How To Learn New Heroes In Valve's Deadlock

Summary

In this informative video, the speaker discusses the dynamic nature of hero guides in gaming, emphasizing the constant changes due to weekly patches. Instead of providing static hero guides, they offer a method to learn and build heroes independently. The speaker recommends using high MMR replay spreadsheets curated by the community, analyzing professional gameplay, and taking detailed notes on strategies, item builds, and farming patterns. They also highlight the importance of understanding hero-specific play styles and suggest utilizing Discord discussions and in-game build sections for additional insights.

Takeaways

• 😀 The speaker does not create specific hero guides due to the frequent changes in heroes' abilities and items with weekly patches.
• 🔍 To learn about heroes, the speaker recommends checking high MMR spreadsheets curated by the community for approved replay IDs.
• 📊 High MMR replays are sorted by hero name and match ID time to find recent and relevant gameplay examples.
• 🎮 The speaker emphasizes the importance of watching replays from the past week to keep up with the current meta.
• 📝 While watching replays, the speaker takes notes on lane strategies, item builds, ability unlocks, and play styles.
• 🛠 The speaker highlights the significance of learning from high MMR players' tricks and techniques to improve gameplay.
• 🏆 The speaker suggests using the in-game build section and Discord discussions to find curated builds and strategies.
• 📈 The speaker notes the value of observing farming patterns, trade decisions, and fight engagements in replays.
• 🗓 The speaker advises checking the 'featured matches' section for high MMR games to learn from top players.
• 💡 The speaker encourages viewers to actively analyze replays, questioning why certain actions are taken to improve understanding.

Q & A

Why doesn't the speaker create specific hero guides?

The speaker doesn't create specific hero guides because heroes are subject to frequent changes due to patches that occur every Thursday, which could make the guides quickly outdated.

What is the first place the speaker recommends to learn about hero builds?

The first place the speaker recommends is a high MMR spreadsheet curated by community members in the Discord, which contains Replay IDs for various heroes.

How does the speaker suggest using the high MMR replay spreadsheet?

The speaker suggests sorting the spreadsheet by hero name and match ID date to find recent and balanced games, then copying the Replay ID and watching the replay in-game.

What does the speaker look for when analyzing a hero's replay?

The speaker looks for the hero's laning strategy, item build order, ability leveling priority, and general playstyle, taking notes on these aspects for self-improvement.

Why is it important to watch replays within a week of the current patch?

Watching replays within a week ensures that the strategies and builds observed are still relevant due to the potential for items to go in and out of meta with balance patches.

How does the speaker use the 'featured matches' section to find high MMR replays?

The speaker uses the 'featured matches' section to find high MMR replays by recognizing the same player names repeatedly, indicating they are high MMR players, and then jumping into their games.

What additional notes does the speaker take while watching a replay?

The speaker takes notes on the hero's farming patterns, decision-making in fights, when to use discretion, and how they handle different scenarios against various heroes.

What is the significance of noting when a hero can kill another in the game?

Noting when a hero can kill another is significant for understanding the power dynamics and potential outcomes in team fights, despite farm differences.

How does the speaker suggest utilizing the in-game build section for hero learning?

The speaker suggests using the in-game build section to find curated builds by other players, which can streamline the item location process and provide a starting point for learning builds.

What is the speaker's overall goal with these educational videos?

The speaker's overall goal is to provide educational content that helps players improve their game knowledge and skills, especially for those who find it challenging to learn without specific hero guides.

Outlines

00:00

📚 Self-Sufficient Hero Learning and Guide Building

This paragraph discusses the speaker's approach to learning about heroes without relying on static guides due to the frequent changes in hero abilities and items. The speaker suggests using a high MMR spreadsheet curated by the community as a resource for replay IDs to study. By sorting and selecting replays, players can observe balanced games where heroes are played effectively. The speaker emphasizes the importance of watching recent replays to stay updated with the current meta and uses the example of studying a 'HaZe' replay to understand the hero's build and playstyle. The speaker also mentions taking notes on lane strategies, item purchases, and skill leveling, illustrating this with an example from a past replay.

05:02

🤓 Advanced Hero Play Analysis and Farming Techniques

The speaker delves into the nuances of hero gameplay, focusing on techniques and strategies beyond the literal information visible on the screen. They highlight the importance of noting when and how players take trades, fight, and chase in the game. Specific examples include hitting pots at 3 minutes for a net worth lead, backing to hit creep camps for extra souls, and breaking boxes for maximum soul collection. The speaker also discusses the significance of playing safely and amassing a gold lead through farming rather than unreliable kills. They mention the importance of observing farming patterns, such as moving between lanes and hitting camps, and understanding the dynamics of hero interactions, including when certain heroes can kill others despite farm differences.

