How To Win Every Lane By Trading Efficiently

28 Jul, 2024

There is a concept called Target Priority. The question is how to prioritize our autoattacks in lane. If you have the choice between CSing a creep, denying a creep, and hitting the enemy hero, which one do you pick?

There is nuance, but in general the correct priorities (or the priorities you can never 'go wrong with') are last hits > denies > autoattack enemy.

• Last hits - Only way of obtaining gold/XP. (Creep priority)
• Denies - Prevents enemy from obtaining gold/XP.
• Auto-attacking the enemy - Makes it difficult for him to last hit or deny, which are the goals in lane.

Mid: This knowledge, along with last-hitting practice, is all you need to succeed in the lane. Here is an example of this concept in practice: .

Another actionable step to improve as a core, is to practice last hitting Training Polygon Arcade Game, just buy the starting lane items you buy, and try to last hit against the sniper, you can do it both with support heroes and core heroes to understand your attack animation and get used to it. It's like an exercise you get better over time every day, play a little and you will feel the difference.

Cores in sidelanes:

There are 2 concepts you must know: aggro/deaggro.

Aggro means A-clicking the enemy so that creeps come close to you. De-aggro means A-clicking your own creeps, while creeps are aggroed, so that they will stop chasing you and instead chase the target closest to them.

Also, it's important to note that you can combine your spells, in order to secure last hits, for example if you are playing Luna you can beam the enemy and deny ranged, or beam the creep that you can't reach. Combine your spells in order to achieve what is necessary to accomplish your goal of the priority on the lane.

Supports:

For supports, your priorities are secure ranged/flag -> deny -> hit enemy. Two things that can make these easier are good camp priority, and precise lane positioning.

Camp Priority - First, realize that you cannot control both camps. You must prioritize one. If you are ranged vs melee, prioritize blocking the enemy camp over unblocking your own. You can already hit him freely if you are mindful of positioning, you just need to not be dragged to his camp where he can close the gap on you (Tusk, for example).

Lane Positioning - Good lane positioning mostly depends on the support matchup. It means simply to know whether to stand on the left or the right side of the lane, if you are a position 5, playing against a melee position 4 on Radiant it would be better to stand on the right side of the lane, and hit the enemy offlaner, because there will never be a time in the lane, where the melee position 4 can break the distance between you and him, and if he tries to, he will always walk into creeps, in a bad position and lose all of his HP,

Against ranged heroes, you are supposed to stand on the left side, while playing Radiant because you don't want the ranged hero to constantly hit your carry, and for him to lose farm or die, so you want to prioritize denying, and then hitting the enemy position 4. Now you kind of understand lane positioning so, for other lanes it might be opposite, and for Dire this concept will be completely opposite in terms of your positioning.

Example:

Some Decent Learning Resources:

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Good resource to learn mid-laning:

The video below inspired me to make this, I believe babitich deserves a lot of credit for the content that he posted. I'm sure the mid-laners will love this video, and I hope he posts more content!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li6s4Bwpnk4&ab_channel=babitich

Good channel to learn support:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulkHVKQuPk

Good channel to learn carry:

https://www.youtube.com/@PainDota

Haven't come across any decent off-lane content might upload my own here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYtmpXSa4ixGo272ioLT9Q

Everyone close to top immortal, I'm 9400 MMR and I use this to check the item builds of heroes, and to find replays of my favorite heroes, to see trends in the meta etc. Also you can join their discord and learn matchups for different heroes.

How to self-learn from replays:

Through this post, whatever concepts you've learned try to compare them to any pro in any replay, you will find them doing all of this stuff, so learn from them when is the best time to hit enemy, how to secure CS with spells and how to aggro/when to aggro, you will improve SO MUCH.

Feedback:

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