Heroes of Newerth Strategy Guide

Strategy guide for Heroes of Newerth from noob to victory.

Heroes of Newerth, based on the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients (DotA), So far,  DotA has 95 (6.59)different  heroes each with their own strength and weakness, and Heroes of Newerth already has 48 heroes and counting. There are also bunch of items, and each hero has specific strategies that can be enhanced by the right items.

Practice

First things first. If you’re the first time in the world of Heroes of Newerth  it’s better not to join in multiplayer match. If you are new to the game and have never played DotA, the best thing you can do for yourself and any potential future teammates is to create a game on the practice game and go into it solo to learn more about the various heroes and the basics of the game.

Next push

It is important to know that each hero death strengthens the other team. Not only does a hero death give a good bit of gold, but it also gives some nice experience. With that in mind, here are your three main goals as you make your way into the world of multiplayer Heroes of Newerth:

Be careful of getting too close to towers or being gang-rushed by the opponent. If you take some damage, stick back and just get experience. If you do happen to lose over three quarters of your health and have run out of health potions or runes of blight, just head back to the base and heal. It’s far better to lose the experience than to feed the other team with your death.

Know Your Hero

Practice only one hero and make it to be your favorite. The two basic building blocks to becoming a good PvP player in any game is to  know your character — his strengths, his weaknesses, best equipments  and know your enemy as well.

The second part will come in time, so at the beginning, you want to concentrate on learning the basic strategy for your hero. This means knowing their abilities, and more importantly, knowing how their abilities interact with each other and how to enhance those abilities with items.

Basic Items

Knowing the equipment can be just as important as knowing the heroes, so it is a good idea to study the different items available in practice games. Each hero has a primary attribute (strength, agility or intelligence), so you want to pay special attention to items that match your hero’s primary attribute.

While some players prefer to biuld up on minor items that boost attributes right at first, a solid strategy is to purchase some type of health regeneration and an item like marchers, which not only give a movement speed boost for more survivability, but also it can be use as a foundation of  good items. If you are a mana-dependent hero, the Ring of the Teacher can also be a good item to build right off the bat since it will give you some better mana regeneration.

RM after victory

Once you get past the beginning levels, heroes will begin teaming up more and more to push lanes or to gank the enemy. Be in those groups. Also be attention when a teammate ‘pings’ an area of the map.

When the battle commences, don’t forget your crowd control abilities. Often times, players new to the game just want to lay down damage, but stuns and silences can be the key to victory, and a well timed movement speed debuff can be the difference in a fleeing enemy hero getting killed or getting away.

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