warning: once u get into dota - league will seem like a mobile game. So this is a one way road

4:21 "i heal my ad" as he heals the range creep lol thats just cute in a way

I played League for almost 10 years. I mean i can't lie, it was fun and good. But i always wanted to be a Dota 2 player. I remember when Dota 2 first come up, i got a key from Facebook. I tried to tell my friends Dota is a better game, but nonetheless i played league with them. Years and years i watched TI's i watched big dota streamers, tried by myself for 3 days and went back to LoL for 10 years. Now I am settled down in life, and fucking enjoying my Dota 2 nonstop every night, and feeling so happy. Just try Dota guys. You gonna understand in just 1 week, why dota is in another level.

lol that force staff at 19:20 is goated. pretty sure it was an accident so even better. nice bypass of bb passive

dota is definitely better with friends to help you. Going from league to dota can be overwhelming so it helps having someone to guide you. but once you get used to it league will feel super limited

your username is nyx, you should try playing nyx assassin

I am pretty sure other people mentioned already, but, a few general tips(since i play both games) 1. JUST TP! As an example, when bristle back solo killed u like multiple times, every single time you could simply tp out! He didnt have enough damage or cc to counter it! 2. Certain items give you benefits without actually saying they do “this” exactly! Like force staff can literally make skywraith mage useless! Or glimmer makes jugg ult useless! Or ghost makes sven ult useless! Euls scepter could make every single one of them useless (ofc for this game! It varies a lot!) point is.. items matter ALOT! 3. Good use of certain abilities, specially if you have the “tag” of initiator (you can check from hero page and filtering) sth like faceless ult (its literally aoe stun friendly and enemy targets alike! And only he can move!) imagine getting all your team stunned for enemy to kill! Or legion commander ult, if you loose your ult enemies gain permanent damage! Or in this case, warlock, the most important ability i would say is you q! Since it shares the damage between targets! So more targets=more damage! I rather q refresher orb q and die! Than just double ult! 4. Some very weird interactions exist not like counter picking in lol, its more like items or combination of heroes or jg items and power spikes that are not just the same things as lol, like a very weird one that i am sure 80% of players dont know is, if warlock ults and exactly before the summons finish, you put your aghanim down in your backpack or on the ground, it will summon 2 golems pre-nerfed! (Btw i dont think u noticed or at least didnt say anything about it, but aghanim of warlock gives u 2 golems for the cost of their hp and atack damage, so the interaction is told you effectively doubles their power) 5. CONSUMABLES, not just tango clarity or wards, there are so many others, Dust! Just shower the ground on dust to make invisible enemies visible&slow, smoke, literally turned your whole team invisible and boosts movespeed and allows you to scout as a team or alone for warding! Cause wards wont show u! Even if they have blue wards! And if you suddenly get unsmoked(before the buff timer) it means an enemy is near you! No matter if you see eachother! So maybe someone is invisible near you? 6. Ping is with alt, but generally its better to use mic in this game, but the moment someone flames or rages, do the lol treatment and just mute 7. There is no role-lock hero, what i mean is you can be sup and finish the game as sup but be moving all over the game and take in mid or safe lane at some point of the game (doesnt mean you should! But it means that if its possible or if midlane goes to jg or gank, if safelane goes for swapping lane, dont just get killed on top by bristle! Go farm mid! Get your items! Go join the fights, pressure other lanes!) its a concept you will understand if i put it in lol terms, which will be, everyone have tp summoner spell, and everone are top laners with shen ult, just go do your thing, get the fuck back (specially when there are literal teleportation gates on the corners!! Just tp! Use the gate to go back) I guess its already a long comment, if you read it, i hope you enjoy the game and have fun :) gl

Do more of these! Fun commentary and as a Dota player since 2013 it's fun seeing it through fresh but quick to catch on eyes. Like watching my baby brother learn how to walk and also learn how to commit arson :/

always funny seeing a new player realize how insane some of the items and heroes are in this game.... it made me happy to see you using all those active items for your 1st game feel like most people struggle with the item usage early on (also LH stands for last hits and DN stands for deny)

I’ve tried to get league friends into dota before, no easy task. I applaud the positive attitude going in man. It’s so easy to get frustrated with all the crazy active items and heroes you dont understand yet. You’ve got my sub, it’s a hell of a journey to learn dota but very rewarding if you can wade through the hard part. :)

Idk why this popped up into my recommendations but this was really good dude. Those force staff saves were awesome. Would love to see more! Games are notoriously longer than in League but I think comebacks are much more likely too. All it takes is a fight or a well-timed item sometimes to turn things around!

