Archives: 2007 June

We have finally opened our new DOTA tips and hints forums. Long overdue, we wanted to bring all DOTA folks together to chat about their builds, strategies and major wins in the game of DOTA.
While we are new, we hope everyone can jump in and start posting away - it will help give the [...]

Phantom Assassin as we all know is a very powerful DOTA character towards the end of the game (late game) Early on, being a melee hero, Phantom Assassin or PA - isn’t extremely strong. Even mid game, if the player hasn’t leveled well or bought the right items PA is certainly beatable 1 on [...]

NOOBS - This is a problem not with just DOTA but with many games on-line. Especially DOTA where you need 5 v 5 in terms of players and you need to know that the enemies are going to stay for the general length of the game - in DOTA usually 1 hour.

Having someone RAGE QUIT [...]

DOTA’s Witchdoctor is one of the newer DOTA hero’s available - the witchdoctor hasn’t had a lot written about him, but his stun and healing ability is very powerful.
As more DOTA pro’s start to use the witchdoctor hero and refine their tactics more strategies will be written. For now, the best build, [...]

Today’s review from Andrew Natoli, a DOTA guru from NSW and a regular at all the major DOTA tournaments.
Andrew Natoli:One of the best overall heroes I think, especially in the early portions of the game is the Venomancer. If you can handle this hero in the right way and with some elite skill you most [...]

Coming this week, DOTA Tips will present the ultimate Morphling DOTA strategy and build guide. Combining two of the worlds best playing skills under Morphling we’ll give you the worlds most strongest setup for Morph.We look forward to hearing you comments on the Morph build later this week.Stay tuned to DOTA Tips for more info [...]

Here at DOTA tips, we are generally focusing on high skill builds and strategies for DOTA players. We had some email today from people new to DOTA who have been fighting it out on BattleNet and finding things hard.

As we all know, getting started in DOTA can be tough. It takes a long time to [...]

The key to winning a DOTA match quickly and easily is a good pushing strategy. Many people play DOTA to simply get ‘hero kills’
Killing hero’s in DOTA is fun, but it doesn’t always win you the game. Today we have a look at a 5 man hero combo team that is unstoppable if used right [...]

Magina a great hero with alot of base attack speed, very good against mages and great against skeleton king lerioc.
Try Magina with the following items: with vlads, power treads and a cranium basher - you are a decent foe on the battlefield, expecially good against mages because of his 64 mana drain per hit, and [...]

I just came out of a 6.44 game of DOTA using my old favourite hero, the Lich King.
Now I usually spec lich out like your typical intelligence DOTA hero, so scthye of vyse, plenty of mana regen, attack speed and then maybe some armour to combine with the frost armour arsenal.
However, in this [...]