How to Micro - Fundamentals, Tips, & Tricks | Dota 2 Guide 

I was just searching for this, this past week. Found your channel yesterday and now this upload in the last 2 days, unreal timing ahahah

I have been looking for a video like this for a long time! great explanation and examples!

Thanks for putting this out, nicely edited and quick. You can mouse over unit exp and it'll sometimes tell you it's bounty for killing it

Your unparalleled guides are a boon to the community! Thanks for the awesome content! It's refreshing to see additions like this, especially in a community as discerning as Dota players. Even heroes with minimal micro, like Brewmaster, often get overlooked, but here's hoping for a resurgence of unique picks like Visage!

Great video Zack. Thanks for the neat tricks.

Sir thank you so much for this useful video, i didnt know about ctrl ability when you have 2 gold lancer illusions, that is so sweet to know, your vid was perfectly fine, much love!

The best video on this subject l’ve ever seen! Thank you!

For those who might be interested in Meepo hotkeys I have mine in the following categories: Individual meepos (Main here select, Z, X, C, F). Inverses IE "all but Meepo 2" which I have as the the same hotkey + alt so (Alt+Z, Alt+X, Alt+C etc), these are useful when you need to run away with one but can attack with the rest bu using the indivudual meepo hotkey then using Alt to protect or attack whos trying to kill you. Note that the "All other units" hotkey functions as the inverse hotkey for Meepo Prime. Lastly I have two "two meepo" hotkeys, mostly for farming, the most important one being with Meepo 1 and 2 so you can farm while you are being aggressive with Meepo Prime.

great, quick guide!

This really helped me, after watching this video, i went 13/1 & was able to farm jungle much better with naga siren. TY!

This is so Helpful...Great video 🔥

You might not be the highest MMR of RU-vid tutorial creators, but you are by far the best teacher ❤

This is amazing content wow, thank you for the time you put in on this!

thank you just when i needed this

Considering how Radiance+Manta have become meta on some heroes I play(AM and Abaddon), this vid is a godsend. Thanks man 👍

We really need a good in-game tutorial for micromanagement. Even a workshop mini-game, that would be awesome! I really want to learn some micromanagement heroes but it feels insurmountable. I can't find comfortable hot keys is my main problem.

This is a good addition to the community. Dota players are picky as hell and will stay far away from any hero that has even the slightest bit of micro involved no matter how easy the hero’s micro really is, such as the quite simple brewmaster. Hopefully we see a resurgence of cool heroes like Visage

FYI, adding units to control groups only requires shift (e.g, SHIFT+2 to add to control group 2). You don't need CTRL+SHIFT. (I may have configured it at some stage but I'm 90% sure that's teh default)

No way you uploaded a video on the same exact topic the day after we finish editing our video on micro tricks specific to playing offlane summons heroes. The unique summons thing you mentioned with Invoker is the same with Lycan's wolves. You can have one wolf on a separate control group for easy body blocking. Great video that covers a lot of things we didn't (especially with illusions).

Had no idea about having more unit control after disabling ctrl unified commands Thanks!

exactly what I'm looking for

deserve a salute man

I find it interesting that these micro mechanics are deeply rooted behind my brain and i know it but don't know it at the same time As i watched this video realized "Hey i do that"

great video. 1 point of improvement for hotkey videos like this is maybe you can add a visual keyboard on the screen that way we can see what you're pressing/holding down. instead of relying on what you say. I'm more of a visual learning, and sometimes its hard to keep up with what you're saying while watching. especially cause english isn't my native language. its not much of a problem tho, cause i can just rewind. just a suggestion

Illusion heroes control quite differently to zoo heroes in my opinion. It’s hard to learn both. I personally enjoy “extra hero” summoners like lone druid, brew master, visage etc.. I am awful with illusion heroes though.

Hey cute bookshelves! Also great technical video 🎉

Damn, I was literally just saying to myself I wish you made a micro guide and here it is. Can we get some videos with chen? I used to play him a lot but after my 6 year break I'm extremely lost when I used to always snag first blood with him and become a ganking machine.

