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.
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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-_-2936]

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

[@ZQuixotix]

Aww thanks!

[@Jimbo-yn4fh]

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!

[@jancik.1948]

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

[@ZQuixotix]

It's tough!

[@emmanuelwilliamquinton9152]

On point !

[@anthonymercuri8885]

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.

[@ahmedabdelshakour5799]

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.

[@emmanuelwilliamquinton9152]

That's not bad i used to do this but actually you need to be more focused on the timer as there is more than pull. For exemple minute 1 you can / should block the camp. Then there are stack. Then there is the 2:47 pull where you want to get bounty. So there is a lot more to it.

[@jawohlmeinfuhrer8933]

or just checking the time when u have nothing to do. then u can see that "oh i have xx second to pull' etc

[@jeffreywright5431]

How did you create this time because I need it!!

[@alexajax444]

Thank you for the great timer idea! I went even further and made it beep every 5 seconds until 15 minutes into the game, then every 10 seconds. Absolutely crazy how much this helps.

[@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!

[@ZQuixotix]

Awesome to hear you're already seeing some instant improvements! Keep up the good work!

[@giancarloprado8206]

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

[@ZQuixotix]

Thank you!

[@notimetotell4538]

@@ZQuixotix Hi Zach, could I ask you a favor? I had a game where as Pos 5 Dawnbreaker my Pos 1 had a very easy lvl 1 lane and I felt I could zone out my opponent Shadow Fiend in mid. Indeed I feel I made him spend a lot of resources and lose an entire wave, buy my Pos 2 Sniper flamed me all the game for this move. Was I griefing or was it the right call? It's just until minute 1:30 and maybe you are interested in viewing this because this is not a common situation. 6685063311

[@andylongbottom9350]

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

[@seanduncan9722]

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

[@lucasmouragomes]

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

[@ZQuixotix]

MVP

[@karlivanantonio3922]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@dwinealiviado1047]

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.

[@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.

[@ZQuixotix]

Thank you!

[@sougatchhetri8677]

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)

[@xerxesmontes9828]

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

[@ahmedabdelshakour5799]

Another top quality educational content

[@jujhos]

loving youR videos dude, when are you dropping a video about the mid lane?

[@oda6721]

Thank you again!!!

[@lubbuwarriorgaming9438]

Love your content and think you're the best dota teacher I have seen and a very excellent teacher in general. I am very impressed with the production quality and the content delivery of your videos, and as someone who does abit of teaching myself about other subject matters, am interested in the process, techniques or workflow you use to come up with your videos. Do you mind making a youtube tutorial or writing contents on that? Apart from Dota, do you teach other subjects?

[@ZQuixotix]

I didn't think anyone would really be interested in the process so much so I hadn't thought about making a video on it. I might in the future! I don't teach, but I had considered being a teacher. I taught some fencing camps/classes with my club back in the day which gave me some teaching experience. Besides that, just any tutoring/helping as a student. As for my process (simplified), usually I have an idea for what I want a video to be about. Spend awhile thinking through that topic, what needs to be included, anything I think could be good. I keep a list of these ideas and some notes on them, and they usually sit on this list for quite awhile until I have time to actually make them. While they sit there, I often mentally talk through what I want to say. Depending on the topic, I either make a PowerPoint for it OR just run through it live while showing stuff if I think that would convey the topic better. For these PowerPoint ones, I put down whatever I've thought up to this point, and I usually work on them and sit on them for a couple weeks. Keep adding in or fine tuning stuff as I go. Then I record and re-record a bunch and sometimes change stuff up until I'm happy/sick of working on it and just release it LOL. PowerPoint vids typically take me a several weeks of on and off prep. On the fly videos are usually a few hours of having an idea, planning, and then doing it.

[@travsi]

a good part of timings should be preempting the catapult arrival and putting creep equilibrium in your favor so the catapult does the most damage to the tower and doesnt just get nuked by the tower cuz it pushed to the tower with little to no creeps.

[@Derubin]

Singlehandedly decrypting dota. Many thanks man.

