Lane Assignments
Middle Lane
In most games, middle should be the solo lane. This is because it allows for the solo to have easy access to the runes, stay relatively safe using the hill, and to be able to gank the other lanes when needed. It's also harder to get a combo to work in middle, because you have less room to chase before you get to the opposing tower. Try to put your most aggressive solo hero in middle, preferably one that can use Bottle.
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Short Lane (Sentinel Top // Scourge Bottom)
The short lane is the scary one, the lane that you'd rather not have. The creep wave generally spends its time closer to the opposing tower, meaning that it's very easy for your opponents to come in from behind and gank you and if you get into trouble it's a long way to the safety of your tower. Therefore you should usually send your strongest lane combo (hopefully two stunners) to the short lane. Weaker pairs of heroes in the short lane tend to fed repeated ganks. Do not ever send a hero other than QoP, PotM, or Clinkz to solo the short lane, they'll die over and over.
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Long Lane (Sentinel Bottom // Scourge Top)
The long lane is very nice, the creeps are near your tower, it's hard to gank, you have plenty of room to combo, and you can creep pull to bring the creeps back towards you if they push too far. Pretty much anything works in the long lane. It can be used to protect heroes that are very weak early, like SA. Or a hero that just wants to ricefarm for the entire earlygame and can't make good use of the ganking opportunities that middle offers with the runes. It's also perfectly good for combos, there's plenty of room to chase down your opponents in the long lane. It's sort of the "one size fits all" lane, it's often practical to figure out what the middle and the short lane need, then put whoever is left in the long lane.
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Jungle
Jungling is a bit misunderstood. Some heroes like Lycan or Ursa should almost always jungle because they will farm far more quickly and safetly in it. However, many other heroes can jungle, but that doesn't mean that they should every game. Many players get trapped in the mindset of, "I know how to jungle this hero, so I'm going to!" and they don't think about what it does to their team's lanes. For example, a Centaur chooses to jungle, leaving his allied CM to solo against Viper and Ogre -- that's unwinnable for CM, she'll get flattened. If Centaur lanes with her instead, they have a very damaging combo and can probably beat the Viper and Ogre. The Centaur choosing to lane instead of jungle makes the difference between CM feeding and CM dominating the lane.
I'm not trying to discouraging jungling, but it's very important to look at your team's lanes as a whole when considering if some heroes should jungle or not.
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Roaming
Roaming is a rather unique option that's only available to a few heroes (read: VS, Veno, Jugg, and Sven). There are two reasons that you might want to send one of those heroes on permanent ganking from level one: either you have to heroes that both need to solo or your team's lategame is good enough that gaining an early advantage for them will go a long ways towards victory.
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Good Pairings
Okay, so we've covered what sort of heroes go in what lanes, but now how do we know what sort of heroes go together well? A few pointers (these may seem obvious, but the point here is fundamentals, I want to make sure that everyone learns this stuff. If you already know it, move on!):
-Put a ranged hero in every lane, this should be your number one goal. Double melee lanes suck.
-Stunners go well together (duh). If your team can have a pair of stunners absolutely flatten an opposing lane, that can win the game on its own.
-Put setup stunners with followup stunners. You'll get 10x the use out of your team's Lina if you put her with a hero like Sandking or Sven that can open with their own stun, to make sure that LSA will hit.
-Put heroes with bad earlygames with heroes that can spam spells to protect them. Preferably ranged heroes as well, so that they can harass while the lategamer farms. These babysitter heroes can either be healers like Warlock or Necrolyte, or they can just be heroes with dangerous spells to spam like THD. |
At 3:03 PM,
something we can try also is themed teams......:
1) Troll team(hehehe..my fav..always wanted to try)
a)T.Warlord
b)Rhasta
c)Voljin
d)Huskar
e)Dazzle
2) Insect team(more aracnids tho)
a)N.Weaver
b)Anubarak
c)Brood
d)SAND KING
e)Puck (butterfly)
3) Night Elfs team
a)Mirana
b)PA
c)Luna
d)Anti-mage
e)Furion
4) Orc Team (second fav)
1)AXE
2)P.Lancer
3)Yunero
4)Lion
5)Warlock
I cant think of many more but i think would be fun if tried it out. Especially TROLLS VS ORC as both teams quite stable, having a good mix of pusher,disabler,farmer,and tank.
At 3:15 PM,
Another team:
Knight (farking cool)
a)Dragon knight
b)Omniknight
c)Chaos knight
d)Holy knight
e)Rogue Knight
-4 melee strength late gamers but they make up for it with double heal(1 global), triple stun, AOE auras and GUARDIAN ANGEL
At 3:48 PM,
SKELETON ARMY....(im bored at work)
a)King Leoric(tank)
b)Kel'Thuzad(Nuke caster)
c)Oblivion(pusher)
d)Clinkz Eastwood(dps agi)
e)Anu'Barak(hero killer/roamer)
another stable team
At 8:46 AM,
Riders of Dota.....
a)Nessaj
b)Chen
c)Abbadon
d)Ezalor
e)Mirana
good team also
At 8:59 AM,
I have FOUR legs(beasts)....
a)Pit Lord
b)Centaur
c)Enchantress
d)Leshrac
e)Magnataur
At 11:07 AM,
Man you clearly have been thinking about DotA an awful lot.
Now let me tell you why your suggestions (though good) will not materialise).
50% of players will only pick their ownage heroes/counters :P
But I like the team suggestions. I think I'm just going to pick certain heroes I want to try out and random the rest of the time, tired of always using the tanks only, need to diversify ^_^
More Sven for me!!! I want to Rambo things.
At 12:56 PM,
i was thinking in the lines of setting the teams b4 playing starts. for example...scourge is knight team sentinel is insect team. Then we -apsp and those in scourge choose the suggested team and vice versa. Most of us can play most of these heroes.Even if you cant as they say, you want to learn new characters this is your time,you want some fun here is a way, you want to have less counter heroes here is your way
At 1:00 PM,
Nice guide. Here is another suggestion for team.
Impale team
1. Lion
2. Sand King
3. Anubarrak
4. Tidehunter
5. Don't know yet.
At 2:26 PM,
Gone in the BLINK of an eye!!!Catch them if u can!!
a)Queen of Pain
b)Anti-Mage
c)Morphling
d)Faceless Void
e)Mirana
At 9:41 PM,
cool!
lets play theme teams.
seems like lots of fun.
;)
At 4:15 PM,
Team Very Tiresome-to-Kill
1.abaddon
2.SK
3.omniknight
4.bristleback
5.phantom lancer
At 5:03 PM,
change lancer to tree..that better suits the theme i guess
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