The best services to improve your Dota 2 play

Dota 2 is a fairly complex game with a relatively high entry threshold. Many players, after starting to play the MOBA discipline from Valve and passing the ranking calibration, slow down in their progress and reach a plateau, getting stuck on a certain ranking. From YouTube guides to third party services that can help you learn and improve your Dota 2 game, there are a variety of tools available to help you level up.

In this article we'll talk about the best Dota 2 game-boosting services and their strengths and weaknesses.

Dotabuff

Probably one of the most popular and oldest Dota 2 analytics services. The site was developed by Elo Entertainment and launched on August 23rd, 2012, three days before Long Conpeg The International 2. The site is continuously updated and improved.

The design of The International site is clean and simple, albeit a little old-fashioned. Users have access to an extensive database of tournaments, matches, teams and players. It's also possible to view stats on heroes and items with a variety of filters, such as sorting by date or patch. The Dotabuff editorial team publishes analyses on the site and enthusiastic users can take part in forum discussions.

Also, every player can log in to the site using their Steam account. In this way Dotabuff will be able to access your Dota 2 stats and show detailed data on your game.

There are 3 versions of Dotabuff: a free web version, a paid web version called Dotabuff Plus, and an app for computers, which also offers additional features if you purchase a subscription. The free version of the website offers most of the functionality, which will be sufficient for self analysis of statistics and training.

The Dotabuff Plus subscription is offered as two plans: an annual plan priced at $56 or a monthly plan that costs $6. Dotabuff Plus opens up access to an in-game assistant that provides hints on timing, item builds, and skill progression. The paid version of the service also provides information about your progress on each of the heroes, as well as detailed analytics on the game. Dotabuff Plus gives you access to TrueSight analyzer which gives you detailed information on timings, farming, wards and other game details. You'll also be able to track your friends' game news, and the site will disable ads.

The Dotabuff App allows users to improve their build timings, use the drafting assistant, and improve their knowledge of the timings of events on the game map. The Dotabuff App also shows graphs of hero strength, which allows them to intelligently form a plan for the game. Additionally, players can get help collecting items and selecting skills to level up.

Dota 2 Pro Tracker

This service also tracks Dota 2 stats but is more focused on professional players. The interface of the site looks more up-to-date than Dotabuff. Users can access stats by heroes that can be sorted by role, number of matches played and win percentage. You can also view a list of the players who are currently playing Dota 2 as well as links to their live broadcasts. Additionally, players can view stats by eѕrоrtѕmen, which can be sorted by number of matches played and winning percentage.

When looking at stats by heroes, the Dota 2 Pro Tracker provides information on the best professional players who have played a given character, the best item builds, and the best pumping schemes. In addition, the service shows a list of matches involving a particular character, and detailed statistics on that character.

Player-specific data is displayed in the form of the heroes the player played and their win rate, number of matches and information about the most recently played games.

The website also features a Match of the Day section. Here you can find statistics on KDA (Killing, Deaths and Assists ratio), IMP (Intra-Match Performance), kambacom and other performances of the estrategmens from the last 24 hours.

The service is completely free of charge and currently offers no fee-based features. Last match data is limited to 8 days, this is due to the fact that Valve keeps replays of matches for 8 days. Dota 2 Pro Tracker is based on Stratz API, which we'll talk about below.

Spectral

A special feature of this statistical resource is that it is populated personally by Lea 'Leamare' Silakov, team analyst for Tundra Esports. The site provides stats on eSports tournaments, Dota 2 heroes and item builds. To celebrate major tournaments, the author of the site publishes large newsletters with various charts, graphs and structured data. Various articles and infographics are also available on Spectral.

Stratz

Stratz is a Dota 2 resource created by long-time Dota 2 veterans and dedicated to providing the best of both worlds. The site is updated every Friday and is free of charge.

The resource has a modern, minimalistic and clear design that will be comfortable for the vast majority of users. The site also allows you to sign in with your Steam account, allowing you to view statistics and analytics on your Dota 2 profile as well as your guild.

The user can choose from sections with heroes, players, matches, leagues, guilds, battle pass, and leaderboards. Stratz offers extensive analytics on popular heroes, builds, how to pump and more. One of the features is also statistics on special events in Dota 2, such as Diretide, Aghanim's Labyrinth and more.

Stratz is also keeping up with the trends and offers users a Stratz+ service. Stratz+ is a drafting assistant based on the artificial The International eletc. To use the assistant, you need to download the app to your computer, and then it The International integrates with the Dota 2 client. The AI provides tips during the draft phase, during the leaping phase, strength calculations and estimated match times to win. Stratz+ is a great tool to practice and improve your drafts.

GameLeap

GameLeap is an educational platform for gamers that provides content for learning to play a particular discipline. In addition to Dota 2, GameLeap provides training in popular projects such as League of Legends, Overwatch 2, Valorant, Apex Legends, Halo Infinite and Fortnite.

When you enter the site, you'll be prompted to select your desired discipline, and information is also displayed on how many courses, guides and hours of content are presented for each game. At the time of writing, GameLeap offers 133 courses and 1,412 guidebooks for a total of 380 hours of content.

The courses are created by players in the top 0.01% of the Dota 2 rankings. Service offers both free video tutorials and tutorials for a fee, that is, to view the latter you need to pay a subscription fee, which costs from $ 5. Subscription plans are available for both a month and a year. Also available is a lifetime subscription, which gives you unlimited access to the resource at a cost of $119.

So the shortest course on Dota 2 is a psychology course in the discipline, its duration is almost three and a half hours, and the most extensive training falls on the course "Raising the rating with Speeed. Learning how to effectively increase your MMR will take almost 57 hours.

Conclusion

Due to its popularity and iconic status for Dota 2, a huge number of platforms have been created to help improve your own Dota 2 game. The services offered range from analytics and dry statistics to directly educational courses. The above list is not definitive, but describes the most popular ways to improve your Dota 2 skills. Ultimately, the services alone will not be sufficient for self-development in the game, they need to be combined with diligence, regular practice and a desire to learn.