How To Play Spectre | Tips, Tricks and Tactics | A Dota 2 Guide by BSJ

[@bananaslamjamma]

Hero Guides Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLZ7yVl4cw_JvHQ4NA8NyfdUHeIM1z0TLW ^This playlist includes Slark, Mars, Jugg, Slardar, Terrorblade, Morphling & Legion Commander.

[@dexmod355]

Hi BSJ! I think it would also be great if you can, in line with your Hero Guide, play these heroes in your Hero Guide on your Educational Smurf games just to show how you would apply your concepts on the said heroes. I don't know.. Maybe it may not make sense but that would be great imo.. Thanks and more power. :)

[@banishedbr]

too many subs huh BSJ, too late give us the GUIDES ^^

[@rockon795]

Vc

[@rseasons3605]

BSJ, It would be cool if you could tag the timeline on the video so we know what you're talking about when. Also, could you talk a little bit more about itemization

[@ryanyongway]

can u do a video explaining about magic build and physical damage build ? when is good for magic build and when is good for phy damage build .

[@louiscowan1436]

played with someone supporting me on jakiro and felt like he was trying to copy your jakiro game so i asked him and he was. Positive influence on people over in ocean server

[@brisingr29]

Straight after his CM carry support game I had one on my team emulating it (quite well, too!)

[@sh3nnanigans79]

I did it once too. I had 7k tower damage. Team had 1k combined, with a furion. Then I got flamed for feeding with my glimmer, force, euls that made it take 3 people to kill me. 3k players do not take advantage of space created.

[@Yurioh]

@@sh3nnanigans79 got pinged relentlessly as jakiro and lina when they were taking bad fights and i kept pushing the tower on the opposite side of the map. pretty sure they reported me too lol.

[@Vergilsky]

@@Yurioh gg support noob lina farming instead of joining fight, end mid no def :)

[@Yurioh]

@@Vergilsky that is more or less what happened haha, but to be frank i am not good at gauging when i should tp to a fight or not

[@TipsyFGC]

Idk why but the last couple months your content just feels so much better.

[@zynstein]

He chilled out a lot

[@lordcritical3611]

it was always good what you mean lol

[@zynstein]

@@lordcritical3611 good and better are different things. Better is an improvement of something. Good creators can improve

[@Lexincrypt]

PMA

[@СтефанКарамански]

BSJ popped in my recommendations last week and I've been watching sense then. Keep it up sa it seems you get favored by the algorithm :)

[@panakidyt4510]

not a big fan of spectre, but still watched it cuz of how in depth and accurate it is :)

[@soheilrazi9290]

When I play spectre it seems like I'm a walking wall with no damage but when the enemy playes it it feels like it takes everything to kill her

[@Zenovarse]

Damage is certainly something that spectre does not lack. You do pretty much the MOST damage in any game you are in, unless there is a Zeus. It's the same as pa. Except pa builds a bunch of damage items, but the only real damage item you build is manta. Jump the squish and burst them down in like 2 seconds. Given farm, you can almost certainly kill one support in a shadow step or a haunt. You don't even need your real hero to kill them. If you just go shadow step -> abyssal or hex or orchid or whatever -> manta -> Spectral dagger -> shadow step away, it's often enough to kill any low hp hero without you commiting anything at all. It could be them have 5 heros but a bit split apart, your team all in random places, and you can still make this move solo and essentially win a fight without any fighting.

[@Zenovarse]

It feels like she has no damage because she doesn't clear creep waves very fast and she can't fight the enemy carry. But Zeus is literally that as well and Zeus is the most stereotypical damage hero. You are also not a wall at all, because you are usually playing solo on the opposite side of the map from your team, so if the enemy go on you, you just die.

[@Taziod]

These guides are the best. I don't even play carry, but having such a high level overview (meaning general, not advanced although they are) give me such a good idea of what these characters want to do so when I play Pos 5 I can help my carry achieve similar goals while also understanding weaknesses in the event I'm against these characters. Keep it up!

[@charlottesphie7037]

U need to know how to play carry even u dont play carry. This is important

[@emmanuelwilliamquinton9152]

Hey bsj, you clearly deserve the growth you are getting on your channel. Very good quality content and improving.

[@nmelol]

I recently started playing dota2, very low mmr. The amount of knowledge you share in this channel is beyond anything. As new player it is so much to absorb but it will pay off one day for sure. Thanks BSJ!

