I decided to give away the secret formula to carry 

"If you are new to the game.... *Grubby picture* " - that was perfect! 😂

Lmao, love the new to the game picture :D Great vid as always, thanks BSJ. Honestly for me these kinds of videos are the best content because it teaches us how to THINK about Dota by ourselves. We can always go demo/tutorial and practice last hits, pulling creeps, creep aggro and stuff. And while these are important things to do well, once you've mastered the basics/fundamentals to a certain level, it's the way you think about the game that matters the most.

I love this. I already knew a lot of it from watching your stream and putting it together from your other videos, but I think I lost the nuances you covered here and having it all put together in such a concise, detailed manner was really helpful. #1 Dota 2 educator bar none.

Great vid. Could you make a similar video about target priority in fights or your role as different positions in team fights. When should Pos1 jump supports in team fights? When should they man up against opponent carry? Who should generally initiate and how should others enter or weave in and out of fights? Maybe potential for a series of videos :)

Really good and what I needed as a noob thanks for highlighting items spikes at different stages of the game and the thought process behind them

Thank you very much for this video and the other youve recently posted. Love the chill approach and all the knowledge you present in a relaxed and logical way that is applicable to a wide range of players with different skill levels.

Finally something worth taking in with tons of in game examples and in-depth explainations with reasons for doing so

Very clear and effective, understand what questions you have to ask yourself and what to think, thanks BSJ

Great content, loving the new approach! Keep it up BSJ

By far one of your best how to play dota 2 videos, this is something I think I struggle with the most is items and I felt could have won me more games if I just knew how to use and buy them outside of the guide I follow religiously

As a newer player that is familiar with other MOBA's I thought this video is brilliant. The thought process behind these item purchases actually helps me read into 'builds' that I would look up on dotabuff for example where I couldn't really understand the logic of it before. A similar video covering other roles would be something I would instantly watch.

Somehow you have developed a new way of covering already covered topics in a fresh way. I like it a lot recently. Keep it going :)

Like the new content route you're taking bud. And i wish you goodluck keeping up the tempo, it's gotta be brutal for you :) Hope it makes your channel grow though, it should!

I just started playing dota 2 weeks ago and found this video super helpful. Would like a similar one for offlane and Maybe other ingame senarios like team fighting and target priority. Love the vids keep it up

Great Video, I love the use of items and reasoning part of the video

Really great video. Teaching more than just item builds but teaching the correct overall approach to dota and the founding concepts that should determine your items. Gold mate

BSJ, my man, I'd like to thank you for this incredibly insightful video (as well as others) that completely change the way I think about the game.

thanks BSJ for the indept analysis on carry itemization! Great content as usual :)

I absolutely loved the insights from this video. Playing dota for 13 years by just going GANK! GANK! GANK! I never moved up in MMR. I started watching BSJ and first learnt the importance of farming. But since I had never really concentrated on CS before, I went from Guardian 5 to Herald 2 just cause I had to focus so much on getting last hits that I was unable to keep a check on the mini-map. [Blamed BSJ for the downfall.] After a month of practicing CS and farming patterns, it sort of became a part of my "muscle memory". So in 2 weeks I climbed up from Herald 2 to Crusader 1 just by always out-farming the enemy carrys. [All cause of BSJ] I play in SEA region (i.e. 2 out of 5 games my team will have a hard support sniper! Well... so will the enemy team :P) Most essential learnings from BSJ that worked for me in this bracket: Herald - Crusader 1. Pick heroes that scale well. 9 out of 10 games will go beyond 50 minutes in this bracket. Heroes like Shaman, Lion, Riki, Weaver wont be able to do much on their own once you cross the 40min mark. 2. Don't lose farm to get a successful gank where your win probability is less than 70%. (Early game) 3. Don't rage on your team for being stupid. It only deteriorates them. (Still working on this. This ones really hard :P) 4. Don't follow your team into obvious blunders. [This has some exceptions I think. Because if you follow BSJ, you would probably have out-farmed the enemy core by at least 3k. That would mean in a team fight you can probably wipe more people of the enemy team by kitting: just like he did with Sven in this video, if you stay back your team could just feed their carry and leave you to the almost impossible task of defending Mega 1v5) 5. You should fight/gank when you're losing; but farm when you're winning. [Will implement this now. Hopefully it would take me from Crusader to Archon]

