Need to add a little risk - Quinn on how to take advantage of an early advantage

Caster and former professional player Quinn 'Quinn' Callahan shared some tips for playing Dota 2 on his personal YouTube channel.

Against heroes like Lifestealer, who are almost impossible to kill, you need a different approach - you just need to kick them out. Just because you can't kill a hero in lane doesn't mean you shouldn't gank.

For example, in a matchup like Ember Spirit vs Lifestealer, you won't kill him. He will either press Infest and run away, or teleport under Rage. But constantly trading with him, fighting and driving him out of the territory is very useful.

If I'm the strongest hero on the map, then I need to go to where the enemy heroes are. I don't just want efficient farming that doesn't put pressure on anyone. I need to create a threat. I shouldn't care about effective farming - that's someone else's job.

Being the most powerful hero in the game, you should leave the farming to your allies. This is where your pressure lies: thanks to it, others can easily earn a lot of gold. As a result, the team's overall network is distributed more evenly, allies buy items, and the team becomes almost impossible to kill.

If you get extra runes in the lane, get a kill, or gain some other advantage, you can afford to make slightly less profitable trades or play a little more aggressively in fights. Because you obviously have more resources than your opponent.

In this case, you should not play the same way as usual. You need to add a little risk: exchange more often, look for fights, try to lose the enemy’s health. You have more gold, which means you can buy more consumables, buy a Bottle faster, and so on.

Earlier, Quinn 'Quinn' Callahan spoke unflatteringly about former Yellow Submarine player Rodion 'Infernal' Kulakov.