Best videos and articles on DOTA 2

Videos

• Top 50 Dota Plays (Hall of Fame edition)
• Fails of the Week (this whole series is good but this one is especially funny)
• Alliance vs. Na`Vi Grand Championship Game 5 of 5 Their entire series was incredible, but the last one was unbelievable.  Extremely lethal (it was like 1.9 kills per minute) and action-packed, with multiple lead switches during the game.
• Best (and funny) moments from The International 3 (2013)
• A Kunkka leading his team back from megacreeps with the help of five Divine Rapiers.
• An extremely humorous (but useful) guide to playing Leoric.
• Dendi's Youtube channel.  Dendi is considered one of the best players in the world and usually goes solo mid.
• Dendi talks about the mentality of playing solo mid and how he approaches it.  It's a video that's done in Dota 1, but almost everything is still applicable today.
• Dealing with dual offlanes as a support (by Fluff)
• Sometimes you can't zone due to the matchup- just hit the offlaner when they go for CS and secure farm for your carry
• Use sentry wards as an early warning against bounty hunter. It's better to never get hit than to do damage to the BH
• Give your mid a sentry ward vs. a bounty to protect them
• At level 1 or 2, it's more efficient to suicide to neutrals than it is to walk to fountain. Make sure to buy any items first so you don't lose gold (worst case scenario, buy branches for 50g)
• Fluff's smurf account is still 5100
• General guide to supporting by Blue Span
• Hexor's Youtube
• Highlights of Na`vi
• Arteezy highlights
• Dendi highlights

Articles

• The ultimate guide to warding
• How to chain pull (multiple camps with a single friendly creep wave) on Radiant side
• Diagram of all unusual creep pulls
• Table of Hero Statistics
• Advanced tips for becoming a better player
• Dotabuff for some well known players:
• Merlini
• Na`vi Dendi
• When to buy Orb of Venom (one of the highest winning % but least used items in the game)
• Jungling
• Chokepoint jungling (using positioning to fight one melee creep at a time)
• EternalEnvy, one of the top Dota 2 players, talks about how one becomes a professional Dota player.
• Editing your autoexec.cfg (changing properties to improve your playing experience)
• How to do it
• Configuration for EternalEnvy (scroll down)
• Configuration for Moonmeander

Hero Guides

• Invoker (written by one of the best Invoker players in the world and an 83% winner)
• Luna
• Nyx