Shadowing Practice: A Complete Dota 2 Guide for League Players and Beginners in 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Okay, so this is a complete Dota 2 guide for League players and beginners starting from 2025.
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I'm using League of Legends as a reference because it is the closest game that comes to Dota 2.
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This is not a Dota 2 versus League of Legends video.
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I'm not here to tell you which game is better because there are two completely different games.
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Dota 2 is an explosive 5v5 mobile game.
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You are going in playing as a character with four other teammates aiming to battle and take down In League of Legends,
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where the game revolves around hitting skill shots, Dota 2 offers overpowered characters with insane abilities.
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This guy can stop time.
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This guy can create cataclysm.
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This guy can bomb your entire screen.
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This guy can create thunderstorm globally around the map.
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And this guy can AFK in your base and kill everyone.
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When everyone is overpowered, no one really is.
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And this is Dota 2.
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Also, if you're wondering, there are no standard surrender feature in Dota 2.
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The comeback mechanic is pretty decent.
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So no matter how far you are behind, there is always a way back.
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The games in Dota will tend to be a little bit longer than League, don't care in this video, it means that you'll probably learn it along the way
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and you shouldn't stress too much about it at the start of the game.
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If I'm missing out anything, my viewers, please just leave it in the comments and help the newer players.
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Thank you.
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Okay, when you have downloaded and logged into the game, you will be introduced to a short tutorial which I recommend you complete it.
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This is for you to get used to clicking things.
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Once you have done that or even if you don't want to do it,
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than heroes available in the game.
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Every hero can be counted by another hero.
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Every hero is free to play.
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There are no pay -to -win mechanics in Dora 2 and this is 100 % a game of skills.
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The only time you'll be spending money is
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when you're buying cosmetics for your characters and I can tell you
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that it's very tempting to get these cosmetics sometimes so just beware.
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As far as I know, the more complex heroes will be locked until you play a certain amount of games.
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You can click on any demo hero to try out their abilities.
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Okay, time to play.
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To fight the game, press play Dota under unranked, select or pick and kill for a game.
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To play rank, you will need to unlock it by playing for 100 hours.
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And now you just wait for the bong.
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Once you have entered the game, pick any character you want to play.
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There will be heroes that are stronger than another hero.
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There will be metas.
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There will be strong combos that are available.
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But at this point, you don't care.
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You play whatever you want, press your abilities and have fun.
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Once everyone has picked their heroes, you are now in the strategy phase.
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Usually at this point, people will plan on what they want to do in the game
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and here is what you're going to do.
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You're going to go to guides and you're going to select any one of these guides and click select.
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And once you get into the game, there will be skills and items recommendation that you can simply follow.
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They are not always the best because it is a very your facet.
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Most heroes have two facets.
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Some heroes have five facets, but it doesn't matter.
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You can just choose whatever.
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Basically, what this does is it customizes your hero for different play styles
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and the guide will usually tell you which facet to take.
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Okay, once you're in the game, look at your spells.
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The highlighted spells are the ones that they recommend you to skill.
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Then open your shop.
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These are the recommended items.
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You just have to follow them.
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Then we're going to move on to the first objective of the game, Bounty Runes.
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Bounty Runes are these yellow color things.
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Once you take it, everyone on your team will gain money.
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Bounty Runes will spawn on four different positions
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and your job is to collect as many Bounty Runes as possible at minute zero.
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on once every 4 minutes.
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Then you're going to go back into your lanes.
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There are 3 lanes in Dota 2.
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the top lane, the middle lane, and the bottom lane.
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Every character in Dota have different roles and depending on the role, there is a farm priority.
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But you don't care.
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Just go to any lane you want.
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Usually, mid lane is a 1v1.
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The top lane is a 2v2 and the bottom lane is also a 2v2.
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So you just go wherever you want to go and just fill up any lanes that are empty.
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Don't overthink about roles and lanes and whatever you play.
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Just play the game.
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It doesn't matter.
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It's fun.
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In these lanes, there gold and experience.
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Experience help you level up and get more skills.
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Gold will help you buy items and become stronger.
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In Dota, everyone will be given a courier
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and you're going to use this courier to deliver the items that you have purchased in base.
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Your courier will be walking to you until you hit level 4 and it will start flying.
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That's kind of cute, right?
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I mean, you are allowed neutral item slot and one TP scroll slot.
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The six item slots are your main item slots.
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Once your items are on these slots, you are using these items.
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If you play the game enough, you will realize that six slots are not enough because you're going to buy a lot of items.
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And when items are not in use, you will place them in your backpack slot.
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Once you put it there, your items are not in use until you switch them back.
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I will explain neutral items later on, but let's talk When you get into the game, everyone is given one teleport scroll.
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This will allow you to teleport to any allied buildings around the map to help your teammates.
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It is a one -time use, so once you used it, you have to buy another one.
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If you die to an enemy, you will gain a free TP scroll.
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And if you click on your teammates and you see many, many TP scrolls, this means that they are probably feeding.
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Damage time in Dota is very complicated.
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When you're attacking, it is physical damage.
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When you're casting a spell, it is a spell spell damage.
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Some spell damage are physical damage, some are magical damage, and some are pure damage.
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But at this point, it doesn't matter.
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You don't care.
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Just press your spell, hit people, and you'll be fine.
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In League of Legends, the map is pretty much flat.
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There are no daytime, there are no nighttime, no high ground, low ground kind of thing.
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But in Dota, there is daytime that gives you more vision.
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There is nighttime that gives you lesser vision.
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Certain heroes have more vision in the night and lesser vision in the day.
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Going into the trees doesn't make you invisible.
