12] enemy creep wave and then you walk with
[19:14] your creep wave and then you attack
[19:16] Tower this creates a kind of
[19:18] pacing it also creates
[19:21] counterplay the opponent can kill your
[19:24] creep wave when it's here so that by the
[19:27] time you want to get here you can't take
[19:30] down the tower someone could be hiding
[19:31] in the bushes here and kill your creep
[19:33] wave and disappear and then kill your
[19:35] creep wave and disappear and they can do
[19:38] that over and over and this is called
[19:39] cutting
[19:40] creeps and that means that this Tower
[19:43] never becomes killable and this creates
[19:46] a miname of stealth Warfare on the
[19:50] map that goes far beyond the just
[19:54] bashing together of two stubborn goats
[19:57] their heads against each other and to
[19:58] see who's strongest it creates a level
[20:01] of tactician gameplay that is incredibly
[20:03] deep and satisfying to master or
[20:05] frustrating to get wrong sometimes your
[20:08] whole team is winning you kill all the
[20:09] enemy Heroes and you're just pushing and
[20:11] in Heroes of the Storm you would just
[20:13] push and win and in League of Legends
[20:14] you would just push and win because
[20:16] there's no back door protection there's
[20:18] no buyback right everyone is dead you
[20:21] have a lot of damage in League Hots you
[20:23] win the game but in Dota one enemy can
[20:26] start cutting waves they can start
[20:29] manipulating the map and suddenly your
[20:30] base becomes Untouchable there's also
[20:32] buyback of course there's also Glyph of
[20:35] fortification so there's three mechanics
[20:37] here that allow you to make a comeback
[20:39] and that means that DOTA does not have
[20:42] nor usually need a surrender
[20:45] function in an Ideal World what actually
[20:49] happens often is of course that people
[20:50] do lose heart they do lose courage or
[20:52] they are so far back that even all of
[20:54] these techniques cannot allow you to
[20:57] make a comeback
[20:58] also it's not always the best mood or
[21:01] morale in a public game to Stage a
[21:04] comeback because faith has been lost
[21:06] trust and amicability has been lost
[21:08] between public teammates to the point
[21:10] that people don't want to try anymore
[21:12] and this of course you know this this
[21:14] this happens and then people go AFK and
[21:16] they give the win and they call it let
[21:17] them
[21:18] end but every now and then you get games
[21:22] that are nearly impossible to win but
[21:24] you do an amazing set of macro plays
[21:26] that allow you to get back into the game
[21:29] and actually win the game we had a
[21:31] really cool game recently we were losing
[21:33] we were losing we were losing I was
[21:35] Enigma and I stood over here and I kept
[21:37] killing this creep wave and pressuring
[21:39] Tower this Tower kept taking damage and
[21:42] my team was hugging themselves together
[21:44] in the snow cabin hugging for For What
[21:47] Little warmth there could be in this
[21:49] Avalanche of hatred and aggression from
[21:51] our opponents our opponent stood here
[21:53] with the five of them they were much
[21:55] stronger than us they wanted to go up up
[21:58] here and attack and and and win the game
[21:59] we have been losing many fights and here
[22:02] I am just killing one wave and another
[22:04] and another ideally I would be cutting
[22:07] the bottom wave so that they can't push
[22:08] at all but I didn't dare to and that's
[22:10] not where I
[22:12] was they didn't make a lot of Headway on
[22:14] killing this Tower they would have loved
[22:16] for us to charge out of the gates like
[22:17] the rohim in the defense of Helms Deep
[22:20] but we didn't my team stayed here and
[22:22] the enemy stayed here eventually this
[22:25] pressure made them so impatient that a
[22:27] fight broke out it was messy it was
[22:29] dirty they had gotten frustrated that
[22:31] they started losing their Tower my team
[22:33] starts the fight it was half here half
[22:35] here and half here that's one and a half
[22:36] of a fight I know but it's weird but
[22:38] it's true I Town portal in we we fight I
[22:42] black hole their carry bam we won the
[22:44] fight and without split map pressure it
[22:48] would not have been possible because it
[22:49] would be simple for the opponent it'll
[22:51] be five versus five no one getting any
[22:54] Headway no one getting anything done
[22:55] Elsewhere on the map there is no m
[22:58] pressure no economic pressure they're
[22:59] not losing anything there's no risk they
[23:01] can stay here and go up or don't go up
[23:04] so by creating pressure by creating
[23:07] Stakes it forces the opponent's hand
[23:10] sometimes either they can leave and deal
[23:12] with me or he can go up and just Leroy
[23:16] Jenkins in and see what happens and this
[23:19] is a cliff there's Miss chance there's
