Can confirm watching this video leads to instant improvement. I showed this video to a slice of bread and it instantly became a slice of toast.

Just wanted to give a shoutout to BSJ for this great video. Finally hit immortal just now after 17 years playing the game (from DOTA 1). Just in time for the announcement of TI11! Looking forward to make it to the event and hope BSJ can make it too. Capping my journey with a picture with the best DOTA teacher will be amazing hahaha Keep it up BSJ!

I have 10+ years of dota and actually didnt know this. When he screems "top mid top mid" i had no idea why, and how to remember or identify it. so nice vid!

Although we really appreciate BSJ guru teaching us everything, I also appreciate the editor ✌🏻

This is the best video to explain the map and objectives in Dota 2. More players needs to see this instead of crying why they are hardstuck.

I can't believe we're getting these videos for free. Thank you so much, bro, from someone who truly loves learning and understanding the game.

As someone who's always had issues wandering around aimlessly in Dota once towers start breaking and the teams start roaming the map, just the idea that map control skews into a vertical line makes so much click into place in my head, and gives me something to start looking for when watching games to actually learn how and why teams move as they do in that phase of the game.

This was super helpful! BSJ is getting better and better at explaining. There were stuff like the "dead lane" that I was really understanding and now I do. So thanks!

4k hours in and never made it out of 2k, watching this video was an absolute lightbulb moment for me in terms of understanding the game, cheers BSJ

Such fantastic and full of knowledge beautifully explained video. ❤️ I'll watch it again and again as it's not easy to grasp all the content at once.

Definitely the best video I’ve seen to explain this principle. I needed this and didn’t know what to look for

BEYOND OVERSIMPLIFIED VERSION OF MY NOTES (Dire POV): Step 1- take top turret (for juicy jg camps) step 2- take T2 top tower and T1 mid (post 15-20 minutes if strong enough) step 3- roshe (otherwise taking more objs (even w/ powder) is too risky unless fed) step 4- take back botside and push enemy botlane w/ aegis and smoke to play both lanes step 5- 2nd aegis to end ig (idk what highground means extra: yes im a league of legends player and tbh idk if its the best idea to follow what i wrote bc ive only been playing for like 2 days

Are there any relevant videos in which BJS shows how a top team puts these concepts into practice? A practical example would be amazing, thanks!

Most games you will take Rosh before taking tier 2 mid and tier 1 offlane tower and flip the lanes and if you are strong in team fight you can let them not flip the lane and if you are weak you can let them flip and farm somewhere else. Flipping and ganking helps when there are immobile carries in the other team which forces them into the base while you take the whole farm on the map and take roshan for high ground push. If there are mobile cores in other team then you should pressure the high ground.

Thanks BSJ like this video a lot. Been playing on and off for years and thought this clarified key points of game progression that I have been struggling with

Dude this is perfect. I'm brand new to Dota and it's always a bit confusing what should be done and when to do them.

I cannot tell you how frustrating it is, when enemy dire takes our safelane tower (like they should) they now control our jungle and instead of simply controlling dires jungle and playing on the other half the map like BSJ teaches very correctly, my fking team loves to walk into our jungle into enemy vision and either get killed and flame me for not helping or starts a team fight and forces us all to respond and we get team wiped because we are fighting in enemy vision. It is incredible.....

Insanely helpful! Great explanation and great video

amazing! I would like to see crosses over towers that you announced dead/taken :)

I love ur Fundamentals series ty for vid

yeah . it is these small tips that helped me get out of archon. small details actually help u dominate and sometimes turn the impossible game around.most players in my brackets have no idea of map awareness I hope they watch ur channel .maybe then everyone can enjoy quality games.

Exactly what I was looking for. Been gone for a while. Thanks!

Valve should hire BSJ and make some professional educational content for in game and in depth. New players and players who wants to improve would love to reach these kind of things in game I assume.

