Well, out of boring I had myself type this lame article about DotA.
From my personal point of view, I assume every DotA players would be either one of the three styles which I could think of : Aggressive, Balanced, Defensive. Lol, somehow it's really funny to see these three phrases as they're quite some usual style people saw on RPG or some other games genres.
AggressiveWell what to say about this is the player usually are some sort of 'hunter' type, which main priority is being hero-hunting. They'd go as far as the extent of rushing through how many layers of risks just to get the satisfying +200 (for hero pawnage). When they're playing, their aims would be probably focused on opponent heroes to harass them as much as possible so that the chance for killing them would be increased.
As for my personal opinion, this style somehow filled with more cons compared to pros. Being the risk-taker of the group, they're somehow needed in every match, but not too much; I think just about 1-2 would be more than sufficient. A very notable trait they have is their -di creep timing counter would be on a very measly or low amount, but their heroes count would be damn frigging, impressive or somewhat.
Balanced
A significant difference between this and the aggressive style is being this style focus partially on hero hunting, and also farming. The player will focuses more to farming and getting himself stronger until a certain level which confidence level is high, then he might goes out for a short term of hero hunting. Until the time has come, he will participates in GB-ing, just to end the game if the situation doesn't allow it.
Well, I'm quite familiar with this as I believe, I myself adapt this style of playing. I'm pretty lazy to shift to other lane and went chasing enemy's heroes around like mad as compared to aggressive style; it's real tiring.
DefensiveThe last style is being a somehow shocking style which not much players could successfully utilize. The main focus will be farming instead of hunting hero, and the player only hunt/farm the heroes which he came across on his particular lane. Being the most impressive, yet hardest to study I really admire those who's good at using this way of playing. The most impressive one I had ever came across is one of my close friend, which is really a DotA pro. I think I can claim he's one of the greatest one I had ever seen.
But the main drawback is the time spent on farming. When the needs arise, the player must know when to give up or shifting their time for some defensive measurement. Some players which are too focused on earning until forgetting to support their allies when they needed them, that'd be so sad. Playing the game isn't a one-man-show act, thus if the player doesn't understand this, it'd be useless even though in adapting this defensive style.
p/s : A key point of being defensive style player is, he is usually non-existence neither to ally nor enemies. Agree?
Thus before I ending this article, DotA isn't a game of showing off or one-man-show; teamwork is what-most essential and through this, we can somehow learn a lot things. So enjoys to those DotA players out there, don't get too stressed or worked up cause of just one game!
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