DotA How To Play

Basic Requirement to Play Dota AllStars
User are required to have a basic Warcraft III: Frozen Throne expansion pack.

Best to update your Warcraft III: Frozen Throne to the latest version to prevent any compatibility issue. Click here to retrieve the latest version of Warcraft III: Frozen Throne.

Finally, the DotA AllStars map that you desire to play.



Step 1: I have those, How Do I Install Dota Now?
Coming up with such question simply tell me you're new to Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. DotA AllStars is a Custom Map that are generated through Blizzard's Map Engine known as the Warcraft Map Editor. So basically, in order to play, all you have to do is to place the downloaded w3x map file into the Map folder located from in the root path of where your Warcraft III: Frozen Throne is installed. The common path for it is as below?



Step 2: Lets play!
Start your Warcraft III: Frozen Throne now and proceed as below.

Single Player Mode

Once you're in Custom Game screen, you'll be able to see a blank area with a Game Settings scroll list. Look for your DotA AllStars map where you placed in the first step and select it. Choose between either Sentinel or the Scourge team then press start to proceed.
Note: Its good for newbies to learn the map with "iseedeadpeople", test the use of hero, or to buy your way out for your ultimate built by just setting yourself cash with "greedisgood 1000000"


AI Mode

Now get to Custom Game screen, select your DotA AllStars AI map like how you did for Single Player Mode. There are three difficulties available for most AI version Easy, Normal, Insane. Now click on any of the available slots in either your team or the opposition (consider between having a teammate to complete your objective or to have opponent that fight against you). Set their difficulties and simulate further probably for a 5v5 game, having 4 AI on your team and 5 AI on the opposing team.


Multiplayer Mode

Are you sure you're all ready for multiplayer game competing against player over the BattleNET from all over the world? Or even competing in a LAN community? I suggest you not to stage of game unless you have at least understand all the basic of the game, common knowledge and combination of recipe?

WHY?
Well have you ever played in a team with player you don't know and after a few round, soon find out that they suck ass? Yea that's how it feels when you join into one of those Expert Game. Try looking around for basic Strategy Guides and Builds for your favorite character? Master it and start learning your game through experience. Survival is the key of this game, I'll soon explain more on how it can be a disadvantage to your team. Keep yourself alive,


Basic for New Players

Train your basic survival skill against those wave of creeps (monster) that are distributed through each lane. The key/objective of this game is to destroy the Frozen Throne/Tree of Life of the opposing town while killing another player is just the sub objective in order to slow them from strengthening themselves while leveling yourself and receive bounty for killing them in order to strengthen your own Hero with better item.

There is nothing to be proud about having top kills while having your team losing the game? Bottom-line, you LOSS! Always work as a team and ask your teammates when you don't know what to do with that hero you're controlling.


Control your hero
Best way to control your hero is to assign them on your hotkey. In order to assign, first click on them and press CTRL + any number between 0~9. Once you've assigned, press the number that you've assigned (0~9) and you should be able to look at your hero right away. Most newbies will have their hero missing in the middle of the game and get themselves killed without knowing what happened.

Best way to kill your opponent?
Is not as easy as, "Be Stronger than them duh!". First to understand what your hero is capable of and what is the weakness of the opponent controlled hero. Beat them on their weakness and always work in group.

Staying Alive?
NEVER ever fight in an disadvantage situation! Well its like you being alone having knowing that 3 hero is coming your way? (best to stick with at least one teammate in every condition) Retreat to the nearest tower or if its still unsafe, run further back in your base. Stay alert with both the minimap
and of course your Hero's health. Get back to the Fountain of Health in your base if your HP is low. (best to get back around 200hp on the early stage of the game)

Gold
There are few ways to earn gold in this game. Killing your opponent's heroes, the wave of creep that are distributed in each lane or even the Neutral Creeps that are spawns in the forest area. You will also receive gold when your team's creep kill an opponent or its creep, but gold are distributed evenly to all the player in your team.

Strongest Neutral Creep
The strongest Neutral Creep of this game is Roshan and is located near the river part of the middle lane. Had a shot of it on the right.

Team's Creep
Scourge's spawn consist team of a Necromancer and 3 Ghoul while Sentinel's spawn consist a team of a Druid of Talon and 3 Treant. These unit will be spawn 90 seconds when the game start and the amount will be increased, as well as the level of the creep of your team will be upgraded as soon as a production building of the opposing team is destroyed.

Scourge Team
Temple of the Damned - Necromancer
Crypt - Ghoul

Sentinel Team
Ancient of Lore - Druid of Talon
Ancient of War - Treant

EXP Denial
EXP Denial is an advantage to your team, stopping/slowing your opposing team's hero from leveling up as well as freezing their kill income. Now how do you do that? Your team's spawned creep are protected from friendly attack unless their HP is below certain level (LOW). Practice to kill your own creep before your opponent do so to prevent them from earning experience point and also the gold for killing that unit.

Same thing that you could do for your Ancient Protecter. If you do feel that your Ancient Protector's HP is way too low and likely to get destroyed by an opponent hero soon, why not destroy that building yourself instead of allowing them to gain few hundred gold there.

Time Management
An average game would take up to 30 minutes ~ 1hours and 30 minutes. Please do make sure you have at least these much of time before getting into a DotA AllStars game rather than leaving the game under some excuse of "Dinner time", "My mom is screwing me big time". Its rather unpleasant to do such times. It will cause a massive disadvantage to your team. (They are one man short now)
What more important is, NEVER LEAVE AN UNFINISHED GAME.

Anger Management
Happens commonly that player got heated up when their team are losing as the game goes on? Is that what gaming about, giving stress to yourself and started cursing over the screen? That's a total psychotic act and I suggest you to keep away from the game then. Its just a game, everyone plays to have fun.

Final Note
I'm really sick of writing all these craps, I'm sorry if there were any mistakes made above but well I guess I'll just continue some other day. Enjoy your DotA AllStars gaming!