[Honest] Goo's Guide To Perú (With Slang Dictionary)

Preface

Disclaimer: you will learn a lot.

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So its been long enough and really this is something I think is worth creating. As you all well know, peruvians suck at the game right? Is this true? How true is this and why is it that one country has so much pub presence and popularity as the worst players ever.

Lets get this straight shall we? How did we shift the scapegoat role from Russia to Peru, and should you feel bad for it. No. And I will explain you why.


So for those unfamiliar, I am TheGoo, I make guides here on dotafire and also on my own blog, you can visit it here; I am fairly active user on /r/learndota2 I just lurk there, comment on discussions, try to give advice, etc. I sometimes do coaching, on mid lane, which is my main role; and I am from Peru.

I will attempt explaining how the peruvian Dota 2 community works, and why the general stereotype of a peruvian player is so negative mainly based off my personal experience, and my surroundings. Hopefully after this more people will understand why are peruvians so allegedly bad.

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1. Booths

So you may have heard about the Peruvian Internet Cafe and you may think this is a joke or an exaggeration. It is really not. But its not Internet Cafes; its Public Internet Booths. Of course these are pretty global, but in Peru, more specifically on Lima (Capital of Peru for those that dont know) they are completely blown out of proportion, there is a staggering amount of these public internet booths, pretty much wherever you go you can find one of these, sometimes multiple in a single block. And these internet booths are especially concentrated around two places: malls and universities/schools.

To give you an idea of how massive this is, if you go to Wikipedia and look for Public Internet Booth you literally get Lima, Peru as an example. If you dont believe me, here.

Basically how it works is you go in, you pay a small fee that varies from 50 centimos to 2 soles (From 15 cents to 80 cents) depending on how ****py the computers (or the place) is. So you pay once and you can use one of the computers for, usually, an hour. As you may imagine, these are mainly focused around games, and the most popular of those games is well, Dota 2.

Lets say you walk into a Internet Booth in Peru, or like we say here Cabina (Booth in Spanish), you will probably see like in 15 people, at least a solid 9-10 are playing Dota 2, the rest cycle through counterstrike, League and ocassionally someone browsing for a homework or something similar.

Cabinas are, the vast majority of times, pretty dirty places, often crowded, really guetto places if I may. But people still go of course, to get their daily dose of Dota 2. And why? Because most of these players sometimes dont even have a pc at home, or their internet connection is something like 100 kb/s, etc; there are multiple reasons.

Now I am compelled to clarify, these cabina-visiting players are not all, but a big big majority of the dota 2 community here in Peru.

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No ******** it is safe to say that, at the very least, 9 out of 10 Peruvian players play Dota 2 from a cabina. Cabina players or cabineros do not speak English (or they only know basic words in context like push or tower), this is your typical Peruvian Pubber.

And I am pretty sure that if you are reading my guide you know I am part of that 10%.

You have probably played with people from the 10% before and you havent noticed, they speak fluent English, have at least decent game knowledge, etc. They do not align with the average Peruvian portrait. And this happens in pretty much all non-english speaking countries, but I think its safe to say that in the case of Peru the gap is really noticeable.

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2. Account Sharing

If you thought that was horrible you havent seen anything yet. Account Sharing, you probably think you know what I mean, but you dont.

More than often the owners of cabinas are dota players themselves, and before opening in the morning they boot up dota on all the computers (again, not always, but this happens and I want you to picture it well), and then people come in and just queue.

These are public accounts, they have nothing but Dota 2 in their libraries, names are either randomized by the owner or changed by the guy currently using the computer. They play a match and then their hour ends, and they just walk away and another guy sits in his place and queues for another one, changes his name and so on. People using these accounts have the default steam ? picture most of the time.

Because of this, people dont even care if they abandon a game, they dont get to play the low priority games, they just leave; or worse, they change computers if there are any available.

The classic pls finish is more than often because they want to play two games with just paying for one hour. And intentional feeding comes with it, ending a game faster to play another one.

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3. Server Usage

Alright Goo I get it, but why the **** do they queue to Us east if they dont know basic ****ing English?!

Brazil is why. You know how having people that dont speak your language pisses you off? Well, this happens a lot in the south America server, when more than half of the players over there are Brazilian and speak Portuguese.

Some cabinas a worse than others, some have ****py connections and they dont have an option but to play in SA server, but when they can, they will queue to Us east just to get rid of the stupid Brazilians.

This is yet another negative, since they get really high pings (190+ US east and 220+ US west), on top of not knowing the language they are pretty much playing solo, and that is 4v5 for the rest.

And lastly, and the most ironic of all of the reasons: They do not why to play with other Peruvians.

