A few nooby questions from a noob xD

Just a few things I want to ask from my experience of dota over the past few days.

At the beginning of my time here, I was awful, but I was told everyone started awful so I kept playing. I was averaging about 4kills-8deaths xD but then, rather than just picking a different hero everytime, I picked ursa over and over for about 6 games now, and I am doing pretty well with it, my last match was 12-2 and my best was 24-4, but is this just ursa being OP, or me improving with ursa? and seeing as I like the playstyle of ursa is there any related hero I should also try and improve on?

Also, I have gotten a few of my level-up gifts, and I was wondering if the hero specific weapons I get from this can be bought in any way or is it just RNG?

Thanks for reading :)

i belive ursa is not op..its just that u need team work to counter him..nukers shut him down well...its hard to fight him with meele heros..but tanky heros with blade mail are good...eule septre easily ruin his gank chance..same for blink dagger shadow blade...the point being dont fight him alone

n yes u can buy a lot of hero bundles n items couriers from dota 2 store..also sell it on steam community market..trade/exchange items with friends...also check out dota2lounge.com...also dota2 store offers spotlight items everyday u can buy this item at 50 to 70 % less price

The improvement in your games could be due to a couple of things;
1. Not many people can deal with ursa in low level pubs
2. Your getting better, well done.
3. The items you get from level-up gifts can be bought from the store if available, or the community market as stated before.
4. A hero similar to ursa could possibly be Troll Warlord in the sense that he has a slow, attack speed and pounds people 1 v 1.

And I do hope you continue to get better,

Hi thatguy577

ill help you out.

on your first point the answer is simple on face value.

you do the same thing enough times you get real real good at doing that one thing.

the more complicated answer is:

assuming you have less then 100 games your going to be in a lower bracket where people of your skill will have trouble dealing with an Ursa hell even people in higher brackets have trouble dealing with an Ursa. but the fact remains as your skill level improves you will find it harder to play Ursa since people will start to develop the skill and knowledge to deal with you (itemisation/chaining/ positioning). im sure in one game soon you will get royally wrecked and wonder why!!.

when i first started i played Spirit Breaker non stop and i rektface. BUT eventually i was losing, because people realised how to deal with me.this will happen to you.

i suggest start trying out in bots a couple of other heroes so when you do lose you can swap out and use someone else (do this until you get a knowledge of all heroes and are able to counterpick and predict picks and or pick to a strategy).

similar to ursa (getting in thier face doing a large amount of dps quickly):

Spirit Breaker Clinkz these two do a lot of damage quickly.

and yea buy cosmetics in the dota2 store or on the market (its cheaper here)

GG HF

Thanks for all the replies guys! Very helpful, as a few of you guys predicted I was forced to stop with ursa because I began to get ganked, nuked and stunned to death in all my games xD Today I'm gonna try testing heroes in bot matches as suggested :)
Also the links and tips about getting cosmetics were extremely helpful tyvm :)
Looking forward to improving my skills in Dota 2
Thanks for reading :)

These carries that are good 1v1 are not that easy as you think, they usually have to adapt to the game via their item build, which is quite hard for a newcomer.


Basically, you pick items based on who you are up against. (with a couple that are core like Blink Dagger on Ursa for example).

Ursa is basically special in that he can do a lot of damage, REALLY QUICK, and it's all base auto-attack damage. He's also unique in that he can solo Roshan at low levels provided you have Vladimir's Aura.

Sniper is a pubstomper, but he needs farm. Same with BloodSeeker (at least the old one).

And really, bot matches are the best for trying new heroes. There's nothing I hate more than a person who is trying a hero for the first time in a Public Match.

I don't agree with that, I think least played is THE place to learn, but y'know, all pick is really not the place to start new heroes

Least Played and Bot Matches are both good places to learn, especially if you're in a 5-stack that can help you learn while making it fun <}3

1 vs 1 Solo Mid Lobbies are a great place to learn how to Lane with a Hero as well.

Ursa is by no means OP, as already discuessed, and just having a high KDA is meaningless tbh.

Did you Farm well? If you Laned and maanged to get 3 out of 4 Creeps in the Creep Wave until you Farmed your Blink Dagger, then that's pretty good, anything less and you need to practise Last Hitting. If you Jungled...then your Farm was mediocre at best.

In Teamfights, were you Killing people because you maneuvered yourself in a way that they couldn't avoid or escape from you? or was it because Shadow Shaman got into Position and held them down while you smacked away? It's fine to rely on others for Initiation, but you have to ask yourself if it's you who is being effective, or whether your Teammates are the ones making the important plays. It's not bad if they are, but noticing when someone on your Team is being the most effective makes it easier to learn from them and improve your own gameplay

It depends, do you like Ursa because he can get in people's faces? Then try Bristleback, Tidehunter, Axe, Wraith King and Centaur Warrunner . If you're feeling brave, you can even try someone harder like Clockwerk, he's amazingly fun, but using his Skills effectively can be difficult.

Do you like being able to Blink Dagger in on people and WRECK them? Phantom Assassin, [Skywrath Mage]], Slardar, Juggernaut, Gyrocopter and Legion Commander are all good (just promise to play Legion Commader Mid and not Jungle, it makes me cry every time Tresdin is played badly T-T )