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1. DotA is a game that takes a considerable amount of time to get into and start learning. The game is all about teamwork. More individually, it's about decision making, knowledge of the game, and how quickly those two can mend together. If you don't know all (or most) heroes (which you won't when you first start playing), the game will be more difficult for you. If you don't know which items do what, the game will be more difficult for you. Don't take this as me trying to discourage you. If that were the case, I wouldn't be making this guide. Everybody who's every played DotA was at a beginner stage, and you will learn many of these things by playing and enjoying the game.

2. Do not give up on DotA. DotA is a game that may frustrate you, make you irate, and cause you to destroy your gaming peripherals, but when you finish a session of DotA because of a loss, remember to calm down. I know your W/L record changing from positive to negative is frustrating, maybe even discouraging, but don't give up because that one bad game.

3. Some heroes will seem OP. I promise you this isn't the case (Most the time). In DotA, there's many times when you will feel like a certain hero is OP because they're killing your entire team etc. It's not that the hero is OP, it's that the hero scaled differently than you for whatever reason. Whether it be because it's an early-mid game hero and you're a late game hero (Terms you may not be familiar w/ yet. We'll cover that), or because your team fed, the fact of the matter is there's almost always a way to counter that hero (And often times 1 single way of countering that hero can help w/ other heroes on their team too). We won't be covering counters in this guide, the reason this bullet is here is because I don't want you to pick games based on playing a game against a Bloodseeker, then you only go bloodseeker because you think he's OP.

4. Play every role. DotA is a game with multiple diverse styles of play. It doesn't simply stop at carry, support, hard carry, hard support, ganker, jungler, pusher etc. Each hero has many unique styles of play, and they're changing w/ every update. Try every role, including support (Who knows, you might like helping your team rather than being the guy to do all the damage), and fill unfilled roles in pubs.

5. Play with a group... Lets face it, DotA is simply not as fun if you've not got at least 1 other person to play with. Who knows, maybe you'll find a team to play with one day and get into the competitive scene.

6. Watch tournament games. They don't have to be Na'Vi vs Alliance games (Although I do recommend those tier games too), but even smaller tournament games as well. You may not think it, but you can learn a lot from watching amateur tournaments in DotA. You don't have to buy the tournament passes (Although buying them and witnessing certain events within the live spectating gives you goodies, and there's always a $0.99 tournament to watch), you can watch them on Twitch. Which is another good idea.

7. If you're noticing lag type -ping and look in the top right, it will show you your ms, and packet loss.