DotA 2 Basic Cheat Commands

If cheat mode is enabled when you create a lobby in Dota 2, then you can type these in-game:

What is Dota 2 -safe?

As far as I know, there is no cheat command like that.

Dota 2 -lvlup <x> (For ex: -lvlup 25)

Gain x levels.

-levelbots <x>

All bots gain x levels.

-gold <x>

Gain x unreliable gold.

-item <name>

Gives the player the named item. Refer to the internal item names, below.

-givebots <name>

Gives all bots the named item.

-refresh

Gives the player full health and mana, and renews cooldowns.

-respawn

Moves the player to fountain, also respawning if dead.

-startgame

Sets the timer to 0:00, creeps spawn and game starts.

-spawncreeps

Spawns creeps instantly.

-spawnneutrals

Spawns neutral camps instantly, taking into account neutral spawn blocking.

-disablecreepspawn

-enablecreepspawn

Disables / enables lane creep spawning

-spawnrune

Spawns a rune randomly at one of the two rune spots.

-killcreeps

Kills all creeps.

-killwards

Destroys all wards.

-createhero <name>

-createhero <name> neutral

-createhero <name> enemy

Creates named hero as a friendly, neutral, or enemy unit. Hero will spawn at the location of your mouse pointer. Refer to the internal hero names below. Non-hero units can also be created. For example, -createhero fountain will spawn a fountain.

-dumpbots

Displays AI status.

-wtf

-unwtf

Turn on or off "wtf" mode, where abilities have no mana cost or cooldown.

-allvision

-normalvision

Turn on or off "allvision" mode, where the player is given vision of both factions.

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Year Best Brawl Guide plus Tips to Fast-picking the best hero combo!

Year Beast Brawl, New Bloom 2015 Loading Screen

Year beast brawl has been spammed with mostly these hero AoE combos:

• Undying
• Zeus
• Dazzle
• Omniknight
• Warlock
• Sniper

These hero combination for New Bloom 2015 has no doubt the highest win rate in this said event, but here's a little secret I would like to tell everyone, to those who do not know, on how to Fast pick those in-demand heroes in the Picking Pool.

If you are a part of five or solo, the best way to fast pick heroes like Undying, Zeus, and Warlock are, to play BOT (AI). Why?

Do you notice that after you played a game with a hero (for example: Sniper) and when you are now in your next game picking phase, you noticed that the default hero selection is Sniper right?

So in your party, play a BOT match while you are waiting, pick the hero which you are assigned to, then leave the game. And when the year beast brawl starts and you are now in the picking phase, the hero you are assigned to will be the default one in your screen, so it will be an automatic select hero that requires no fast-hands moves!

Try it now!

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2015 Year Beast Brawl Counters, Best Hero Line-Ups and Combos

The Year Best, New Bloom 2015

UPDATED (March 3, 2015) - How to win the Year Beast Brawl depends on hero picks and strategies. Me and my friends have played the year beast brawl more then 10 times and found out a decent combo to win the game.

Year Best Upgrade Path:

• 2 Combat paths: For bashing your year beast's targets.
• 3 Support paths: A game with support is an advantage.

New Meta for the best path for the Year beast: (Updated)

• 2 Combat paths
• 1 support path: Damage between the attacks are too great that support paths are almost useless
• 2 speed paths: Very good attack speed from beast, a counter for the enemy beast and heroes

Another meta for the best beast build path: (The most effective year beast counter)

• 2 Combat paths
• 3 Speed paths - more speed with combat damage is like troll warlord's bash. The best year beast counter.

So, here are the list of hero combinations to get an advantage in the Year Beast Brawl:

New LATEST best hero for year beast line-up combo:

(Note: This is not a 5-man combo, you can add one of these heroes in your favorite line-ups):

• Tinker - with march of machines, this is definitely an anti-push hero that can counter enemy pics like Undying
• Earthshaker - we all know this can block
• Witch doctor - the casket plus the death ward is obviously best for this since most year beast plays are stick with team, just make sure you won't get stunned
• Sniper - for late game if you think it is hard to win early. One of the beast heroes against beasts.
• Drow Ranger - a push strat hero, even with less items, because of the Ultimate, this hero can push really fast. One of the beast heroes against beasts.
• Ancient Apparition - if enemies have abbadon, this will counter his ulti. Ancient Apparition ulti is very good to keep enemies from healing.
• Queen of Pain - burst damage, build aghanim's scepter first so the ulti will have a very low cooldown!
• Pugna - Since most picks are skill type heroes that uses amount of mana, Pugna's nether ward is one of the best counter for these heroes. Add this to the list of 2015 Year Beast's best heroes.

Rush Combo:

• Zeus - the damage, no doubt.
• Undying - the tombstone and decay, very very very annoying.
• Warlock - the Golems and the AoE stun, more push strat.
• Omniknight - for the Guardian and repel!
• Death Prophet - Rush push and insane ulti damage for beast and players.

