Author: Gaurav Tamang

Dota is best enjoyed when you have enabled the most optimal settings and options in the game. Some of these options not only make your gameplay much easier but also increase your efficiency while playing the game. Most players who have played the game for long enough have these options turned on or even have customized them to suit their playstyle. If you’re ever wondering why your hero is attacking the enemy even when you have not issued any attack command, it might be because the auto-attack feature is enabled on your client. There are many options like these in…

Dota 2 allows you to join different guilds(or make your own) and team up with your guild mates to complete contracts for various rewards. Being in a guild has some good perks but sometimes you may have reasons to leave it for good. Leaving a guild in Dota 2 is actually quite simple. You can leave your current guild by clicking on the Leave Guild button. You can see this button by hovering your cursor over your guild banner on the bottom-left corner of the game window. You will be out of your guild as soon as you click this…

Dota 2 is one of the most complex games to get into, especially if you have never played a MOBA game before. Riot Game’s League of Legends and Mobile Legends offer much more beginner-friendly experiences to new players but there is no such thing in Dota 2. Although Valve has recently added a New Player Mode for beginners, it only lets you pick your hero from a limited pool. So, when you finally get to play the normal match, most players will be overwhelmed by the number of heroes you can choose from. Also, all of the heroes are different…

You might be familiar with a meme that says online games can’t be paused. However, that isn’t true for all online games. Well, at least for DotA 2, that isn’t the case. DotA 2 allows you to pause the game but it comes with a set of regulations. You can pause your ongoing DotA match by pressing the default hotkey, F9 on your keyboard. You can change this hotkey whenever you like by accessing the Settings menu. To change the hotkey for the Pause button, Click on the Settings icon from the top-left corner of the game window to open…

DotA fans are introduced to Viceroy Kashurra in the DotA 2 anime, DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, Book Two as one of the associates of Mirana, a very popular hero in the game. When he is first introduced, he is presented as a friendly allied character who helped Mirana escape the Helio Imperium and is currently working as her advisor. At first glance, he seems like a pretty nice guy and is portrayed as a father figure to the Priestess of the Moon, Mirana. But this persona of him fades away very quickly as we get to see more of him in…

Imagine a scenario – You come home from a long day of work and launch DotA 2, hoping that you’ll be able to win some ranked matches. You also find a match quickly but not even 10 minutes into the game, all your lanes go bad, and your mid starts flaming supports for not ganking and starts being toxic in the chat. This is your typical Peruvian player, who not only loves throwing games but also enjoys trash-talking to both teammates and enemy players. Also, most of them are non-English speakers which makes it very hard to understand them. They…

DotA has a rating system for every player which essentially gives them a score based on how well they behave and perform in their matches. After every 25 matches, DotA conducts a summary of the player and gives them a rating between 1 and 10,000. This rating is called the Behavior Score and is used in your matchmaking to match you with people having similar scores as you. In theory, the higher your behavior score, the better teammates you’ll get in your matches. However, at the end of the day, this is just a measuring system and it doesn’t guarantee…

Have you recently started playing DotA 2 and managed to learn the basic principle and mechanics of the game but are now struggling to win your matches? Or have you been in the same matchmaking bracket for ages and can’t seem to rank up? Winning or losing is an integral part of any game but it can be quite demoralizing if you are losing constantly. You need to have both mechanical and in-game decision-making skills to be better at DotA 2 and win games consistently. Although all of that comes automatically with constant practice, there are also some things that…

DotA 2 has been in patch 7.32 for quite a while now, and we have seen multiple meta during this period. The next patch is estimated to release before Lima Major and the rumor has it that the IceFrog himself is working on this patch. It was stated that IceFrog was working on some other games and as a result, couldn’t help Valve with new patches of DotA 2. Also, with the release of the new DotA hero, Muerta, and several new items, the next patch is sure to bring big changes. But, till then we have no choice but…

The Carry position in DotA 2 is probably the most straightforward and popular role among all the positions. The simple reason behind this is you get to have all the limelights and farm all game while your team is doing all the heavy lifting. With every new patch, DotA 2’s meta shifts completely, and heroes that were dominating every match before the patch become obsolete. We are currently on patch 7.32d, and people have experienced the rise of new unexpected carries like Shadow Fiend and Lina while more conventional carries like Juggernaut and Morphling have completely fallen off. Let us…