Can we get an itemization guide like this for other roles? This is amazing and I want to see more

Love these new item analysis type videos, keep them coming.

very comprehensive guide. thank you for sharing this

Great video!! It really helps make item decision-making easier as a carry 👍

So you wanna be a carry gotta get that bling Can you crit like a southbound freight train Tell me just one thing Can you shift queue in a word like a wyverns wing If you need to Can you juke, can you weave Can you illu fake and deceive when you need to Well you might as well quit Cause you cant last hit So you wanna be a carry Do you gl next I can tell if you've got it in you Cause i out cs the best When you tryhard and you sweat And you bet that you train in timbersaw Then you near lose your mind When you find that youre not playing core Well you might as well quit Got bkb fiends gripped Put him in the mk ring, joe Look at what you found This game is fun joe Stomping noobs abound We'll show him the ropes And destroy his hopes Hear the siren sing, joe Give the noob a chance He got poison stinged, joe Veno's got d lance You know he gonna quit, Cause his team just dipped So you wana be a carry Wanna get that dub We see a midas in your queue Dont be a top scrub If you listen and you learn Theres mmr you can earn, and defend it When you keep buying crown And youre wraith king and a clown A contender But you might as well quit Cause you're gonna lose it He took my arcane ring, joe Going to report He's got too high a ping, joe His farm is falling short Getting flamed holding shift He'll dc real swift Using drows bowstring, joe Cant kill a siege cart Cant do anything, joe And he bought a heart If we don't tell him he will never know He cant carry his internet's too slow

Hey late to the party but this was a really concise breakdown, fleshed out all your thoughts on it well and I really enjoyed watching it for that. I felt like I was slowly coming to terms with a few of these concepts, but I'm pretty low tier, this really helped consolidate my understanding of some of the early game decision making/itemization. Throwing you a sub, can already see you have a bunch more vids I'm keen to learn from!

I would add Boots of Travel to the list. I have found, in several scenarios, with heroes like TB, I've been able to carry the game because I rushed boots of travel that allowed me to kite a stronger early-mid game team but with low mobility and that allowed me to make my spaces to farm. Sometimes games are so hard that you have to go yolo. I saw this in a 10k+ game recently, but I can't remember who it was exactly, it was just a very high mmr game showing in the lobby.

You are perfectly a great teacher , ur explanation & the way u present are make viewer comfortable also easy to understand a pro player point of view. wonderful video

it's easy to get confused with your item choice on a carry, thank you for these guidelines BSJ

Thanks BSJ! I have a question about Armlet carries (Naix, WK, CK) - it seems like these heroes want to build Armlet as their first item most of the time; would you say that this is their farm accelerator, and their next item should be a survivability item? Or would you say that Armlet is more like when Ursa/Riki go Diffusal, and that it's a more aggressive option? Would you build Armlet on Naix if you also plan to go, say, Maelstrom?

This is perfect!! As a pos 1 player in my guardian bracket!

if my school teachers could teach in the level that u do dotas i'd be a freaking genius right now

I hope you make a guide for offlane and supoprt after this. These are super informative!

Bsj bro, your vids are so good man, can learn so much, keep up the goods!

Very informative, thanks!

So much information. Thanks!

Hahaha thumbs up for the "new to the game" picture 😂😂 Great content, thank you for making these guides!

Very informative, thank you! 🔥

Oh gosh I play for 10 years and I can't think like that easily. I really have to train this! A lot of this also applies for any other pos in general, amazing content!

This was very helpful, more like this pls

"Time and time, again." Rings a bell doesn't it? 😂

Great video! I hope you make a similar video for offlaners. I sometimes struggle itemizing even with heroes that i have been spamming since i started the game.

Ty bsj great content ,pls make a video about how to pick good carry for a game

bsj you're really helping the dota 2 comunity with yout content. can you make a video about choosing the perfect hero from your hero pool for the match?

Man wish i could send this to some of my pub carries. Specially that one game I had carry LC who bought first item dagger and absolutely never participated in early fights. What a drag.

