Dota 2

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a new topic that is ’ Force Staff or Hurricane Pike ’. This is same as before it needs to be decided on roles you are playing. First let’s discuss hurricane pike this is because it is an upgraded item and the basic item is dragon lancer whose passive is to increase the range of the ranged hero. So, if you are playing a carry hero like drow ranger, lina, arc warden etc. all these heroes need to participate in fight by staying farm from enemy. After some farm you can upgrade it to hurricane pike which is a good escaping tool. For example, melee hero attacks in close range so with the help of hurricane pike you can push enemy as well as you in opposite direction. It is a great item to disengage a fight or to avoid a gank. Remember hurricane pike can be used on yourself as well on allied heroes. Now let’s see what force staff does. So, as we know hurricane pike is a great item in fight. but what about support? They cannot afford s

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a new topic that is ‘ Shadow Blade or Glimmer Cape ’. As we discussed some items are categories based on the roles like carry and support. As we first consider glimmer cape this is something a support player goes so that on ganking him he has something to escape. The good part of glimmer cape is that it cast during channeling which means spells like freezing field, black hole, death ward etc. Some time what happens is enemy hero does not have dust and when you cast your channeling spell that there are chances you might get a kill. So, in this way you can win a team fight. the best part of glimmer cape is that it can be casted on our friends which mean not only you but you can also help your core to escape a fight. Now let’s see shadow blade. As a personal experience I can tell this item is not good for core there are many reasons for it. As it was buffed in the recent patch it is good some hero like tiny, lina, drow ranger, sn

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a new topic that is ‘ Eye of Skadi or Shivas Guard ’. This item is based on the roles you are playing so it might be different from the other comparison we had before. So, let’s discuss it in detail. Now when I said roles, I meant carry and all other roles. You guys might why the roles difference this is because one item has active while other active when you attack enemy. But both of their passive is same which reduces health regen, life steal, attack speed and slows the enemy. Let’s discuss Shivas guard. Now what happen is when you active it you get freezing field which damages unit in a radius now shivas gives you armor and intelligence which is good for low armor mid and support hero. But as we know carry hero tend to have armor and do not much rely on mana for fighting. They rely on items and levels for fighting. So, this is the reason shivas is recommended for all other roles except carry. Now when it comes to skadi wh

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a similar topic that is ‘ S&Y or Manta Style ’. As we discussed in earlier post I’ll be focusing on both condition where this choice arrives so let’s start. For this topic, I will be taking the same hero as before which is Phantom Lancer. Now let’s assume you are playing pl and the enemy heroes have silence, root, disarm etc. which will not allow you to use your spells but in case of root and disarm if you can master the second skill of pl than it is possible to dodge. Now when it comes to silence you cannot dispel it with spells. So, in that case you need a dispel like if your teammate has guardian greaves then it is good if not possible then you need to go for manta style. It is very efficient because your illusion also has your passive skill which is to create illusions. Now there is also another situation where there is no silence but there is slow and stun which is not good for pl as he is a low health hero which reli

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a topic that is ‘ Satanic or Heart of Tarrasque ’. The reason I selected this topic is because some time we need to decide either to go satanic or heart on a hero for example Phantom Lancer. Let me give you guys an example so consider you are against a match up which has burst damage but not enough to kill and also, they have limed stun and dispel in that case you need to consider satanic because after the burst of damage the enemy hero is weak and cannot fight you so with the satanic you can kill them easily. Satanic is also good against hero which life steal because then you can counter them but this condition appears then Sakadi is a good option. Satanic also gives you some damage as well as passive life steal. Now the condition comes for heart so assume that enemy cannot kill you in long drawn team fight because they don’t have damage which will kill you so at time you need to go heart so that you can sustain long fights a

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a series that is ‘ Item Selection ’. In this post we will discuss the summary and some examples which I will discussing in detail in upcoming post. First thing first player consider when a new patch comes pro players define a meta and everyone follows the build blindly so, please don’t do that they do it because they have a specific reason and logic behind it. So, try to know the logic behind it of when that build item is good and when it is not. As we know every match have different hero combination which cannot be predicted so a fixed build or item will not help. Try to improvise it with your logic. Believe me guys I have done it and then after losing a lot I realized it that same build and items won’t help me win so I improvised it and it has helped me a lot. Now as the topic is Item Selection what it means is sometimes, we get confused like do we need to go manta style or S&Y. SO, there is when you apply game knowled

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a topic which you think is less important but you are wrong and that is ‘ Oder of Itemization ’. So, let’s straight dive into it. Now the initial items will be same as discussed before so we will skip that part and go to point where you decided either to complete the wand or go for boots component. Its simple if in a lane your enemy cast spells in order to stay even in lane then go for complete wand first. By doing that you will have complete sustainability in lane and then go for you boots. If the enemy hero doesn’t require spells to contest in lane and you face problem like slow or loss of attack speed then go for gloves of haste for attack speed or brown boots for speed it depends on lane. Now after wand and boots you go for some mid game items. While going mid games items you need to decide if you need basic dispel like manta or euls. Some player goes 3 rd item as BKB or something big like MKB which is wrong because in

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought you guys a new topic that is ‘ Objectives ’. Now some people consider towers as an only objective but there is more to it then you know. In a dota 2 game we know that we have different roles and each team has same amount of map control in the start of the game and during the match the situation changes. Now how that happens let’s see how. We know there are wards in game so if you manage to place the ward in an enemy jungle then you can kill some one or plan a gank if some one comes to farm there. Now how this works is that some time enemy doesn’t know you have placed a ward but once you kill them in their own jungle then they realize that their jungle is warded so they will be more cautious than before they some time even can bait themselves so that when you initiate on them, they counter initiate you. So, warding an enemy jungle can help you control their side of map. Now other scenario is when you kill enemy player then will back and

Hello Guys, I’m AKA and today I have brought the last topic of series that is ‘ Position 5 Itemization ’. This is some what same as fir position 4 but with a twist. Let’s see how. As we discussed the pre-game item same as position 4 what matters is the boots which I can say can be same as position 4 but sometime if your team needs mana you need to go mana boots and if the requirement is dispel with some health and mana then guardian grieves is good option. For making those you need to update mana boots. Now warding is more important for pos 5 or hard support because you are obliged to do so. So, do and help your team to have more map control. Now a hard support doesn’t farm like core so don’t make items that make you a core hero otherwise you will be stealing farm form your carry hero and other core. So, please look into to it. To improve efficiency and make space for carry participate in kills with mid player or off laner. This can be done with the help of smoke gank. The most