Beast support and rush defensive:

• Wex Invoker - to support beast's attack speed (Alacrity) and EMP, Tornado and Deafening blasts to counter enemies.
• Undying
• Warlock
• Zeus
• Abbadon / Omniknight - the shield and the tankiness for front line face smash

 Vanguard:

• Axe / Bristleback - tank and damage is very useful here
• Dazzle - grave on the year beast? How nice
• Sniper - for the safe range free shot
• Undying - this is really one of the most-used hero during the year beast brawl with higher win rate.
• Zeus - god of thunder for the beast, yeah

Counter-measure:

• Razor - will suck the damage out of the year beast.
• Omniknight - must keep the team alive of course
• Undying
• Necrophos - support heals plus heartstopper and repear's scythe.
• Witch doctor - counter intiation plus the death ward is no question for damage

There are common strategies on the year beast brawl:

• #1 - Protect the beast at all cost, support heroes are really find with this.
• #2 - Beast will segway (side lane) push and heroes will bombard mid

Here are additional tips from DotA 2 gamepedia:

• Necrophos can kill the Year Beast quickly with Reaper's Scythe, but you really shouldn't.

• Omniknight can make the Year Beast magic immune with Repel.

• Magnus can make the Year Beast attacks do cleave damage with Empower.

• Razor can steal the Year Beast's attack damage with Static Link. This is a very effective Year Beast counter.

• Techies can kill the Year Beast quickly with Land Mines.

• Io can increase the Year Beast's attack speed and survivability with Tether and Overcharge.

• Bloodseeker can increase the Year Beast's damage and damage taken with Bloodrage. This also heals the Year Beast when it gets kills/last hits.

• Invoker can use Alacrity  Alacrity to give Year Beast more attack speed and damage.

• Lich can use Ice Armor to increase the Year Beast's armor and slow enemies attacking it.

• Ogre Magi can use Bloodlust  to increase Year Beast's attack speed and movement speed.

• Troll Warlord can greatly increase the Year Beast's attack speed with Battle Trance.

• Dazzle can greatly increase the Year Beast's armor with Weave and save Year Beast with Shallow Grave.

Have fun and play well!

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9999 MMR Bug in DotA

Source: http://imgur.com/jbTIDNZ

Happening now - During the opening season of the New Bloom in DotA there has been a crazed all over the community about the 9999 mmr in Solo and Party ranks. No one knows that cause of it yet and no action at the moment has been taken into action by Valve.

There are many claims that after the update, players were in the low priority pool. Because of this bug some players can't queue and play rank. In that case, they can't gain the New bloom points because of the inability to play on rank. Although players can get points on regular matchmaking, some people just want to do it on rank.

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New Bloom Festival 2015 is Coming to Dota 2!

New bloom art image. Source: dota2.com

The final day of DAC also held a surprise for the Dota2 fans around the world, as a cinematic trailer was shown about the upcoming New Bloom event. According to the trailer, the Year Beast will be making a comeback, and it will most likely bring the next DotA2 hero with it - Winter Wyvern.

The exciting DAC may have concluded, but Valve has already given us a new reason to be excited. During the intriguing final day of the tournament, the spectators all around the world had the chance to watch a trailer for the New Bloom 2015 festival, which is expected to arrive later this month. Despite the trailer's short duration, Valve offered a lot of information about the next big patch of Dota2, raising the hype for the yearly event.

Through the trailer, we learn that the primary antagonist of last year's New Bloom festival, the Year Beast will return to Dota2. Unlike 2014, the players will get to "tame" the beast, meaning that the upcoming event mode will have a new objective. Those not interested in the Chinese New Year festivities, have no fear - the trailer clearly shows a blue wyvern flying over the Year Beast, and it is almost certain that this will be the new Dota2 hero - the Winter Wyvern. This tricky INT hero will enter the Dota2 battlefield two years after its creation, and she will be voiced by Merle Danrdige. - Gosugamers

Here is the trailer for the New Bloom Festival 2015, Copyright by Valve:

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The Ultimate Guide in dealing with Pinoys in DotA 2

Pinoys (dubbed as peenoise, peenoisy) in the world of DotA 2 is a Southeast Asian nation that has a very large population in the DotA 2 SEA Server. They are the so-called Russians in SEA DotA because of the rudeness of their attitude.

Peenoise is now a term used to describe a player who is stupid and talks too much in-game, if you're not a pinoy and does this, you will fall into that category.

But first, let us find out the cause of inappropriate behavior shown by Filipinos in DotA 2:

• Most pinoy gamers are elementary to high school students, because most college students focus on their studies while some already graduated and retired playing DotA. Underage players tend to be more aggressive and rude in-game because of their lack of self-discipline.

