Frozen Throne DOTA

DOTA, which means Defense of the Ancients! is an awesome game. This game is a game that never passed away since I was 12 years old. I am 24 years old now and still DOTA is a game that is very popular here in our country. I first played DOTA during my college days. At first I never took the game seriously and thought it was boring. But as I play the game for days, wow! I was wrong and became addicted playing it. Here is an example trailer of DOTA courtesy of youtube.

The first hero I learned to play was Troll Warlord. My friend taught me this hero because Troll is hero that easy to play. His super skill the Rampage and the 1st skill are the only skill that I will focus to press during the entire game. The 2nd and 3rd skill are not that important. As a new learner of the game you are not used to press so many keys and my friend thought that Troll is the best hero to begin for me, not only easy to use, Troll also earn gold by farming and you are not forced to defend/push your lane all the time just to earn gold. Also, Troll is one of the strongest hero during the early map versions of DOTA. Really, a game changer and can kill all opponents when obtained all his designated items.

Troll Warlord (Jah'rakal)

DOTA is a strategy game. And playing it with 5 versus 5 players is absolutely fun. Being a team consist of 5 players your team must have coordination and must help each other to push towers of the lanes, kill the heroes of the opposing teams and must have a good reading of the opponent's game play. Individually but still playing as one team, one member must know how to adjust his build of items defending upon the strength and strategy of the opponent. Lastly team work will always be the key to win DOTA.

Playing this game is also tutorial in a way that Icefrog (the creator of Frozen Throne DOTA) has AI (artificial intelligence) maps. Though this map one player can practice a hero offline or on his own making the computer itself as his enemy. The computer AI's ability ranges from Easy, Normal and Insane. Insane is the most powerful and good AI. But still you can make an AI more difficult to fight by typing additional commands during the start of the game. Example if you want to fight an AI with a real challenge don't put NE (normal experience) and NG (normal gold) on the start of the game, just type AP (all pick) or type nothing at all.

Before, DOTA is only played offline in a LAN game. Now, DOTA has an online version which is under GARENA. Here you can access DOTA online and play DOTA with players worldwide.

DOTA here in our place is a source of income. Many pro players make this game as their job. They join tournaments with cash prizes, play a shop to shop game with money bet. Others like me, make DOTA as game to enjoy. I'm not that pro but I can play this game as good as anyone who played DOTA.