Dota Basics Episode 1: This is Dota 

If you already have 100+ games I recommend checking the Learn Dota series(Still being made): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0rYxCVRrUM.html Or if you have a lot of time you can look through the Day9 learns dota series. -Seatech

valve put this series into the dota client instead of the training

seems purge is the only one in our community who's trying to get new players :/ my respect. and lets try to not be so toxic guys x)

I've enabled viewer submitted subtitles if anyone wants to translate these videos to their language! -Seatech

This is exactly what Dota needs. I still remember my first two months of playing consisted of nothing but feeding and insanely big loses because I didn't have a clear tutorial. It's tough to explain to a new player how Dota works and I think you did a great job at that.

Things I never expected doing -Having to watch this series as a long time player -Having 4 people to teach Dota too all of a sudden

For the first 15 mins of my first match, i was trying to figure out how to chat. -_-

i dont need this but this is a billion times better than the valve tutorial

Been playing heroes of the storm for years and wanted to play a proper MOBA but the tutorials and guides didn't really help but this one is actually comprehensive, looking forward to the rest.

No one explains how to kill enemy, it seems that when i go for the attack i can't kill him but when an enemy attacks me. Im dead in 3 seconds

Dat minifridge tho.

As a person that have been playing Dota for a LONG time, this was very good and easy explanations to everything. Great job Purge, keep it up! :)

I'm here transitioning from LOL to dota2 after getting inspired by TI9

A 4 minute Purge video??! This is BLASPHEMY!! I DEMAND A 40 MINUTE video dedicated solely to describe what Dota is. Love you Purge. People who are new to Dota need this.

I've only played Dota for about 3 hours before quitting. This is my first MOBA and I had absolutely no idea what I was meant to do, what was going on etc. etc. etc. I hope this series helps me out on what to do. Thanks for making the series, Purge. :)

The music makes it like an infomercials... Amazing!

As a league player. I tried dota 2 this week and it was so confusing damn. I was getting blocked by minions everytime no idea what i was doing . Maybe this will help me

Nice production Value (not as nice as a cold bottle of Red Bull though). New players can only pick from a pool of 25 heroes. (Which is not cool unlike a bottle of Red Bull out of the fridge)

We love you Purge!!!

I wanna give an advice to other people watching these guides. I'm a beginner myself but I found out that these things actually helped me, drastically, not by like a small margin, like by a ton. Play *every* hero before entering an online game with other players, learning a hero in a game with others is less than ideal situation for you and the others. If you have no idea what to pick/buy on your hero, make at least 1 build for each hero and always use that in case you forget, always have 1 of each type of item you can buy, like let's say you have 3 end-game items, 1 should be the anti-spell item, then anti-physical one and maybe like an item that makes you do more damage. Don't "counter pick", if you're reading guides about Dota 2 there's a high chance that you can't execute your strategy with your counter pick, you'll be better off playing your stronger hero. Stick to 10 heroes, 2 of each role. Or, stick to 2 roles, preferably, the roles that are kinda similar, like Mid & Carry, or Support & Hard Support, don't play more than 5 of each role in this case (10 total still). I play random in other moba (Hots) and I wanna do the same here, but that won't quite work out atm, there's much more to it than you wanting to play random, or all of the heroes there are. Focus on learning your hero more than focusing what others do, or the enemy heroes, once you learn your hero then learn other heroes. You can't gain an advantage as a hero that you can't play on someone that knows their hero, if you don't know your advantage/disadvantages you can't work around them. Learn your hero before learning what to buy, how to play and what you can do on the map. If you don't know the strength of your power (hero), you won't be able to make the best use of it. If you're still reading here's what I will do: I'm gonna play vs bots for... 1-2 months, learn every hero (I don't play a lot each day, this isn't as long as you think), once I do that then I'll work on my early 6-8 minutes, do the same thing vs bots for a few weeks, once I have a reflex of what I kept doing over and over then I'll try that vs players in unranked, once I can do that on about 5-10 heroes then I'll step in ranked and see how it goes from there. And one more thing, I might not like this advice myself, but it works for me, there's a high chance that it won't work for you. Coming from another moba where I have good reflexes to attack-move and dodge skill shots or 'cause I've been playing moba for long, I'm gonna buy strong early-game items with huge stats and gain an advantage over my opponent 'cause I wanna trade better and I wanna make the best use of my right clicks or early abilities, but I don't buy consumables. I'm also gonna buy the items that either deal damage or are simple to use, I'll stick to items with passives most of the time. Good luck to everyone who wants to improve in the game. Also, feel free to correct me on my comment or add some things yourself if you think it will help others. Thanks to Purge for creating this and many other videos, they help a lot.

