Copied from the HoN Forums.  I thought it had some good points.


Before I start let me say that this is so easy to do if you follow what I am saying. I have never played dota, I play solo, and I was once even at 1200 psr when I first started. I even suck now pretty bad.

All you have to do is:

1) Learn the four skills of every hero.. how the hell is that hard, only around 70 and most of them are the same ( stun or slow ? )

2) Look at your radar.. .. a lot

3) Play your hero the right way, while thinking about the team. If you are glacius you are the team's *****, give your team your hp pots and ward, I don't care if you don't have boots by 30 minutes. If you are the carry, it doesn't matter if farming is boring and you want to go on an exciting gank adventure. Sit in your lane and rice faggot. There also aren't that many items to choose from after maybe 50+ games you should know what they all do.

4) Don't go past the river mid to late while all are missing ( derp? )

5) Learn how to harass in lane. Don't attack the enemy hero if a creep is right next to you... move to the other side and harass him. Also don't harass if there's one creep with red hp.

6) If melee learn how to last hit well. You should have an iron buckler / hatchet (one at least ) and just move back and forth between out of harass range and getting the creep kill. Don't sit there taking auto attack damage.

7) Position yourself well. If you're the witch slayer with red boots and a +3 str item, hide in the back / in the trees in team fights. Don't run in and stun all willy nilly, you will just get killed by aoe probably, anticipate those stuns when your team is all bunched up and move out of the way.

Know when to fight and when to back. If your team has used an important cooldown ( engie ulti or soemthing ) in a really close game, play passively. There's so many times where people should back and they don't and then end up getting killed during a push or to save a teamate etc.

9) Carry a tp stone, with the assist gold as it is now you can afford to tp and save a bro

10) If your lane is going bad you can gank other lanes, don't sit there as two level 3 lane mates v a level 5 swiftblade / glacius. You will get raped over and over. Don't ***** at the mid like all the annoying nerds do.

11) Learn what heroes to focus.

12) The picking phase controls a very large part of the game. Double melee lanes suck etc

That's pretty much all there is to it. I ****king suck at this game and I have 1820 mmr solo.

tl;dr - stop being bad you 1000-1750 scrubs, i didn't even play dota and i am better than you

I bet he's a huge douche

Edited for context.

line 10 is definitely something I'm just starting to learn.  just because you were assigned a lane at the start of the game doesn't mean you have to stay in it no matter how badly you're getting beat.  a lvl 3 gank in another lane usually will help you make up for being owned earlier.

This is my biggest problem area. Excellent tip.