10:02

🌟 Community Resources and Personal Growth

In the final paragraph, the speaker expresses their enjoyment in creating educational content and their desire to help others learn the game. They invite viewers to share topics they struggle with and offer to create more content to address these issues. The speaker also encourages viewers to utilize community resources such as hero specialists' discussions on Discord and in-game build sections for curated item builds. This paragraph serves as a call to action for community engagement and a promise to continue providing educational material for the game's community.

Keywords

💡hero specific guides

Hero specific guides refer to instructional content tailored to individual characters in a game, typically focusing on their abilities, strategies, and optimal play styles. In the video's context, the speaker mentions not creating these guides due to the frequent updates and changes to heroes that could render the guides quickly outdated. The concept is central to the video's theme of self-sufficient learning and adaptation in gaming.

💡patches

Patches in gaming denote updates made by developers to fix issues, balance gameplay, or introduce new features. The script mentions patches as a reason for the speaker's reluctance to create static hero guides, as they can alter hero abilities and item stats, thus affecting the relevance of the guides. Patches are a significant factor in the ongoing evolution of a game's meta.

💡MMR spreadsheet

MMR stands for Matchmaking Rating and is a numerical value representing a player's skill level in competitive games. The MMR spreadsheet mentioned in the script is a community-curated resource containing replay IDs from high MMR games, which serve as examples of advanced play. It is used by the speaker as a tool for learning and creating guides, emphasizing the importance of studying high-level gameplay.

💡Replay IDs

Replay IDs are unique identifiers for saved game replays, allowing players to access and study specific matches. In the script, the speaker uses Replay IDs from the MMR spreadsheet to load and analyze high-level games, demonstrating how to learn from observing skilled players' strategies and decisions.

💡stomps

A stomp in gaming refers to a match where one side dominates the other to such an extent that it becomes a one-sided victory. The script mentions that not all replays in the spreadsheet are stomps, indicating a preference for balanced games where skillful play is more evident and instructive.

💡lane

Laning is a term used in multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games to describe the phase of the game where players start in their respective lanes, typically to farm minions for gold and experience. The script discusses taking notes on how players lane, including their initial actions and strategies throughout the laning phase, to understand their play style.

💡ability unlock priority

Ability unlock priority refers to the order in which a player chooses to level up their hero's abilities during a game. The script emphasizes the importance of noting this order as it can significantly affect a hero's effectiveness and play style, providing insight into strategic decision-making in gameplay.

💡farming

Farming in gaming, particularly in MOBAs, is the process of killing minions or creatures to gain gold and experience. The script describes how the speaker takes note of farming patterns, such as when and how players collect souls or interact with the game environment to maximize their resources, which is crucial for building a strong economy.

💡net worth

Net worth in gaming represents the total value of a player's hero, including their gold, items, and experience. The script mentions growing a net worth lead by collecting souls from pots, illustrating the importance of resource management and economy building as part of a player's overall strategy.

💡Discord

Discord is a communication platform often used by gaming communities for discussions, sharing resources, and coordination. In the script, the speaker refers to Discord as a place where community members curate and share high MMR replays, as well as hero-specific discussions and builds, making it a valuable resource for learning and community engagement.

💡in-game builds

In-game builds refer to the collection of items and abilities that a player chooses for their hero during a game. The script mentions the in-game build section as a place where players can find and share builds, streamlining the process of selecting items and providing a direct way to learn from others' strategies.

Highlights

The speaker does not create specific hero guides due to the frequent changes in heroes through patches.

Introduction of high MMR spreadsheet curated by community members for learning hero builds and playstyles.

Explanation of how to use the high MMR replay spreadsheet to find approved replays for learning.

Importance of watching replays from the past week to stay current with the meta.

Demonstration of how to find and watch a specific hero's replay in the game.

The process of taking notes on a notepad file while watching replays for learning purposes.

Details on what to note down while watching replays, including item builds, ability unlocks, and playstyle.

Highlighting the importance of learning from high MMR players' farming patterns and techniques.

Discussion on the significance of hitting pots at 3 minutes for a net worth lead.

The strategy of collecting souls from the map's sources to maximize gold lead.

Observation of hero-specific gameplay techniques, such as when to take trades and fights.

The use of in-game build section and community-curated builds for quick item location.

Mention of hero specialists on Discord who share their experiences and builds.

The speaker's intention to create educational content to help others learn the game.

Invitation for viewers to provide feedback and suggest topics for future educational content.

Encouragement for viewers to subscribe and engage with the content for further assistance.

