Something you might not know and you'd better know about DOTA

There are some funny and piratical skills or settings in Dota that you might not find out before. This guide will mostly focus on DotA 2.

What is this guide about?

This guide will tell you something useful or rules that are not directly clear or can be easily ignored especially for the starters. If you have already had these tips in mind, then well welcome to add more if you want. That'd appreciated.

Here it is...

1. Omnislash[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] can be interrupted by Pudge's hook.


2 Sonic Wave[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Queen of Pain has the chance to kill the animal courier.


3. When ENIGMA is hocked by a friend's Puge, the BLACK HOLE[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] will not be cancelled. As well the Sand Storm, Freezing Field, Death Wards ect.


4. MAGNUS won't be bound back and damaged using Skewer[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] towards Clockwerk's Power Cogs.


5. The effect of Scepter of Divinity can be cancelled by purification or the Pudge's hook. (The unit having been hocked takes no damage only postition changes.)


6. Heroes just used a Portal Scroll from their base will have the BUFF of HP/MANA regeneration lasting for 1.25s which can be used to refill a friend's Bottle.


7. When there's a bunch of Meepos affected by Wall of Replica[http//Wall+of+Replica], only the Meepo himself will be duplicated not the clones.


8.Trajectory skills like the Assassinate[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Sniper, can be escaped by creating illusions like the Manta Style or Mirror Image. (Being invisible will not prevent you from being hit, but the Smoke of Deceit or the Shadow Dance by Slark will. However this can be tricky. The possibility only exists when using the SOD to make an unit invisible to escape the Assassinate before the bullet out of Sniper's barrel. There is not way to do this once the Sniper has taken his shot. As the SOD has the ability to make mandatory invisibility, the unit will be shot as well if the effect of SOD is interrupted or being visible again. And I have to point out that, in Dota (warcraft) when Sniper is Assassinating, he is able to show the truth sight of the target unit for a period. In Dota 2, this period has been permanently prolonged. That is, the target unit will remain visible until been shot. Smoke of Deceit, like I said before, creates a mandatorily invisible status which is different from the effect of Shadow Blade or other similar items or skills. That is why the SOD can be used to avoid being ♥♥♥♥ before Assassinate executed.)



9. Night Stalker with the Octarine Core won't create an endless Darkness[dota2.dl.wanmei.com]. ( 10s vacuum period )


10. You can move your Scepter to a friend's OGRE MAGI or MEEPO, whose effect will be taken over but with no attribute boost and can't thrown away.



11. Once your item is moved to a friend's hero, the hero's illusions will be able to keep the effect such RADIANCE, DIFFUSAL BLADE, ASSAULT CUIRASS ect. with aura effect.


12. When there is a Doom and you're Doomed[dota2.dl.wanmei.com], the items in your inventory will be temporarily defective (RADIANCE, GEM OF TRUTH SIGHT ect.)


13. Tiny can't TOSS[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] an unit over the BLACK HOLE...


14. Using skills to become invisible will not cancel the Portal Scroll channeling, similarily, using Blade Fury after the Portal Scroll is channeling will not cancel it as well.


15. Being prisoned by the Astral Imprisonment[dota2.dl.wanmei.com], though, the BLADE MAIL is still working.


16. Nyx Assassin can remain invisible even he's attacked an item in the ground.


17. If you manage to turn ROSHAN into an animal when it's already been, then ROSHAN will be twice as large as it's normal size...


18. Previously Templar Assassin's passive skill, the Psi Blades, won't damage the hero with Black King Bar activated. But now the the damage type is set to PURE, BKB is no longer able working for this.

19. Powershot takes 1s to reach the max damage, previously about 0.6s.


20. Ranged Heros and Meele Heros share different CD time for MANTA STYLE, the former need 35s, the latter takes 50s. (Terroblade is an exception. Metamorphosis affects the CD time for Manta Style.)


21.Culling Blade[dota2.dl.wanmei.com]ignores the effect of Refraction, Borrowed Time, Shallow Grave ect. as long as she's HP is lower enough to perform a OTK.


22. Take a close look at TREANT PROTECTOR, you can see there are some words under the left arm.


23. Dark Pact[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Slark, which sacrifices some HP to activate, basically can't be used to commit suicide. However, if the Slark is under the BUFF of Soul Catcher[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Shadow Demon, then he can kill himself now. This is a kill credited to Shadow Demon.

24. Tornado[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Invoker can purify the rune effect in a hero such as Invisibility and Double Damage. (Same as the Scepter of Divinity.)


25. Ghost Scepter can be used to remove being traped by nets spelled by neutral units or heros. (Ensnare by Naga Siren will ignore the BKB but you can still use Scepter to escape.)