Dude, watching this was pure joy. I don't play videogames nowadays, but I enjoy watching dota. Very comfy and fun video, subscribed

Wow you did so well! Glad you had fun, always nice to see when new ppl get into a game you like :) looking forward to your next dota gameplay video

Great video I hope you do a part 2. This was very enjoyable to watch !

watching this was funny as hell, would love to see you play and learn more dota. dont worry about making mistakes or not knowing what every hero does, the more you play the more youll learn

This was so fun and refreshing to watch you should definitely make more dota content.

This was actually enjoyable to watch, you did better than i would've expected! I was starting to get a bit frustrated when you never used your "glimmer cape", but that turned to proud once I saw you pressing all your items later. I say this because, Dota and LoL are in many ways very similar (in the grand scheme of things), both in Heroes and Gameplay. But the biggest difference is really the item designs, in LoL it's more akin to like an MMO, build up your plethora of stats and get some modifiers here and there. In Dota, almost all the "best" items have an active, and many of them fundamentally change how you can play the game. Items like "blink dagger (initiation from outside of vision range)" "black king bar(immunity to CC)" "scythe of vyse(instant cast premium CC)" "refresher orb(self explanatory)" and many more. Anyways, great video, hope to see some more! All the best.

as a fellow league player trying dota 2 its def different with turn timings and all the items but so far the journeys been a fun one!

great video dude. very good to see new people playing this game. However my roommates are complaining about me yelling GLIMMER at my screen

I highkey feel so happy that you started to use the defensive items the longer the game. 😊

I love watching new people get into dota, one of the most wholesome things u can watch. Great vid :)

This was fun to watch! Looking forward to more.

Keep it up man, was fun to watch! Warlock loves to defend his tier 1 tower, but his level 6 ulti timing is great to use to assault enemy safelane/mid tower. You can try rotating to the opposite lane throught the portal if your carry seems fine without you (they will get more XP so thats good).

played dota since 2014 and played league during the whole pandemic and i'd say both of them has their own unique way of gameplay, seeing this makes me happy man

Nice video! Always fun to watch someone new to dota who has previous MOBA experience. I am now just remembering that for some reason the new default for new players is minimap on the right and shop on the left, traditionally it is the other way around.

i love this vid , i wanted to see your progress and witness how you will end up

Nice gameplay, you are good bro. Keep playing, there is a lot to discover and learn. Have fun.

Ahh it's refreshing seeing a new player's experience. You're doing good brother

I find league players trying dota tend to stay in lanes far too long. As a support in particular you should be leaving lane as soon as your carry's lane is secured. That could be as early as level 3 or even 2 in some cases (edit: i should say be ready to TP to defend them though if you are roaming). As a carry player it would be whenever you can either kick the enemy carry out of his own lane, or at least being able to flash farm waves and rotate back to jungle. Also you put way to much value in defending the tier 1 safelane tower. Generally that entire area of the map is very unsafe after 10 mins or so. One last thing is that nobody knows how to take objectives in the bracket you're presumably playing at. If you don't want games to go on for 1hr+, pick a hero that can take towers.

This is fun. Reminded me of my first game in 2014. Same as you chose a support hero but built carry items haha. Do more videos bro love to see more content!

I love this. You have a great understanding of the game for only playing very few games. Use that glimmer cape to go invis and break their ankles getting away for 5 seconds

Great video bro, I've started playing Dota 1 when I was in 6th grade, then played Dota 2 after around 6-7 years after that. As long as you stick to a concept or two and choose playing as a support, I believe you're gonna be better than most players who do the cross-finger method every game

cool to see new dota players hope you continue playing goodluck2x

you are actually doing very good for first timer keep up the good work!

For being so new you did great. I think you'll be hooked when you learn nuances like push sticking yourself to lower/higher ground away from enemies (over cliff) or items that counter heroes (can buy an item for 1500 that immunes juggernaut ult, etc.). If you play support you gotta spam buy wards.