• Cursing words like, "BOBO" (Idiot/Stupid), "POTANG INA NYO"(You son of a !@#$), "TANG INA", "TAE"(Sh*t) is a habit of most pinoy gamers, they do not say this to insult you but its their habit of saying when you commit your mistakes or feed.

• It is also a friendly sarcasm - Pinoys say those bad words to their friends who play DotA 2, it's their way of insulting their friend, as like some other people call their friends noob just to make fun of them.

• Most pinoys play in Cafes - Internet Cafes and Pisonet computer shops are their beehive. Most of them were influenced by people in the Cafes in using those curse words, because it is also a word to brag to people around them.

• They're making fun of the players - If you think they curse you because they hate you, it's not mostly the case, some of them just want to make fun of you by making you mad in-game. There is a Filipino saying that, "The one who gets mad losses".

 The Ultimate Guide in dealing with them:

I am a Pinoy myself, but I belong to those who doesn't say "BOBO" in all games because there's no sense in it, all you can hear from me when I play is, "We need wards!", "Push!", "Care please.", "Missing!", "wp wp", and "ty". 

So here are the lists:

• Ignore them - If you catch their bait, your done. When you get insulted when they say you are stupid, trust me, if you fight back, you won't win. For them, words are useless, you may say that they are Sh*tty peenoise but for them, behind their computers, they are laughing that you are mad of what they have said.

• Have a good playstyle in-game - Do you own your lanes? Are you beyond killing spree with 0 deaths? Do you farm fast? Are you a good support? If you have a decent playstyle, peenoise won't insult you, they will even listen to what you will say. (Note: Say it nicely, if you're 'pro' and you say rude things to them, you're also a lost cause)

• Don't talk too much - Pinoys don't like the idea when you complain too much, there are pinoys who will say sorry most of the time but they're 3 out of 10. Mind your own business, play your own game and be good at it, if you have something to kill, give a signal.

• Laugh with it - When you get mad when pinoys cursed you, they won't stop until you cry and rage in your computer.  Just laugh or chuckle or type a smiley, then they will ignore you if you ignore them. Some of them wont stop when you just smile but still ignore them. Their words can't win you the game.

• Use 'Mute All Chat' option in your chat panel - IF you think you don't need communication in-game and you play well without being told, use this option and then you will be stress-free.

Pinoy Psychology in-game:

When you're very good in-game, there's a chance that a peenoise will idolize you and even add you as their friend. When this happen, they can't insult you and if ever you play again in-game and you curse them, trust me, they won't fight because they know you're good. You will become their master.

If you admit to yourself that you suck in DotA and they say you're stupid, don't get insulted because you know to yourself that it is true. Instead, just say sorry and try your best to improve. Once you've played SEA doto for more than a year, you will get used to the peenoisy attitude.

Try your best to be better, the higher your MMR, the lesser the immature peenoise will occur at you in-game. Pinoys with high MMR tend to be more humble and fun to be with, these kind of pinoys are mature in every game scene.

If you're not a stereotype player, you will know that there are pinoy players that you liked to play with, whether you're a pinoy or not.

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Proven Dota 2 MMR Calculation using DOTABUFF Statistics

DotA 2 MMR leaderboards. Source: blog.dota2.com

LATEST AND UPDATED (Still working for year 2017 and year 2018. Although you won't get the number MMR anymore, smurfing still works and this method is still applicable for the new matchmaking system, which is the medal system) - Many players are struggling to get the high MMR (Matchmaking Rating) that they have wanted. Most of them searched online for answers, "How to get 4k MMR? How to get 5k MMR?" This is the most common question to those who want to get on the list.

For a more updated version of this guide, visit this article: Dota 2 MMR Calculation For Ranking Calibration

There are 'superstitious' articles online about getting a very high MMR after TBD (To be determined) calibration (Like spam Nature's Prophet and Zeus heroes). Most of the people who followed those articles ended up being disappointed in their MMR. After months of observing player matches through DOTABUFF, I think I have theoretically found the correct calculation of MMR.

Here we are my friends, the Secret to get High MMR on DotA 2:

Using DOTABUFF statistics, we can calculate how much MMR we will get after TBD. Click to go full size.

There is truth in articles saying that MMR is determined not in the TBD stage but calculation of your MMR started when you create your Dota 2 account, meaning, you have a hidden MMR with you when you are Level 1. This is the reason why there are speculations to why some players get a very low MMR although they had most wins than losses during their TBD MMR games and why their friend has higher MMR rating after TBD when he had more losses than wins. Most accounts I have seen from their first matches always start at the Normal Skill Bracket, maybe around 2,500 MMR*.

What the skill brackets in DOTABUFF mean?

