The ONE GUIDE you'll need to START PLAYING DOTA 2! - Grubby

[00:00] hello and welcome to another Dota 2

[00:02] introductory video in my previous video

[00:04] I introdu to the Lane setup the

[00:06] positions of radiant and dire and talked

[00:09] about smokes and ws and game objectives

[00:11] and how to win and so on in the lane

[00:14] setup and you can see the link in the

[00:15] description below for this next video

[00:18] I'm going to be talking about how to

[00:19] actually start playing uh things like

[00:21] the career how to start like an actual

[00:24] game of Dota 2 how to farm the different

[00:26] game modes like unranked ranked and I

[00:29] want to talk a little bit about like the

[00:30] the beat the content beat of the game

[00:33] how often do new patches come out what

[00:35] kind of fun events are there and what

[00:37] about the currencies and the resources

[00:39] in the game and also maybe a little bit

[00:41] into hotkeys camera control settings and

[00:44] quick ass so let's begin when you open

[00:47] the Dota 2 client this is the screen

[00:49] that you are greeted with you've got the

[00:50] play DotA button and there are many

[00:52] options custom Lobby is where you start

[00:54] a custom game and you can play with

[00:56] friends or this is how tournaments are

[00:58] created play play versus Bots I think is

[01:01] a pretty decent way to get started

[01:03] without being exposed to the duress of

[01:06] playing with allies and against

[01:08] opponents the blls aren't very difficult

[01:10] and it's kind of an Stressless way to

[01:13] try out builds to figure out Champs

[01:16] Heroes h i play League 2 these days to

[01:19] figure out Heroes uh and so on and so

[01:22] forth so I find this a pretty good way

[01:24] to kind of get a feeling for the game

[01:26] and if you want to you could play this

[01:27] cooperatively as well ranked will

[01:30] actually be locked until you get 100

[01:34] hours of game time in so that's tucked

[01:37] away quite far

[01:39] away and once you do start ranked you've

[01:42] got two options you can either play Roll

[01:44] queue where you actually pick the role

[01:46] that you would like to play as and

[01:48] you'll be expected to reprise that role

[01:50] be it hard sport which is 5 4 3 2 1 or

[01:54] you can go with the classic style at

[01:57] very high rank which is probably not a

[01:59] concern for you if you're watching this

[02:01] video everyone is playing classic style

[02:03] which pretty much means you just group

[02:05] up I mean you just search a game and

[02:08] when you get into a Lobby there's 10

[02:10] players and then five players will be

[02:11] drafted on either side and once it's 5v5

[02:15] you figure out what role do you want to

[02:17] play what role do I want to play and

[02:19] then you parlay and sometimes if both

[02:21] players want to play position one you'll

[02:24] actually type slash roll and it'll roll

[02:26] a die and it'll look like

[02:28] this and well it actually doesn't work

[02:31] in this one apparently uh but it'll

[02:33] randomly R roll from one to 100 and the

[02:36] higher number gets to have dibs shotgun

[02:39] on the roll that is uh desirable this is

[02:42] true at high rank or if you pick it but

[02:45] to me my chat recommended me to play

[02:47] Roll q and I've never regretted it I've

[02:49] never played classic I like to know who

[02:52] I'm going to be playing as now the roll

[02:55] system is interesting because it kind of

[02:57] forces everyone to take less desirable

[02:59] role

[03:00] the most desirable role in Dota 2 right

[03:02] now is safe Lane safe Lane is the carry

[03:06] they are the ones that have the greatest

[03:07] power fantasy potential in that you

[03:10] could one V5 essentially if you become

[03:12] strong

[03:13] enough though of course it doesn't

[03:15] always materialize that way and this is

[03:17] the most desired uh and let's leave out

[03:20] the reasons just based on experience

[03:23] safe Lane is most desired so let's say

[03:26] if you queue up as all five rolls you

[03:28] will pretty much never get get safe

[03:30] lanee but you want to do this anyway why

[03:33] it's because by selecting all rolls

[03:34] you'll earn four roll queue games for

[03:37] future use if you win only two if you

[03:40] lose and as you can see I've got 29 roll

[03:42] que games left and those can be used for

[03:44] a preferential roll so let's say if I

[03:46] prefer safe Lane then I will be spending

[03:49] one roll queue game and in doing so the

[03:52] system kind of stimulates for you to

[03:55] explore all the roles and to make sure

[03:57] that the Matchmaker has a fair

[03:59] representation of different players that

[04:01] can you know play every role otherwise

[04:03] if everyone queed up a safe Lane it

[04:05] would get gridlocked and no one would be

[04:07] able to find a game so I've quite

[04:09] enjoyed the versatility and the variety

[04:11] that this system has brought the shared

[04:13] responsibility of reprising different

[04:15] roles and personally I really like the

[04:18] support roles so it has never felt like

[04:20] a punishment to me though from

[04:22] witnessing other players sometimes

[04:24] people do feel it as punishment and

[04:26] anytime you watch one of my videos and

[04:28] I'll call them a pretender or fraud or

[04:31] whatever in the support role or we call

[04:33] them the rooll Q system supporter that's

[04:37] pretty much like saying they're not

[04:39] really doing a good job as a support

[04:41] based on the level that they're playing

[04:43] at they're kind of phoning it in and

[04:45] doing like 12 to 20 games where they're

[04:47] kind of bad in the support role but

[04:49] they're just making ends meet and then

[04:51] they're looking forward to another 60

[04:53] games in their preferential role so

[04:56] that's the rank system not relevant for

[04:58] you as a beginner yet but eventually you

[05:00] may want to play ranked though no shame