im done playing league 2 years ago. for now im playing vainglory. i came here to know the basics of dota. i wanna try it later on. nice introduction to the game. salute!

hey...i start watching you way back in 2012 to learn....i'm still here :)

My brother is 22 and he plays dota I have never played in pc with him but he plays mostly dota 2 It tells something that he has 2700+ hours in it and i really want to play with him so i am starting dota 2 now Nobody probally cares but i just wanted to say it

Never really played mobas before, got into a game and was doing really well, started leveling my hero and such.. Around the twenty minute mark I learned about the store. And now I'm here.

THIS IS what Dota 2 needed. A short, simple guide for Dota 2. Thank you Purge, huge improvement over the common day 20-60 minute tutorials that drive off newcomers.

At last, you wanted to make this series for such a long time :D Looking forward for more episodes

Thank you Purge for teaching my new friend Dota! Love and miss you man, especially during this time of year. I need my weather man back!

I just started playing Dota 2 and it's the saltiest experience of my life. I had heard some bad things, but I assumed it would be close to what I experience playing Ranked on R6 or comp on CS, but holy shit was I wrong. Every player in this game takes it so seriously, I've only done three games of Unranked and in every single one my teammates flamed me for everything I did. Thankfully I'm the type of guy to be mostly amused by this, and it helped that my friend with 6,000 hours would trash talk them right back and take the attention off of me. Is there a reason people treat Unranked as if it was the grand final of the Dota championship?

Hell yes ! Thanks for making this I kept coming back to the video you made 4 years ago

Who's watching this despite being a veteran :D

Haven't caught a twitch stream in a while so figured you've been busy. Lo and behold a new series! Good job, really well made, and looking forward to the rest of the series getting others into dota.

At last the series started... Thanks guys... I've started playing Dota 2 since last 5 months & really loving playing the game & learning new mechanics... Was also watching your Purge Plays Videos & now I think this series will help me get better... Thanks Purge for doing this... Though as you said it started with very simple basics but still I will be eagerly waiting for the next ones in the series

I bookmarked these videos 2 years ago so that I could watch this today when I'll start playing the game.

You should get some Doritos on top of that minifridge.

A lot of these comments are a year old and saying "it's too late" I have never in my life played DOTA. I just got my first PC so this video is a huge help. I kept dying in the tutorial.

I love the selfless advertisement in the background.

Even the intro is out of date, diffusal doesn't purge anymore

That casual redbull advert tho lol :)

You've explained it so well and made it so easy to understand! It'll be much easier to bring new players on board now that we can refer them to this series to understand the fundamentals of the game :)

great edditing im very impressed it looks very professional and uv become a much better speaker over the years keep up the good work mate

So much polish on these vids, really wish every video could be this way.

Fresh haircut: check Fresh shave: check Fresh shirt: check Redbull fridge: check Purge is at full power

This is really well made; I spent 4000 hours on DotA but this series is pretty interesting and again.. Superbly well done. Keep it up!

Learning dota while listening to Purge's voice. Is this one of those ASMR videos?

Don't play much dota anymore but i love watching purge guides!

Nice intro. Definitely helpful for new players, I played for a year (with offline bots) to learn everything. Keep it up. PS-also upload ur regular videos.

I’ve never ever played anything like dota before.... I really wanna get into it but I have no idea what I’m doing... so far I’m finishing the video super helpful.

every aspect of this video makes it feel like an office training video from the 90's

Thanks, purge and awesome video. I love the light "happy" music in the background to get new players to try out dota2. Keep em coming

Ooohhhhhh..... I see, the symbol for Dota is basically the map. At least it looks like it - a river and lines

0:44 tutorial starts here

I hope that series will be more regular than your items series.

Purgey boy purgey boy.... you cant pick every hero when you first start dota... it limits you to 25 easy heroes.... normally i wouldn't bring it up but seeing as how this video is aimed at beginners it seems worth noting they wont be able to play every hero

This music makes me feel like he should be saying "ask your doctor about Dota 2."

Bulldog monster vs purge red bull

Back to the roots!

I just like to listen to purge's voice, very relaxing.

