Dota strategy

Dota Allstars is a very complex game, although there are many dota hero guides available, there is more to dota than implementing what you have read in a pudge dota guide – A guide to the Butcher for example. What do you do when you get ganked? Could you have avoided the gank? Knowing when to back and retreat to a safe location or base is very important and this can be a nightmare for some dota players.

Also your items shouldn’t be a clone to those associated to in a guide, you should not be purchasing the same item set for that hero in every dota game. You will have to adjust your items accordingly to actually benefit against your enemy hero. For example, you don’t want to get furion an Eye of Skadi when you’re up against anti-mage (magina) Because magina will just chew the bonus mana from skadi away rapidly thus pure damaging/stealing 64 mana per hit for a longer period and further fuelling her ultimate, Mana Void. The more appropriate items would be Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse aka sheepstick to hex/disable her. Or a Heart of Terrasque, to withstand more hits along with Blademail, to simply return the damage back. Knowing if you should get these items and when to use it depends on how skillful the anti mage is along with other factors, such as having enough hex/disabling allied heroes. Maybe it’s time to go add some strong damage per second items aka as DPS. Then you might implement a Monkey King Bar into your build, especially if your opponent has evasion of some sort because Mkb has a special bonus, True Strike, which prevents your opponents from dodging any of your physical attacks.