Glad you had fun! Would love to see some more Dota from you. What champs do you play in League?

this was really cool to see. When i was looking for a new game to play, I was deciding between dota and league and chose dota.I picked it because it looked a lot cooler imo, and less childish. I loved the voice lines in dota and specifically the "rampaageee" voice line when you whipe a team. i do agree with the one hour game thing though, it can definitely be a bit much lol.

I love watching new people play Dota, it reminds me of my days of innocence when i was playing without knowing anything. My biggest tip is to just focus on your play, people get too sidetracked on what their team is doing. I play the midrole so it's only me in my lane which I prefer, if my lane is bad I help another lane. Another tip, when I load into a game, have a basic idea of what type of damage their heroes do, If Physical - Ghost scepter is amazing ( can't take any physical damage) If magical - glimmer came, pipe (if high hp pool), or bkb if going late Glimmer force is also excellent in pretty much all games so good stuff my friend. Warlock is known for being very squishy but his ults are game winning, some supports even go refresher or aghs because of getting 2 golems.

the way you didn''t use your glimmer cape one single time gets me haha

You did very well I should say!! Keep playing, hope you get better teammates next time and properly enjoy the game.

keep making dota content bro. I need this

I think you have a good start. I saw you use your item decently for a new player. Some of things that you might not realise is difference between sentry ward (blue) - this is to look for any invisible unit and observer ward (yellow) this is to give you vision. Hope to see the second part of your dota journey

Aye, shift + control + click items in shop that you plan to get next and it’ll be in a little hot bar at the bottom of your screen so you don’t need to open the shop. And idk what default is, but I have it so scrolling down buys first available items in the hot bar, and getting used to courier hot keys is awesome as well.

Such an enjoyable video! Awesome!

The game is super fun, but it would help a lot to have someone explain some basic ideas of what is happening and what you want to do. The games get shorter the higher in skill you get, as people will know more how early they can actually pressure objectives. I don't know what you played in league, but i recommend playing a core role when starting out in dota, as it is more direct and helps you understand more fundamentals earlier. Support works better after you know what your cores need to get out of the game. For example in this game, you laned well and punished your opponent's picks. But after your safelaner ditched the lane, the way you should approach the lane, especially as warlock, is by killing the creeps with your q and e spells and staying away from the enemies. You don't know much about the heroes naturally, but you will get a sense of the safety line where you can get away with depushing the tower. If more enemies show up, a common strategy the higher up you go, then it is completely ok to ditch your safelane tower and move to pressure other sides of the map (the enemy safelane, or sometimes mid) at this stage you want to see who the strongest hero on your team is and play with them. If they are super active heroes, stick with them the entire time, if they farm and fight, then it is better to fight when you have your ult, and chill while depushing lanes safely when you don't and your team farms. You did really well overall, just missing the knowledge and dota-specific experience. PS: all enemy spells have counters. For example, in this game you can cancel juggernaut's ult by going invis and it will interrupt it if there are no valid targets. You can bait low level players into wasting their spells like this.

Fun fact: The person who voice acts Warlock (and Necrophos, who is also on your team) also voice acts Rhaast (Red Kayn)! Nice video, man. It scratches such an unexplainable itch to see League players try Dota 2. I love both games, but League is much easier to learn for sure.

Nc gaming there, i hope you stream a lot of your games dota is fun

There are five positions in game, carry the pos1 in safe lane, mid pos2 in mid lane, hard pos3 hard lane, support pos4 hard lane, and full support pos5 safe lane. In pos5 you should set wards on map, there are 2 of them sentry and observer, observer give you vision where you placed it, sentry reveals enemies wards and people who are invisible. Clarity and healing salve heals your mana or hp, but they can be removed if opponent hero hits you once. There are 3 types of ability damage: physical, magical and pure. Physical damage can be avoided or decreased with armour and misses; magical can be decreased by active Black King Bar or some items; pure damage goes through everything and can be only decreased with active BKB. There are also types of abilities: active and passive, some passive abilities can be activated with shard or aghanim. Also abilities direction: directed at target, directed on area(maybe there is more, I forgor). Lotus spawns every 3 minutes,rune of wisdom spawns every 7 minutes. Rohan respawns every 8-11 minutes. Aghanims shard and Aghanims Scepter upgrades your ability or you obtain another ability, or even both. Dust of appearance reveals heroes that went invisible, smoke of deceit makes you temporarily invisible. There are also neutral token drops from neutral creeps, there is 5 grades of neutral token and each of them start to drop after particular times: 1 grade drops after 7 minutes; 2 grade after 17 min; 3 grade after 27 min; 4 grade after 37 min; 5 grade after 60 minutes. Neutral items gives you item in choice to extra slot; they give passive or active abilities with some stat increasements. For your better understandment read about heroes abilities and about debuffs

I love how you were so into the role you even supported the creeps xD no offense btw, it was really wholesome. I love it

very entertaining video mate keep going. and maybe try to use your items a bit more often they are pretty good :)

Good luck entering the DoTA2 world! It is going to be better and better with time.