Really helpful video bsj, thanks

Amazing tutorial. Thx

Good shit brother, this is easy to digest and translate to carries on my team that I might be supporting as well.

haha, its wild to see a 1yr ago grubby was 'new' and now hes immortal. lol

''HEY RAZOR, THIS IS MY AREA TO FARM NOW'' Was a very good synthesis explanation. Thanks for the imortal Technique (literrally)

Great vid I feel like this helps so much with itemization

Would love to see a guide on Faceless Void and how to itemize for him.

Thank you bsj, this kind of video i find very esplicative and interesting. Love y for all the work you've done and enjoy being with you listening these type of knowledge

Back in Wc3 days we had a carry build. Make hearth+buriza and crystalis and it's gg.

I have 9000+ hours in Dota 2 The first Dota I played, max lvl was 10 and you couldn't combine items This video is still super useful Thank you

Thank you bro, you make dota a better game and community!

My games went from 4/10 to 10/10 with this guide. The knowledge that you should buy items in the 1. farm 2.survival 3.kill steps was the biggest help. And on support I go 1.survival 2.survival 3.survival my rank has been flying up

Great stuff! Keep it up!

The quality of content and production on this video is incredible.

Great video, it ended too soon! I was hanging on all that wisdom.

Thank you for opening my mind after 14 years of DotA

Always play full glass canon. Either you win hard or feed hard

Nice vid..pls do similar item progression video for all roles especially supports

I also get crystalys as a farming + fighting item at start to mid game. On heroes like faceless void...

Lost it at the new to the game picture. Amazing

grubbys picture is tottally clear for me. lol. So happy to see him playing dota.

Wish I had seen this earlier tbh. Just finished a game as Terrorblade, and went manta first thinking I'd be fine. However, I ended up soaking the CC instead because I was greedy with manta -> skadi instead of stronger defensive items. I was really far ahead in terms of gold too, so it hurt a bit more too. RIP the Grubby picture

Thank you BSJ , now I understand what should I do in my game

It’s just the best content. Hands down. Thanks bsj. You da realist

Really informative for Carry players but I was wandering if you could do a video like this for offlaners. Really, any concept video like this would be great for offlane players.

A lot of stuff that is not said and should be but i do feel like im doing a lot of these things when i itemize and it does make sense

very informative and helpful video

straight up learned so fucking much in this video it's blowing my mind

Lol the Grubby reference!

This video is a treasure,Good Job

19:45 In my bracket, that razor is in my team, and will not let me farm there :)

Finally. I knew there was a secret formula. Everyone always says it's about practice and awareness but I always knew that was a lie to keep me in herald.

BSJ: "... the more accurately you can develop this image of how exactly they're gonna kill you is really important..." Me (every time I step outside my home): I agree.

Awesome content, as always!

this honestly is one of the best dota learning video

great teaching

One of your best videos I've seen!

Great video. Thank you! Can you make one for supports too?

THAT GRUBBY SMILE MAN, THAT's A POTENTIAL Ti WINNER RIGHT THERE HA!

Very helpful thankyou

how to apply this on mid and offlane roles?

Can you please make a video where you talk more about what items you would buy in different line ups? I found that this kind of educational content was the most useful for me.

17:35 lmao? good one mr editor

BSJ just wanna know how about in regards to irregular carry like BH for example. Whats the progression gonna be like?. Coz you build vanguard/hood so in my logic the survivability comes first and then you go aghs. And then aghs is gonna be like the farming item. And then you go damage??? Just want to clarify coz I cant seem to win while using BH. Alch/pudge/BB is no problem for me

Cool video. Loved the Grubby reference) I wonder how this formula applies to PA, who usually buys Deso after BF in a good game. Is this because of the 3rd spell giving the ability to farm somewhat safer?

What is the progression for Offlane? Is it cheaper items but same progression, or different order?

loved the grubby mention

That pic of Grubby lmao

Best Dota item guide I've ever watched. Thanks Mr. Banana!

Amazing video BSJ. You are really a good teacher

How about battlefury heroes? Im quite a noob but i noticed that pa or antimage use battlefury. If im losong, what farming items are good? Maelstrom?

Nice video bro, it is so helpfull

Amazing video, thanks BSJ.

Great video!

7:21 Yeah, when im lvl 19 i also allways itemize to kill the lvl 9 winranger reliably xDDD

Wanna see more videos of BSJ's carry gameplay