An INTRO to PLAYING DOTA 2 - Grubby

[00:00] so I wanted to explain DOTA to this one

[00:02] guy I don't know if he's still there but

[00:04] I know there's probably some yeah I'm

[00:06] here I stayed okay great Oscar fan Oscar

[00:09] fan said he's interested in Dota

[00:12] preliminarily but doesn't know left from

[00:14] right yet and he normally watches

[00:16] Warcraft 3 Dota 2 is a very complex game

[00:19] and if someone teaches you how Dota 2

[00:22] works you will start playing and you'll

[00:24] realize it doesn't always go as you've

[00:26] been taught which can be confusing it

[00:29] took me like 1500 to 2,000 games in Dota

[00:34] to be able to start doing independent

[00:37] thinking when you start playing a very

[00:39] complicated game it can be really good

[00:41] to initially copy from others to copy

[00:44] guides tips Frameworks for how to

[00:48] play and then in 1500 games you'll

[00:51] realize that people don't always follow

[00:54] this like I just had a bad support that

[00:56] you've heard me rant about a bit that

[00:58] he's not doing what he's supposed suppos

[01:00] to

[01:00] do it's kind of like playing basketball

[01:04] and learning that it's not a contact

[01:07] sport that you can block each other

[01:09] without touching each other and then

[01:10] they're not allowed to shoot and then

[01:12] you start playing and you get like

[01:14] bumped around in street basketball and

[01:15] like people are like bumping into you

[01:17] with their shoulder check and stuff you

[01:19] realize hey this is not how I've been

[01:21] taught the rules of the game so not

[01:25] having any physical strength and just

[01:26] aiming well is not enough so you work on

[01:29] your physical strength DOTA two you work

[01:30] on your mental strength and you try to

[01:32] be resilient when things don't go as

[01:35] like how you've expected them to be

[01:37] Tower okay let's give a little bit of a

[01:40] quick rundown on how Dota 2 works for

[01:41] those that don't

[01:42] know the green side on the bottom left

[01:46] as you see over here is called radiant

[01:48] and this is your ancient if the ancient

[01:52] blows up you lose the

[01:53] game the top right side is red and

[01:57] they're called dire it's radiant for

[01:59] versus dire the map is roughly

[02:02] symmetrical but actually not totally

[02:05] symmetrical at all if you notice this

[02:07] Tower is surrounded by scragged wood but

[02:12] here it's more dense and here there's in

[02:14] fact a ramp that isn't around here at

[02:16] all so the map is not symmetrical and in

[02:19] fact right now it's a little bit like

[02:21] chess and that white has an advantage

[02:23] over black and DOTA radiant the green

[02:26] one has an advantage over red but these

[02:29] things change what never changes is that

[02:32] it's radiant versus

[02:33] dire DOTA gets patches small and big

[02:36] throughout the year so how the game is

[02:38] played changes a lot but there's a

[02:39] couple of things that are currently true

[02:44] you have five versus five and these

[02:46] heroes are called 1 2 3 four and five

[02:51] one is also paraphrased to be called

[02:54] safe lane two is mid lane three is off

[02:58] Lane four is soft support and five is

[03:01] hard support very roughly what it means

[03:05] one is someone that can kill everyone

[03:07] that may have a weak early game but it's

[03:10] a monster mid to late

[03:12] game there are different definitions

[03:15] possible but that's kind of how you

[03:16] should see them they build to kill

[03:18] everyone and how is this done most of

[03:21] the value that the team can acrw on the

[03:23] map is tried to be funneled to them they

[03:26] are protected they are given space

[03:29] they're given money and

[03:31] experience and they're given time that's

[03:34] everything that the safe Lane the carry

[03:37] the one is given to ATT two is the mid

[03:41] lane mid lane in Dota 2 right now at

[03:43] least it wasn't always the case plays

[03:46] solo it's a 2 one2 formation two top one

[03:50] mid two bot and what that means is that

[03:53] you're not sharing experience with

[03:54] anyone else in this one-on-one matchup

[03:57] that means you'll be leveling up faster

[03:59] than other other people and because of

[04:01] that you're the first to reach your

[04:03] ultimate at level six and that ultimate

[04:06] can be used to bully people to get ganks

[04:08] and to get kills a gank is when you go

[04:10] to another Lane and you kill people that

[04:12] are there you help your two people that

[04:15] are there and you kill one of the two of

[04:17] the opponents it's not just your ult

[04:20] that you get earlier right because

[04:22] you're leveling faster on account of

[04:23] being solo you get all of your abilities

[04:25] at higher level than

[04:27] others your net worth growth is not

[04:30] necessarily better than other net worth

[04:32] being the amount of gold you get from

[04:33] creeps or hero kills it's not

[04:36] necessarily better but your levels

[04:38] higher so three is your offlane in the

[04:41] current meta but not always true offlane

[04:44] is someone that initiates

[04:46] fights that is also a strong farming

