Dota-Allstars - The Owning Balanar

Senchow's log,

It's been a while since I post in english version, so now my next post will be about the above subject a.k.a Dota-Allstars. I know that there many² people already blogged about Dota, but still it doesn't hurt to share to those who still doesn't know about Dota, beside what I'm going to write is about my gameplay :).

Intro - What the heck is Dota?

DotA (Defense of the Ancients) is a very popular customized game for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. There are two teams of five players and each player selects one of over variety heroes which they will use to try to destroy their opponent’s base, while protecting their own. It is a team strategy game focused on hero combat. The objective is to destroy the opponents' base using one's own Hero along with allied heroes and allied AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". Sharing concepts with role playing games, the player levels up their hero and uses gold to buy equipment in an effort to best the opposing team. For more info please click here.

So, enough of the intro and focus on my gameplay, I haven't played constantly because of my PC is to heavy to play Dota (old PC with to many data), when played sometimes it get stuck,delayed(due to network) but most of the time the processor is used 100%, which eventually will hang my PC for a short while, and since my dad (retired) & my lil'Sis (long vacation from UiTM) is at home, my PC (not mine actually but it is a family PC..wa ga ga) was never available when I actually needed, but I guess the main reason is still I'm to busy to play.

There are several modes in Dota but mostly people will only choose either All Pick (AP) or All Random (AR) and in this game, the host picked AR, I randomly got Tiny, but since I'm not that good handling this hero, so I asked to swapped with another hero which is Balanar the Night Stalker, lucky for me the other guy agreed to swap with me. One thing for sure the advantage is more on our opponent team because all of them got ranged heroes while my team are melee heroes, but with proper tactics and team work, you can still win (this is one of the reason why people like to play Dota)

Here are some screen shot of the game:

As you can see I'm chasing the blue cat to go for a kill :)) and he was my 1st victim wa ga ga.

Soon after I kill the Priestess of the moon (the Blue Cat) and recharged my life, I straight away hunt for my 2nd victim and the above pic is me team up with Tiny (the one that I swapped with the other guy). This battle is 2 on 2, advantages is on our side because Tiny (the gray rock hero) have avalanche skill which actually bombards an area with rocks stunning and damaging enemy land units(see above pic). I managed to kill Troll Warlord (an opponent hero next to sniper the purple hero).

I straight away chase Sniper to get the 3rd kill with tiny backing me up from behind, I got distracted by the creeps (damn those creep) but luckily Tiny managed to toss (another Tiny's skill - Tiny grabs the nearest unit, friend or foe, and launches them at a location. Upon landing, the unit deals damage in an area as well as receiving 20% of that damage to themselves) me to get near to sniper. See below pics:

Balanar going up up and away :)

Balanar high in the sky (I guess at this point Balanar is listening to Iron Maiden - Aces High :P)

Balanar prepare to land.

Balanar save on the ground.

At this point, Sniper are already behind his defence tower to take cover, but since I'm confident that I can still take the tower's damage and get a kill without getting myself kill, I fight my way to kill the enemy (hohoho).

By this time, my hero earn the title of "Killing Spree" because I'm able to kill 3 opponent heroes without getting myself killed.

The final ending of this game, my team lost, but I got most of the kill, they managed to kill me only if they combined, if it is 1 on 1, they flee away :)

You can click here to download and view my gameplay, I know that this is not a pro level game, but I'm working my self to become pro in Dota :)

Orale..