DOTA 2 is a moba game where two team leading it's own creep army seek to defeat enemy base, on the map have different shop and natural creeps for each team players get it by defeat it, there also have shrine which offer huge hp and mp boosted, which service as a strategic point.

There near hundred of heros in DOTA 2, unlike LOL you need to grind to get it, you instantly unlock it all just at beginning, it's a good thing but that a huge amount of content and information for new players to start with.

but fully just show the info of whole category of DOTA hero types just clumsy, so personal start with basic stuff, below is the three types of main element of hero, which is strength, agility, intelligence, which extent to basic of six way to play the game.



Iron tank(Strength):This is the back bone of the team, stand on the field to fight the enemy on the front, with mighty shield and hp in hand, you often stand on the very front of team fight, the bad side is you die....... a lot, well be honest being the frist hero who initial battle that won' t surprise you, the other way it's ranger hero hurt you heavy, and since you have little DPS output so best avoid solo fight those hero.

Heavy counter(Strength): this kind of hero is those guy who you don't want to mess with, with decent of hp and damage capable, no matter solo or team fight all a huge theat on battle field, this hero is pretty balance on each side, recommend new player try this route of hero frist.

Phantom fighter(agility):with the massive evasion of the hero, and with several way the roaming skill offer, this types of hero have maneuver power which quick switch in the battle field, have nothing the pure hp is really low, so burst spell could easy take you down.

bloody rogue(agility): what kind of hero have the massive destructive power, you see the answer now, this kind of hero hit you so hard that you enemy die before they realized they been haunt, the negative side it's the hero is venerable easy target on the battlefield.

spell caster(intelligence): with most skill with variety of magic in hand, included damage enemy, disable enemy, debuff enemy, this road of hero have way to burst out massive damage in short time, or interrupted enemy in several way, but exchange prize for the low hp defense, but if you run out mana you became a movable obstacle.

full support(intelligence)-:this types of hero provide each kind of positive buff and tons of heal effect on field for whole team, the obvious most effective hero in team fight, but most people avoid to it, because it's really low DPS output and heavy rely on teammates, so recommend this types of hero for those player who have a group to play with.



Iron tank(Dragon Knight): a very tanky hero just from the start of the level, himself dragon blood trait gain tons of armor and health regen, tought to guys thought the whole DOTA heros, but also because the little dmg output for him, so if there no AD or spell caster, your may hard to counter the enemy ranger back.

Heavy counter(Choas knight): I played this guys got six match win streak, this is actually how powerful and broken he it's, with critical damage + rift to tele enemy + stun + summons clone ultimate, this guy really capable to fight in any environment.

Phantom fighter(Phantom assassin):well....... it's PA with 50% evasion, enemy who attack you miss half of right-click and deal 450% critical damage, yeah...... broken hero, but only recommend on normal match, ranked match expert could counter it.

bloody rogue(Sniper): the only in-game hero who could snipe the tower outside the tower shooting range, massive of critical stun and long-range ultimate assassinate, made this the ideal example of the agility hero, really high DPS and long-range, but really fragile could get killed by few hit.

spell caster(Shadow shaman): a hero with full of disable skill in hand, include hex to turn enemy in animal, shackles to binding the enemy for a long time, the ultimate could siege the tower faster.

full support(Dazzle): have shallow grave who keeping teammate or you from die in last hit, shadow wave heal teammate, is very basic of the support hero, another even more ideal example is IO, but here I just list out the more playable one, trust me you don't want to play that guy.

There several build in the game but simple say, it's have some specific target to improve it, below are the list of improvement option.

• More HP
  
• More MP
  
• More DPS
  
• More Def
  
• More spell staff
  
• one time use item(town scroll)

so as you could see, it's really simple business, each time you need something just found an item in shop which provides enhancement to your hero, tank need more HP and Def, ranger need more DPS or some HP, caster need more MP and spell item.

No matter how many guide told you to build a specifically way, always remember one thing, DOTA would update the game, so there really no way to say which build are the "best" since its alwasy shift around.

But there have simple rule to follow, that the main item rule, the frist big item is the most important item, which call its main item because it provide a huge boosted to the hero ability or patch up the hero weakness.

an easy example such as sniper, have the most width range in-game, the item Hurricane Pike provides more range, with this sniper would became unstoppable AD.

another ideal example is the Centaur Warrunner, he have skill which need to sacrifice hp for in order to attack, Heart of Tarrasque provide tons of hp regen, which patch up the weakness of him.




be a support meaning most of the defense job and scout duty is on your shoulder, support job included below list.

• place ward
  
• using dust
  
• help evacuation
  
• scout the area
  
• initial battle

support is the core bone of the team, which meaning a good support would "carry" the team to victory, there really

Mouse setting: make sure you click on the quick attack and quick move option, there really no reason you need to click double times every time you need to do something.


Last hit:you could set the setting stop action, which will interrupted the attack animation, sort of gain you control the last hit on creep.

creep pull: some wild creep are close to your creep lane, if you time it and pull in to your lane, than you sit and watch creep do the work, it's was easy money, also if lane to deep in enemy tower you could use this trick to pull back lane, and prevent enemy getting the exp.

team hero: personal recommend the team with two melee, two ranger, one support, this as basic as common for every match in-game, I won't say this a magical rescript auto gain you win, but it's did have more win rate than random drop in hero.