Where you at? I come back to your page periodically, I want to see more “league player crosses over to Dota” as that is my story as well lol

it's very refreshing seeing new players being not so out of touch, great work for a first game! I remember my first game, where i was just mercilessly dying under enemy tower and didn't understand why ahah and in the end got stomped by some "pirate cat" who were 34 - 0. Those were the days

Something to remember, there is an item to counter ANY hero.

Nice video bro, keep going! You played nice 🇧🇷🇧🇷

I'm from Brazil and I appreciate its gameplay for someone new to Dota. I would also like to play with you one day.

this is very positive! thank you for the video:)

Warlock is one of my favorite characters and you played him well (for someone who isn't used to using items). In this match, you could win even without the towers at the base, but it doesn't matter if you had fun

loved this, reminded me of my first games of dota

Keep playing dota and we will be with you my friend 😎

I recommend, putting the setting on to make it so you can’t cancel channel abilities and items unless you hit the stop key (which is “S” by default) because there was many times you canceled E on accident. This is awesome seeing someone else coming from league to Dota

You did great dude!

You played well over all , had some laughs with item and spell usage but overall great first game

Always interesting to see a new player try the game out! You should use your items more, many times they could have saved you

There's a keyboard setting to make the key to be similar to LOL,but i use Heroes of Newerth because it's the easiest and fastest to use inventory for newbie, but it depends on what you're comfortable with actually, and main support job is to just to make sure your carry can farm safely by harassing enemies team on lane without feed too much, if your carry left the lane it's because he can't farm there anymore because of enemy heroes have power spike in mid game so you need to secure surrounding by ward or you can stick with mid lane to aggressive on enemies since mid lane hero usually have early power spike because of solo exp on early game

You honestly played extremely well considering it's only your second game. I love watching LoL players try DotA and you have been the most impressive by far. Hope you have more fun with it. Perhaps play with a buddy too

> Well that was very good for a first game tho. For warlock I'd say you should look out for teamfights more, since your ult is AOE and takes a long time in CD. Also the synergy of items is: You Ult 1st, you slow (E) 2nd and then you shadow yourself 3rd with your cape (your C hotkey there), you can do it during channeling habilities like Portal and your E. Also it creates a magical barrier that absorbs 300 damage during its active phase.

I would watch some more of a league player tries dota

the fact that you played custom bot first before playing against real human deserve praises. like i cant stress people enough how useful those bot games are for new players.

nice to see some people give dota a chance (again) hf&gl

15:23 the necro scythe 😢

honestly one of the better transitions to dota I have seen..

Damn, your laning is quite good, still a lot of to learn, but you obviously doing much better then a lot of new players coming from league that ive seen, you doing great, keep it up! Edit: Yeah, and you will have to learn to use a buch of active items, especially playing support. And I never heard somebody refereeing to "Last hits" "Denies" as "Left handed, diz nuts", thats so funny

Getting early lvl 6 on warlock is kinda nice. Yes you are a team fight hero Yooo that clutch force staff

you can click on the top avatars, to read spells and their item progression also should remember to use your glimer cape and stick and juke the bristleback keep your higher tier neutral item in the slot, and once your dead you can swap in the philosopher's stone as it will give you gold while your dead probably the only item that works why your dead

Dude, you're good as carry! 👍🏻

Bursted from 100 to 0 in one second, welcome to support role.

was fun watching the fresh perspective. and you gotta try nyx assassin just cuz its your name bro

good content tip : remember to use item active abilities and 75 gpm is really good for support

Lol player that knows how to deny at 5 minute game

hope to see more dota

Very enjoyable video

All in all, you have good game awareness for a 'new' player

He's better support than other legend player i played so far, I think he's doing a really good job given the experience from league.

tbh you played better than half your team, keep it up!

as you go further into the game, you'll really enjoy it especially if u experience all the other heroes, those 10 yrs u play in league will be like worth 6months or a year in dota, and once u feel like you want to play league again, u will be reformed, you'll tell yourself that league really is that eazy, and im saying this from a perspective, my highest rank in LoL is Grandmaster and Master in wild rift, dota really is one of a kind

U did alright. U understand the basics. You got your items. Now it's a matter of map awareness. Seeing where the enemies are on the map, are they missing from the map, should u def tower, should you abandon tower, that kinda stuff.