[@negativerainbow]

One thing I think you missed on your things to see on the minimap section is the locations of the creep waves/creep equilibriums. I feel like there's a lot of information there when either theres a wave near your towers that no ally is farming (I should farm here), or theres a wave deep in enemy territory that no enemy heroes are farming (they're either on their way there, or invading us). Also just useful to know how close/far the waves are meeting in each lane. They're basically free wards in the lanes, so I think there's a lot of value in regularly checking to see what they do and don't see, and where they are.

[@ZQuixotix]

True I should have gone a bit more into detail about the creeps. I talk about it in videos, but it really should have gone in here too

[@emmanuelwilliamquinton9152]

Pop quiz on the time I was looking at it just before. I answered 6:30... You made your point i looked at it but didn't process the info.

[@Tom_Blue222]

Just as I ask for an awareness video, trying to escape the ditch, here it is

[@TheGefen]

another cool method is to use a recording (there are couple on youtube) that will ping once every 5 or 10 seconds to remind you to check time and minimap

[@ousqa3332]

Wisdom rune at 7:00 and lotus pool at 3:00 for newwest patch

[@Jesus11151]

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

[@giancarloprado8206]

If u keep up the work and practice it will become very natural, u will feel things and won't need to actively think about them anymore.

[@ZQuixotix]

Yes, it's super tiring! I always try to take short breaks between games so I can do my best to keep my focus high

[@NuttyElf]

Great video! Do you have any plans to up your coaching slots on patreon? Would be super interested

[@ZQuixotix]

Thanks for the interest! Unfortunately, it probably won't be for a bit, I've been having a hard time balancing everything so I reduced coaching to try to be able to make more videos. Wednesday streams (or whenever they end up being) I do free replay analysis giveaways which are kind of like mini coachings if you want to try that

[@abeykasun]

@@ZQuixotix how can we submit videos for replay analysis?

[@TheDTVOfficial]

Wow you're such a good mentor.. if you could find a way to compress topics to 8-10mins, i'm pretty sure your channel will blow up even further.. keep up the good work, cheers!

[@williamkellogg9346]

So...I need to pay attention to the timer, last hitting and/or harassing, Mid, and? lol

[@mohammadyassersabtal6501]

How about to improve team fights awareness.

[@odarkeq]

38:20 if i was your co-worker i'd be worried about you...

[@ZQuixotix]

Lmao

[@chiharuDS]

comentario para que el algoritmo de youtube se porte bien

[@giancarloprado8206]

Una vez le comente a Zach para ayudarlo a traducir sus vídeos al español, ojalá el canal pudiera llegar a la comunidad hispanohablante

[@chiharuDS]

@@giancarloprado8206 te respondió?? es info muy buena, explica demasiado bien y son cosas que muchos omiten explicar porque asumen que todos lo saben, y obvio no es así, alguien debe enseñártelas

[@giancarloprado8206]

@@chiharuDS Si me dijo que el ya habia pensado en los subtitulos en varias ocasiones pero que no sabia de que manera hacerlo, ya que KZbin lo pone un poco complicado para que los miembros de la comunidad puedan poner subitulos a los videos. Pero que definitivamente lo tendra en cuenta par el futuro.

[@garysalazar5279]

Only supports care about all the timers. Most carries dont care about timers unless they are in immortal.

[@fsy7316]

Pretty sure mids care about their power runes at least :)

[@garysalazar5279]

@@fsy7316 nah, im mid and its the job of my supports to ping the time when it's close to the power runes spawn :)

[@sougatchhetri8677]

I play mid and I'm constantly looking at 2, 3 , 4 power runes. Also looking to stack the small camp. Other than that on 5 and 10 mins thier are catapult waves so always looking to Destroy enemy catapult mid and rotate to a lane to pressure tower. Looking on timers has more to do with if you are a good player or not , not which role you play.

[@garysalazar5279]

@@sougatchhetri8677 ah... that's not how we do it in SEA. If I play carry and I have to buy a BKB, that means our supports failed.

[@mortezamahmoudi616]

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