[@momon8738]

if you really new with dota, I recommend looking for basic mechanics video like creep aggro, flash farm, pull and stack, and such. Creep aggro is the most important tho, too bad the video is maybe 4-5 years old by now, but the mechanics still relevant

[@dhruvrawat5983]

you can also watch purge dota . He is like the ultimate guide for new players and gameleep dota channel

[@randomplayer8957]

As a new player coming from LoL I find your tips being the best on youtube! Grats! Wish u upload more of them carries

[@sife1808]

May I ask why you switched from LoL?

[@randomplayer8957]

​@@sife1808 I like a lot about dota's gameplay, longer and more forgivable teamfights due to defensive items, net worth positions, metagame system (pause, safe to leave, buybacks) and the fact that champion mechanics are similar to league, but more heavily focused on owning gold and core items (league lacks proper champ balance) - so basically I can move back to league after a while, but dota has a nice learning curve just because the games have a different pace and I like that a lot.

[@Illum_]

@@randomplayer8957 i suggest u stop playing now, youll regret it in the long term :)

[@sife1808]

@@randomplayer8957 Dotas learning curve is steeper trust me, the heroes might not be too complicated, except a few, but the core mechanics of the game is tough. If you want to learn 1 moba stick to it, changing makes you perform poor. But you do you man. Play however you enjoy.

[@judeaberdeen6848]

@@sife1808 idk about that I'm mid plat in League and high Legend in dotes.

[@westwest2917]

Again this is the best Dota 2 channel on KZbin atm without a doubt

[@kama6sutra1996]

Back in the days I didn't like how bsj delivered his knowledge. I started appreciating it and therefore subscribed.

[@yannickweineck4302]

He also calmed down a bit :)

[@leonli4527]

BSJ appreciater

[@josephreynolds2401]

Assertive language is thought to be mean. Hard to have strong convictions when folks are telling you that you need to be nicer AND YOU LISTEN TO THEM without a grain of salt.

[@SK3564]

Congrats on the subscribers! You deserve it. Hope you get more and more so that we can keep getting those hero guides 🙈

[@Exitium12]

so far I'm only 9 min into the vid, and already I'm enjoying the video 10 times more than all the fast talking over ecstatic Dota vids out there. Just a nice relaxed, well explained walkthrough, i like it

[@internerperson23473]

BSJ im really happy for how far you have come, this type of content is extremely good for the community and your way of expressing the thoughts are way above the rest of the coaches, you deserve this growth and more! cheers and i hope valve takes you to the next TI in some way!! :)

[@siddharthagourab]

Won't shy away by saying that as a herald I am making huge strides since I saw this video , 47 matches (30W 17L) and I have got into guardian and the next stop is crusader. Every bit of advice by you has positive influence upon my playstyle at least when I am playing spectre. The greatest satisfaction was when the whole team went feeding I still didn't lose hope the opponents make a couple of mistakes and boom spectre goes berserk , those wins literally feel like you are the champion of dota momentarily. Can't thank you more BSJ. Thanks again and all the best for your endeavours at Utrecht. 🇮🇳

[@CanalGuy]

I came across your content a few months ago and watching your videos and your stream has developed my understanding of this game so much.

[@milesrout]

I think it's a real pity you don't want to keep making these every 5k subscribers. I think they're among the best content on your channel. Obviously it's your channel and you know what content is worth your time to make, but these guides are fantastic. I'm hoping to see Anti-Mage soon!

[@bananaslamjamma]

difficult to fit in, with streaming and playing games myself every day, to then also doing patreon responsibilities, coaching, replay analysis, extra content, to real life stuff, etc. when it was 1 guide a month it was fine but 3-4 a month is quite time consuming.

[@milesrout]

@@bananaslamjamma I totally understand. I hope my comment didn't come across as ungrateful. It is, after all, completely free content, and very good content at that.

[@benhmn]

Spectre has always been my main carry, in or out of meta. I've got a high win rate with her overall, but this really helps me understand the why behind everything. Why I do or don't want to pick her, why the game is going good or bad for me, etc. In fact I just had one recent win, and one recent loss. The loss was over an hour long and I think we lost with a 10k gold advantage. And now I realize it's partly because we had no good frontliners, initiators or lockdown. The game I won had a pudge and a lion, and they were able to just put enemy heroes on a plate all game while I pulled out silverware and leisurely devoured them. We won right at my power spike around 45 minutes.

[@emraanterminator]

I just recently started watching your videos and what I like is that you teach the concept and not the thing itself. For example you said that its important we need heroes in the team to disengage haunt so any hero with low cooldown mobility skills to go out and comeback is good. This is key rather than listing heroes as counter as it changes the way we think on hero and counters. I appreciate it.

