DOTA 2 Tips: 6 Ways To Become A Better Player

To win a game of DotA 2, one team must destroy another team's throne. Sometimes this can take as short as under twenty minutes or may take hours. For the games that end earlier, players are consistently hitting the right power spikes. Each hero has different timing for their power spikes, which can change with new meta. These things can only be learned by playing the heroes.

There are more universal timings new players should focus on getting familiarize with to learn DotA 2 faster. Starting at 00:00, four bounty runes spawn at their designated location, which gives gold to the entire team. They spawn again every 5 minutes from then on, incrementally giving more gold, which can be helpful in acquiring right item at right time to have an edge over the opponents.

Power runes grant useful buff for short period. It can be either Haste, Illusions, Invisibility, Double Damage, Arcane or Regeneration. It spawns every two minutes at either top or bottom river. Help team mate secure the rune, or can take it and gank other lanes. Runes can turn losing fight into enemy team wipe. Don't underestimate their power.

Holding down Alt button reveals neutral creep camp pull time. Pulling is term used to describe hitting neutral creeps at certain time to get them to leave their camp. Doing so can be useful because neutral creeps only spawns if the camp is clear of any units, this includes observer wards and sentry wards. By pulling, you have additional creeps to kill for gold.