26. Enchant[dota2.dl.wanmei.com] by Enchantress can be used at an illusion to dominate it.

More from the other players

>For Treant protector "Riki was here" is carved into his side. (@Ninjia)

>You can also dodge Zeus Ult with Smoke. Even if he Refreshes it won't hit you.
>Bounty Hunter can attack during the fade time of Shadow Walk to gain the bonus damage and still go invisible. The invisible hit will still deal bonus damage as well. (@Kirby the Sylveon)

>Jugg can also use Dagger to after using omnislash to concentrate the slashes to a different hero (@TcR)

>Juggernaut omnislash jumps can be increased by increasing the attack speed
and as jug is considered as invulnerable he can use any item at that time.
So you can use blink, MoM, dust etc (@Ninja)

>Stuns from Lion, Nyx or toss from tiny will enable you to walk beneath the target and escape a block. (@aatykon)

>Rundown 25 is not correct anymore. - Patch 6.84:

* Naga Siren Ensnare
- Is no longer removed by ethereal state.
- Is now dispellable.

* Ghost Scepter Ghost Form
- Is no longer dispelled by Town Portal Scroll.
- No longer dispels Ensnare.

>Qop with aether lens(only with them)can blink without taking damage from bs's rupture. (@Thunderchild )

>As Nyx, using Spiked Carapace and right clicking Centaur Warrunner will instastun him provided he has skilled return and is not magic immune. (@aatykon)

>If Tornado is used immediatly after spectre's ult,illusions won't attack you.Homewer if you use it lately,illusions will still be able to attack.
2)Spectre illusions attacks through any stun if illusion is close aenough to attack. (@Thunderchild )

>Rubick can save lone druid's ult(bear form) if he uses it after the next spell is stolen.He will remain in the form even if rubick dies. (@Thunderchild )

>Kunkka's torrent may also prevent blocking. (@Zyntharion)

>On dire side you can jungle any hero at level 1 in the middle top medium camp by chopping/eating a tree on the right side of the camp. If you stand slightly back from the camp entrance you've created, you can fight one creep at a time and the rest will just walk around the trees and back into spawn, over and over aga
(@[CERN] Large Hardon Colluder)

>That you can use items on storl while using ult or ball lightning
Windranger cant evade Jugg's Omnislash
Ranged Rax wont regenerate health points
You can right click in heroes while rolling with snowball as Tusk or Rubick.
Idk for others but new commers might not know these (@Kei #ChangeTheSystem)

>You can also use Slark's Pounce to evade assassinate. You have to time it as the bullet is about to hit you. (@NeiroX )

(@Larsoth)
If you steal overpower with rubick and he is far enough away he can attack more than 6 times as it is measured when the target is hit.

If you activate an invisibility rune and use the bottle within the first few seconds you will remain invisible.

You can avoid laguna blade and finger of death if you time alch's ult or CK's ult.

If you have an elder titan spirit and you have stomp, as the sprit is returning you can stomp and it will stomp with you.

Arc warden duplicates can be tracked but do not give bonus gold.

Slark's dark pact is extremely effective against templar, as it will nearly instantly get rid of her refraction as it's damage is dealt faster than rot.

You can also disjoint culling blade with riki ult if you use it as soon as he raises his axe.

>If Rubick steals troll warlords ability which allows him to change from meelee to ranged, rubick will gain the same buffs for melee but will still be ranged (@Womb Raider)

>nyx can use spiked carapace and then dagon on somebody with a lotus orb to double-nuke and stun them instantly while taking no damage himself. (@doomgrips)

More we have not discovered...

There'd be more secrets in Dota that we might not have discovered so far and you know more you can let us know.

[Ninja]

this i never knew: tiny with aghs cleave animation effect is shown for high ground units also(of which you have no vision)

[Ninja]

Best one of all: You can use a banana to cancel an enemy's tp!

[Shun]

Thanks buddy.

[Ninja]

This tells about most interactions:
http://dotainteractions.com/

[subzero.]

You can dodge Assassinate with Morphling's waveform

[Razzle]

Life stealer can kill the red spawned unit of necronomicon without taking damage by infesting it.
Or any hero that owns Eul's sceptre of divinity by throwing the last hit then using the cyclone.
Same thing for any spell that renders the unit invurnable to attacks

[Some Guy]

naga siren's net can be cast on enemy animal courier

[Drandok]

Chrono sphere stops everything besides A: omnislash B: ball lightning.

[PADORU PADORU~~~]

@ninja Lc's and abbad's on cast, Slark after 1.5 sec of cast, its a hard purge so stuns can be removed. Oracle's purge can also remove stuns.

[Ninja]

Not tested:
There are some skills like lc's press the attack, abaddon's ulti and 2nd skill, slark's dark pact that remove debuffs over time. So even if you are stunned your debuff is removed.
Also ursa's with aghs ulti removes the stun from most things:even necro's ulti