Transcripts

hey everyone shis here and today I want

to talk about hero specific guides or

rather um how to find guides for

yourself and how to build your own and

learn Heroes self-sufficiently without

use of specific hero guides for the time

being um and the reason I don't do

specific hero guides right now is

because I think that heroes are changing

all the time um since we get patches

every Thursday um there's no point in

making hero specific guides today

because I think that they're going to

get um heroes are subject to change

abilities might get swapped out items

get buffed and nerfed and moved around

so I think that the information would

quickly go out of date so um what I'm

hoping to do is equip you with some

tools to get better at building your

road guides and finding how to build

Heroes and seeing what play Styles they

go for so the first place I go when I

want to make my own guide or learn how

to play a hero is I'll go to the high

MMR spreadsheet that is being curated by

uh community members in the Discord and

that'll be down in the com or down in

the description below um and it'll

basically have a bunch of Replay IDs

that you can put into game and you can

take a look at and we're going to hop

into that now so here's our high MMR

replay spreadsheet um and it's pretty

long and it's a list that's Community

submitted and Community curated and I

can explain later uh how people know

their highr but it's kind of a confusing

system right now um but basically any of

these that are marked as approved is

they're good examples of Heroes uh

replays and they're not all exactly

examples of Stomps they're usually

uh pretty balanced games where that

person performs well on the hero and

they use tricks and like uh Tech to make

it a win um basically they play well and

it's not a easy 18-minute stomp but

rather a back and forth battle and you

can see the hero played to its fullest

potential so when I want to look for a

hero um I'll go to the top and I'll

short it sort it by a to z um and then

I'll also sort the match ID by time as

well oops how do I get this going at the

same time um I'll do that and today I

want to look at hay replays um because

I've been playing hay and I want to see

what other players are building and I

want to learn from them um and I've

looked at a sh for replay in the past uh

he's a haze player and what I'll do is

I'll copy this replay this is a new one

to me I haven't seen this one um but

it's good when they're usually more

recent uh time stamps because you

essentially want to see one from the

past week if you're looking to build

that hero for the week because sometimes

with the balance patches like items go

out of meta and uh stuff shifts so if

it's within the week before Thursday I

think that's the best kind of Replay you

can get so um but I'm going to use this

one for the time being and then once I

have my replay I hop back in game I'll

back out of here and I'll go to the

watch tab um and then additionally I

wanted to comment back on that highr how

do people know their highr um typically

the games that are in these featured

matches section um they are high MMR

replays you're going to see a lot of

people um pop up in here is like the

same names over and over and uh if you

go into the games they're usually pretty

try hard pretty sweaty so uh this is

also a good source to look for replays

but it's not necessarily um the One-Stop

shop uh but you can always jump into one

of these and learn stuff from the

players that are in here but after we

have our copied match ID we can search

by our match ID and paste it in there

and that'll load up our match and yeah

I've actually looked at this Replay in

the past so I already have it downloaded

um and then what we can do is we can

download it all right and now that we've

loaded in and everyone's on the suppes

we're finally watching our replay we're

going to find the the player that we

want to play and this is a ha replay so

I'm going to right click and left click

to find his perspective I'm going to

press C to change the camera view so

it's in the first person or I guess the

camera view that you normally play in

and I'll start watching from this

person's perspective and essentially at

the same time what I'll do is I'll open

up a notepad file and I'll take notes on

a couple different things I'll I'll take

notes on how they Lane um like what I

notice them doing in the start of the

lane what I notice them doing throughout

it um I'll note what they build first

I'll not what they level I'll note the

items they buy and I'll note I guess

just General things about how their play

style is so I'm going to show you an

example of what my notepad file looks

like so these are notes from a sh 4

Replay that I watched in the past uh and

there's a few things that I note I put

the match ID there in case I want to go

back to it and then I'll note the items

that they build specifically in order to

um I think that's something that can get

confusing is that there's 500 Soul items

1,200 Soul items 3,000 Soul items and

sometimes they mix up the order so I

know a lot of Hayes players recently

have been rushing Tesla bullets uh so

they've been getting a couple single

tier 500 items and then going up to

Testa quite quickly I also focus on

unlock priority for their abilities um

so as your abilities are popping up uh

sometimes they will take different ones

in different orders um there's usually

one that you like to start at level one

with and run with that and then what

your leveling doesn't always match up

with what your um skill build is so you

also know my skill build there it's just

four numbers but what that is

corresponding to is the the amount that

I've put points into for each of the

different uh skills so 00 obviously like

nothing and then like 20 uh 20 it would

be two points in dagger 0 points in my

uh smoke bomb two points in the passive

