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Situation
Hi! Sorry for not saying anything. I hope you will understand why I have been silent for so long recently. There were a few things: I had to find a job to scrap a living. Actually, I managed to find two jobs to do so due to the recent situation in the country. One of the job is connected with Dota - I will be in a tier-one team (not as a player) and I will gladly announce it when it's time. I have high hopes that I'll make an impact on the team. You all know the name by the way. I haven't abandoned Chen but I am now more focused on ...
Console Commands I use
If you are fond of testing as I am these commands might be of use to you. To make them work you need to type "sv_cheats 1" into the console first. dota_show_object_obstructions 1 - shows trees on the map grid as green tiles dota_show_nav_obstructions 1 - shows objects as obstacles (yellow tiles) and units (blue dots) as well as their changing positionsBoth of the commands transform your terrain into Pac-man-like one and is useful to find new juke spots or see the hide spots for instance. dota_selection_groups false - to select identical...
Forced Movement Layers
There are two planes in Dota - horizontal and vertical. There are spells that interact with these planes which is called "forced movement": Toss (Tiny), Spear (Mars), God's Rebuke (Mars), Earth Spike (Lion), Hook (Pudge) and other spells that move or toss heroes. All of them, in addition to moving the target, also have their own effects. For example, while the target is flying from the spear of Mars, it cannot do anything - consider it a stun mid-flight, and then upon landing it also receives an extra. stun when the target hits the ...
Infinite Refresher (Good Juju Bug)
With Aghanim's Dazzle can refresh all allies' items (or own items). During the disassemble time you can click on the Good Juju and instantly disassemble Aghanim's Scepter - Dazzle will go towards the hero and refresh their items. The ability won't go on cooldown. You can repeat that as many times as you want and then sell the item for the full price (4200) afterwards.Edit: was fixed 31-st of March.
Seed Shot vs Spell Immune Units
Warpine Raiders' spell "Seed Shot" can be used on spell immune units (BKB, Naix's Rage). It does nothing, but you are able to click on a target under BKB effect and the shots will bounce off the target even if other targets are also under BKB. Again, there will be no damage nor slow from the spell but it's still a neat detail.
Combat Log Abuse
Valve added the hotkey to open the Combat Log (that was actually my suggestion posted on Reddit among with half a dozen more that were implemented into the game).Tl;dr: the Combat Log doesn't care if the target is invisible or smoked. If they were affected by any sort of debuff or damaged the event will be displayed in the log. Perfect when you have an AoE damaging spell as Clockwerk's rocket or Ember's ultimate with the Shard. You can just spam it somewhere and watch the combat log, predicting the movements of the enemy or you can ...
Uncommon Ward Spots (pt.1)
These are the spots I used half a year ago but some of them require 1-2 trees to be cut. Don't worry, the wards are placed right on top of those cut trees and trees won't grow until the ward expires.
Neat Penitence Abuse
Penitence works when you issue an attack command not when the attack projectile lands. It means that if an ally is a ranged unit they can abuse the skill by rightclicking the debuffed enemy and switching to the desired target with refreshed buff. To put a long story short: Chen casts Penitence onto an enemy, any ally or Chen rightclick on that enemy.They don't attack it and switch to something else with the buff. Repeat to refresh the buff. It's actually rare but rather viable strategy when you want an enemy siege unit to survive and be...
How to Spread Units Easily
This is one of those many tricks I share that 99% of pro players don't know exists. The trick can also be used by Nature's Prophet players.The whole concept is relevant if you are running away and want to split the creeps to avoid feeding the whole pack (or in the NP case you want to block a lot of enemy camps).Don't select creeps individually and don't single out everyone by shift-deleting one creep at a time. Just deselect everything and press Tab - the last persuaded/summoned unit will be selected (in case of Furion it doesn&...
Percentage of XP Given By Neutral Camps and What To Farm Efficiently First
This is the updated and more precise table that I used 2 years ago. Some Valve worker finally realized that there are problems with the neutral camps experience. Previously, Ancient Dragons gave THE SAME amount of XP as the Dark Troll camp (if you count skeletons). Why even bother killing some dragons that had almost 5k HP (physical EHP) when you could just spend twice less time on killing Trolls? I'm not talking about the gold bounty of course. Let's jump straight into conclusions. Colored small numbers next to some columns are the dif...