[@hunt8609]

My man's really put here pumping out these fucking DANK ASS guides, all hail BSJ

[@walkietalkie3479]

Thank you man!! most of the time Im pretty weak at playing carry hero! After watching this guide I kinda felt like why not Imma try this at pub!! I did what u suggested in this video and I was able to dominate every Spectre game since then...You are rlly good at explaining and analysing ,keep doing this kinda content

[@Yonny316]

Just got back into dota after 5 years, going back to watch a lot of content.

[@crookedlycrooked9256]

Thank you BSJ, really appreciate the content :)

[@davidmoore3411]

Yo, bsj. I remember when i first saw you play, you seemed so upset with everything that every game was a slog when i saw you. I started watching Purge just as I started playing a decade ago and I only learned the game from streamers. So when i see you now and see how you show your growth, its great to see. It seems you are great now for someone to learn to understand the game.

[@kayletvgaming7096]

I love this guide coach bsj been waiting for this

[@samonthecreek]

Just subscribed today because of this video. I'll be honest, sometimes you can be a bit too 'impassioned' for my liking, but I get it. DOTA makes us all tilt every now and then. But I absolutely respect the hell out of your knowledge of the game. I have taken advice from your videos into my own games and have noticed an incredibly distinct improvement in my ability to change the tide and win games. Keep it up, man!

[@liquidpaper5997]

hey bsj. i don't play dota much anymore but i like your videos. i think you have the right mentality about scorning the NA region for rage-quitting. i also like that you use poker lingo sometimes, and i'd like to see more of it. it's a hard concept to explain to people, but in low information or incomplete information games, it's less important the results of any particular match but instead the overall trend. focusing on EV+ moves and behavior rather than the end result is correct and you do a good job of talking about it but we don't ever hear you explicating saying this. i think it's important to drive that home whenever possible, esp. to combat the slump people get in after a loss or two. it's the same in poker, sometimes you're tilting even though you did everything right, and the best option is to take a break for awhile.

[@fuadawangku742]

You're guide is always deep and detailed.

[@thomsaja2814]

i just love BSJ contents. They are getting better. Keep doing it. Especially what are in the current meta & 9k thoughts in low brackets.

[@ramaramadota4042]

Congratulations, Really love the work!!! keep it up.

[@kaushikmukunda3095]

Ive actually had crazy luck with spectre starting out with a culling blade and 2x ring of regens. Esp in lower rank pubs

[@gibson4648]

I love these guides so much. Thank you BSJ for timeless advice

[@Ramenbowl]

Started recently playing dota 2 again after 6-7 years away, though I played the shit out of dota 1 for what feels like a decade. Your videos fucking rock - concepts and philosophies supported by evidence; case studies and examples. Truly helping me re-orientate in a very different meta. In my case, the lockdown in Melbourne meant I couldn't train jiujitsu, so I looked to something else to grow in and satisfy my incessant competitor urges. So, I wonder if this is a correlation to surging viewing #s?

[@thearchivist250]

Great guide. As a person who just lost a brutal 80 min Spectre game after up 20k+, the advice of Spectre not wanting ultra long games is 100% accurate. At that point, she can't blow up anyone quickly, the other team will have several items and abilities to survive/kite, and she her relative damage falls off. Most importantly, she doesn't have an easy way to siege buildings. So it's about getting Rosh and praying your teammates actually take a good fight.

[@flampy77]

I swear to god this is golden content

[@imbrand5040]

thank you so much! spectre is my favourite ever carry to play and i really needed this!1

[@krittitatprakongsai9022]

I watched it all , Amazing Guide !!

[@appsenence9244]

Bsj bro, can you remind us to click the like button. Always thought it was annoying but it's actually a helpful reminder. I had to go back past 10 videos now to click like on all of em :/

[@genuine_noob3727]

Love your videos! Can you make a medusa guide soon? :)

[@Matthew-tu2jq]

Epic guide dude as always

[@marcvad3r]

Your guides are god tier I definitely notice that I'm playing better after following your videos

[@charliemerrell]

Your spectre sounds like my slark: watched both your guides but the hero just doesn’t click for me at all

[@axel_person]

This is by far your best video ever. You have improved so much in making videos (and as a person). Less emotions more informative usable shit! As an immortal player i was just nodding along constantly. apart from dota 2, I study psychology and language and the way people use it. This video is and amazing example of good language use. Clear and to the point information. That noobs and veterans can watch and rewatch to their hearts content. Evercghanging Meta thinking into specific arguments and their counterarguments. tip my hat to you yet again sir.

[@ionm.2412]

Bruh, I can't even. Excellent guide !

