Although slight, your increased survivability will often be enough to kill an extra unit on the board, thus reducing the amount of damage you take, and perhaps even winning you the match-up. The game is slow-paced and heroes take their sweet time to charge their mana. For example, an upgraded Venomancer and a Shadow Fiend or Witch Doctor trigger the Warlock buff.īeing able to lifesteal this early on can easily make the difference between a win and a loss. The best way to bank on your momentum right now is to include heroes that synergize (form alliances) with your upgraded ones. If you can get any of the above heroes to 2-stars within the first 10 rounds, you’re on your way to a good game. Some of the outstanding units you should seriously consider in this timeframe include: Batrider (cost 1) and Chaos Knight (cost 2), Tiny (1) and Morphling (2), Tusk (1) and Venomancer (1)/Enchantress (1), Luna (2), Lycan (3), or Slark (3).Īntimage (1), Slardar (2), Queen of Pain (2), Razor (1), Abbadon (3), Omniknight (3), Beastmaster (2), Clockwerk (3) and Tinker (3) are also great to have, but they generally fare better when paired accordingly.

Great, unchallenged compositions might sometimes cost you some health in the early game, but they can help you make a strong comeback later on. By round 12-13, you need to have two, ideally three, upgraded heroes in order to maintain a decent health pool. This will maximize your odds of getting 2-star upgrades fast. Ideally, you want to figure out a composition (a mix of units and synergies) that nobody else, or at least no more than one other person, is likely to also go for. The latter need a good damage dealer to carry them through the end game and Slark fits that profile like a glove. Who cares that it doesn’t really mesh with your 6 Knights. Sometimes, you may be able to include a unit in your composition simply because of its strength or because nobody else picked it up, but this is not always the case. Don’t always go with what the shop is giving you. There are two reasons for this: 1) you’re more likely to get heroes that other players haven’t already purchased and 2) there is a bit of RNG to what ends up in your shop. Knights or Warriors, you’ll most likely fail to achieve your goal and there is a high probability that you will finish in the bottom. If you’re fixated on getting a specific composition, i.e. Your mindset determines much of what you can do in Dota Underlords. Underlords is a game and there are a limited number of heroes/combinations/synergies to be had. So, the first thing you have to do is to maintain your cool. Your thought process might look quite similar to this spreadsheet of units/alliances currently in the game. Your most important decision in the early game has to do with the composition you’re going to focus on in this particular match.

We’ll explain how and when these things are likely to happen in just a moment. Of course, it sometimes happens that those players who were consistently losing in this initial timeframe grab a top 3, perhaps even a number 1 finish, but these are situational occurrences. The early game of every Dota Underlords match, roughly the first 10-12 rounds, is instrumental towards setting you up for a good end-game.

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