Help Support
Our Growing Community
DOTAFire is a community that lives to help every Dota 2 player take their game to the next level by having open access to all our tools and resources. Please consider supporting us by whitelisting us in your ad blocker!
Want to support DOTAFire with an ad-free experience? You can support us ad-free for less than $1 a month!
Go Ad-Free
Thanks for the guide, good formatting and tips overall, upvote from me.
There's just a couple of little issues I have with it, detailed below.
1. Who is your intended reader?
Some sections of the guide seem to be written for complete noobs, whereas others are only understandable by more advanced players. For example, you explain how to stack and pull which is a basic concept, together with an early section on drafting which is too meta-specific to be understood by a new player. Some sections like soft support and itemization are tiny as well, perhaps it's because you want to keep the guide short, but that doesn't give enough information for new players, and it makes the writing look weak overall.
2. Drafting
Your draft section is too metagame specific. That is fine if you intend to update it every patch, but if you don't it will age like milk.
You also say to avoid "cookie cutter" picks and avoid the meta. [If you want to outdraft the enemy team, shifting away from the safe... which are covered next] Then in the same section, you tell me not to pick Outworld Devourer because it's out of meta, but that I should pick when it's good. When is it good? I'm confused.
3. After the laning phase chapter
Bits of this one need to be rewritten. What is the micromanagement section doing here? Why are the itemization and buyback sections so short? If it's too big a topic to cover for this guide, break it off into a new one.
I feel you're hindering yourself by NOT going into specifics where you should!
Also, link your other guides in this one! You might have already covered a mechanic in a different guide, you don't need to repeat yourself.