Infinite Drum of Endurance Charges Bug/Abuse
This is not stated in the patchnotes! Since 7.31 you can no longer replenish Drum charges (they make you upgrade it into Boots of Bearing). But there is one abuse or bug one might say.Use all Drum charges and buy Boots of Bearing. Then disassemble within 10 seconds window. Now you have Tranquil Boots, Boots of Bearing recipe and Drums with 8 charges. You can do it inifinite amount of times.Note that if you use Boots of Bearing you won't have a disassemble button.
Mana Replenishing Items in Comparison /w Satyr Mindstealer (as of 7.31b updated)
Updated the previous post to 7.31b values. Didn't take into account small stats items like a Branch or a Robe. Items go from smallest mana per minute to largest. The second column indicates how much gold is worth 1 MP, the third - how much MP can be bought for 1 gold. This is neat to find the best item for mana regen. The most significant nerf of the patch is Refresher Orb: it used to give 720 MP/min, now it's only 420, and it is no longer the best in terms of the amount of mana regen, although not the best in terms of the cost. Essence...
Skeleton Warriors Values Scale with Time
It's not obvious when you read 7.31 changelog but with lane creeps and other neutrals Skeleton Warriors also become stronger every 7.5 minutes.Every 7.5 minutes an upgrade happens and all creeps increase some of their values. A single skeleton receives: +30 HP, +3 attack damage, +5 AS, +0.5 armor. Note that a Troll Summoner spawns 3 skeletons. In the end, a skeleton will have +180 HP, +18 attack damage, +30 AS, +3 armor at 45 minute mark (6 upgrades). In total each unit upgrades maximum of 30 times - you would need to wait for 225 minutes t...
Neutral Creeps (Updated as of 7.31b)
What's new: Added all new values : basically, the creeps now hit faster, have more armor, have less attack damage (but the attack damage type compensates that). Creeps are also now more resilent to AS slows. Both gold and experience bounties are also changed - I will post a graph about that later. Neutrals now only have either "default" or "piercing" attack damage types. Say no to a hundred damage types crap you had to remember before the patch. Other damage types that are present in the game but rare are: "basic"...
Real AoE of "Ogre Smash!" (Ogre Bruiser)
"Ogre Smash!" stated AoE is 200 but in reality it's actually 400 due to the nature of the damage outcome. The skill comes from the center in front of the Ogre, not from the Ogre's position as happens with most of the skills.Previously I thought that the creep was only useful on the lane at level 1 as a farming tool at the enemy mid jungle (basically killing small camps all the time) but looking at this picture I now consider the creep as somehow useful. For instance, you can hide it in the bushes and cast the smash beforehand wh...
Icefire Bombs (New Ancient Ability) Increases the Duration for Every Stack
It works the same as Ogre's Ignite - the more stacks you have - the more their durations are. The first effect lasts 8 seconds, three stacks make it to 24 seconds. In terms of damage it's 300 damage within 24 seconds to the tower. The creep is shit and the damage is ludicrous but if you managed to take 2-3 of said creeps - you don't need to wait for Icefire Bomb effect to wear off to apply the new one - just throw all the spells and retreat.
Neutral Creeps New AS/BAT Explanation in 7.31
In 7.31 Valve changed starting attack speed and base attack time of neutral creeps. The starting attack speed was used to be 100 (mostly) and they doubled the amount to 200. It sounds cool but the BAT (base attack time) was changed too. The higher the BAT the lower advantage you get from attack speed buffs. Let me explain it one by one: 1. New starting attack speed made all Kobolds hit faster as before the patch. All values are more rounded up now. In my opinion it was made because the Kobold Soldier received a disarm ability which requires hit...
Prospector Aura (Kobold) works on creep-heroes which doubles (Lone Druid + Bear) or triples (Visage + Familiars) the gold from the aura
Probably a bug since for Visage it's a free Philosopher's Stone with 60 GPM.EDIT: fixed as of March, 2022 - Spring Cleaning Update
Changed units' damage types and their attacking impact in 7.31
Damage types in 7.31 made creeps stronger against heroes and towers (also, Roshan is now triple as vulnerable to piercing damage creeps but I will post it later). Here's the spreadsheet where you can compare what units deal what damage as compared to the patches before.