This was fun to watch and the ‘left hand deez nutz’ had me rolling 😂

Hi! Maybe a bit late, just wanted to give some advices. In dota carry (safe lane player, Phantom assasin in your team and juggernaut in enemy team) farms for most of the early / mid game, because they need items to kill. Skywrath mage on the other hand is a strong support who can solo kill a lot of targets (just as many other supports). You should have moved with your team more (or just made space for phantom assain to farm). Love❤

A good game for the first time! I've played dota for more than 600+ hours myself, but I always find something new for myself, by type: new skills, new builds for a character, etc. Don't worry if you lose the first games, and it seems you've been thrown to people who already know how to play. If the games seem long to you, you can try playing turbo mode. Try to play as other characters, like bristleback, ax, Sven, they are quite simple to learn. PS: If you get lost in battles, like me, then Valve recently brought an update to Dota laboratories to the game, there you can turn on the setting where your character will always be visible in the midst of battle.

you can defend jugg ulti using invi, and also eul, LH DN is last hit and denied creep, in early game its really important

If you are in trouble remember that sometimes you can just teleport out

You want to place the yellow wards in high places, so they can see. The blue wards are used to deward, and see invisible units. Use your glimmer cape to go invis, and Jugg ult won't proc on you.

You did really well! Used items, warded, really good)

Great stuff. Dota 6.88 forever. Subbed. Love and blessings!

Would be intrested to watch if you supply us with more content like this. Would like to see the journey you take to get good at Dota 2.

Very entertaining, keep it up! Make sure to slam you keyboard and press everything anytime you fight haha

my man healed a creep. that's fun.

You can check enemy skill and item by clicking the top portrait, cant do it early though until enemy show on map

7:50 Glimmer Cape yourself to save yourself (magic barrier + Invisibility) Skywrath Mage is a support - he supports by dealing a lot of damage that won't scale with items pretty much - his ulti is dangerous when you have low mobility and he can keep you in this small area - Warlock is hella slow, some of your teammates are too - Force Staff on yourself or on your teammate will do a great deal to help them. Sometimes Skywrath plays mid but is rare You need to press more your buttons, 13:40 you force staff Faceless and Glimmer cape him - he has an escape that heals him back all the damage from last 4 seconds, excellent for this situation, excellent to recover from burst, except Skywrath has a silence and stopped him from using the spell, so you'd have to intervene Juggernaut is weak but if it really comes to counter him supports buy Ghost Sceptre - Pavise then Solar Crest is a waste of money this late in the game for most supports. Glimmer also helps against his ult. Letting a tank soak his omnislashes is usually the way to go Faceless Void is an hypercarry, with some itemisation he can contribute to the team a bit earlier (like early mask of madness), at minute 25 specially with the slow farm of the low skilled players you were matchmade, and playing in offlane which gets less farm than pos 1, no wonders he was useless Press the mana boots more! ex 16:30 LH last hits DN Denies Bristleback mitigates a lot of damage - and sprays quills from his back when he gets attacked on his back; which deals aoe damage to anyone close. Builds spell vampirism to heal from spell damage. Not attacking his back, using break (spell effect that disables passives, some heroes have this spell, items only Silver Edge has but it's a carry/core item), antiheal (Spirit Vessel is a support item, corrosive orb, eye of skadi, shiva, for cores + some heroes abilities), magic resistance to his quills (glimmer cape really for a support, some cores would build mageslayer which helps the whole team or pipe of insight also whole team also an item for cores), damage with spells as those won't trigger his passive that sprays quills. Most important not focusing him first target as half his usefulness is getting focused. Necro is strong against Bristleback... Necro is a Tanky antitank strong in sustain combat and prolonged fights Average game is 40 minutes, this one was a cursed long game. In Dota2 you should rotate more - use the portals at the edge of the map to move between sidelanes, use TP scrolls - position 4, 5 and usually position 2 rotate more than 1 and 3