[04:49] core a core being one two three they are

[04:53] the Networth

[04:54] gaers and farming means when you hit

[04:56] neutral creeps or jungle creeps or and

[04:59] so on so the offlane is someone that

[05:02] also is a core but they are more

[05:06] subservient in some way to the mid lane

[05:09] and the safe Lane they often initiate

[05:12] start uh fights together with their

[05:14] supports and then the one watches from

[05:16] the Shadows until it's safe to go in and

[05:19] then strikes it's not always like this

[05:21] there are so many exceptions but this is

[05:24] often how it feels a bit number four

[05:27] Saft support three and four four go

[05:30] together to one lane they're quite close

[05:32] in their net worth acrel three is

[05:35] allowed to get net worth before four and

[05:38] that means if there's a last hit on a

[05:39] creep or a hero three should get it

[05:42] before four and the difference between

[05:45] these hero sometimes isn't big in their

[05:48] hero

[05:49] design but what is usually different is

[05:52] that the type of Heroes that play on

[05:54] three benefit a lot from the extra net

[05:56] worth as it gives them tankiness

[05:58] Mobility Dam damage and utility and the

[06:01] four usually and again this has

[06:04] exceptions the people that play support

[06:07] they play Heroes that are slightly less

[06:09] net worth Reliant than three that means

[06:12] their abilities are good even without

[06:15] adding a lot of gold items to it again

[06:19] major

[06:20] exceptions but four is supposed to be

[06:22] able to get things done without a lot of

[06:24] money compared to the

[06:26] three and there are a lot of exceptions

[06:29] but the idea is that at least in the

[06:31] first 10 minutes four is supposed to

[06:35] give a bit more space netw worth and

[06:37] comfort to the three so if the four is

[06:40] doing a very bad job then three will

[06:42] have a bad start then three cannot start

[06:44] to front line for the team or or create

[06:47] space for the team and then has to

[06:49] become more passive and become kind of

[06:51] like a second safe Lane carry Comfort

[06:53] player and that means there's very

[06:56] little pressure on the enemy team but

[06:58] this goes a little deeper

[07:00] understand at least that three and four

[07:01] go together and five heart support goes

[07:04] together with one the best metaphor for

[07:06] this is that five is the babysitter and

[07:09] one is the baby and you often find that

[07:11] this is also emotionally true for people

[07:14] that play safe Lane they usually have

[07:16] the emotional maturity of a baby and the

[07:18] five is supposed to feed them GRL in the

[07:22] form of Tangos they're supposed to feed

[07:25] them en Vision create space sacrifice

[07:28] themselves jump in Fr of a bullet right

[07:31] hand feed them kills like a mother Lion

[07:34] to their cups already a half mangled

[07:37] deer and like here go ahead you did it

[07:40] good job ruffle their hair so what kind

[07:43] of Heroes are fives fives usually are

[07:46] heroes that have good

[07:47] lockdown right they have some form of

[07:50] lockdown uh slows Roots stunts redirects

[07:54] silencers

[07:55] Etc and this lockdown helps the one in

[07:59] lane and even late game to uh get the

[08:03] kill or they can be safe supports which

[08:06] is to say when someone on your team gets

[08:09] engaged upon you can save them with a

[08:12] button that makes them invulnerable to

[08:14] damage makes them face out of existence

[08:16] makes them have a lot of armor a lot of

[08:18] healing Etc so in five you'll most often

[08:21] see Heroes that in other moas are

[08:22] considered a Healer like an Uther or

[08:25] brightwing and

[08:26] Huts or you'll see Heroes that have a

[08:29] lot of lockdown like Shadow Shaman you

[08:32] know lion a lot of stunts so that's kind

[08:35] of the rundown on what every hero is per

[08:39] role and then let's talk about why they

[08:41] go where they go if we go back to the

[08:44] start of this replay we see this I pause

[08:48] the game note where my camera is over

[08:50] here at the red face and the gray face

[08:53] right so this is called the red the dire

[08:57] safe Lane Tower actually I think it's

[09:00] better to go to a new replay and it I'll

[09:02] make it a little bit clearer we don't

[09:03] want as many hero clutter

[09:05] there all right

[09:08] so we pause for a bit and we see the

[09:12] following take a look at the mini map

[09:14] right if you see over here this is the

[09:18] safe Lane tower for red the dire this is

[09:21] the middle

[09:22] line on the map right this is the Middle

[09:26] Line This is where all the creep waves

[09:28] meet

[09:29] me so if the creep wave meets here and

[09:34] the tower is here which offers

[09:35] protection and it also offers armor ARA

[09:38] and regeneration of life then this is

[09:41] very close to this indeed and that makes

[09:44] it

[09:45] safe by comparison this Tower is much

[09:48] further from the Middle Line it makes it

[09:51] further away they call this the radiant

[09:53] green is radiant off Lane so part of the

[09:57] 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