[05:02] if you never want to do and then there's

[05:04] the unranked system with both all pick

[05:07] which is just like ranked except uh not

[05:11] ranked this is where you generally start

[05:13] with and where you'll spend most of your

[05:15] time and then there's the turbo mode

[05:17] which is a shorter version some people

[05:19] swear by this and they become massive

[05:21] turbo fans everything is faster you get

[05:24] more gold more XP I don't recommend this

[05:26] for newer players I personally don't

[05:28] enjoy the mode but I can see the appeal

[05:30] for others and usually most people will

[05:33] either only play normal modes unranked

[05:36] opic and ranked or they'll only play

[05:38] Turbo you've got really strong fans on

[05:40] either

[05:42] side uh and then there's some other

[05:44] modes as well which are also interesting

[05:47] but I haven't got a lot of experience

[05:48] and I won't be talking to you about it

[05:50] and then there's the new player mode I

[05:52] actually introduced Dota 2 a little bit

[05:53] to my brother who had never played

[05:55] before and I found this to be actually a

[05:58] really good way to start not a lot of

[06:00] people talk about this because most

[06:02] people that know DOTA are more

[06:03] experienced already so it never even

[06:06] came up I never played this myself as

[06:08] chat never recommended me to play this

[06:10] but it exists and it's okay it's a small

[06:12] limited hero pool with easier CH uh

[06:15] Heroes to play and also there's

[06:17] automatic item delivery and a bunch of

[06:19] other nice

[06:20] advantages so that's the new player mode

[06:24] and uh the kind of different game modes

[06:26] that you have so how do you actually

[06:28] start playing like what do you actually

[06:30] do in a game of DOTA there's a couple of

[06:32] in-game tutorials and I do recommend

[06:35] trying them out they teach a bunch of

[06:37] basic mechanics though a few of my

[06:40] followers have said not all of them have

[06:42] a conclusion that will end up giving you

[06:44] the tick mark saying you're done with it

[06:46] it's not so important to get the

[06:47] achievements here as it is to learn a

[06:49] bunch of different concepts you'll click

[06:52] on one of these missions and you'll

[06:53] start to learn some things about you

[06:56] know how to use the Courier which is

[06:58] actually a little animal that will bring

[06:59] you your items but in a normal game

[07:02] you'll need to start learning how to use

[07:04] it yourself you can use hotkeys to

[07:06] control them or you can just drag box

[07:08] select select click it and make it do

[07:11] what you want it to do I recommend

[07:13] playing all of these they're pretty fun

[07:15] and short they don't feel like a dull

[07:18] tutorial uh thing it's no longer than it

[07:21] needs to be it respects your time and

[07:23] it'll teach you a bunch of different

[07:25] concepts that will be incredibly useful

[07:27] once you start playing Dota 2

[07:29] some of it may be a little outdated

[07:31] since there have been new patches but I

[07:33] think it gives you a good running start

[07:37] right additionally if you're looking to

[07:39] learn more about how how DOTA to works

[07:42] you can press the learn tab on top of

[07:44] the screen you can go through some of

[07:46] these uh Basics that are here there's a

[07:49] search function so you can learn more

[07:50] about the thing you're looking to learn

[07:52] about and the basics are also explained

[07:54] by clicking all these tabs this is not a

[07:57] well- hidden glossery but nobody talks

[08:00] about it and it took me a long time to

[08:02] find actually as well but I think it's

[08:04] useful it'll tell you things like how

[08:06] many Heroes there are the different

[08:07] attributes that they come in though by

[08:09] now there's a fourth basic category

[08:13] Universal heroes are either ranged or

[08:15] melee and you unlock your ultimate

[08:17] ability at level six then about items

[08:20] which I want to talk a little bit more

[08:21] about as well soon as we jump into a

[08:23] Game Heroes equip items that improve

[08:25] their stats and they also change how a

[08:27] hero is played and in this way I think

[08:30] Dota 2 is quite different from Heroes of

[08:32] the Storm and partially from League of

[08:35] Legends most items in League of Legends

[08:38] amplify your power but of course there

[08:40] are also play style modifiers in League

[08:43] of Legends items in that they can offer

[08:46] a slow a movement amp to your team they

[08:48] can have Global effects like a global

[08:50] nuke or a global heal Etc so there are

[08:53] play style modifying items there but I

[08:55] think none of the mobas have it quite as

[08:57] big as Dota 2 where someone that might

[09:00] normally not do a lot of damage suddenly

[09:02] will do loads or someone that is very

[09:04] immobile suddenly becomes a Mobility

[09:06] Queen

[09:07] Etc items are purchased either at the

[09:10] shopkeeper which is in your starting

[09:12] Fountain where you start the game but

[09:14] there's a secondary shop where you can

[09:16] buy items it's called The Secret shop

[09:18] roughly in the middle of the map one on

[09:20] the left one on the right one kind of on

[09:22] your side one kind of on the

[09:25] ears and and then it will explain you

[09:27] about the basics like the lanes the

[09:29] creeps the towers every 30 seconds a

[09:32] creep wave will spawn across all three

[09:34] lanes and you get golden XP from it you

[09:37] know basically some of the stuff that we

[09:38] covered you go to the mechanics it's

[09:41] like Heroes can get up to level 30 you

[09:44] get new abilities at various levels how

[09:46] you get gold how experience works so

[09:50] very interesting you can read about

[09:52] everything at your leisure and you can

[09:55] do this while searching for a game or

[09:57] before you go into a game the mechanics

[09:59] 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