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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Red-Moon-Revival » March 28, 2014 10:22pm | Report
Hey guys, as i said, i'm new in this game.
Someone told me that i should focus on one Hero for Strength, Agility and Intelligence, and so far i'm using Lycan for Strength and Luna for Agility.

1. What is Strength/Agility/Intelligence?

2. Are the Heroes i picked legit?

3. How do I last-hit for gold?

4. What is the meaning of 'Situational Items'?

5. What is juking?

I'd really like to know the answers to most of these terms to understand my pinned build guides better and therefore play better. Thanks in advance.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Timminatorr » March 29, 2014 4:49am | Report
I would give this a read.
http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Attributes
In a nutshell strength gives HP, agility gives armor and attack speed, making those heroes good later in the game becouse of higher damage output, and intelligence gives mana.

They are both certainly legit. Lycan behaves mostly like an agility carry hero, he has high damage output with his attacks, and brings towers really fast.
His main role is pushing enemy towers and when the enemy forgets about him then suddenly all your towers in that lane are gone. If they come after you you can activate your ultimate and run away at max movespeed and farm the jungle fast.

Luna is an agility carry that is good at pushing with your team, since her aura gives all your heroes near you more attack damage. She can also fight earlier with her team than a lot of carries since Lucent Beam and Eclipse give her a lot of early magic damage.
She is good at lategame becouse her bouncing glaives let her farm fast and output a lot of damage.

You get gold by landing the killing blow or 'lasthit' on a creep, giving you gold. In low level pubs people will just start autoattacking the wave and push it as a result.
Try to only attack creeps only once for lasthits or autoattack you want to push.

What are situational items. For example:
Lycan has 2 main builds, the pushing build and the fighting build.
Vladimirs offering is pretty much always gotten becouse it provides sustain while farming and pushing power.
If you want to fight a lot with your team you go for black king bar becouse it makes you immune to magic damage and most disables. And skull basher, which get upgraded to abyssal blade later, to bash people in place so you can freely attack without them fighting back or running away.

If you want to push you get a necronicom 3. It spawns 2 strong units who you control, due to lycan's skills these units becouse really strong and together with the wolves you can chew through towers and their base.

Juking is escaping an opponent or dodging spells though movement. You usually do this near trees becouse if they briefly lose sight of you it means that mid animation their spells will stop, becouse they dont have vision of you.


You should REALLY read this guide. http://www.purgegamers.com/welcome-to-dota-you-suck
It is an amazing beginners guide.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Zerak Kyria » March 30, 2014 4:45pm | Report
Tim has basically summed it all up,
I'd also like to add that Juking can be the act of running away by trying to loose the other team by obstructing their vision of you by running through trees etc to try and say get your Blink Dagger off cooldown to escape properly.

Last hitting is as Tim said is acquiring the last hit on creeps, towers, heros and roshan.
To last hit is to really just be the final hit or attack on the object that kills it and you're rewarded with gold. Not aquiring the last hit on a hero or tower doesn't mean you won't get gold. When towers are destroyed the entire team gains a gold amount but aquiring the last hit gives you an extra 100-200 gold. If you contributed to killing a hero and they die within 1000 or so radius you will receive around 50 gold there about. Acquiring the last hit on a hero gives you around 280 gold.

They're both good heroes you picked as well, I just might add that playing 2 heroes straight off may seem a bit complicating and you may want to stick with one and explore all options for that hero. And it doesn't matter which hero you start off with, I'd just recommend avoiding heroes such as Meepo, Invoker, Lone Druid due to their required skill being a bit higher.

A more in depth description for situational items would be that you acquire them in certain situations such as Necromonicon on Lycan as a pushing build instead of Black King Bar as a fighting or hero killing build. Don't worry so much about situational items because until you have a solid idea of each hero and how to counter them or also for pushing or playing in the bottom lane compared to mid for the Radiant. The name itself basically says everything; they're situational, you acquire them in situations.

I'll just give a summary for strength/agility/intelligence as reading the webpage Tim posted is your best way to learn about them thoroughly.

Strength is what gives your hero more health and slight hp regen.
Agility is what gives your hero more attack speed and armour. (physical not magical)
Intelligence is what gives your hero a greater mana pool and slight mana regen.

All I can say is read guides, read wikis, play against bots, complete the tutorials and you should have a solid idea about dota.
Your new diet for heroes; You will need 4 wards (cuz wards taste better), 1 set of tangoes, 1 mango, 1 cheese.
With this you can make a nice Tango Mango Cheese platter. You can wash this all down with a nice bottle of water, Can be flavoured with red, green, yellow, blue, purple AND GOLD!
Caution: Taking roshan 3 times is required.

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