dota-2
I have witnessed a few games where a Pudge would manage to hit a non negligible numbers of blind hooks. At first I thought it was a bit of luck but then I noticed some players are quite good at blind hooking. A few players seem to be able to guess that a player will hide behind a tower waiting for reinforcements for example.
Are there spots to hide/hook or things to do to consistently hit with blind hooks ?
Although I only play LoL and no DotA/DotA 2 (yet) it looks like at the moment the same mechanics apply to both games in DotA2 you earn more gold since the June 4th Patch. I found the following here for the original DotA and here for DotA 2:
Every time you kill an enemy hero you are awarded with
(Current Streak of Dying Hero)+200+(Dying Hero's Level)*9reliable gold. Where current streak is:
- 0 if the hero has no kills since last respawn
- 0 if the hero has killed another hero and not died yet
- 0 If the hero has two kills in a row
- 75 Killing Spree (Three kills in a row)
- 150 Dominating ( Four kills in a row)
- 225 Mega Kill! ( Five kills in a row)
- 300 Unstoppable! ( Six kills in a row)
- 375 Wicked Sick( Seven kills in a row)
- 450 Monster Kill!!! ( Eight kills in a row)
- 525 Godlike! (Nine kills in a row)
- 600 Beyond Godlike! (Ten to infinite kills in a row)
This means you can get up to 1025 (600+200+25x9) gold for a kill if the hero was Level 25 and had more than 10 kills since his last death.
Heroes that are in a 1000 area and not being the killer will be granted a certain amount of reliable gold, depending on total heroes (including the killer) in that area.
- 2 Hero: 125+12*(Dying Hero's Level)
- 3 Heroes: 40+10*(Dying Hero's Level)
- 4 Heroes: 10+6*(Dying Hero's Level)
- 5 Heroes: 6*(Dying Hero's Level)
Assists only give gold if Dire or Radiant gets the kill.
As 25 is the max. level for heros this means you can get up to 425 (125 + 12 * Level 25) gold if you're the only hero besides the killer in a range of 1000.
For loosing gold it's a bit more complicated, because your aquired gold is split into 2 categories:
The difference between the two (except from how each is earned) is how each one is spent: Dying can only take away gold from your unreliable gold pool and not from your reliable gold. Buying items uses up your unreliable gold first before using your reliable gold. Buyback uses reliable gold first. In the end you still have a fixed amount of total gold (you just add the two together).
And further below on the pages you can find:
Every time you die you lose 30*(Level of your Hero) unreliable gold (Dying cannot take away reliable gold), the only way to reduce this amount is with a Bloodstone - you'll lose 25 gold less for every Bloodstone charge.
Update as of 18/1/2013
The options menu has been changed to make it easier to find the control rebinding for items. I have taken a new screenshot - simply click on steps 1 through 4 from anywhere in the game client to open up the menu and rebind your item hotkeys.
Note: this part of the answer is outdated, but I left it alone for now. If it's appropriate to delete it, mods are welcome to do so.
You can change the key bindings for both abilities and items by clicking their icons underneath the list of controls in the options menu. Below is a screenshot of the controls menu, you can see that I reassigned my items to numbers 1-4 and my extra mouse buttons.
It is not immediately apparent that these buttons which look like the ingame HUD are actually additional key binding options, but each one that is labelled can be changed.
It's also highly recommended that you rebind at least a few control group keys to something else, but it's rare that you will need all 6 control groups in a normal game. I chose F1-F3, but you can use whatever you like.
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I guess I can finally let this secret go...
MOBA games like dota is almost the same thing every time. You need to know yourself before you know your opponent. Think of battling yourself what you would do if you know you were on the surrounding and running away from a pudge. Blind hooking is an art because most players have been there done that. You will notice that your games are starting to look similar regardless of the roles. The main point of blind hooking is just knowing your range of the Q and where the opponent will be. To make a lock between point a(you) to b(opponent) you need to read him as if you are reading yourself in what you would do in this type of circumstance. So I will layout what you need to learn before you pull it off.