Phoenix dota 2 tips&tricks

DOTA 2 tips and tricks: A beginner’s gu > Max Downton | August 28, 2015 1:32 pm BST

10 tips for anyone starting out with DOTA 2

DOTA 2 can be an extremely daunting game for new people to get into. They see an enormous hero pool, hundreds of items and hear about a toxic community and are immediately put off.

“It’s too much to learn,” cried one of our friends, “What if I’m bad?” shouted another. We’ve had enough of questions like that so we’ve constructed a simple list of our top 10 tips for new players to DOTA 2.

1. Learn to listen

Not everyone in DOTA 2 is out to hurt you. These are just people who have invested a lot of time in the game and get frustrated when they lose. It could happen to anyone after all.

When you jump into your first online game be willing to learn; ask your team mates for advice, listen to their suggestions and you’ll slowly start to pick up the basics of engaging against another team of people online.

2. Pick an easy hero

There are over 100 heroes in DOTA 2 and not all of them are beginner friendly. You might think Invoker’s strange sexy hair makes him your perfect hero, but he isn’t. You might think Visage and his flying ghouls look like something out of your favourite book, but they aren’t. There are some heroes in DOTA 2 with an insanely high skill cap; allowing the best players to really showcase what they can do in competitive games.

Avoid these heroes like the plague; you’ll get frustrated, shout a lot and your parents will wonder what has happened to the polite child they raised.

A good starting hero would be something like Lich; he has a high movement speed, some great abilities to help your teammates and some high damage skills so you’re never out of the action.

3. The Fog is your friend

When you jump into a match on DOTA 2 you’ll notice a whole load of fog of war over the map. It obscures the whole other side of the map, much of the middle and even a large portion of your side.

In this fog you are invisible to the enemy team. You need to know where your opponents can see you and try your hardest to avoid it. Conversely you can find ways to reveal the fog of war on your enemy’s side, allowing you and your team to quickly kill of enemies who least expect it. Learn the fog.

4. Eat the tangos so you can stay in lane

At its core DOTA 2 is an extremely simple game. You kill things to amass gold and experience and, when you feel ready, smash down your enemy’s buildings until their big one in the base explodes.

Obviously during that process you’ll find a lot of random elements, but every game boils down to that. You need to maximise that gold and experience gain for yourself.

You can’t do this by running back to base whenever you take damage; buy yourself some tangos when you spawn and use them to eat trees to regenerate some health so you can stay in lane.

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5. Develop thick skin

We won’t lie to you; people will say horrible things to you in DOTA 2. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing well, playing badly or playing the best game of DOTA 2 that anyone has ever seen. People will insult you in broken English, in languages you’ve never heard and even in perfect English as they insinuate things about your sexuality, personality and anything else that they can think of. It’s pretty trying at times; so don’t be afraid to mute and report people you find insulting or aggressive.

Don’t let them get you down though; keep doing your best and getting better.

6. Buy Wards

We talked a little bit before about how the map is covered in fog. Well, victory in games of DOTA 2 rely on being able to see and predict enemy movements. If you are in a space on the map where you are surrounded by fog you have very little idea of what, if anything, is coming for you.

You can, however, buy items called ‘Wards’ which provide vision in a fairly large radius around where you stick them down.

Learn where to place these in crucial locations and help your team to victory.

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7. Don’t always play supports

There are certain categories that heroes fall into, far too many to list here, but they tend to be determined by how much gold they need to be effective.

As you gather gold you can buy items which make you more powerful; supports tend to be the heroes that require the least amount of gold to be useful in fights. This makes people think they are perfect for beginners; not always.

Some can be extremely difficult to play and, when you do require hold, many simply don’t have the tools to get it quickly.

Talk to your team and ask them what they think would suite your playing style.

8. Kill Roshan

Roshan is the large gentleman in the picture below. He’s always there, in his cave, chilling out and admiring the work that the ten of you are putting in around the map.

He’s not just there for decoration though; this guy is crucial.

When your team thinks they’re strong enough you can fight him and, should you win, he drops an item which grants one player on your team a second life. In the latter stages of games that second life on an important hero can be crucial.

