Top Ten Ways to Ruin a Dota Game

Simply put, the folks who play Dota are generally very excitable and easily trolled. It's fun and easy to give everyone involved a break for some good old lulz by completely, deliberately ruining a game now and then. Sure, you might piss some people off, but those are folks who need to chill a bit more anyway! If you're interested in the less-than-subtle art of utterly destroying Dota games, I urge you to read on, and enjoy.

Simply put, Play as Balanar the Nightstalker. If you're competent at all, and don't pick before the enemy team, you'll stomp. The other team NEVER has a good time playing against Balanar.

This method requires considerable skill, and can only be executed well by very skilled players. Pick Pudge, and max out meathook as soon as you can. Use your meathook to hook your allies in to enemy ganks, and to hook them away from fleeing enemy heroes. In short, use your hook to cause your team to fail miserably. If done correctly, this method can cause untold hilarity, but use it with caution: It's extremely difficult.

Pick Daelin Proudmoore, the Admiral. Activate caps lock at the start of the game, and begin your shtick. Roleplay as a pirate, insisting that you will "Crunchitize" the enemy players. As long as you can get in to it, cutting loose with "Arr" and such at appropriate intervals, you'll have everyone in stitches by the end of the game.

Pick any hero, and play as you normally would until you've amassed a lot of money. (This works best in EM games, since you don't need items to get tons of cash from waiting and farming at level 14 or so.

Once you have some funds, purchase two control groups of couriers, and convert them all to chickens. Next, fill them all with ironwood branches, or at least as many as you can. In all-chat, talk about how you're about to commence an assault on the enemy base. Then, charge at the enemy fountain, using your hero to meatshield for the chickens. When the chickens die inside the enemy base, they will drop their ironwood branches, filling the enemy base with a ridiculous amount of branches.

Have your entire team, including yourself, pick heroes with Area of Effect magical abilities. (Pit Lord, Earthshaker, and the like) Once you've all gotten to level eleven, push the middle lane with your entire team, all the way to the enemy base, while roleplaying as if you were storming the beaches at Normandy.

Be loud and obnoxious, pick venomancer, and convince your team to go for early roshan. You'll ideally want a Lich, Dazzle, Veno (you), Necrolyte, and Lion/Lina. Level serpent wards first, and have your entire team head to Roshan. If you start killing him before time starts, he should die by the time the first creep wave has died. When Roshan is at 300 HP, say in allchat, "-killrosh". If you've timed it correctly, the enemy team will be utterly baffled and confused for a brief time. If their team has a lot of carries, or melee heroes, you should be able to immediately push the middle lane for a win. (You'll be counting on your Lich and Lion/Lina for kills here, and dazzle + necro for healing.

Play as Terrorblade. During large team battles, once you are at very low health, sunder a healthy ally for a full heal. This can also be done to allies while farming, if you really want to piss them off.

Words fail to describe this. If you do it, you're awesome.

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Pick Mirana Nightshade, and have a friend pick Tiny. Leap in to pits and up on to cliffs. When an enemy starts attacking you, have your friend throw them at you. Once they're trapped as well, leap out and leave them to rot. (This can be done for allies as well, if you wish to ruin the game in the reverse way.)

1. Pick Keeper of the Light

2. Farm up a blink dagger, and get to at least level six.

3. Use blink dagger to teleport in to the choosing circle.

4. Using your ultimate, teleport a team member who doesn't have any teleports to your side, trapping them in the choosing circle. (Don't teleport them if they have tangos, as it only takes two to get out of the picking circle if you know what you're doing.

5. Now that your ally is trapped, teleport out of the circle with your blink dagger.

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