How To Improve Your Map Awareness | Dota 2 7.31d

Practice your map awareness by following along with this video! I'll be talking about why it matters, what to look for, and how you can build this good habit to be a better Dota player.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:22 - Important Game Clock Times
11:28 - Minimap Timings
21:25 - What to look for
33:32 - How to Practice
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[scourg-e-_-]

dude you have no idea how much your videos are helping so many people. zack your an amazing man, please keep doing what your doing, inshallah your gonna get big

[Jimbo-ynfh]

I LOVE this kind of video because this KIND of video is where they teach ACTUAL DOTA and not CURRENT DOTA/ meta base or patch base videos that will be redundant in future, this kinds of lesson will never be redundant and will always apply regardless of the patch or meta, sure learning the current meta is okay but learning to be ACTUALLY GOOD at dota is a lot better, PLS MORE OF THIS!

[ahmedabdelshakour]

In a dota game as a support I often lose my track of time which results to missing pulls, stacks, and not looking at the mini map etc. So I created a timer that beeps every 30 seconds, this reminded me to do shit and prevented me from tunnel visioning onto the center of my screen. Hope this tip helps some of you having a hard time to focus like me.

[negativerainbow]

I just discovered your videos a couple days ago, and in the first day I actively worked on improving my awareness, I got a couple successful tp ganks off, and successfully called my opponents 5 man movements a couple times.
I really feel like this is helping me improve a lot, thanks so much for your videos and keep it up!

[anthonymercuri]

Those practice tips you mention at the end are good general advice for learning anything in life.

The "reminders" are called "cognitive bundling" in psychology. A useful way to lower the effort required to do something, by having it piggyback on something else you already do.

Watching replays is "self-reflection". Similar to writing a diary and then going back and reading it a few days later to learn about yourself.

Visualisation and mentally practicing is age-old; have used it for things such as guitar practise. Fantasizing and daydreaming about good and terrible things happening are kinds of doing this; your brain practicing to get you there, or how to deal with a bad situation should it happen.

And awareness is the keystone of any kind of change, as meditation teachers tell us constantly.

[giancarloprado]

Wow Zach, lots of high quality content recently. Support content is so much needed ❤❤

[jancik.]

You know that you have a bad map awareness when this video got you tired af. xd Great content!

[lucasmouragomes]

I was watching arlington major and left your video playing in the background to help the channel

[dwinealiviado]

practicing map awareness in turbo mode works well for me, if u wanna go extreme (like you dont wanna lose pub games), play with bots.. even with bots you can still practice the muscle memory on watching your hero, the game time, mini map and also you can do unli stack/pulls without getting interrupted.. just for the muscle memory. it works very well.

[pcxxy]

i love the differentiated that drills down to what ppl can do to train themselves on the basic mechanical skills to get better at the game

[xerxesmontes]

This is so useful. I can feel my overall effectiveness in my game growing more than if I played 10 games.

[seanduncan]

Very high value channel. As a long time player ive been looking for specific ways to improve myself and you're really helping me understand where im still weak after all of these years

[pt]

I guess for me the big problem is that when I look at my map or the time, I stop controlling my hero, and vice versa. So I sometimes feed because I'm standing there parsing the minimap over a critical 2-second period. BUT This video has already helped IMMENSELY, because my previous habit was checking the minimap occasionally, now I check the minimap and the time occasionally. It still needs work, but the "look to the left, then to the top" action is already an improvement over what I was doing before, so thanks.

[abeykasun]

Hey, this is really helpful and all your other videos. I loved your glimmer itemization video and started making Necro a useless hero. I'm a massive fan of you. Looking forward for more videos.

[pineapplescuddleduck]

I fucking love this guy. I dont know how much eye trackers cost but it would be cool to see you play a game with an eye tracker.

[andylongbottom]

I feel like my mini map awareness has increased drastically since I started playing Treant, as treant is always needed to look for low hp heroes and to give allies Armour just before are going to get attacked

[AshterGoutich]

Amazing Video, i think you should also talk about 5 and 10 mins waves with seige.
I'm always surprised how much emphasis certain teams will put into those waves ( example :Eg)

[karlivanantonio]

I like the pop quiz time! Keep it up! As if you took my suggestion of keeping it interactive. I really like it!

[Derubin]

Singlehandedly decrypting dota. Many thanks man.

[Jesus]

i managed to do all this in a losing game, tracking tps that can kill me, pushes, roshan and almost got a comeback off of couple of pickoff. but the whole focus and attention is so high and tiring, it's like i've done 4 hrs of work after the ~1hr game ended. made me respect all those TI comeback teams like Team Spirit's 8 game in a row during TI10