[23:22] no Mis chance is there this is a cliff
[23:25] you need to funnel through the area of
[23:27] effect that the opponent can inflict
[23:28] upon you this is a stronger Tower than
[23:30] the other ones you don't initially have
[23:33] vision of The High Ground so there's
[23:34] lots of disadvantages against you when
[23:36] you walk up and attack these
[23:39] towers there is Mis chance oh yeah yeah
[23:42] there is Mis chance 25% yeah I've
[23:45] explained most of how a game of macro
[23:47] and how a game of Dota 2 works there's
[23:50] one more thing to explain maybe two
[23:52] maybe five maybe 20 these are called the
[23:55] barracks the range barracks and the
[23:56] melee barracks
[23:58] creeps are a great source of calcium
[24:00] protein Gold and
[24:02] experience and when you kill the enemy
[24:06] Barracks your creep of that same type
[24:08] let's say you kill the range Barracks
[24:10] your creep of that same type the range
[24:12] unit becomes big having double Health
[24:15] double damage and giving half the amount
[24:17] of
[24:19] gold do the same to the melee Barracks
[24:22] now both of your creeps are big very
[24:25] tanky a lot of damage hard to kill and
[24:27] right and not that rewarding and this is
[24:30] how you also additionally apply split
[24:33] map pressure to an opponent so that they
[24:36] can't as easily leave this Lane because
[24:39] eventually that lane they're called Mega
[24:41] creeps will push in so hard it will
[24:42] start to take down your tier four Tower
[24:44] without any other hero of that faction
[24:47] helping them kill all six
[24:51] barracks and you get mega Creeps in
[24:53] every lane that are super
[24:56] strong
[24:58] the dire has spawned Mega creeps it's a
[25:00] very scary message for everyone right so
[25:05] besides just killing Throne there are
[25:07] ways to subjugate your opponent to bring
[25:09] them to their knees and instead of
[25:12] trying to win you make it impossible for
[25:14] them to win and then your Victory shall
[25:17] follow sunu Art of
[25:20] War there is another way to get an
[25:23] advantage
[25:24] rashan rashan is the boss every MOA has
[25:27] a b boss sometimes it's called Baron
[25:29] nashor sometimes it's called the boss
[25:31] very simply in Hots of the
[25:33] storm right when you get this you get an
[25:36] ank of reincarnation one of your Heroes
[25:38] can pick up the Eis you respond with
[25:42] after 5 seconds with full health and
[25:44] Mana you also get a nice chunk of
[25:46] experience and gold for your whole team
[25:49] taking rashan as a power play that is
[25:52] essentially a neutral objective placed
[25:55] relatively neutrally and it's an
[25:57] objective to fight for it's an objective
[25:59] to protect it's an objective that can be
[26:02] snuck taken ninja style and it gives you
[26:05] momentum it means that you can play a
[26:07] lot more risky on that hero they need to
[26:09] so when we speak of objectives it means
[26:11] killing Towers killing racks and killing
[26:15] ran that's DOTA two in a nutshell and
[26:19] the depth of Dota 2 is why I enjoy the
[26:22] game so much you will try to work
[26:24] together with your four nitwit allies
[26:27] that fail to see your
[26:29] Genius and all together you try to come
[26:33] together and create a culmination of
[26:36] teamwork and critical
[26:38] Force to win against the
[26:42] opponents who are all using imbalanced
[26:45] and overpowered Heroes and here you are
[26:46] on your respectful and mannered and
[26:49] tasteful Heroes right you've got all the
[26:52] odds sticked against you one v9 you go
[26:55] Egoista mode you become strong and then
[26:58] you win and it's
[27:00] great the average length of a Dota 2
[27:02] game is between 25 to 55 minutes I would
[27:07] say the golden average is about 35 to 40
[27:10] minutes so it's definitely longer than
[27:13] the other moas here's an example of my
[27:16] game length recently as you get better
[27:19] game length becomes a little
[27:21] shorter especially at the highest level
[27:23] you've got a lot of 15minute games it's
[27:25] because they actually want to quit after
[27:28] they uh lose because sometimes it's very
[27:31] lopsided because of account buyers or
[27:33] Smurfs or something but on average 35
[27:37] minutes for me is normal but when I was
[27:39] lower level when I just started it was
[27:41] almost always 50 plus minutes here I've
[27:44] got a 1 hour 20 minute game there's a 22
[27:46] minute game got a lot of 26 minute games
[27:49] there here it's like 30 to 50 so
[27:52] definitely longer than uh Hots and do 2
[27:56] it's uh that's DOTA to if you have any
[27:59] other questions feel free to ask me at
[28:00] any time during the stream I explain
[28:02] this outside of playing a live game
[28:04] because it is far too complex to do
[28:06] while I'm also playing I hope you
[28:09] enjoyed and learned Dota 2 a little bit
[28:10] more and why it's such a great game