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When you lane against a ranged champion as a melee, your opponent starts the game with a huge advantage. Any time you step into their range, you're eligible to take free damage. This is most dangerous in early game: pre-6, when...

This is an article that's seriously overdue. My enthusiasm for Dota has convinced a couple of friends to turn on a match and attempt to watch the game, and it takes about ten seconds before they're totally lost. How do you...

Once again, the TI7 Group Stage has generated an entirely new meta, and there have been plenty of new developments for Dota lovers to mull over this weekend before the Main Event begins. We've seen teams under-performing, defying expectations, and...

Influence points, or IP, are the currency used in League of Legends for unlocking champions and purchasing runes. If you're still getting your bearings on Summoner's Rift, earning IP can feel like a chore. Thankfully, you can take matters in to...

We've all been getting ready for the launch of Fall of Oriath. None of us more than the streamers who are planning on logging several hundred hours this weekend when the game's 3.0 expansion finally launches today. (The math...

If we look at the category of "guns you should only use in certain situations," the undisputed king of CS:GO is the game's ridiculous taser, the Zeus x27. It's got a range that's barely better than the knife, and only fires a...

Valve is perhaps best known for creating Steam, the ubiquitous PC gaming platform. While it has developed many successful games, none have as vibrant of an esports presence as Dota 2. The history of Dota 2 is too long to discuss here...

Which heroes will define the The International Dota 2 Championships 2017? Will it be the push heroes of TI4, with Nature's Prophet and Shadow Shaman reigning supreme? Or the rat Dota of TI3 with the Tiny-Wisp combo making a...

Being good at warding is a skill that often gets overlooked, but if you've played enough Dota, you know that vision can make or break a game. Indeed, vision is everything in Dota, and if you can use observer wards to...

If there is one thing most CS:GO players share, it's the desire we've all had at one point or another of becoming a professional player. While the prospect of playing video games for a living might seem easy to...

Last week, we talked about the basic functions and abilities of support champions in League of Legends: initiation, disengage, healing, shielding, pick-offs, general protection, tankiness, damage, and crowd control. To give that list some context, I'd like to talk...

Overwatch, CS:GO's crowd-sourced anti-griefing and cheating detection system, is often taken for granted. While some believe the service does nothing to rid the game of hackers or that Overwatch investigators should get some sort of reward for their efforts, Valve's creation...