How to Micro - Fundamentals, Tips, & Tricks | Dota 2 Guide

In this Dota 2 Guide, Zach explains some tips and tricks that will help you improve your micro.

Use the below console command if you would like to be able to individual order units like Treants or Spiderlings. The default is "true" which forces you to command the units as an entire group.

"dota_selection_groups false"

Timestamps:
0:00 - Hotkeys & Options
3:35 - dota_selections_groups
4:06 - Control Groups
9:43 - CTRL & SHIFT
11:21 - Tips & Tricks
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[coolgate]

great video. 1 point of improvement for hotkey videos like this is maybe you can add a visual keyboard on the screen that way we can see what you're pressing/holding down. instead of relying on what you say. I'm more of a visual learning, and sometimes its hard to keep up with what you're saying while watching. especially cause english isn't my native language. its not much of a problem tho, cause i can just rewind. just a suggestion

[TankorSmash]

Thanks for putting this out, nicely edited and quick. You can mouse over unit exp and it'll sometimes tell you it's bounty for killing it

[japamtg]

The best video on this subject l’ve ever seen! Thank you!

[tiago.t]

jeez you read my mind. I was going to ask how you spread out the spiderlings

[Whatumeme]

This is amazing content wow, thank you for the time you put in on this!

[choriflanero]

Hey Zack, I have an idea for content, might be good or just silly idk. You know how there's puzzles for games where they present you with a specific situation and you gotta solve it the best way possible (like "get lethal" puzzles for Hearthstone, or solve situations in Go, for example)?
Well I think something similar could be done with teamfights, like pausing it at a specific moment and saying "what's the best you can do here as ...". Say you're an initiator and you have to start a fight in a tier 2 or something, you could try to explain why you should be jumping to a specific core, or prioritizing supports, or just holding your blink because whatever.
I don't think it's that different to the replay analysis you generally do, but I thought it'd be cool to see a specific situation with that same puzzle aproach to it, giving some time to think about it for the viewers. I do struggle with assessing situations fast enough when initiating or counterinitaiting as a 4 player quite often so yeah, support focus would be nice, but I think understanding priorities as a core is useful as well.
Anyways thanks for the good content and actually reading all that :)

[Kenjn_DJ]

As a PL spammer and juke lover. I approve 🤪.
I like that console command, finally answered my frustration with using TAB to select individual summons instead of group.

[lukestclairmaitland]

Im 6k mmr and I learned so much from this video

[SkullKing]

When I select all and tab through my units I can't issue separate orders. Even if the white box is on one treant summon when I give an order all summons follow that order. How do I change that?

[jamalmixon]

1 thing that improved my micro: camera grip

[icata]

funny enough if you were a bit into warcrat 3 back in the day, the dota 2 controls are 90% the same

[jonahjameson]

Ya if only I can use shift TAB to tab the opposite way like in WAR3

[kikojo]

I'm not good at dota micro but I Played starcraft 2 for 3 years mediocre. I can play NP, Syllabear, ench, chen but trash. I hate illusion heroes and meepo I've been playing dota for 20 years and for the love of me I can't play those heroes.