To succeed in Dota 2, you need more than one component. Naturally, the most important thing is practice and skill: the more you play, the better you become and the more effective you will act in the process. Naturally, you should not think that there are any limits to Dota training. In fact, here you can improve endlessly, and there will always be someone who can defeat you.
Secondly, you need to understand your favorite characters, have standard development strategies and actions for them on the battlefield for them, and also be able to quickly navigate and come up with something new if things go not so smoothly.
There are many more different factors, one of which is objects. "Dota 2" is a game in which there is a huge number of different characters, and if you read the guides to them, you will find that many in the minuses recorded dependence on objects. This means that this hero is much weaker if not equipped with the proper set of things. It is about such objects that we will discuss later.
Items in DotA 2
Naturally, one should start with the basics: what are objects? "Dota 2" is a game where you use your hero’s skills, as well as his melee or ranged weapons. Skills, skills, damage and health, armor and speed - all this depends on your level and grows in proportion to the plan. However, if you buy an item in the store and equip it in your own inventory, then your character can acquire certain skills that he cannot have. It can increase its characteristics, increase damage or increase armor, and so on. With the help of objects, you can even increase static parameters that do not grow with the level of the character. Thus, you can easily understand that all characters need items. “Dota 2” is a game in which the round does not last very long, no more than two hours, so here you will need absolutely everything that you can get to strengthen your hero.
Receiving items
Naturally, the gamer immediately raises the question: how to get items? Dota 2 does not offer many options. The easiest and most common way is to buy in a store. When you kill creeps or enemy heroes, you get not only experience, but also gold that you need to spend. And you can spend it in the store, buying those things that your hero needs. Accordingly, it is logical that you will not buy spontaneous goods in the store, but will think through several options for your hero’s build in advance, so that you can purposefully collect money to buy the necessary things.
However, there is another way - by killing creeps. There is a small chance that after the creep dies, an item will drop from it. Naturally, the possibility that it will be useful to you is extremely small, so most often such items are sold in the store. Unfortunately, the exchange of items is prohibited in this game. "Dota 2" allows you to exchange only those items that belong to the type of Consumables, that is, those that can be used - various potions, scrolls, and so on.
Types of items
As you already understood, the game has a limited exchange of items. "Dota 2" forbids you to exchange with your teammates the drop that you do not need. Accordingly, a logical question arises: what kind of objects are there? First of all, there are things that strengthen the character: they occupy a place in the inventory and have a permanent effect. You cannot transfer them to other heroes. And there are those items that have a limited number of uses (most often only one): you can transfer them, but they do not have any effect on the character until they are used. Naturally, up to this point they also occupy a place in the inventory.
Prefabricated items
It is also worth highlighting prefabricated items - these are the most expensive items in Dota 2. They consist of several elements that are put together when they are assembled in one inventory. Each of the elements can have a certain effect on the character, but it either disappears when the item turns into a new one, or summed up with the effects of other parts - it depends on the specific object. Many people think that in “Dota 2” the most expensive item is the Divine Rapier, which costs six thousand coins, but if we take into account prefabricated items, the rapier drops immediately to third place, giving way to Dagon, which in itself costs less than three thousand, but there are four upgrades to it, each of which has a price of a little more than a thousand. As a result, almost eight thousand come out.
Who can use the items?
In DotA 2, each character can use or equip almost all items. Exceptions are only those objects that match properties of character skills. Then they become incompatible.