Thank you for the high quality video! I have a question, I found that Manta illus can be set to different control group individually as you said in the video, this works on every single hero BUT Meepo. Is there a way to fix it? This annoys me for quite some time already. :( Thanks!

High level tips here !

Holy shit, I can Chen now 😂 Will study on this!

jeez you read my mind. I was going to ask how you spread out the spiderlings

A follow up video with a keyboard cam would be awesome!

god like guide

Hey Zack, I have an idea for content, might be good or just silly idk. You know how there's puzzles for games where they present you with a specific situation and you gotta solve it the best way possible (like "get lethal" puzzles for Hearthstone, or solve situations in Go, for example)? Well I think something similar could be done with teamfights, like pausing it at a specific moment and saying "what's the best you can do here as ...". Say you're an initiator and you have to start a fight in a tier 2 or something, you could try to explain why you should be jumping to a specific core, or prioritizing supports, or just holding your blink because whatever. I don't think it's that different to the replay analysis you generally do, but I thought it'd be cool to see a specific situation with that same puzzle aproach to it, giving some time to think about it for the viewers. I do struggle with assessing situations fast enough when initiating or counterinitaiting as a 4 player quite often so yeah, support focus would be nice, but I think understanding priorities as a core is useful as well. Anyways thanks for the good content and actually reading all that :)

As a PL spammer and juke lover. I approve 🤪. I like that console command, finally answered my frustration with using TAB to select individual summons instead of group.

Great video! Could u make a video where u explain all your settings and keybinds? Im very interested in having the perfect settings to play different kinds of hero's including micro hero's and be efficiënt enough to hit all the keys for items spells and micro without being tangled up with hand position. Also would like to know how u make use of your select ally binds in games and preset camera positions. Im sorry for long question but hope u read it so we can learn dota

Im 6k mmr and I learned so much from this video

0n scale from 0 to 10, I stand at -1 in micro. which hero would you suggest to start learning micro. which one is easiest. for pos 4/5

I use 1,2,3,4 for all my micros and its pretty easy with that alone, 1 for main hero. 2 for all, 3 for everything but main hero, 4 (i also change it to my mouse button is needed) for selecting each unit. pretty simple and straight forward and easy to use

I guess I can start playing micro heroes now.

I can't bind controlled units to alt keys. How do you do it?

When I select all and tab through my units I can't issue separate orders. Even if the white box is on one treant summon when I give an order all summons follow that order. How do I change that?

I actually asked Insania during stream to show us his controls for micro and he just said "I dont, i just click them 1 by 1"

"Back to our hero. What are we up to? Let's go back I'm scared." Typical day as Lone Druid

some of those control group management came from the orginal wc3

How the hell do you open the console? I thought they fixed this and set the default to True

funny enough if you were a bit into warcrat 3 back in the day, the dota 2 controls are 90% the same

How much experience you have with Arc Warden.

Ya if only I can use shift TAB to tab the opposite way like in WAR3

I thought he was talking about HAKI, observation haki

Train in StarCraft 2, easy

don't you think TAB + A Attack is faster?? I'm 2k mmr though [ Kye (mika4334) ]

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I didn't understand a single thing. Maybe i should avoid all summons and illusions heroes😢

First

this is basic if your a starcraft player

I'm not good at dota micro but I Played starcraft 2 for 3 years mediocre. I can play NP, Syllabear, ench, chen but trash. I hate illusion heroes and meepo I've been playing dota for 20 years and for the love of me I can't play those heroes.

Go play warcraft 3. You'll learn to micro. 😎

I dont think you mentioned invisible units. I play a lot of riki, and when I get manta/illusions split pushing, it's important to have summoned units set to attack "Always". Otherwise they will run by creep waves EVEN when you attack move, UNLESS they are in vision range when you issue the order. Which is, in my opinion, a very strange quirk and possibly a bug.