Ready to play live?

Hi all new player wanting to go live

Ive currently put in around 30 hours playing local matches against bots using Enigma and Broodmother odd choices for starting heroes I know but I like just picked them at random and started looking at guides for them. Ive got to the point where I can get a victory about 50% of the time with the bots on hard and realised that most of the losses im getting on hard are down to the bots on my team not pulling their weight.

I understand bots wont play the same as humans but would you think ive played enough to start playing online without being called a noob every 5 seconds?

Remember one rule - it's always your team's fault.

Of course not. If you haven't done any real games, then people from your matchmaking level will constantly call you a noob, regardless on how well you do. Unless you get a large amount of kills and zero deaths, people will always find a way to blame you.

You are at a crucial stage right now. Either you get better, not caring about the derogatory comments you receive, or give in to the community and become one of them.

Just keep winning until you get to a much better place. For now, keep playing at human matches.

I see what your getting at but I will only apportion blame when its warranted.

If the bots actually push and start taking towers down then its fine - but when ive pushed mid solo to the last tower with broodmother and am sitting there harassing 3-4 bot heroes at the top of the lane you would expect the bots on your team to start pushing the other towers 15 minutes into a game. Im not sure but it seems the hard setting ramps up the enemy AI while reducing friendly AI making you do more yourself.

Thanks

I wasn't expecting to not be called a noob at all and I don't mind a bit of banter. Was just asking to see if putting around 30 hours in with a couple of heroes and experimenting with different builds, laning and jungling is enough to do a decent enough job online.

Guess there is only one way im going to find out.

30 hours of offline play? You'll be fine.

I'd practise with a more commonly used Hero tbh. Enigma is a jungler, so you'll be leaving someone on your Team 2 vs 1 right from the start, not usually a good idea in Pubs, since you can't guarantee they'll know how to handle it. Broodmother might work fine in low Level Pubs though.

I'd recommend practising with Tanky Heroes that have Stuns, like Dragon Knight or even Skeleton King (you'll want to read a guide for SK first though) since it's easier to lane with Heroes that can take a lot of Damage and still Stun enemies who dare to Tower Dive.

If you're playing with friends, you might want to try some Support Heroes like Lion or Lich. I don't recommend playing Support with 4 other random people, they'll most likely just blame you for everything if they lose...or even if they don't lose, they'll probably still blame you for something.

If you have only played with Bots against Bots, try playing Players Vs. Bots on Easy/Normal difficulty until you get used to playing with Human Teammates. After that you can either go Player vs Player, or see how you fair against Unfair Bots. 8D


P.S. The secret to winning DOTA is to get 4 friends and use Teamwork to win 8D

If you are willing to spend 30 hours training you most likely have the dedication to get out of the lowest matchmaking fast.

When playing by yourself you play with 9 random people. If you play 3 games in one day that is 36 random people. If you stopped 36 random people on the street the odds are low they will all be nice. The same applies here. The greatest mechanic in dota is you can mute players. Just click the microphone next to there name on the score board. I use this often when people start throwing blame around.

Thanks for the tips. I didn't know you could do Players vs Bots so will give that a try first before going PvP.

As I got internet quite late, I myself played the game offline with bot maps for more than 6 months(warcraft 3 dota).When I got my internet back, I went into games fully knowing what I was doing.Then again, before that(that is when I discovered dota) I was playing Quake mostly.