DOTA Strategies

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DOTA Strategy for Chen

Today we've got a DOTA Strategy and build up for Chen. In DOTA; Chen needs to be played primarily as a 'support hero' however - Chen also has the power to be a killing hero, you must choose your time right and only engage when its the right time (at other times keep to supporting your DOTA team mates!) (Warcraft3)

Chen - The Holy Knight
Chen - The Holy Knight
Range: 600 | Move Speed: 300
Primary: INT
Str: 20 + 1.5 | Agi: 15 + 2.1 | Int: 21 + 2.8
Damage: 43 – 53 | HP: 530 | Mana: 273
HP Regen: 0.85 | Mana Regen: 0.85
Attack Speed: 1.44 | Armor: 2
Prophesizing a new dawn, a new world cleansed of the old evils, the Holy Knight's entrance into the war against the Scourge forever changed the course of history. A crusader riding under the banner of Hextar, the Holy Knight promises ever-lasting glory and redemption for those who march with him, and obstacles ahead to test the faith of all those sworn to forever cleanse evil from the land. Fanatically devoted to his cause, his followers come from every race, every background, and will stop at nothing to see the Scourge destroyed. If ever the redeeming hand of God touched earth, its name was Chen, the Holy Knight.
Penitence Penitence (E)
Forces a unit to accept punishment for their sins, causing them to move slower and accept more damage from attacks or spells. Lasts 7 seconds.
Level 1 - 8% movement speed reduction, and 7% increased damage taken.
Level 2 - 16% movement speed reduction, and 14% increased damage taken.
Level 3 - 24% movement speed reduction, and 21% increased damage taken.
Level 4 - 32% movement speed reduction, and 28% increased damage taken.
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 15
Test of Faith Test of Faith (F)
If cast on enemy, will deal variable damage based on the units faith.
If cast on allied Hero, it will teleport him to the fountain. Allies can ignore the effect of Test of Faith by typing -disablehelp in advance, and type -enablehelp if they need it.
Instantly teleports Chen`s persuaded units to the fountain.
(Note: Faith seems to mean completely random)
Level 1 - 50-100 Damage to foes, 6 second casting time for allies.
Level 2 - 100-200 Damage to foes, 5 second casting time for allies.
Level 3 - 150-300 Damage to foes, 4 second casting time for allies.
Level 4 - 200-400 Damage to foes, 3 second casting time for allies.
Mana Cost: 140
Cooldown: 30
Holy Persuasion Holy Persuasion (R)
Takes control of a target unit. Cannot persuade allied units, Ancients, enemy hero images, and Necronomicon summons. If the persuaded unit has timed life, it will die after the timer is over.
If you persuade additional units after you`ve persuaded the maximum number of units, one of the units, not necessarily the last one, will die.
Level 1 - Unit Max. 75 HP Bonus.
Level 2 - Unit Max. 150 HP Bonus.
Level 3 - Unit Max. 225 HP Bonus.
Level 4 - Unit Max. 300 HP Bonus.
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 30
Hand of God Hand of God (D)
Fully Regenerates your own units, which may include your chicken, converted creeps, Necronomicon summons and images etc. Heals all allied heores on the map.
Level 1 - 200 HP Healed.
Level 2 - 300 HP Healed.
Level 3 - 400 HP Healed.
Mana Cost: 150 / 200 / 250
Cooldown: 70


Tiny (Stone Giant) Strategy

Today on DOTA Tips - I thought we would post the standard strategy for playing Tiny (Stone Giant) a popular hero and fairly easy to use within DOTA. Personally Tiny is one of my fav Warcraft3 men!

Ok - heres the basic start (Feel free to comment on this post with your ideas or changes)

Rugged combat hero, specializing in hitting slow but hard.



Tiny - The Stone Giant
Range: 128 | Move Speed: 285
Primary: STR
Str: 24 + 3 | Agi: 9 + 0.9 | Int: 14 + 1.6
Damage: 61 – 67 | HP: 606 | Mana: 182
HP Regen: 0.97 | Mana Regen: 0.57
Attack Speed: 1.55 | Armor: -1



Avalanche (V)
Send 4 to 5 piles of rocks on an area of 200 AoE to stun and damage enemy land units. Each pile of rock stuns around 0.25 second, and the whole process lasts around 2 seconds.
Level 1 - 100 damage.
Level 2 - 180 damage.
Level 3 - 260 damage.
Level 4 - 300 damage.
Mana Cost: 120
Cooldown: 18



Toss (T)
Tiny grabs the nearest unit, friend or foe, and launches them at a location. Upon landing, the unit deals damage in an area as well as receiving 20% of that damage to themselves (this damage increases as your size increases). Cannot toss Elder Form DK.
Level 1 - 500 range, 75 damage.
Level 2 - 700 range, 150 damage.
Level 3 - 900 range, 225 damage.
Level 4 - 1100 range, 300 damage.
Mana Cost: 120
Cooldown: 13



