5 games
5-Game Timing Drill
Practice one recurring Dota 2 timing cue for five games, use a three-question map check, review the decision, and add complexity only after it sticks.
Dota 2 Guides
Find one useful answer for the next match: timing cues, ward spots, hero-pick checks, hotkey setup, neutral items, lanes, roles, combat mechanics, and map decisions.
Free replay & setup help
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Bring one replay timestamp or setup problem. Share what you expected and the two options you saw; leave with one next decision to test. No app install required.
New · Hero field guides
Browse hero field guides →Playing a hero? Facing one?
Search concise play tips and counterplay by hero, spell, or role. Each field guide gives you one first check and a replay drill.
Match Timings & Objectives
Practice recurring match cues, then turn runes, Roshan, structures, deaths, and neutral objectives into decisions your team can finish safely.
0 → 2 → 4 → 6
Rune Timings Guide
Use the current Dota 2 rune schedule for Water, Power, Bounty, and Wisdom Shrine windows, then decide the lane cost, route, use, and exit.
6:00, then 2 min
Dota 2 Power Runes Guide
Prepare for Dota 2 power rune times, choose the reachable river side, judge contest risk, use or bottle the rune, and convert it into one useful action.
Every 3 min
Lotus Pool Timing Guide
Use the current Dota 2 Lotus Pool schedule, collection and contest rules, then decide the lane cost, route, inventory, use, and exit.
Access → arrival
Dota 2 Outposts Guide
Learn what Dota 2 Outposts do now: verify capture access, protect the channel, choose a useful teleport destination, price the route, and keep an exit.
8–11 min
Roshan Timer Guide
Use Dota 2’s 8–11 minute Roshan respawn window to prepare lanes, vision, arrival routes, contest conditions, conversion, and a safe exit.
5 min
Aegis of the Immortal
Track an Aegis pickup from the live inventory, choose the carrier by second-life job, plan conversion and respawn support, and leave before its value closes.
15:00 first
Tormentor Guide
Plan a Dota 2 Tormentor attempt by checking the live timer, route, damage, survival, reward, enemy response, and exit before your team commits.
High ground
Barracks Guide
Learn how barracks and mega creeps change lane pressure in Dota 2, then build a repeatable base-defense loop or choose the safest way to close.
5 min · +1 at 30/60
Siege Creeps Guide
Use the current Dota 2 siege creep schedule, including extra catapults at 30 and 60 minutes, then prepare the lane, protect contact, convert, and exit.
High ground
Barracks & Mega Creeps
Choose barracks or the Ancient from the live response window, then build a repeatable three-lane base-defense loop.
:53 cue
Stack Timing Guide
Use :53 as a starting cue, then calibrate the Dota 2 neutral camp’s live spawn box, pull direction, aggro source, hero speed, and pathing.
Cue → protect
Ancient Camps Guide
Stack Dota 2 ancient camps by calibrating the live spawn box, pull route, aggro source, clear timing, team ownership, and safe collection plan.
5/15/25/35/60
Neutral Items Guide
Dota 2 neutral item tiers unlock at 0:00, 15:00, 25:00, 35:00, and 60:00. Learn Madstone, Artifacts, Enchantments, and how to choose for the next fight.
Loss → response
Fortification Guide
Use Dota 2 Glyph of Fortification to turn temporary protection into a real response. Judge the threatened loss, arrivals, trade, refresh, and exit.
Second life
Buyback Guide
Make better Dota 2 buyback decisions by checking availability, reachable impact, travel time, objective stakes, item delay, enemy response, and exit risk.
Death → exit
Respawn Timer Guide
Read Dota 2 respawn timers from the live HUD, compare return and finish times, plan buyback or defense, and convert enemy deaths without overstaying.
Window → convert
Power Spikes Guide
Recognize Dota 2 level, item, and lineup power spikes, then use those timing windows to choose better fights, objectives, farming routes, and retreats.
5 min each
Day/Night Cycle Guide
Read Dota 2’s day and night cycle through the live clock, vision sources, terrain, hero effects, and transition windows before choosing fights or objectives.
Contact → exit
Towers Guide
Read Dota 2 tower damage, armor, targeting, protection, and denial in the live client, then judge wave access, finish time, enemy response, and exit.
Finish → exit
Objectives Guide
Prioritize Dota 2 towers, Roshan, barracks, farm, and the Ancient by comparing finish time, enemy response, conversion value, and a safe exit.
Lanes, Farm & Economy
Control waves, last hits, XP, jungle routes, courier movement, and item spending without losing sight of the next useful map action.
30 sec
Lane Creeps Guide
Lane creep XP does not increase every 7.5 minutes. Current values are 57 XP for melee, 69 for ranged, and 88 for siege creeps.