I feel like BSJ is actually active in the Steam community hub of Dota 2, I made a very loosely drawn map like that (maybe roughly a month or so ago) to help a newbie. BSJ ofc refined it and talks more indepth about it. I could be wrong too though. Anyways, informative as always :D

Love your content man, keep it up👍

At first I was unsure whether these high-concept strats had any bearing on uncoordinated pubs. But it is as you say, these things are required to progress the game - so if you do them consciously and your opponents do them by accident you have an advantage.

Loved the information gave me a new perspective on the farming path, would love to see a explain video about how to end the game

Big correction, in the games most folks will be playing, you can just chip down the enemy offlane tower occasionally without much issue. It doesn't even have backdoor so if I'm a high mobility pos1 I'll often just start hitting it to bait a rotation if I'm near, and just take it if they don't defend which is common.

Thank you for this series! Noob here and learning a lot by it

Thanks for bringing this back bsj! 🤙

really nice, keep it up!

This is worth gold.. Nicely explained BSJ

Damn bsj, I'm playing dota 2 for years but this is the first time I have heard of these things. Thanks 👍

this was very insightfull every new player should watch your videos!

These kind of content are brilliant keep it up🔥🔥

This would have been awesome long time ago with the terrorblade coaching guide `THE DEFAULT PLAY BOOK' of the dota 2 . Thankyou for this knowledge ,literally one of the most important guide on default dota2 game as how it should be played.

Really good explanations thanks :)

nice video BSJ

Great video! Now how do we get Valve to add this into the game tutorials?

great concept. ty

thx for the content bsj. but we need full coaching sessions to be back man

This is just the video i needed

This is an awesome knowledge. But hopefully I can practice it in my current bracket and hoping that my teammates has same "objectives" as a team. Playing in herald bracket sometimes can be 1v9.

Great video!

one of your best videos in a while

Ty g very useful ))

we need an updated version of this video since now the outpost kinda sits on the edge of the map

BSJ, hoping you could update this video to reflect the current map changes with the: Twin Gates Tormentors 2 Rosh pits Edge of map neutral camps

This video is amazing!

Master bsj has spoken to us again. Thank you master bsj

The only lecture I actually pay attention to

Just learned an insane amount in 20 minutes

You are doing a great job developing your teacher voice.

