Today Tips: Stealthing in the Dark

As I mention in previous chapter, sentry ward can be helpful in make the map highly visible and prevent of gank. But since sentry ward amount are limited by the game system, so there are still alot of places are still covered by the dark fog. Control fog is so important in most of the time, when u gank someone or trying to escape, fog could be your best friend in most of the time. When u behind the fog, no one can even see you unless he is using MapHack. Morning can grant a wider view for most hero except hero like night stalker. During daytime in dota, it would encourage of friendly farming. When night reach, fog become more, visible of hero are small, so which means hero are stealth when gank by the fog.

DotA player can get know what range did the fog covered when he with a lot of experiences. By stand inside the fog. the enemy could not see him while he can see the enemy in front line fighting with our allies. How to ambush from behind while it still covered by fog are important to get a kill. If the hero get know you are here to ambush after you reached from behind, but it already too late for his escape.

Today Tips : "Lane Hero Missing"

Reporting hero missing become so famous in every Malaysia DotA public game, any no reporting hero missing by a lane will immediately get a blame when there are a die on other lanes. Although this is one of the effective way for prevent ganking by enemy, but it actually not the best way. A lot of time, when player go into a better teamwork, signal in game(alt+click) can represents the meaning of hero missing as well.

When DotA pros find that voip chatting application such as teamspeak can highly improve their teamwork by constantly giving commands by commanders and also report hero missing and rune status by saying it out.

But in my personal views, the most effective way to prevent gank and handling the situation when hero missing is depends of experiences. I found that the competitive DotA players are likely no need for all this hero missing reporting. How them do that? The answer will definately the mini map with observer ward.

Orbserver wards can actually grants better views to our allies to see what the situation in the map for now. By keep on checking to the mini map, it can actually helps a lot for the players to make prediction on the things happen next in the game. For example, while player check on mini maps and can see the heroes are going for him, although haven't happen, but the player can actually know if he not run he will die on the spot. It have highly correct situation since it more visible than the heroes missing reporting approach. If hero missing, you can hardly guess which lane he are going, but with wards and mini map, it can actually make the player more happier to farm and can reduce the risk of being gang bang.