This is so good! Purge doing more to prevent the game from dying than valve.

Red Bull? That's a permaban

Really well done, awesome guide as always! My small suggestion would be using less shots from unusual camera angles. They're cool but kinda irrelevant and will only confuse new players.

my tips for the new players "focus learn last hit creeps with success rate goal 90% in every game u are on" if u mastered this u already above average for newbies players, and next is up to your game insting to learn other thing in DotA 2. glhf

A dota guide that’s not 3 hours long g thanks!

This is what the official Dota 2 website and game client needs if Valve wants the game to survive in the competitive market of similar games.

small error not all hero's are available form the start you can only play complexity 1 hero's for your first 25 games in online but you can use command window to skip if you want if you are wondering how i know i just got my league scrub friend into dota

I know you worked hard on this and I can tell from the video you did a good job. Give yourself a pat on the back

Hopefully this will make new players understand the game quicker. Purge commended :)

Nice Purge is simply the best person for extreme beginners in dota! Lovely short video with good editing

That fridge is going to kill this poor guy. 😭

Haven't played Dota in years and just getting back into it

Thanks a ton. I have friends trying to get into dota but most intro videos are pre 7 so they add confusion.

I'm new. Hello new community

I have about 3k hours and I didn't know that I could go for the throne with the barracks still up!

learning dota 2 in 2019 is like trying to drown yourself in toxic waste. counter strike player, can confirm

Everyone knows Monster Energy™ is better and more refreshing than this Red Cow drink.

This fuckin video got recommended to me.. 5 years later..

This is actually such a good video. I recently started getting into the MOBA genre a couple days ago and started with LoL, but I got curious about Dota cause a bunch of my guy friends rave about it 24/7. I'm glad to find helpful tutorials for people just getting into it so thanks a ton!

Just introduced a friend to dota and i think these guides will help him out a lot ^^

Hopefully i can get into this game with some amount of clarity now. My first 2 tries at the PVP went about as well as my team leaving me alone because i told i'm new to the game and had to force myself out right after. Thanks for the vids man, i'm downloading the playlist right now, my internet is really bad and am able to only watch in 144p here on youtube but my downloader however gives me 20mbps for whatever reason xD

@purge nice video my man. , long time fan , hyped for the whole series ...btw 100% without the mustache :)

isn't new players are limited only to a small number of heroes (lich, ogre, dragon knight, easy heroes to play) for a number of games?

Thanks Purge

i love your little fridge

Actually, new players can only select out of a pool of about 20 heroes for their first twenty games or so. (I know cause I start only two months ago.)

Wait, yo have your own channel? Maybe mention that when you play with Day9 or I may have missed that. lmao. Great content tho. looking forward to advanced stuff especially with specific heroes and roles

I HAVE PLAYED 8,000 HRS AND ALL THIS IS NEW TO ME

Hey Purge! I'm starting watching this series. I know recently Dota got a HUGE update. Are you going to made a corrected version or maybe provide a list of the things needed to change of the video? Thanks.

Such a simple explanation! Looking forward to watching the whole series. Thank you!

Redbull > Monster confirmed by Purge. Thanks Purge. I also like redbull more than monster tastes so much better.

You are gona have to remake these series every time theres a new patch

This series is amazing! Keep it up Purge!

Purge looks so stern in thr thumbnail i had to watch the video even though i already know the basics

The camera not locking to your hero is the hardest part for me to get used to. Its like I'm playing Civ but I have to manually focus the unit I'm using.

Getting back into Dota 2 and noticed A LOT of big changes after patch 7.23. Any chance Purge, or anyone else, will/has an updated guide with all these changes for returning players? Thanks in advance.

Great job! Short and simple tutorial, perfect. Might get back to DOTA!

1:00 for impatient learners

Aegis doesnt allow immediate respawn rather than a respawn with a 5sec delay

hi @PurgeGamers , i've wanted to try and play more dota and get back into the game but i have not come to the conclusion to do so cause i see and hear a lot about the game being in a steady decline and i'm unsure if i want to get back into the game if the lifespan of the game is not going to be much longer. would you suggest i get back into the game or do you think it will stay and steadily decline?

I'm Platinam level on League of legends. I'm going to try this game out because my real life friends been playing this.

Thank you for explaining things like teaching mentally challanged persons. I finally understood this.

Dude ur voice is low but not soo low. Just trying to say ur voice is hella good