Alright, DoTA is an awesome map, I haven't bought a game in months because I've been playing competitively on Garena. AWESOME STUFF by the way, I know Ralphanate is a fan, I've been playing pub games on lan parties and some invites for tourneys with my bro's clan pkmn lol.

6.60 is out, OMG without ice frog we got some imbalanced updates http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/news/10028-icefrog-finally-releases-v6-60

so far, i believe DotA is the most competitive game out there, seriously all the strategies involved, the heroes, the players, seriously more people on this forum need to play it.

Garena game client - http://www.garena.com

My friends got me in to it, but I suck at it. I've played maybe 5 or 6 games and have been completely useless in all of them, but I'm getting the hang of it.

one good way to get good at the game is watching replays from www.gosugamers.net, man them pro players are awesome especially teams like ks.int (watch players like kuroky and puppey) an international europe based team, and EGdota (watch players like merlini and johnnyutah) a US based team. good stuff, great cooperation. asia and europe by far has the most players for the cult craze, i saw the asian championship, again ks took the gold.

I've been playing for a few years and I'm quite good with a good amount of heroes. I didn't know such a server-like thing existed and I'm quite happy you have brought it up. I'm playing it at least once or twice a day, if it isn't a dozen of times, if I'm in the mood.

My best game was a 26-2 against a big bunch of noobs.

This map is big with scandinavians, so I hear much about it. But in my personal opinion, I avoid everything made by blizzard except for this map. which just shows that mod'rs make the difference. (hence CS, desert combat etc.)

you wont catch me playing normal WC3 though, to predictable after 5mins.

Played the Batrider hero yesterday, and I was freaking out. That hero makes no sense. If the thing that you are flying around on is smaller than you, you are gonna bump in to some problems along the way. But I did steal 2 kills from my friend with it.

batrider is pretty imbalanced at the mo. , the dmg of his flame attacks stack up with his 1st skill. then for his ulti, the best way to use it is to ulti the the 3rd flame trail skill...

I wouldn't say Batrider is rigged or cheap, he's just new. Like Kunkka, the first time he arrived, he was called cheat and rigged or hax, but they only have to reduce a bit of everything, sames skills or almost. He was just new, he wasn't THAT cheap. Of course, they're going to rebalance everything, as always.

batrider is alright he's not uber cheap, compared to cairne bloodhoof (that guy is massive stunnage), he's weaker than him. Huskar, if there's someone who was uber buffed due to this update its him. unli stackage of his flame dmg.

kunnka is an awesome character, the nerfed him in 6.60, his agi distribution while lvling is pathetic, its like they want him to use a sange and yasha.

I've been playing a lot in the last week and I got to say that Lanaya is a real kickass hero. She's simple, but she has an excellent crowd control ability and also the ability to defend herself very well, especially since her traps have such a low cooldown and refraction allows her to eat a lot of nukes without dying.

Lanaya is a beat, lol she's a fan fave for creeping and for carry types. If you like someone simple that can unleash massive beatings, try practicing Luna Moonfang, and Traxex. build them with dominators and a butterfly, you'll start raking up kills in no time.

I'm not too fan of those two heroes, especially Traxex. I don't like heroes that are easy, I like some challenge. Lanaya gives me enough challenge as she's rather fragile, unless you get tank stuff, which I never do. Besides, Traxex is like the old naix, you just have to auto-attack to kill a person in a duel, the other tries to run away, but can't, and if he tries to fight back, he's just so slowed, unless it's a caster.

i play traxex at times, build it without the silence and frost, but yeah easy to use but cool with a lvl 1 first blood.

one complicated hero to use is (alright, the most complicated hero) is Invoker. I can't use him effectively.
if you like Lanaya try using Rhasta too, he's fragile, slow and good with crowd control, his ulti is tricky to use and he's gank fodder (if you don't do the ganking yourself) i love that hero.

I used to play Rhasta all the time, I came to a point where I didn't need to get a lot of disables and I could easilly kill anyone without much help. Using builds that made me damage a lot, radiance, manta style and the like. He's a support hero who can easilly end up to be quite a killer hero, just a bit fragile.

Invoker is pretty easy to play, you just gotta play him a lot to finally master his spells. The point of Invoker is to switch between the spells as much as you like. Basically, you have a grand total of nine spells that become very strong until level 25, where they are maxed in all possible ways. The trick is to learn the combinations and spells by heart and be able to use each spell at its right time.

A strong hero to play would be Warlock, he doesn't have that damaging spells, even his ult becomes ridiculously weak after the final 20 minutes of the game (considering the games to last 45 averagely). He's worthless, he doesn't have a real disable (his unheaven isn't quite that good). He's pretty much a support hero that heals and creates bad stuff around the other team.

Today I've played with Enigma a few times and he is surprisingly quite strong, he's got a deadly disable, a huge ability to crowd control and damage heroes in a large zone and a push-farm summon. He's quite deadly with other teamates and alone he can take an agi hero without a good disable easilly, such as mortred, meepo, etc.

i hate how the nerfed ja'rhakal in the new map but its ok since his rampage in world wide now. i use him and a mix of abbadon and omniknight for timed kills. these heroes are my bread and butter basically.

i need to play as invoker more though, its kinda hard with all the pressure in team games might practice on some pub games.

enigma is an awesome hero, he's essential if you peeps want to try out killing roshan before the first creeps even spawn.

Played as Lucifer yesterday and got my first 3 kill streak. I like that his ulti is a DoT, because even though my enemies got away from me sometimes, the DoT took care of them.

Doom is an awesome skill, its every int type hero's worst fear. DoT stacks up so high that it is ridiculous to counter. (easiest way to play against a Lucifer is with a 3+ charge blood stone) so if you're using him and you see one int hero buy a soul booster start hunting him down.

Huskar is a hero buffed up in the latest map; he has a DoT skill that stacks up infinitely. Same as Viper, he still has his slow and corrosive skin ulti is still the poison based viper strike, but he has this skill now that has additional dmg depending on how low your opponent's hp is.

I's been awhile for me since im still on dial up till like end of august but my fav hero is prolly still Lesoric....unless they have gotten rid of it since i last played but that guy can fucking stack vampiric aura it's halarious. get his vampiric aura skill, then a vlads and then Satanic and BAM got some mana regen for ur ult and stun and u got mega life steal with added health! what more could you want? SIMPLE either more attack speed or get an Assault Currias...fucking expensive though.

I don't like luna myself...cheapest fucking character in the game...all she needs to do is her ult and she could prolly kill 3 heroes when it's at level three...sure they would have to be weak but add on that she might have a refresher and it's game over for u buddy.

The character i most want to get a handle of though has to be Morphling since he can be suited to what ever you want...an agi hero or a str hero. add with a long range damage/stun a two good escape methods and an ult that can help out in a real pinch and u got urself an awesome hero.

I'm not too fan of Morphling, they used to have him as a quickly changeable hero, where he could be int-based, agi-based or str-based, making him very versatile, but hard to control.

The best hero, to my opinion is Troll, he's just so rigged... or any perma-stunners. Cheap ass builds.

they balanced out troll at the moment, his rampage skill doesn't last as long as it used to.

but i agree with you troll is awesome, the flexibility of being melee or ranged is dependent on the time of play, once you get a life steal item you start pwning in melee. equip him with a butterfly and lothar's edge and you're golden.