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Ant-DotA (ALL YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT DOTA) v1.3

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:26 am

ALL YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT DOTA
Ant-DotA v1.3

Table of Content

1 DotA

2 Units
2.1 Heroes
2.1.1 Attack type
2.1.2 Armor
2.1.3 Attributes
2.1.4 Skills
2.1.5 Level
2.1.6 Hero dead

2.2 Creeps
2.2.1 Sentinel / Scourge Creeps
2.2.2 Neutral creeps
2.2.3 Super Creeps
2.3 Summoned Units

3 Items
3.1 Single Items
3.2 Upgraded Items
3.3 Consumable Item
3.4 Undropable Item
3.5 Cool down Item
3.6 Disassemble Item

4 Buildings
4.1 Main Building
4.2 Creeps Producer
4.3 Towers
4.4 Other Buildings

5 Etcetera
5.1 Rune
5.2 Time
5.3 Gold
5.4 Abbreviation

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1 DotA

- DotA stands for Defence of the Ancient
- It is map of Warcraft III The Frozen Throne
- Its website : www.Dota-Allstars.com
- Its map can freely be downloaded from : www.getdota.com

2 Units

2.1 Heroes
- Hero is the only unit that player control in this game. (Much different than the original Warcraft Game of which we should control a lot of army and more than 1 hero).
- Up till now (DotA 6.41) There are over 82 heroes available to be chosen.
- Divided into 2 great lines :
1 range hero ( from 350 – 770 range )
2 melee hero ( from 100 – 150 range )

2.1.1 Attack type
- Hero has “hero” attack type.
- Complete attack types in DotA:
1 Chaos
2 Hero
3 Piercing
4 Normal
5 Siege

2.1.2 Armor

- Hero has “hero” armor type
- Complete armor types in DotA:
1 Fortified
2 Hero
3 Light
4 Medium
5 Heavy
6 Unarmor

2.1.3 Attributes

There are 3 types of attribute of the Heroes:

Strength
- Each point increase HP by 19
- Each point increase HP regeneration by 0.03
- Each point increase damage ( Str type only)

Agility
- Evere 7 point increase armor by 1
- Each point increase IAS 1%
- Each point increase damage ( Agi type only)

Intelligence
- Each point increase MP by 13
- Each point increase HP regeneration by 0.04
- Each point increase damage ( Int type only)

2.1.4 Skills

There are 5 skills available for every hero ( Both active and passive )

Skill 1 – normal skill ( Improve heroes ability ) [ 4 lv upgrade available ]
Skill 2 – normal skill ( Improve heroes ability ) [ 4 lv upgrade available ]
Skill 3 – normal skill ( Improve heroes ability ) [ 4 lv upgrade available ]
Skill 4 – ultimate skill ( Usually most powerful or useful skills ) [ 3 lv upgrade available ]
Skill 5 – Status addition ( Give 2 to all stat every taken ) [ 10 lv upgrade available ]

Active skill :
Have to be activated to use it. Have cool down and require mana.

Passive Skill :
Once it is taken, it will give its effect as long as the hero alive. It doesn’t have cooldown and doesn’t need mana usually. ( Exception: eg. King Leorik’ Reincarnation, etc. )

2.1.5 Level

- Every hero is able to reach maximal lv 25
- Level up is gained from experience.
- Experience is gained whenever there are non-allied unit die within 800 AoE

2.1.6 Dead Hero

- You will be revived at your base when you are killed in a certain time.
- Need ( 4 x your hero level) seconds to revive.

2.2 Creeps

- Every non-hero unit is called creeps.

2.2.1 Sentinel / Scourge Creeps

- Creeps that spawned by Sentinel / Scourge building producer
- They are spawned every 30 secs
- They are upgraded every 7.5 minutes
- They have has max level at 30 (Mega Creep)
- They have bigger collision size when upgraded.

2.2.2 Neutral creeps

- Creeps that are produced in certain place at the forest.

2.2.3 Super Creeps

- Creeps that are only spawned if you type : “-sc”
- Consist of three units ( Scary Fish, Golem, and Ancient Hydra ), which will be spawned randomly every certain time.

2.3 Summoned Units

- Unit that are appear or exist because of being summoned by hero.
- Usually have certain time of life ( Will instantly die when the time expired)

3 Items

- Everything that can be ‘carried’ by a hero
- Usually they are have to be bought or sometimes dropped by neutral creep (Roshan) or hero ( droppable item ) or ( in item drop mode )
-Consist of :
1 Active items
Have to be activated to use it. Have cool down and require mana.
2 Passive Items
Once it is taken, it will give its effect as long as the hero alive. It doesn’t have cooldown
- Can be bought at your each base / the enemy base or secret dealer ( left below river / right upper river )
- Can be sold at your each base / secret dealer for half price except recipe scroll.

3.1 Single Items

- Item that can’t be combined.

3.2 Upgraded Items

- Item that created with combining certain other items or sometimes using recipe scroll.

