Defense of the Ancients (DotA)

DotA is a strategy-based game with a lot of elements that one need to learn to play the game well

Health Bar

Mana Bar

Attributes

Damage bar

Armor and Magic Resistance

Moving Speed

Skills and AbilitiesExperience Bar

Gold

Roles

• Carry• Semi-carry• Gankers• Lane Support• Initiator• Disable• Roamers• Durables• Nukers

Carry

Drow Ranger Phantom Assasin

•More useful in the late game

Semi-Carry, Gankers

Shadow Fiend Windrunner Bloodseeker

•More powerful in the early and mid game•Control the game by ganking

Gold

• Reliable Gold– From Roshan, Hero Kills and Assist, Tower,

Hand of Midas– Dying doesn't take away your reliable gold

• Unreliable Gold– Everything Else

• Buying items– Uses Unreliable Gold first

• Buyback– Uses reliable gold first

Warding

• To spy on an area

• To prevent ganks

• To block neutral camps from spawning

• Mostly done by supporters

You can see every stepwhat the enemy is doing

•Spy on this area•Prevent Enemy Ganks

•Prevent neutrals at the top pulling camp from spawning•Prevents creep pulling

Bottom pulling camp

Similarities• The way to play it• The Heroes and skills

Differences• Improvements in gameplay in Dota 2

– Rubick's ultimate able to copy all abilites in Dota 2

– Reselling items within the first ten second for full price

• Analyze, prediction and decision making– Game variations– Experience– React Smartly not aggressively

• Game that could be practice– Mastering different heroes, combos and skills

such as (Farming, ganking, supporting, killing, positioning, teamwork)