STUDY ON THE BSJ'S IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES VIDEO, WITH CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT PATCH 7.34d ----------//---------- Summary, for your convenience: 1. Considerations on the Video; 2. Author's perspective on objectives of 7.34d; 3. List of General Objectives in Dota 2 in order of priority; 4. And thoughts on being able to adapt. 1. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE VIDEO It is at least one year old, so before Twin Gates, which means reality in the current patch might be different in some scale. The logic behind it is still valuable and insightful. Why am I writing this? To learn. Please feel free to correct me if you believe I'm wrong or to sum your opinion. 2. OBJECTIVES OF 7.34d The author risks to say they are similar to previous patches, except now you should ward the surroundings of the Twin Gates (TG), Advanced Outposts (AO) and be prepared to evade or fight when pushing for objectives. Also: - There are AO's in the Offlane Triangles; - Tormentors (from minute 20 and every 10 minutes after killed), which I believe raise the value of the Enemy Offlanes (EO); - A lot more Neutral Camps; - And Lotus Pools - convenient regen(eration) in the lane. In other words: - Tier (T) 1 Enemy Safe Lane Tower (ESLT); - T2 ESLT and T1 Enemy Mid Tower (EMT); - Roshan for Aegis; - T2 EMT and T1 Enemy Offlane Tower (EOT); - T2 EOT and enemy's Tormentor; - Second Aegis (and other rewards); - Push for Enemy's High Ground (Mid is priority, as usual); - Push for Victory. Other lesser objectives, such as Wisdom Runes (every 7 minutes), cannot be left behind. Don't delay the victory, as ever. 3. PRIORITIES LIST Take this as a baseline, which may vary and interchange. - Enemy Throne = Victory; - Towers, necessary for Throne and space = more neutral camps, resources etc. = Competitive Advantage in pushing for other objectives, such as closing items in timing (CA); - Roshan = Aegis and others = CA; - Tormentors = Aghanim's Shards (sparing resources for your team and denying for enemies') or gold and xp = CA; - Wisdom runes (WR) = experience = CA; - Bounty runes (BR) = gold = CA; - Power Runes (PR) = varied effects = survivability/ganks/space = CA; - Lotus Pool = convenient regen = CA; - Enemy heroes* = gold, experience, space = CA; - Lane creeps = gold, experience = CA; - Neutral creeps = gold, experience = CA; Space equals where you farm = CA. Experience equals levels, skills etc. = CA. Gold equals items, buybacks = CA. *This was placed way below to highlight risky and unnecessary greediness. 4. UNPREDICTABILITY FACTOR Dota 2 is a complex game with many aspects. A proof of this is that it is constantly getting updated in such depth that even objectives change. In patch 7.34d, there are elements that were not present in older ones, such as AOs by the side of T1 Safe Lane Towers (SLT) and Offlane Triangles (OT), raising, the author believes, the occurrence of conflicts. Moreover, playstyles vary depending on the level of ability (MMR) of the players involved in the match. For instance, in the lower bracket: - It is normal, from a long time, to see teams playing in ‘their’ jungle, as if the ‘borders’ of the game hadn’t changed after the T1 SLT fell, making, the author supposes, unfeasible to play in the ‘correct’ part of the map, even for more experienced players, as they would be too far from the rest of the team. - The Offlanes are interestingly contested a lot more earlier. The author believes that one of the most noteworthy aspects of 7.34d are the AOs, which create kind of a grey-zone* around them, since heroes of both teams can easily teleport to theirs and then cross the Twin Gates and go to the other side of the map, making the ‘traditional’ playstyle of, for example, from Radiant’s perspective, pushing top lane, very risky, as they could get flanked. Therefore, even if there’s a meta way of playing in 7.34d, and even if there was another prior, it is necessary to adapt to the reality of your current game. For example: if your team is playing around their safe and midlane from minute 15 forward, but they shouldn’t, play around them anyway, and try to either make them go to the right place or disencourage members of your own team to go somewhere (completely) else to farm. *Grey-zone: a place of competition which belongs to nobody. ----------//---------- The author is currently a Dota 2 Guardian 3 player with 1007 MMR. This text was originally made in a more appropriate format, which is currently unavailable for the public.

BSJ could you make a video from team perspective. Everyone always makes videos based per position, so as hard support you should focus on this, as offlane you should focus on this. But what about video that would look at it from the team perspective. So for example "After laning stage, pos 2-5 should start grouping up more and make space for pos1" or "As the rest of the team is making moves around the map, it is important that the pos1 tries to stay within reach, so they can connect if it looks like a good fight." - Something like this could be very beneficial to kinda understand how the team should optimally react to different scenarios, and not one position at a time.

I would really appreciate an update to this for the 7.33 map!

thanks for this, master!

ty BSJ san

It is indeed the basic knowledge of dota that everyone should know, but doesnt. But as for me I have always wondered why regarding the knowledge in this video the roshan pit is located in the radiant safe location. Even if you are winning the fight for roshan as dire(which is more difficult as you dont control the area), it seems that your next objectives are much further away (which usually should be t2 bot)

My carry plays their own dead lane EVERY SINGLE GAME in Guardian. Without fail. No matter how many wards I put in the offlane, no matter what towers have fallen...

are you going to add this video to the fundamentals playlist?

thanks, BSJ!

Thanks bro

Just in time!

finally we have an amazing proof of concept video to show to our less disciplined friends :)

This is the best video created by human being.

thank you mr. bzm

I was about to sleep but i guess that'll have to wait :)

this is huge

thanks BJS

Things that I know but rarely apply in my 3k pubs where everyone is doing whatever they want

Dota2 and other moba games is fundamentally a game of resources. You gather resources in two ways. Direct and indirect. You kill units, your team earn gold and exp. Or you make the enemy team suffer droughts on gold and exp. The first war is always on the drafting phase because it allows you to pick generals(heroes) that will secure your army (team) lots of resources for the war.