Why? Well, they know from first hand that cabina players can just leave a match if they get pissed (if using public accounts) and that overall, they are unpleasant players, badly mannered, make stupid mistakes ingame like being 1v5 aggressive and feeding themselves, they have little game knowledge (for the fact that they only come and play and learn from experience, will talk about that later on), etc.

To this list add 12 year old undecipherable squeaking that gets mad for literally everything that happens to him ingame and you got yourself a ni±o rata (so called Rat Kids).

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4. Game Sense

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The main big reason that causes the common cabinero lacks basic game sense is directly linked to cabinas themselves.

You have to remember something, these players often dont have a computer at home, they go to the cabina, pay their 2 soles and jump straight to play, and then they leave and come back the next day.

They do not follow the competitive scene at all, they do not read guides, the only game feedback they get is built up from what they see in their games.

Sometimes, and I am not kidding, they do not even know updates happen; since they dont read the game on the web and the game itself is not in their computers they dont notice when updates happen. The owner of the place just updates the computers overnight and next day everything is still working like normal. Suddenly you go play some Dota 2 over to the cabina and find 6 new items and you have 0 idea what they do.

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5. Fancy Cabinas

So every now and then you will come across these internet booths that are way more expensive, twice times as expensive most of the time, and that have better connection, etc; these are not the majority though, and I have found them near universities the most.

Students hang out there, part time do homework, part time Dota 2. In these fancy cabinas people actually have accounts and play ranked and such, and know at least an acceptable amount of English words, just enough to be able to play Us east and not be left isolated or muted.

Naturally, for the sake of this guide I went to one of these fancy cabinas, first off, they arent literally fancy, they are just a little bit less crowded since its more expensive per hour, and also I found a bit more League players, like 3 in 10 which was impressive.

There are a few proper players out there in the internet booths that are kinda in that 10% but at the same time dont have a pc at home, which was really surprising to me since there were people like around 3.5k mmr is quite a bit of matches and he has to pay per hour.

Anyway that takes us to the last point.

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6. SmAsh Es Mi Pastor

You have surely heard this before, but SmAsh is a big thing in Peru.

Why? Various reasons, first off he is not from Lima, he is from Tacna, and Tacna is a way way smaller city than Lima; and he is pretty much the only important Peruvian player in the world.

He is the kind of role model cabineros follow, even if they have no idea how he plays. He is in fact so big here that he has been interviewed in big national tv channels, he tells his story how he became such a figure in young players from Peru, etc; you can watch it if you want even though its in spanish.

He even has a ****ing commercial for Bembos (Biggest fast food chain here, even bigger than McDonalds). Watch:

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7. English-Peruvian Slang Dictionary

Thats mostly what I wanted to put in the guide but I am including this as well since I am already making a guide on the subject ffs.

Note that game terminology like creep is unchanged, they call it creep just as well.

Your own handy English to Peruvian Dota Slang Dictionary!

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-Lets Go = Vamos
-Back = Atras
-Lane = Linea
-Pull = Pulea
-Stack = Stackea (These two are in verb form)
-Kill (Verb) = Mata
-Deaths = Muertes
-Farm = Farmea (Verb)
-Go = Ve
-Push = Empuja
-Teamfight = Mecha
-Fight = Lucha
-Damage = Da±o
-Earthshaker = Toro (Bull)
-Spirit Breaker = Vaca (Cow; however Peruvians just tend to call him Bara)
-Bloodseeker = Gato (Cat)
-Death Prophet = Bruja (Witch)
-Ur mom = Tu vieja
-Useless = Inutil

Puta Madre is a curse you may hear a lot, its basically something you say out of frustration or enraged, like Holy ****.

-Puta madre stop feeding shadow fiend.
-Puta madre everything is warded.
-Died to techies again, puta madre.

Tmr is short for Puta madre.



Another one is ctm. This is basically an insult aimed to your female parent figure, thats all.

And last but not least, the biggest figure of all Peruvian slang: Pes, or Ps for short.

I personally think its impossible to explain exactly what Pe means by translating it, but its just something you say after sentences, very similar to Singaporeans lah. Hard to say in english because there isnt a word of slang like that, its not like saying dude exactly, but its close enough.

So saying something like go farm dude would be ve farmea ps.

I honestly think this will be helpful to a lot of people.

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8. End Note

Anyway guys thats it, I think its a fairly informative guide. I am not sure if its going to be helpful at all in practice but I think its going to be, at the very least, entertaining.

This isnt a serious guide, you can check out my proper guides over here.

And now I have up and running a blog where I put all my guides, so far I have only ported my mid guide; but its looking good so far and Im the process of porting the rest over to there. Tell me what you think. And the direct link to the mid guide here.

Hope you like the guide, if you have further questions I think I'll be happy to answer them.

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