Your Dota story

I've been playing for about two years now. I didn't get the game at first but it grew on me. I saw Fuzzy Wuzzy pubstomp and was like "Damn thats a cool hero" and played a couple of games. But then I saw the mighty Invoker. And I played him alot. I learned to farm and how to push and teamfight and pull camps and get runes and use a bottle and actually egt some kills not on accident and how to gank. I joined Dotafire for its friendly community which is rather lacking in actual Dota. I worked on making myself better with every hero, mostly position 1 carries (my fav position). I tried my hand with Ranked. For a long time. I sucked. Now because of my actions one year ago I sit ina aopathetic .9 MMR hole. WTF. Recently just been practicing in pubs. I just got my friend into it and now he plays. I am coaching him on how to support. He gets excited about monster kills. Here I am now.

I like being part of the Dotafire community and try to participate as much as I can. I am aware I am an annoying arrogant fool, and I'm working on it. I'll try to be better. Just better. There is no "good" in Dota (except pros (maybe))

Early 2014, I picked up the game. Played a few games as DK and thought "Yeah, fun little game, probably not worth investing much in" and then quit for about 6 months to continue playing DoW2: Retribution. Then one of my long time DoW friends said, and I took the time to find this direct quote as we have long since fallen out: "Yo, you heard about agame called dota? me and (insert name here) playing it now. rlly fun!"

I remembered the few games I played, and so me and that friend became an unstoppable duo for the first 10 or so levels. I was Sand King, he was Drow Ranger. We stomped every game and we loved it. Well, until my friend discovered how secret shop worked and bought his first divine rapier. Always fun.

Then we played solo. He fell behind, and I went ahead in terms of skill. He was still a Drow player when i was beginning to branch into Invoker and my current favourite hero, Rubick. We fell apart, but I didn't personally think much of it. We still played together in a stack, with a bunch of his other friends, and it was all a wonderful time.

And then i met them. The two people who would forever change my outlook on dota as a whole. I currently know them as (and these are not their current names, don't bother finding them) Butchy and Nerdic. I was Anti-Mage at the time, and they were both supporting me; Wonderful times ensued. Afterwards i friended them and they let me in on the last spot in their team at the time.

Before i knew it, 800 hours had passed. Nerdic and Butchy had a falling out (lots of drama of which i had to be in the middle of, as i wanted to play with both of them -_-) and now it's just mostly me and Butchy, and the remaining members of the team...And Bunkan, when he feels like it ;).

If you want to know when i joined dotafire, it was when i first picked up Juggernaut after 8 games as Sand King, and had no idea what to build. Only used for guides for a long time, as i have two monitors to keep dotafire up in one. I first actually joined dotafire to create and submit a hero idea, which is where i stayed for a long time. Look now though.

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ALTERNATE ENDING:
Then i found league of legends and got addicted to that for a while. Now URF mode is back online and i play about 1 game of dota in 4 games of league.

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I wrote more than i thought i had to write.

I started original Dota back in time when Naix was op as **** ( 3 pasives and avatar ulti ) and you could buy items and give them for your teammates ( i think it was 10years ago,no? ) And keept playing it since then,with some short breaks but never left it completely.Then dota 2 came out,but i was still playing original because my old pc couldnt handle dota 2 graphics lol. But when i bought new pc,i tried dota 2,wasnt hyped too much about it,but original dota community in my country decreased little by little,so i completely switched to dota 2.Now im thinking,with such dota expierence i should be good player,but im such noobish scrub ._.

I started playing Dota, the WC3, like 7 years ago i think. It was fun. We had our own servers here on our city, so mostly we competed against folks from the same city. Something like 5 supports or 5 carries winning the game is normal. I enjoyed it. The fun, the craziness, and the bad words coming from others XD. On 2013, I think, Dota 2 entered our community. Cyber-cafe around added this game into the list. So me and my folks were just "hey why don't we try this game?". At first, I hated this game. Roles, wardings, and stuffs like that weren't in my list, so I just ignored this game, and went back to WC3. But one day, there is this local competition, where winner gets $2000, so I thought "hey guys why don't we try it? We can still practice, since it's still a month away". So we practiced, played, and won. That is when I fell in love with Dota 2. I dunno why, but it just felt so amazing. The roles, things that never crossed my mind. The graphics, which beats WC3. And everything. Now, I play Dota 2 like 4 times a day. I may have much experience from the old WC3 days, but Dota 2? Naww I'm still scrubs XD

It all started back 2 years ago during TI3. Course I didn't even know what it was let alone the watch tab.
I was over at a friends place and he was like "yeah, fun game, multiplayer, we should play"
So I then did the first 2 tutorials, played 2 bot games with him as Bane (didn't have a ****ing clue what I was doing) and was then thrown into my first to online games as Enigma.
So that was my introduction. Over the next 4 months I played a **** ton of bots and tried to get better than my friend. I read wikis but mostly figured **** out by myself. About 8-9 months later I discovered wikis and started reading guides on (guess what) dotafire. Also around that time I "friended" up with Fleet and improved through the use of actually asking questions here.
So given that, TI4 came around, I had knowledge and were still improving (sitting on about 360-400 hrs) and as such it was around then that I started to become interested in competitive play and possibly one day playing competitively myself at a national level. With the release of Free to Play my interest grew and I began to respect/idolize the three players that were "showcased" within the documentary.

My first significant memories of competitive play was a random game of Fnatic vs C9 from the Champions Leagues playoffs which was casted by Luminous and Tobiwan and basically the game involved Fnatic failing to draft their line-up of naga, disruptor, enigma and dark seer; ultimately losing the game for them. Afterwards I set about watching competitive games on youtube.

Hope this huge slab of text helps.

When I began, I saw DOTA like a nerdy thing, and I didn't feel like playig those kind of things. Although, I gave it a try. I had some friends that played it, so why not. It was nearly 2 years ago. Now I've 1.2k hours, and proud of it. Since at the very beginning I had NO IDEA what I was supposed to do, they classed me in the trench. Then I did my homeworks: I watched games to improve, checked guides, etc. I always had quick reflexes, so I knew I had potential in this game. I also met a guy who was really good, and for some reasons kept playing with me. Then he realized how **** I was and I was the one who gave up on him. Then, I practiced little things, and repeated that for a while. I realized offlane was my fav' position, although tri-lanes arent common on my trench, or junglers, or roamers etc...



Now my skillset is around the 3.3/3.9k. But I'm still far from a real 4k player. I'm slowly doing it you know! Without any salt ony my mind of course!:)

Well I got into the game about a year and half ago it must be. I had a lot of friends who played it, and they'd talk about in lessons, and due to wanting to be able to discuss it with them, I naturally googled it, found to wiki, started reading up about it.

Given I'd already watched VODs of other games at high level to get a elementary grasp of it before I played, I looked for some DOTA Vods, and found myself watching the D2CL Season 2. And I really enjoyed it. And thus I watched as much competitive DOTA as I could (And still do, to the extent that despite having played 350~ hours of DOTA (Mostly against bots), I've probably watched 5 times as much competitive DOTA of varying tiers.

I can't say playing has shaped my life that much, aside from maybe being one of the many sources of my improved confidence, but the largest thing it's done is become my primary hobby. Whilst, like many people here, I had some dreams of being a competitive players, I know that I got into the game at too old an age to improve enough in time to do it.