• Normal Skill - around 2,500 to 3,000 MMR*
• High Skill - around 3,000 MMR to 3,500 MMR*
• Very High Skill - 3,500 + MMR*

Using the image above we will use it as our basis:

Legends: KDA - Kills/Deaths/Assists

• Green #1 - The first game every played was Tinker, with a good amount of KDA (17/1/10) or 27.00 KDA Ratio.

• Blue # 2 A - Because of the good KDA ratio of the first game with a won match, the player's bracket was moved to a High Skill (Around 3,000 MMR)

• Blue # 2 B- The second Tinker's KDA ratio (12/9/9) wasn't that good enough compared to the previous game, although the match was won, the Ember Spirit game was still on High Skill.

• Green # 3 - Due to the loss of Ember Spirit and very bad KDA ratio (5/11/15) the next game was moved down to the Normal Skill bracket (2,500 MMR). This time, the Tinker got a very decent KDA of 17/0/9 with a won match.

• Blue # 4 -  The decent stats of the Tinker got the player back into the High Skill bracket. But the Templar Assassin got a very bad KDA and the match was lost.

• Green # 5  - The lost and bad KDA of the Templar game got the player back again to the Normal Skill bracket. The match was lost with quite a good Tinker KDA.
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• Blue # 6 A -  The good Tinker KDA moved the player back to the High Skill bracket again. A won match with a Juggernaut but not quite the good KDA.

• Blue # 6 B - Another Juggernaut game with a better KDA than the previous game.

• Blue # 6 C - A Tinker with a better KDA ratio than the previous Juggernaut.

• Red # 7 - Because of the improving statistics on the three games from Blue # 6 A to C with won matches, the player was now moved to the Very High Skill bracket. A very disappointing loss with a the very worst KDA of Silencer (0/7/0).

• Blue # 8 - The disappointing Silencer on a Very High Skill bracket dragged the player back to the High Skill bracket. This time, a Queen of Pain with a decent KDA.

• Red # 9 - The player has proven himself once again by doing a good KDA of Queen of Pain with a won match, because of this the bracket got moved to the Very High Skill again. A juggernaut with a good KDA on a won match under 30 minutes was listed on the bracket. The next match, which is not shown will still be on the Very High Skill bracket.

Using the illustration as the evidence, what is my conclusion?

Well, I guess Valve has changed their calculation on determining the player's MMR. I've known some people who uses the old strategy to get promising MMRs (4.5k +) using Nature Prophet on every game or Zeus but they were disappointed.

Because of this change, it is a good determiner, the player's MMR is now based on his gameplay, which can be affected by factors such as:

• KDA ratio (the higher the better)
• GPM (Gold per minute) and XPM (EXP per minute)
• Win rate
• Hero damage

Here are some heroes that you could master and use to get a very high MMR above 3.5k or more depending on how well you play:

• Queen of Pain - High Hero damage, KDA and GPM if played well.
• Tinker - High hero damage, KDA and GPM, we all know that.
• Spectre - High hero damage, KDA and GPM (with Hand of Midas and use ulti every clash and try to kill soft heroes)
• Storm Spirit - High hero damage, KDA and GPM
• Invoker - this hero needs skill in order to master
• Meepo - requires skill to master with high damage, KDA and GPM
• For August, use those insane heroes that are OP today
• Carry-type heroes can reach you 5k MMR after TBD

Remember, these heroes above are useless if you don't know how to play them, spam picking these heroes will not do you any good since MMR calibration after TBD will not be determined by you heroes but how good your stats are.

To be precise, the calculation is now really based on how well you play the game.

• What to do if you have a very low MMR? Try your best to win and improve.

• What to do if you are now on a Very High Skill bracket? Keep doing what you're doing and do your best on winning the game. 

Remember, the early stage (below Level 13) is one of the most crucial in determining your MMR, if you win you will gradually be rewarded with a hundred or thousand MMR. This is the reason why it will only take 1 game to get from Normal to High skill bracket and High skill to Very High skill.

Unlike if you get your MMR after TBD, you will only be rewarded with 25 MMR points if you'll win, and a minus  < 20 if you'll lose. So make sure to play very good before the TBD stage because it will greatly impact on determining your true MMR. Remember, MMR calculation uses numbers, so you cannot trick it. The only way to get a promising MMR is to play the game with your best heroes.

I hope this has helped all of you.

NOTE: Even if you're stuck in High Skill bracket, you can still get into VERY HIGH SKILL bracket with more than 4.2k mmr by spamming heroes that does insane Hero damage and game impact in the game (Like Invoker). In the TBD stage, wins dont matter much actually, it just depends on the stats of your gameplay. All factors will affect how well you play, if your stats (Hero damage, GPM, XPM, Tower Damage) are greater than most of the players in the game it will be a huge MMR boost! In short, you can't trick this new MMR system, you just have to play good and the calculations will do it for you! Good luck!

Read: Secrets to VERY HIGH SKILL MMR on DOTA

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