Hey! I'm not as good as balloon (I'm 5k) but I can share some tips regarding your questions. 1. If you lose all 3 lanes, your best bet would be to communicate with your team, smoke as 5 and gank their highest networth or snowballing heroes. In all ranks, people tend to farm solo (especially the enemy carry) and that's the perfect opportunity to turn the game around due to comeback mechanics in dota. 2. If the enemy groups as 5 and starts pushing, SPLIT PUSH at all costs. Low mmr players always get stuck in the base trying to defend highground. Let 1 or 2 wave clear allies (preferably supports like jakiro/kotl/zeus) to stay near tier 3 towers and clear waves while you should constantly split push and farm other lanes. If the enemy is grouped as 5, they are NOT farming, they are wasting time with your towers and your team. This is the best way to farm and rush fighting items (like bkb) or hit your power spike and then try to smoke and come back in the game. 3. If the enemy invades your triangle, just farm the opposite area. Even though the triangle is the most ideal and efficient place to farm for most carries (troll/anti mage/medusa), you shouldn't try to force the triangle and feed, just go to your safelane and farm around the safe area. Hope that helps, if anyone wants to add something, feel free to. As I said, I'm just a 5k player, not perfect :D

Hi, as long as you are allowed to farm forwards into enemy territory, you should always do so because you will take away their farm. That is considered as lane pressure. Push the lane, farm the camps around as you wait for next wave to come and repeat until some threats come to kick you away from the lane, then only you will back off to the ancient triangle again.

Yes, you only tp to fight if its good, else just keep pushing lanes yourself and apply lane pressure. The last thing we want is for us to tp back, get stuck in base and not being able to get out afterwards because of bad fights etc. Whether you follow your team when they push or not depends on your item timing. If you hit items around 20-25 min onwards mark, you are expected to follow. If you do not have items/are before that item timing, then you are not expected to follow.

Hi, yes this also works for Maelstrom despite being much slower. Normally, heroes that cannot do this will do Midas instead in normal camps to match Ancient farming heroes. But yes, Maelstrom is also doable.

@@BalloonDota Thank you very much for the reply!

Hi bro, just tp there unless you can still play the lane and apply lane pressure.

@@BalloonDotaawesome. thanks for the response! i'm still pretty new and your videos have helped me a lot!

thanks man, will keep that suggestion in mind

@@BalloonDota upload coaching vods of your student so that people can see, upload some vods as free and add channel membership so that we can see all the available coaching vods

Crystalys speeds up farming speed and adds to the damage output later on when the hero is ready to fight

Yes, as long as you are stronger in lane (meaning you won't die and can take their tower), then you should sit in lane and break their tower.

Hi bro, target around 500-600 would be good. Minimum 400, try to hit average 500.

Offlaners will have a different part of the map to play, this is more for safelane carries

@@BalloonDota tq for the reply. please make a offlaner video ballooonn. much appreciated. :)

Hi, your impact in the laning phase will also need to be factored into the equation. If fundamental concepts are weak in the laning phase, it will indirectly cause your other lanes to also suffer because the offlane and pos 4 do not need help from their teammates to shut your lane down. Additionally, it is mentioned in the video that this should not be treated as afk farm, but more so farming the most efficient part of the map while waiting for some other higher priority scenarios to happen, which in this case are free kills/fights that you can actually contribute to either by being conveniently nearby or with a TP counter gank. So to summarize, you still need to have good laning mechanics, know when and how to apply lane pressure to draw attention to yourself while avoiding ganks from the enemy side, and also contribute in a few early fights that you can actually join for kills, if there are any.

Change your perspective.

@@BalloonDotawhat would you say is the best lane to climb? mid lane safe lane or offlane?

@@fiendraze-722 hi, the mid lane would be the best if you have much better skill level gap than the enemy mid laner since the side lanes are heavily dependent on two players instead of one.

Your comment says more about you than your "team" imho