Count → forecast
Creep Equilibrium Guide
Control Dota 2 creep equilibrium by reading survivor advantage, using aggro and denies deliberately, calibrating pulls, and planning the next meeting point.
Camp → route
Jungle Farming Guide
Build safer Dota 2 jungle routes around lane waves, camp spawns, stacking, map information, neutral-item timing, and the next objective.
XP → level
Experience (XP) Guide
Diagnose missed level timings in Dota 2 by tracing XP access, sharing, denies, rotations, and the action window after a level advantage.
Spend → convert
Gold & Economy Guide
Learn Dota 2 gold and economy decisions: safe income routes, item-job checks, buyback tradeoffs, and converting net worth into map objectives.
Load → handoff
Courier Guide
Use your Dota 2 courier safely: verify the item load, choose a route from live vision, confirm the handoff, recover from danger, and review delivery mistakes.
Route → reset
Farming Patterns Guide
Build a repeatable Dota 2 farming route, move between lane and jungle safely, protect item timings, and decide when a fight is worth leaving farm.
Wave → decision
Laning Phase Guide
Improve Dota 2's laning phase with creep aggro, trading, regen, wave control, matchup planning, support movement, and early objective decisions.
Need → item job
Item Builds Guide
Build Dota 2 items around role, lane, enemy threats, timing windows, and win conditions instead of following one fixed build in every match.
Damage check
Last Hitting Guide
Practice Dota 2 last hitting with damage checks, denies, creep aggro, equilibrium, under-tower patterns, and repeatable drills for cleaner lanes.
Wave → response
Split Push Guide
Split push in Dota 2 by comparing wave arrival, structure access, enemy response, team survival, escape routes, and the map created after you show.
Roles & Drafting
Choose a role, hero, or lineup by the job the match needs, the lane cost you can support, and the plan your team can actually execute.
Position 1
Carry Role Guide
Build stronger Position 1 decisions with last hitting, lane-to-jungle farming routes, item timing checks, fight selection, and late-game positioning.
Position 2
Mid Lane Guide
Play Dota 2's Position 2 role with lane control, rune planning, power-spike awareness, rotations, item timings, and pressure across the map.
Position 3
Offlane Guide
Play Dota 2's Position 3 role with lane pressure, survivability, initiation, aura timing, space creation, and teamfight decisions that enable cores.
Positions 4/5
Support Role Guide
Play Dota 2 Position 4 and 5 with purposeful wards, pulls, stacks, smoke timing, item priorities, lane support, and safe teamfight positioning.
Role → lane → build
Dota 2 Pro Builds
Compare recent Dota 2 pro builds by hero, role, lane, starting items, purchase timing, and talents—then adapt the pattern to your match.
Lineup → answer
Drafting Guide
Draft balanced Dota 2 lineups by reading lanes, damage, control, saves, initiation, scaling, flex picks, and the enemy team's likely win condition.
Draft tool
Dota 2 Hero Picker
Use a Dota 2 hero picker without autopiloting: compare counters, allied synergy, role fit, lane cost, comfort, patch context, and fallback plans.
Plan → interference
Counter Picking Guide
Choose Dota 2 counter picks by lane, teamfight role, damage profile, and win condition while balancing matchup value against player comfort.
Map Strategy, Vision & Teamplay
Create safer pressure with vision questions, shared movement, communication, teleports, smoke routes, and map-state decisions.
State → route
Watchers Guide
Use Dota 2 Watchers as temporary map evidence: verify live ownership and vision, secure the channel, protect the reveal, and convert control into a safer route.
Question → action
Scan Guide
Learn how Dota 2 Scan works, place a useful search area, read positive and negative results, coordinate the shared cooldown, and act on limited evidence.
State → transition
Game Phases Guide
Recognize Dota 2 laning, early, mid, and late-game transitions through objectives, item spikes, map access, and the lineups' changing win conditions.
Question → evidence
Vision Range Guide
Use Dota 2 vision and True Sight to answer map questions, read terrain and day-night changes, protect routes, reveal threats, and review decisions.
Question → placement
Ward Spots & Warding Guide
Find useful Dota 2 ward spots by objective, lane, smoke route, and enemy movement. Includes current Sentry cost, range, duration, and dewarding rules.
Prepare → route
Smoke of Deceit Guide
Plan Dota 2 Smoke of Deceit moves with lane pressure, team readiness, safe routes, target selection, fallback value, and objective conversion.
Origin → arrival
Teleport Guide
Decide when to use a TP Scroll or Boots of Travel by comparing arrival time, destination safety, lost map pressure, response value, and exit.
State → request
Communication Guide
Use Dota 2 pings, chat wheel, text, and voice to share state, request one action, confirm the plan, and coordinate fights and objectives without spam.