[@shaunstrachan]

thanks for the vid, great watch as usual

[@alisherkyzykbayev2917]

42:07 how poweLful

[@godsparticle7657]

lol

[@dexmod355]

Hi BSJ! I think it would also be great if you can, in line with your Hero Guide, play these heroes in your Hero Guide on your Educational Smurf games just to show how you would apply your concepts on the said heroes. I don't know.. Maybe it may not make sense but that would be great imo.. Thanks and more power. :)

[@user-rq8nh5fb5b]

does manta not remove the break debuff?

[@iPlayDotaReligiously]

Dependable on wut cause the break.

[@dxcci]

Does Manta remove break from: Silver Edge - no Nyx ult - yes Doom aghs - yes you can't dispell Shadow Demon ult, and for Viper obviously you have to run away.

[@user-rq8nh5fb5b]

@@dxcci ty

[@eboyce24]

Definitely loooove to face those chars you mentioned. Having zeus or wr wreck themselves on dispersion is pretty great. Used to go vanguard diffusal on mediocre starts, otherwise rushing rad almost always the best. Definitely also very correct about not liking to face bristle, tide, lycan. Playing against smart sandking can get really rough early game without constant support--to the point of abandoning lane entirely. I haven't played a whole lot recently but was nice to have 3 or 4 reliable item build paths. On the final point about defensive playstyles, there are rare opportunities for rushing diffusal and getting early haunt kills and running ganks (usually with a "backup carry" like jug)--jungle kills (lycan--ha!), hard pushes, etc--pushing the target win time to 38 min instead of 43ish if you have a proper push comp. Games that go into the 70+min mark get to be toss-ups even if you've felt unkillable and on the cusp of winning the entire game.

[@SavantAudiosurf]

Nice video BSJ. Looking forward to owning some noob tonight as spectre.

[@jme7393]

Watching this in 2022 and yes BSJ, still relevant 🤝🏽

[@ZeProblematicz]

Oh nice spectre she's always been one of my favourites.

[@deeznoodlezz]

Thank you bsj, very cool

[@Vandalgia]

One thing about low bracket player is that none of us actually know how to read the map and the beauty of Spectre is that it forces you to learn how to read the map and read enemy's movement because you'll need that haunt kill. I main Spectre and it helped me jumping from 1k to 2k

[@Mr_Beuregard]

I've always hated spectre on my team because I don't like playing based on a 40min window, but because my games go about that long anyway, I might start picking her up. Great guide BSJ. Thanks heaps for making good content!

[@33shin33]

Spectre the Thanos of Dota

[@k1ngzesrelsantiago220]

Nope. It's Sven

[@Zenovarse]

Juggernaut is the armor of dota

[@LachlanDally]

Watching this after spectre crushed some games at TI 12. Good prediction bsj!

[@theakberpasha8678]

Great Insights!! Don't play spectre but still watching. Could you make a video on DK?

[@lucasperedo6679]

Bsj wut is your thought about meme hammer 1st item with specter?

[@bananaslamjamma]

meme

[@greatestgrasshopper9210]

When windranger pops up in your jungle and uses focus fire. Got a free 300 gold from a wacky wind mid lol

[@StereoGrow]

Hey Mr. Slamma Jamma, Gratz on the growth, your content is awesome. Quick question! Why is noone playing veno mid in the pro scene. In my personal experience, i see it as a complete lockdown on mid. Is it because you can cheese the lane? When i play it i max Q and W with 1 lvl in wards. Pretty much shuts down all mid heroes for what i see.

[@redgoatfbi1554]

When he used the 2 clarities while fighting roshan I felt the toxicity rising in me

[@cheeruppp]

my favorite hero, thanks for the vid :)

[@slickmullet3891]

This guide is amazing. I’m also glad to see I’m not the only one with an atrocious Spectre wr 🤪

[@Get-mad-over-9000]

I'm actually rocking 9 winstreak RN with Night Stalker pos 3 after I learned some basic positioning and learned some when,where,how to push lanes from this channel I just destroyed 2k players in SEA server like I'm some Immortal, the only hard game I had is when I Meet smurfs acc, I can easily identify smurfs right now because of how advance they cs just like in the vid however for some reasons I can recover quite easily from a bad lane Right now. Huge thanks to BSJ.

[@WDkuru]

Never mentions getting meteor hammer. Goes first item meteor hammer in the background footage.

[@sasha751]

Where do you vote for hero guide?

[@carlomatias6703]

Need these advice, especially haven't been unlocked the red arcana of spectre😢

[@Rorther]

So BKB is good on mage dealers like Skywrath so it can solo spec without taking any dispersion damage? I never knew the damage reflected was from the same nature. Always thought it was pure.

