DOTA Noob Guide: Run and Survive

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DOTA SURVIVAL AND GETAWAY

This guide should help all you noobs out there, who want to get better and dont leave the game as soon as it starts or as soon as you get ganked or killed. As we all know most important for surviveing in dota first of all is your HP, when its starting to fall to fast u have 3 choices: to die, to suicide (if you can),or to get away as fast as you can. I wont talk about the first two only about the third. First of all you should buy Ring of Health or Ring of Regen as soon as the game starts, this is a must have, to counter the effects of dmg when u lvl up near your tower. Try staying near the tower for first few levels and just atack, if you get damaged your ring of health/regen will help you get back in shape. If u have enough money go back and spend it on whatever suits you and your hero. Now the Getaway partWell probably most important for getting away is to pay attention all the time to the minimap. If you are alone or you are maybe with 1 hero on the lane but all the enemy heroes or some disappeared from the minimap/map more than probably they are on there way to gank you, this is the best time for you to get back near a tower for protection (wont work every time if they catch you so go further back), and signal your team whats happening. There are a few items u could use that will most likely save you and put you in advantage.First of all is Boots of Travel, this is my personal best. It has 60s cooldown and teleports you fast 3-5s anywhere near your units,or buildings on the map and gives you +90 move speed.If you feel in danger you just teleport away then you can go back as fast as u left. Kelens Dagger of Escape is a good choice to, for short distances blink 200-1000 range. But this is for more experienced players to use who know the map really good and now where you can hide but it has only 25s cooldown so u can blink run blink. And the last you can try is Lothar's Edge that gives you damage agility but the important factos is wind walk which means 9 seconds invisibility and 15% move speed for that fast getaway. Buy Ring of HP/Regen, watch the map, know the map and play carefully.


Thanks again maxq - we look forward to hearing more from you soon.

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