Be careful though; not only is he strong, but the other team will be watching him closely.

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9. Defend your base

DOTA 2 might sound extremely complex but at its core it is very simple; defend the giant glowing building in the middle of your base.

There are no exceptions.

The buildings in this game matter more than gathering a bit more gold or laying down an extra ward. If your base is under attack then you better hot foot it straight back to defend it; your team won’t appreciate any dawdling along the way either.

10. Prepare to lose. A lot.

You will not win every game of DOTA 2. Heck, you won’t even win 60 per cent of your games in DOTA 2. In fact most people tend to settle around a 48-52 per cent win ratio. You will have to learn to accept this.

Sometimes you’ll have a couple of naff team mates. Sometimes the other team will just be better. Just don’t get too disheartened when you lose and you’ll have a much better time of it.

By the same token, don’t get too high and mighty if you win – these streaks can come to an end extremely quickly.

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Video: Phoenix – DotA 2 Guide

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===Skills=== Icarus Dive Phoenix dives around a target point dealing 70 damage per second and slowing any enemies that come in contact with him by 25% . You can cancel the dive at any point by using the ability again. Icarus dive cost 15% of Phoenix’ current health and has a 36 second cooldown. Fire Spirits Fire spirits summons 4 fire spirits that circle Phoenix for 16 seconds. These spirits can be launched at a target and create an AoE that deals 75 damage per second and reduces the attack speed by 140 of those hit by the AoE.

You can cast fire spirits while diving. Firs spirits cost 110 mana and 15% of phoenix’s current health and has a 30 second cooldown. Sun Ray Phoenix crates a beam of light at a target point. Enemy units hit by this will take dealing 30 damage plus 4% of their total HP per second in damage. Whereas friendly units are healed by half this amount. Sunray cost 100 mana and 6% of phoenixes health per second. And has a 20 seconds cool down While sun ray is active you can toggle phoenix to move in the direction of sun ray. Super nova Phoenix turns into and sun that deal 100 damage per second to enemies around it. If phoenix takes 10 hit from heroes in this form phoenix will die. However if phoenix last 6 second in this form he will be reborn at full health stunning all enemies for 2.5 seconds.

Super nova cost 200 mana and has a 110 second cooldown. ===skill build=== Icarus dive is taken first as an early escape but then is left till later in the game to level it further. Take it at level 1, 12, 13 and 14. Fire spirits are your main damage source and are maxed first taking them at levels 2, 3 5 and 7 Sunray can deal huge amounts of damage if used correctly and should be maxed next take it at levels 4, 8 9 and 10 Super nova is a fantastic ability and should be take whenever available take it at 6, 11 and 16 Stats are taken at the normal level 15 and 17 onward. ====Item build=== Starting out grab a tango, circlet, mantel of intelligence and an iron branch. Keep yourself topped up with regen when necessary. Early items are pretty standard getting brown boots and finish your magic stick. For your boots you’ll want arcane above the other choices giving you manna on tap for your whole team.

Whenever possible get wards up for your team. Next up is a rather unusual item Veil of Discord it gives everything phoenix needs armour, regen and mana. Phoenix dota 2 tips&tricks It also has the active discord which reduces magic resistance of enemies, which in turn power up your DoT’s. Shiva’s Guard is you next go to item giving mana and armour. The active is also good for keeping enemies ins >

Into the mid game roam around looking for kills initiate with your fire spirits up and save Icarus dive for chasing due to the long CD. If it is on CD the Sunray can be used but you move really slow with it up so the enemy might get away. In team fights try and cover as many hero with your dives, but try not to cancel them inside of groups of enemies the last thing you want is to stuck in the middle when you have just lost the casting health. After the dive stick to the side lines and use fire spirits and sunray remember that you can pivot while casting sunray. Into the late game stick with your team and use fire spirits to push lanes. In fights dives are even more important now as firs spirits damage has fallen off. Keep to the side and use sunray as effectively as possible. Supernova can be either your saving grace or demise, if you think your going to die you might aswell use it. If you do last the 6 seconds you come back with full health.

If not you have pulled some damage off someone else and dealt the burn damage either way it will help out the team and the Cooldown will be offset by the respawn time..