Monster House (Roshpit)
In this post you will know what Roshan's pit is made of, and how some heroes take advantage over it in their games. First off, let's project how the game itself sees the Dota map: to build pathfinding routes, fog of war, and more. To do this, we need several commands (besides sv_cheats 1): 1) dota_gridnav_show 1 - shows a navigation grid; 2) cl_dota_gridnav_show_size 2 - just to make the grid full screen; 3) dota_show_object_obstructions 1 - shows trees and number of cells they occupy;4) dota_show_nav_obstructions 1 - shows obstacles (h...
The Importance of Getting Agh's Shard ASAP
Not only by my own feelings but statistically approved that getting Aghanim's Shard as soon as possible is crucial in terms of winning. Below is the screenshot of a Russian stats site similar to stratz.com - there are 405 Chen games played above Immortal rank.Yelow box is the winrate boost of 5.84% if you get shard early on: 20:00-21:05 as the earliest timings.Red box shows the decreased winrate by 1.11% over every minute after 20:00. I.e the more you wait the less efficient it becomes.It doesn't mean you should discard the quick buy an...
New Group Selection Console Command & Chen
On January the 5, an update was released - Valve added dota_selection_groups true/false command. With its help you can select identical units separately if set false and as a group of identical units if set true (which is set by default). For example, if it's set true - all Nature's Prophet's treants and all Brood's spiders will be selected at once because they are just the same unit but copied. If the command is set false, then the spiders or treants will be considered a "different" unit and you can TAB to death by swit...
Infinite Ward Unit (Harpy Abuse)
Decent abuse early on or in a game where you rely on 2-3 creeps tops with one free creep slot left. Shortly - you recall your harpy onto a cliff. Let's put the idea into points: Every harpy has 1400/1400 day/night vision. In comparison, an Observer Ward provides 1200/1200. Since you have no obstacles on the cliff being on top of every terrain object you recieve full potential of that vision. On some cliffs you can cast Chain Lightning on a neutral camp and side-farm it with that Deep "Harpy Wards" can be used to attack couriers that...
Hill Troll Priest Efficient Convertion Lifehack
When you just persuade the Hill Troll Priest (aggring all neutrals beforehand) you are to set "Heal" on autocast and hold rightclick without releasing it. In the end you have the creep that both heals Chen and attacks creeps with the most efficient timings inbetween those actions. You don't waste time on switching autocast on and off or pressing "Q" (or whatever is set) all the time to heal and issue attacks after that like I used before. Instead you save quite some time and it only takes 2 actions making it the most perfect...
Non-standard Usage of the Kobold
One of a few Kobold usability is to issue a follow command on the courier as the creep itself is not that useful at level one outside of scouting and stacking or as a boot to an aggressive core hero (Ursa, Slark).Based level one courier has 290 MS, the Kobold gives +34 which is significant. If you haven't noticed yet - there is a rule in the game that says: if your courier carries any number of consumables - the courier is slowed by 15%. Apply it to the level one courier and a mere mango will reduce the movement speed by 15% or -44: from 29...
Meet Your Creeps - Chen Presentation
Outdated a bit as for 7.30e but is still reliable source of information. I'm making a separate guidebook with more information and as a PDF file with comfortable colours and other detailed stuff (first in Russian) but if you don't want to wait this is a good read for you. My ex Magnum Opus.Please, after requesting the access PM me your e-mail so I could give it to you.https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PQYn334iXAM8rbbiTVJ3TYAdF9gB-YGgoPP3-0gUHWo
Tradehit Calculator as of 7.30c (small Chen buffs)
If you ever wondered how impactful an item on Chen is - this is your chance. I compared a few most common items you see on Chen with most common position 4 enemy items.Headdress, Buckler, Ring of Protection, Blightstone against Blightstone or Ring of Protection.In the table I put such data as the starting damage, armor, attack speed and regen and bonuses from above-said items. This is all for you to decide how to be more viable on the lane as it is known, if you win the lane - you carry has more farm and there are more chances to win.Click the ...