Craggy Exterior (C)
Tiny`s body is made of solid granite, causing great pain to those who attack it. Whenever a melee unit attacks Tiny, there is a chance that they will be stunned for 2 seconds. Tiny will not take damage if he stuns the enemy for that particular hit.
Level 1 - 6% chance, 25 stun damage.
Level 2 - 12% chance, 35 stun damage.
Level 3 - 18% chance, 45 stun damage.
Level 4 - 24% chance, 55 stun damage.
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A



Grow (W)
Greatly increases Tiny`s power and size, but does so at the cost of his attack speed. Will reset all cooldowns.
Level 1 - 40 bonus damage, 5 bonus speed, 20% reduced attack speed.
Level 2 - 80 bonus damage, 10 bonus speed, 35% reduced attack speed.
Level 3 - 120 bonus damage, 15 bonus speed, 50% reduced attack speed.
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A

DOTA World Rankings by Country

I thought I should clarify our last post on the current DOTA (Warcraft 3 Mod) champion countries around the world.

The positions are ranked by overall tournament wins (officially recorded DOTAvictories in major tournaments)

The top 5 DOTA nations were:

1. Philippines
2. Bolivia
3. Malaysia
4. Singapore
5. Thailand

The Philippines have always been a strong DOTA playing nation; plenty of players and lots of skill. Their biggest asset is their team work. Other nations have great skill, such as Australia and the USA - but these 2 countries tend to argue between their teams - causing several losses in big games.

Bolivia was a surprise ranked in at no.2 but their DOTA players are growing largely and quickly. They showed some lucky breaks - but were good enough to hold Rank no. 2

Malaysia are probably the country most likely to challenge the Philippines for the no.1 spot. They have more and more players achieving good success each day. Very skilful and very disciplined. The Malaysians are the next big country power in the Warcraft Mod world that is DOTA.

We have many Australian DOTA readers here at our website; we would like to hear from you as to why Australia is struggling to make the world rankings for DOTA?

DOTA Rankings by Country

With DOTA continuing to grow around the world, we thought we would list the top ranking DOTA (Warcraft) ranked nations in order of strongest:

The Philippines remains in top spot, in terms of DOTA skill and ability, here is the complete list: The interesting point here is New Zealand knocks Australia out of Top spot - The Aussies dropping away in terms of their Warcraft/DOTA skills.

1. Philippines
2. Bolivia
3. Malaysia
4. Singapore
5. Thailand
6. Indonesia
7. Peru
8. Greece
9. Romania
10. New Zealand


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New Dota Map 6.46b

The latest DOTA Map v6.46b has just been released by IceFrog and his crew


The newest DotA Allstars map has bug fixes mainly. However, Bigger updates are to come in future map releases.



As we can read on the end of the changelog "Sorry for the delay and limited new features in this, lots of misc bugs and code rewrites needed priority in order to stabilize and improve the map (as a result, some content needed to be disabled until another release).". There are some nice buffs also, especially for the Morphling and Warlock:
* Lowered Replicate mana cost
* Fixed Arcane Orb from dealing bonus damage to Warlock's Infernal

A quick b patch was released to cover some issues, mainly Furion's Treant stats (0 armor, low hp and dmg), which accidentally came with .46. No big changes

As always the latest DOTA map can be downloaded at GetDota - www.getdota.com

DOTA AI MAPS - Noob Help

Ok, this post might not apply to some of the more advanced DOTA players and users - however for people just learning DOTA; it's an important tip and strategy suggestion.

Many people don't know that DOTA can be played in a solo mode. The AI version of the DOTA maps - allows users to play alone at home offline directly from their warcraft program.

When Icefrog releases a new DOTA map he also releases an AI version - so if you would like to play alone and test your strategy and hero against the computer (at varying skill levels) simply download and install the DOTA AI map and feel safe to test in the comfort of your own newbness.

You won't have elite DOTA players giving you a hard time about being a newby - so just try your new heros and maybe even master harder hero's such as phantom assassin, lucifer (doom bringer), lich king or stealth assassin.

So newbies dont get scared; get your AI DOTA map the latest is DOTA 6.45 and can be downloaded here: http://www.savefile.com/files/615648

Trust me DOTA AI MAPS will help you improve your DOTA.

(Warcraft, DOTA, MMPORPG)

DOTA Clans for Tips and Strategy

For DOTA and Warcraft players not already in a clan, if your ready to join here is a great place to check out teams, skills and available positions.

Click Here for Warcraft Clans and Maps

A good quality site where you get 100 of the top ranked clans listed from: Numner 1 rated Warcraft clan (Hands of the Sorrow Knight) through to Asian PvPGN at position 100.

Clans and general clan wars in Warcraft and DOTA are a great way to improve your gaming skills. If you pick the right clan, they can teach you some amazing stuff. Learn inside skills with heros like Centaur Warchief, Rhasta and Blood Seeker just to name a few.

The clan members are the top ranked DOTA players online, you might find it hard initially but a good clan will help you improve.

Try and pick a DOTA clan in your local area, that makes LAN gaming and meetings much better - face to face gaming and clans is plenty of fun!

Check out http://www.topgamesites.net/warcraft today!