Very Basics of DotA

DotA(Defense of The Anciets also known as DotA Allstars) is a game which requires teamwork, gaining experience and gold.

Only when the opponent teams's ancient is destroyed the game is won.  The ancient is located in the center of the enemy's base , If you want to destroy the enemy team’s ancient you need to kill the enemy creeps, destroy the towers and kill and feed on opponents heroes.

At the start all the players are given a time of 2 minutes to select their respective heroes and buy items before the start to go to their lanes for gold and experience. There are three lanes in the game.At every 30 seconds of the from the game start which is when the time goes to 0:01 to 0:00 their is spawning of creeps from each of the three lanes For beginning 2-3 minutes there are 3 melee attack type creeps and 1 ranged attack type creep. In few interval, A Catapult is added once in a 3-4 dispatching of the group. As the time goes by  there is addition of more melee type creeps and ranged type creeps. Creeps also gain increase in their max hp in the game.

At first 5-6 level of ones hero is very weak and cannot kill the whole wave of creeps and destroy towers by themselves. So, one needs to gain experience and gold so they can bulk up and buy items which can make them stronger

Heroes gain gold for getting the last hit or the final blow on the heroes or creeps. When a hero last hit on the enemy creep it gains a certain amount of gold between 35-45 gold. If a hero last hits on an allied creep (which is possible only if its health is below 25% of its hp) then it denies one's lane opponents chance to land a final blow on that creep, and they will get very less exp.

One can also earn gold when his/her team destroys a tower. If you get last hit by you can directly earn about 400-700 gold but if you allied heroes gets the last hit you can only gain 200 gold and if you opponents deny the tower you will only gain 100-120 gold. One can also deny allied tower but it has to be below 10% hp to do so which is between 130-137. By doing this you destroy your oppontes chance to gain 400-700 gold.