I asked for a video just like this in the comments a few weeks ago. Now it's actually here! Not sure if you paid attention or was a coincidence, either way thanks!

BSJ is the best!

very good.

damn lookin cool joker also eating some dinosaur chicken nuggets while enjoying this video

Why did Cap say at the Stockholm major BSJ got the deadlane concept wrong? I'm not flaming but this does seem like the correct dead lane concept.

all clear, except the part where my hard support chen dies 3 times in a row and decides to jungle

bsj god!

The most important thing that will win you games in low ranks is itemization

Nice!

The more BSJ videos I watch the more I realize just how utterly incompetent my teammates are and sink deeper into tilt.

I love you BSJ

Aposto que o Lixoke ja assistiu esse video e continua a caminho do arconte 5

You look like Pedro Pascal minus the mustache.

Great video; wish Valve makes it obligatory to watch before playing ranked games.

I have issue my my friend he only plays core cant play rankmatch because of mmr gap,he always go rambo 1v5 im a pos 4 player he on the otherhand only plays pos 1&2,he doesnt want anyonw to tell him what to do,my friends mmr is 170 im pos 4 4.5k mmr,almost strangle him one time for trying to 1v5 our enemy while being lvl 8 and trying to fight enemy with support lvl 13 and cor lvl 17......

I gained 500 mmr after being diagnosed with ADHD and playing medicated 😂

Me SEA player still struggling at herald cuz always get a teammate that all support build carry and all carry afk farm

The most important tower is the mid tier 1 tower not the safe lane tower and you can ask any pro player

- This guide is pretty much effective in party queue. Doing this in the solo queue, unless you are immortal, would not be easy. I was Divine 2 in party queues, even a 3-man party queue. I used to play with Ancient to Immortal pos 2 players. Sometimes, Archons as supports. I am pretty much an effective pos 1 player doing most guides of BSJ if I play with them. But when I played solo, it became too difficult for me to climb because I got used to my old homies' gameplays. There was one time that I noticed a crusader pos 2 player who played like Immortal but could hardly climb all by himself. When I played with some Immortal pos 2 players, I could even carry the whole game for them as they already failed against a better smurf player. There are also times that I would play (in the solo queue) against an Immortal pos 2 player (me as a pos 1 player) in the lower bracket. Despite they are immortals, I would know how to deal with them, if and only if my team is doing great even though they are naturally in the lower bracket. I was able to prove that they were Immortal when I added them and they added me to their main accounts. This makes me remember when you, BSJ, played with Neeman (Stronger Makes Me Pain), you still lost the game despite you being a top-tier Immortal. Why am I saying this? For example, if would play in a 3-man party queue, my pos 3 player would apply your tips of like creating better spaces on the map to give me efficiency as his pos 1 player, who happens to apply your tips, too. And if our pos 4/5 player is also applying your tips, there is really a big synergy and higher chance of climbing to higher brackets. I hope that you could make an analysis of this situation. There are really some players even if they are in the lower bracket could still play well, and could climb smoother in party queues, even if it would take slowly. Probably, try accepting coaching sessions for party queues. This would give us a fresh outlook on your Dota 2 content.

Currently stuck in crusader 3, win 3 lose 3 repeat T_T

Yeah. Really need that smoke help.

Jenkins green orange and red camps just clicked with this video 😱

as a 1k gamer am i glad to have this video

Strider: can you ask bsj what was his promo code for raid shadow? does he still get money for it?

@bananaslamjamma i want your channel to explode... how can you make this content less about you... and dota... and more about the viewer? The secret to youtube has got to be making as many viewers feel special as possible? What a job... dude good luck and good job!

"Maybe their half will be larger" new META math.

This video should be in the tutorial

“If one team is winning more their half might be bigger” those words you use, I do not think they mean what you think they mean :)