3.3 Consumable Item

- Item that can be used.
- Item disappear after being used

3.4 Undropable Item

- Item that can NOT be dropped once it’s purchased

3.5 Cool down Item

- Item that has cool down to use.
- It also requires mana to use.
- When in cool down, it’s UNDROPABLE

3.6 Disassemble Item

- Item that can be disassembled in your each own circle of power near the taverns.

4 Buildings

- There are some structures in DotA.
- Consist of :
1 normal structure : structure that can be attacked.
2 invulnerable structure : structure that can NOT be attacked.

4.1 Main Building

- Building that make you lose once it is destroyed.
- World Tree ( Sentinel) or Frozen Throne ( Scourge )

4.2 Well of Life

- Structure that greatly heal your HP and MP.
- Can also attack the enemy at tremendous attack speed and damage.
- Has 50,000 hp but no regeneration
- Has 800 range
- Chaos damage ( 190 – 199 )

4.3 Creeps Producer

- Buildings that are producing creeps.
- There are two buildings at each 3 lane.
- One produce melees creep while the other produce range creeps.
- If yours are being destroyed, the enemy’s creep will become stronger
- If all of yours are being destroyed, the enemy’s creep will become Mega Creep.

4.4 Towers

- Structure that are attack the enemy to defend your ancient.
- There are 3 towers ( Lv1, Lv2, and Lv3) in each lane.
- And 2 towers protecting your main building. ( Lv4)

4.5 Other Buildings

- Other Structures have no special use.

5 Etcetera

- Other part of DotA needed to know.

5.1 Rune

- Exist either in left river or in the right one.
- Complete type of runes:
1 blue - double damage - multiple your primary damage twice.
2 green - regeneration - give you high HP and MP regeneration. (Dispel on attack)
3 yellow - illusion - create a copy of your image for a certain time.
4 red - haste - give your hero max ms ( 522 ) for a certain time.
5 purple - invisibility - give your hero invisibility during certain time (Dispel when attack / cast spell / being attacked )

5.2 Time

- There are night and day which affect heroes sight and some hero’s ability.

5.3 Gold

- You will get 8 gold every 8 secs.
- You will get gold from succeeding killing a unit.
- You will get bonus gold when your ally destroy the enemy’s tower
- You will get bonus gold if your ally non-hero unit kill the enemy hero.
- You will get bonus gold if you have certain skill.
- You will get bonus gold if you have certain item.
- You will get bonus gold if Roshan is killed by ally units.
- You will get bonus gold if you kill the enemy hero who has had high status. ( The higher the status ( killing spree / Godlike / etc ), the more gold bonus will be received )
- You will get bonus gold ( 200 ) if kill the enemy hero for the first time ( first blood )
- You will lost gold when being killed. ( Except under certain skill )

5.4 Abbreviation

IAS = Increase Attack Speed
Ms = Movement speed
Aspd = Attack Speed
AoE = Area of Effect

5.5 Status

The first killer in the game : First Blood
Having killed 3 heroes without dead : Killing Spree
Having killed 4 heroes without dead : Dominating
Having killed 5 heroes without dead : Mega Kill
Having killed 6 heroes without dead : Unstopable
Having killed 7 heroes without dead : Whicked Sick
Having killed 8 heroes without dead : Monster Kill
Having killed 9 heroes without dead : Godlike
Having killed >9 heroes without dead : Beyond Godlike

Killing 2 heroes within +/- 5 secs each other : Double Kill
Killing 3 heroes within +/- 5 secs each other : Triple Kill
Killing 4 heroes within +/- 5 secs each other : Triple Kill
Killing 5 heroes within +/- 5 secs each other : Triple Kill

You lost the status if you are killed by the enemy units.
You WILL NOT lost the status if you are killed by team mates / neutral creeps.

= END of THE ARTICLE =

- Will be improved whenever possible
- Another reference can also be seen at:
http://www.dotastrategy.com/forum/ftopic2224.html

Foot Note:
Well enjoy it.

Composed by : FF_Dr@gon™
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AllYouWannaKnowAboutDota
FFD/Ant-DotA/v1.0/180207
FFD/Ant-DotA/v1.1/190207
FFD/Ant-DotA/v1.2/220207
FFD/Ant-DotA/v1.3/050507
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change log

v1.0 (180207)
- Ant-DotA release
v1.1 (190207) - Change 'damage type' to 'attack type'.
- change 'eternal tree' to 'world tree'.
- Add 'Siege' and 'Normal' attack type.
- Add more referance link
v1.2 (220207)
- Add 'hero dead' to table of content
- change 'damage' to 'attack type' at table of content
- fixed some error writing
- change referance link to the more complete one
v1.3 (050507)
- Add 'status' to table of content (thx simho )
- Fix and add more contents on ‘Gold’ section
- Add more content on Sentinel/Scourge Creeps section.
- Add many new contents on ‘Item’ Section.
- Fixed Fountain damage information
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