Deficit → trade
Comeback Mechanics Guide
Recover in Dota 2 by comparing safe resources, enemy exposure, defendable space, response windows, conversion value, buybacks, and the next map state.
Pressure → access
Map Control Guide
Create Dota 2 map pressure through pushed lanes, vision, jungle control, smoke movement, safe farm, and objective threats that force enemy reactions.
Combat & Hero Mechanics
Understand damage, mitigation, attacks, spells, sustain, movement, and control as inputs to the next fight rather than isolated numbers.
Damage → mitigation
Armor & Damage Types
Read Dota 2 damage types, armor, health, resistance, barriers, and positioning as one mitigation decision instead of following stale armor tables.
STR · AGI · INT
Attributes Guide
Learn how Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Universal scaling affect Dota 2 heroes, then use attribute gains to guide leveling and item choices.
BAT → interval
Attack Speed Guide
Understand Base Attack Time, attack speed, attack windows, slows, and the choice between speed, damage, uptime, and survival in current Dota 2.
Route → arrival
Movement Speed Guide
Use Dota 2 movement speed, slows, boots, phase movement, teleports, and mobility tools to reach the right position before its decision window closes.
Incoming damage
Magic Resistance Guide
Understand Dota 2 magic resistance, spell immunity, damage amplification, effective health, and when defensive items answer an enemy lineup.
Control window
Status Resistance Guide
Understand Dota 2 status resistance, debuff duration, stacking behavior, item sources, and which disables or damage effects it does and does not change.
Ability cycle
Cooldown Reduction Guide
Understand cooldown reduction sources and stacking in Dota 2, then plan item choices and fight timing around your own and the enemy's key abilities.
Cast → return window
Enemy Cooldown Tracker
Track enemy spells and buybacks in Dota 2 by recording observed uses, adjusting for levels and cooldown changes, and turning return times into fight decisions.
Spell budget
Mana Management Guide
Manage Dota 2 mana with spell budgeting, regeneration, pool size, item timing, and fight planning so key abilities are ready when they matter.
Hit chance
Evasion Guide
Judge Dota 2 evasion, miss chance, accuracy, True Strike, stacking, item value, and counters through attacks attempted, connected, and survived.
Contact → survive
Lifesteal Guide
Understand attack and spell lifesteal in Dota 2, measure real sustain, and decide whether lifesteal will keep you alive in the next fight.
Range check
Cast Range Guide
Current Dota 2 cast range mechanics: Aether Lens gives +225 cast range, +300 mana, and +2.5 mana regen. Learn stacking limits, targeting, and positioning.
Damage output
Spell Amplification Guide
Yes: spell amplification increases Pudge Rot damage to enemies and its pre-reduction self-damage. See the current Rot, Kaya, Bloodstone, and Intelligence rules.
Restore → remain
Healing & Regeneration
Compare Dota 2 healing and regeneration options, understand common reductions and dispels, and choose efficient sustain for lanes, fights, and recovery.
Threat → spacing
Teamfight Positioning
Improve Dota 2 teamfight positioning with fight phases, threat mapping, useful spacing, second actions, safe exits, and a focused replay drill.
Getting Started & Setup
Build a repeatable learning setup with practical controls, communication boundaries, review habits, and optional DotaSense voice tools.
First 5 games
Dota 2 Beginner Guide
Start Dota 2 with a five-game learning plan for heroes, lanes, items, fights, the map, replay review, and asking useful beginner questions.
Mic → relay → Dota
Voice Relay Setup
Set up DotaSense Voice Relay so your real microphone and timer or manual callouts reach Dota 2 voice chat, with device, push-to-talk, test, and repair steps.
App setup
Hotkeys & Settings Guide
Set up Dota 2 hotkeys and keybinds for abilities, items, quick cast, camera, control groups, minimap, and performance. Test one change at a time.
Local GSI
Dota 2 GSI Setup
Set up Dota 2 Game State Integration for local match-clock sync. See the config path, localhost flow, data fields, privacy limits, and repair steps.
Build one cue
Custom Timers Guide
Create recurring Dota 2 event timers or manual cooldowns with pre-alerts, offsets, stop times, hotkeys, icons, and sounds in DotaSense.
Borderless setup
Dota 2 Overlay Setup
Set up a Dota 2 overlay on Windows: use Borderless Window, place it on the right monitor, fix scaling or off-screen positions, and test hotkeys.
Signal → reset
Mental Game Guide
Build a steadier Dota 2 routine with tilt recognition, useful breaks, constructive review, communication boundaries, and focus habits that survive losses.
Ready to Use These Timings?
Download the desktop app for audio alerts and an overlay built around these timings.