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But there is fog of war, which means that if your opponents are standing on this side of the tree
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and you're standing on the other side of the tree, you cannot see them.
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vision from other sources.
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You are not invisible, you are just in a fog.
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When you're on the high ground, you can see the low ground.
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And when you're on the low ground, you cannot see the high ground.
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That is another fog of war.
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But for all of this, you don't care.
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You just run at people and try to kill people.
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Starting from two minutes, the river rune will spawn a water rune.
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There is this item in a shop called a bottle.
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When you buy it, you get to use it three times.
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To refill your bottle, you will probably not buy a bottle.
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So you don't care.
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You just need to know that Water Rune gives you HP and mana.
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Water Rune will only spawn at 2 minutes and 4 minutes.
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3 minutes.
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If you are playing on the top lane or the bottom lane, you will notice this weird thing.
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This is called the Lotus Pool.
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At 3 minutes, Lotuses will spawn in the Lotus Pool and will spawn in 3 minutes interval.
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All you need to do is to walk into the Lotus Pool
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and stand in there for a few seconds and the Lotus click it, you get to heal some health and mana.
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If there is an enemy in the pool, no one will get it and you will have to fight to the death.
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Whoever walks out first, the opposing team will get the lotus.
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But that is a coward move.
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Most of the time, we would rather die a warrior than to run away a coward.
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So yeah, fight to the death.
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5 minutes.
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This is where the day turns into night
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and people will start running around trying to kill one another because of poor visibility.
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But you don't nighttime, 35 minutes daytime, so on and so forth.
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Okay, you know what?
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Just don't care and ignore day and night time.
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Yeah, just keep it simple.
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Six minutes.
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This is where power runes are spawning on the river instead of water runes.
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These power runes will spawn at two minutes interval starting from six minutes.
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They will spawn randomly between top and bottom.
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Usually, everyone will gather meat to fight for these runes because they are quite overpowered.
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There are six power runes in a game.
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Arcane rune, this will reduce your cooldown and mana cost for your spells.
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Haste rune allows the user to run at max movement speed.
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Illusion rune gives you two illusions of yourself.
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Invisibility turns you invisible until the effects run off.
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And while you're invisible, you are very tanky.
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Degeneration rune heals you up back to full HP and mana.
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And Shield rune, it gives you a damage barrier.
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Basically, it's a very OP rune.
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Wait, there's like seven runes?
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Wait, what the - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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Oh, there's seven runes.
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Okay, yeah.
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7 runes.
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Next, Twin Gates.
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If you're unable to kill in your lane and you want to go for kills across the map, instead of using TP scroll, you want to use the Twin Gate.
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They are located at the corner of the map that will teleport you across the map and basically save you time.
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7 minutes is Wisdom time.
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This is important because it gives you a lot of experience and helps you level up and get to your ultimate quickly.
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To get it, you just need to stand in the Wisdom Pool and wait.
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and you'll get it.
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This wisdom will spawn once every 7 minutes.
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Similar to the Lotus Pool, if you have a player from each team standing in there, nothing will happen.
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Whoever leaves the opposing team will get the rune.
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So yes, another fight to the death.
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15 minutes, it's usually Tormentor time.
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Tormentor is this shiny building.
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If you kill it, one person on your team will gain an item that improves their spell.
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The item will be randomly given to one of the poorest player on your team.
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don't recommend you try to kill it.
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There is a specific way to kill it
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and I don't recommend you try because you are likely going to kill yourself before you get to kill this thing.
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I mean even pros kill themselves when they try to kill this thing.
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So you just ignore it, you don't get it.
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Next, Roshan.
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Roshan is like the boss of the map.
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He's the strongest creep on the map.
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If you kill Roshan, you will gain Aegis.
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Aegis will grant the user an extra life.
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After a few minutes, either use the Aegis or the Aegis will expire
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and then Roshan will spawn and you get to kill Roshan again.
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There you the top and the bottom.
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Initially, Roshan will only spawn at the bottom side and starting from 15 minutes, Roshan will start walking top when it's night time and walk back to bottom when it's daytime.
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And if you stand in his path, he will grab you and he will throw you away.
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It does a lot of damage and it's fun.
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I don't know, like me and my friends, we like to just intentionally get thrown around because it is fun, you know.
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You can try.
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You're probably gonna die, but you should try it.
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There are four types of towers in Dorak.
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Tier 1 tower, Tier 2 tower, Tier 3 tower, Tier 4 towers.
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In the lane, you have to break the Tier 1 tower before the Tier 2 tower.
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Likewise, you have to kill the Tier 2 tower before you can touch the Tier 3 tower.
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Once you kill the Tier 3 tower, you are allowed to take the enemy's Barracks.
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Killing this Rex makes your creeps really strong.
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And by killing Rex on all three lanes, usually Sakel still wins.
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There is another popular way to win, which is to just ignore the Rex and go straight for the throne.
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But there is a story for another day.
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Don't care.
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You just try to take all the rexes and win the game.
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Wait, I forgot about something.
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Oh, oh, neutral items.
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Okay, so when you clear a jungle camp, you will gain this thingy.
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I don't really know what this is called, but once you collect enough, you will get a neutral item.
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So on the left side is to select the effect of the item, and the right side is to select the stats that you want to gain from the item.
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So just mix and match, but honestly, it doesn't really matter.
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You don't care.
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You just pick whatever, you know.
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And if you ever walk past this thing, this thing is called a watcher, and if you click on it, this thing will give you vision.
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But if you
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color it means that it belongs to the enemy
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and you want to click it to remove their vision so yeah good luck on your road to rank one
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Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you kill Roshan, you will gain |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is overpowered · will be introduced · can be counted |
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| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | war, which means · win, which is |
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