Bow to the King

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This is just a quick guide for my friend starting DOTA2 for the first time. I thought it might help others.

Basically start the match buying Salve, Tango, and Ring of Regen. The ring is a item required for your Soul Ring.

Then once the game starts build soul ring as soon as possible use the courier to bring it to you on lane.

After Soul Ring is built work on power treds by buying Boots of Speed then gloves of haste and then belt of strength.

After power treds is done make your armlet by buying gloves of haste first. By this time you can easily kill neutral creeps so if the opportunity arises go for it. Finish building your armlet and work with the team to gank and team fight.

After Armlet is done and you've saved up 2100g buy hyperstone right away which will give you massive attack speed boost to help you carry in teamfights. Build Assault Cuirass as soon as possible to become a unstoppable killing machine.

After Cuirass if the game hasn't already ended you can either at this point make black king bar if it is a caster heavy team, or make heart of tarasque for damage and hp, or make a monkey king bar to decimate.