[@iPlayDotaReligiously]

Latest patch..before it was pure. Thats why bm is his 1st item now, cz of ot has same passive skill so they amplify each other.

[@vanossblackheart6029]

For the past few months I've been trying to learn more aggressive playstyle since I felt way too passive in the game. Out of nowhere spec go good and I couldn't, just like not in a million years preform well with this hero.... now I at least know why

[@jorenzaldon3337]

Keep uploading sir BSJ! ❤

[@Nicole_whatsgood]

Spectre won the arcana vote so even though she’s about to get nerfed into the ground she’s guaranteed to be broken again sometime in the next year!

[@marth2535]

I think she wont get nerfed as much but the overall meta will change into a more fast paced style imo. Also the cancer push strats will get buffed probably

[@zaslayer]

Great work, really appreciated. Could use some skill usages/situations/teamfight handling in some separate playlist for every hero you made guides. I think they would generate more above decent views/likes. Same as we can see how to play jugg in lower bracket to carry the game solo, as for mars also (much appreciated videos also). Ty again and also ofc you could link the guide to them, win win win! hehe

[@liamnissanS2K]

Happy for you BSJ

[@racer_AB]

BSJ is a God!

[@Akagra007]

These tricks still work at the moment. Treads, Blademail, Yasha into Manta and then play around your Haunt

[@thearchivist250]

Yup. I also like Echo instead of BM, but both are great.

[@SebastianSanchez65]

Great video BSJ! i have over 250 games as spectre and i can tell what he says is very true

[@vasilisarvanitis8755]

Just because spectre has always been one of the hardest carries in the game does not mean she is broken. If the enemy pressure her early to mid with a push lineup she gets destroyed. Anytime someone in the pro scene says a hero is broken valve reworks or messes them up. Please dont change one of my favorite heroes.

[@Alrounderclips.24]

14:29 NOICE!

[@iturriet]

Spectre is one of, if not the most, scary hard carry in the history of the game. Being a squishyhero and goingt into a fight knowing for sure a monster will pop behind and muder you makes anyone play fearful asfuck. If you played dota 1 you know the horror movie that is to play againist this unkillable piece of hell

[@clarkgilborbon9298]

BSJ, close your closet next time. My eyes was there the whole time waiting for something to come out. 😂

[@Crimson83blah]

I hope you follow up with what to do against a spectre. Sad to have this for carries and not for supports

[@AnarchyDucky]

Great guide good sir

[@famedinag]

Still watching it in 2022

[@realityhits3022]

What do you think i mostly go for diffusal as starting item. But yea mostly depends if the enemy team is mana dependent or not

[@famedinag]

@@realityhits3022 i know it has been buffed and is better than never, but i still hate the item… it oftens boders me in my inventory isntead of “feeling good” about purchasing siffu

[@parthopawgi3737]

Where can i send my replay for your analysis?

[@abhishekavhad3390]

So basically take her when your support picks techies right ?

[@lordmilan1703]

Just want to thank u bro

[@LostCoffinGaming]

I have a question. How do you pick good laning match ups in this current picking system?

[@jekkuz2453]

wtf, I am actually watching this before TI12 and they just released a patch where spectre was significantly buffed

[@odanx]

I have a new appreciation for this hero now.

[@sammg95]

Cheers for the guides BSJ even on hero’s you don’t particularly like 👍

[@StriderGG]

Cheers to you for enjoying the guides :)

[@elainachi]

Why when I used the Transversant Soul second style, it has no effect?

[@TheJgjfg]

How to play when enemy team is dominating the map ?

[@adriancallme7170]

more subs for bsj! he deserves it . so handsome bro haha

[@thureinthway7874]

Spectre is broken, no doubt. But in the lower ranks (0k-5k) I think sven is wayy more broken, cuz they’re not going to think correctly or well enough to counter him. His team can just run around trying to wreck havoc while he farms up his agha and once he have that agha+lvl 15 talent, it’s just pure chaos. You crush their backliners wayy to easily and the best part is they can’t do anything about it lmao

[@derikbhardwaj7909]

BSJ : How is Spectre against Meduaa? Is it better to go diffusal against her or Radiance?

[@Panflap]

What about the 7.34 nerf / buff??

[@daven6617]

Can u do sf next?

[@joeypoon1269]

keep up the good work buddy. Love ur comments. Thanks for the love

[@nicolenicole2085]

I've noticed that BSJ never makes his bed. Maybe I'm missing the point of these videos, but that's all I can pay attention to. Messy hair + messy bed + messy room = most broken dota player ever.

[@enfinite1597]

Wow 30 mmr +

[@charbelyounes5188]

You mean chadest