Dota – Battlepoint bonus – how does it work

With good control, any 5 heroes can kill Roshan before the match begins. It takes a good amount of teamwork and some money spent on health potions, however, and is easily punished if the opposing team realizes it. Because of this, the strategy is rarely seen.

There are certain heroes who are more effective at killing Roshan because of how their abilities work at level 1, and the increased speed or less punishment taken makes level 1 Roshan kills more common when some or multiple of the following are on a team:

• Ursa (Fury Swipes stacks indefinitely)
• Auras (Skeleton King, Luna, Drow, Beastmaster, Shadowfiend)
• Lich (Frost Armor slows Roshan attack)
• Venomancer (Wards can deal damage)
• Vengeful Spirit (Howl reduces armor by 2)
• Viper (Corrosive skin damages and slows attack speed)
• Any summoner plus Enigma. (Beastmaster, Nature's Prophet, Lycan, etc.). You can convert that summon into Eidolons and use further summons to damage, depending on hero.
• Lone Druid
• Wisp (Double effectiveness of Healing Salves with Tether)
• Timbersaw (Reactive Armor)

The reward is significant. Heroes will be halfway to level 3 if all split the experience, or if coordinated well one hero can be the only one within experience range and jump all the way to level 5. Each hero receives 200 gold and the killer gets a gold bounty of between 105-600 bonus gold. And, of course, the Aegis of the Immortal drops.

Items that help:

• Ring of Basilius for the +2 armor aura is an obvious one.
• Healing Salves. You can take turns tanking Roshan and healing quickly thereafter.
• Smoke of Deceit. If you're coming from the Radiant side, you're likely to be spotted without this. It also wears off when the enemy is nearby so you can know if you've been spotted on the way in. It also increases movement speed to get you there faster.
• Stats and regen. You are going to lane after this, and the bonus health and damage helps here too.

It's worth noting that the most popular combo recently is simply Ursa plus Skeleton King. Two coordinated players can kill Roshan by themselves with these heroes. Here's a video walkthrough I made to doing this:

A game becomes safe to leave when someone abandons it (abandon means that the player was disconnected or away from keyboard for 5 minutes, or just pressed Leave Game).

If you disconnect from a game, which is safe to leave or will become safe to leave before you abandon it, you don't get an abandoned point. However, you will still get a win or loss point, depending on how the game ends. Usually this will be a loss, because your team will be much weaker without some players.

If all 5 members of a team abandon the game, they automatically lose in a few seconds.

If someone disconnects from a game and doesn't reconnect before first blood, or simply abandons it before first blood, the game will be safe to leave and no stats will be recorded, which means that nobody will get a win or loss point or battle points.

A game will be recorded in your game history even if it's safe to leave and no stats will be recorded, but don't let that confuse you: that doesn't imply you get points for it.

Now I will answer your exact questions and show some more examples.

If you leave the "Safe to leave" game and start another, will it count as loss?

If "no stats will be recorded", nothing will count.
If it's just safe to leave, it will count as a win or loss depending on whether your team won or lost.

If you continue playing the "Safe to leave" game and you win, will that win count?

If "no stats will be recorded", nothing will count.
Otherwise, a game being safe to leave changes nothing in this aspect, and the win will count.

If the game gets marked as "Safe to leave" does that means someone from enemy team can leave the game too and not get any loss or abandon point?

When a game is safe to leave, anyone can abandon and not get an abandoned point, but they will get a loss or win unless "no stats will be recorded".

• If you leave a game and your remaining team members win, you get a win unless "no stats will be recorded".

• If someone disconnects from a game that is not yet safe to leave, then you disconnect, you will not get an abandoned point, UNLESS they reconnect before their 5 minutes run out. (Not entirely sure about this one.)

• If someone disconnects from a game that is not yet safe to leave, then you disconnect, then they reconnect and you don't reconnect before your 5 minutes run out, you will be the first one to abandon the game and will get an abandoned point.