so looking back at the game playay um I

want to talk a little bit about what I

take note of in terms of gameplay style

uh so so not that necessarily the things

that are quite literal that you can

easily like read off the screen on what

abilities they're leveling up and stuff

like that but rather some of the

techniques that their hero is using um I

also want to point out right now uh that

uh sh for here is going and he's going

to hit all of the different pots at 3

minutes um that's really big you should

do that I I feel like a lot of people do

that but this is something that I note

and it's something that I've learned

from for myself from watching replays

like this is like he grows a netw worth

lead by going and running through all

those pots collecting Souls from them um

so this is something that I learned

specifically from this replay when I

watched it um and then he'll return to

his Lane he'll shove it out and he'll go

back and maybe hit some pot somewhere

else um but I I note things like that

where it's like when he's deciding to

take trade

when he's deciding to go in and fight

people um and when he decides to chase

stuff like that I also want to take note

of this uh at 4 minutes he's backing to

hit his creep Camp um he's going in and

he's hitting that level one Camp getting

some extra Souls finding extra sources

of souls on the map um and he's

returning to Lane buying items when he

can uh stuff like that he's breaking

boxes whenever he can just trying to

maximize the souls that he's finding

around the map I would note that he's

always going back to his creep wave he's

always keeping them pushed out but he's

not necessarily looking for kills uh he

seems to be farming contently and not

necessarily feeling the need to go run

over to the lellow Lane and try to kill

the Lash or anything like that um he he

seems to be wanting to play his own game

and he's kind of playing safe um and

amassing that gold lead not through

kills which could be unreliable he could

end up dying um but rather through uh

collecting souls and he's going to go

into the subway tunnel here he's going

to collect boxes here this is also an

awesome Source uh of Souls and something

that I also incorporated into my game I

realized I'm leaving all this all this

all these Souls on the map and you need

to go collect them and if no one's doing

it you you should be the person doing it

um but always I think uh something to

note here too is that the tower is safe

and it's not getting pushed it's not

getting hurt right now so he had the

opportunity to go do that so once I see

a little bit of laning phase um and I

feel like I've learned from it uh I'll

skip kind of through the replay I'll

hold Tab and I'll I'll click on

different these little tick markers or

kills or deaths and I'll see what led to

a successful kill so uh I'll note that

he led with dagger and then he ran up

and followed and chased with good aim

um secured the souls as he ran away

stuff like that uh I think just kind of

watching good players play and having a

critical mind about it and and actively

asking yourself like why are they doing

that uh is a really good way to just

frame it for yourself forward I see that

there was a team fight here um there's a

kill and then a death that happens right

after so I I'd be interested into what

happens

um it's good to note that lash can kill

a haze quite easily uh all it takes is

one Al and things like that

I think it's important to note when

certain Heroes can kill other other

heroes in the game too uh I think

sometimes like in this game specifically

we just saw the Lash kill the haze and

and the Lash is pretty down in net worth

but I think it's because he could

displace her and do a lot of damage and

knock her up and and basically lock down

the slippery hero uh he was able to do

that so um on top of items and abilities

and farm sources I think I also try to

keep note of that too like when do they

use discretion to go in uh when do they

kind of hide from other Heroes like uh

who killed who in what scenarios uh

despite the farm difference um things

like that but I think this is also a

really good example right now of farming

patterns uh this is something I'll watch

too is I'll see uh although patterns

aren't very set in stone or anything but

I'll see how they move from Lane to Lane

they're going to push yellow Lane but

they on the way from Orange to Yellow

they hit two camps on the way there um

and here's another one so this is

something I take note of is when do they

hit creeps you'll end up making more uh

conclus conclusions for yourself and

learn some of the ins and outs of the

heroes themselves and circling back to

the Discord I wanted to also draw your

attention which I'm you probably found

this video in this section but um

there's a lot of hero Specialists and a

lot of them take the time to write about

what their experiences are and builds

that they've made if you want to find a

specific build that someone has

experimented with and maybe they preface

it with some of the decisions they're

making and why they're buying these

items so this is also a really good

source to get jump started on it's not a

YouTube video yet but eventually I'll

get to that point and I'll make ones for

each hero but for now this is also a

really good source I also want to bring

your attention to the in-game build

section to people will go through and

they'll add their own in-game builds

into this brow browse build section and

they'll add their builds to the

suggested items category and they'll

pick them out and curate the items for

you uh and this is a good source to also

find item builds and kind of streamline

it directly into game it can help you

locate your items faster when you get

into game and a lot of the time if

someone makes it build on disc they'll

also have a corresponding build in here

as well thanks for watching my videos uh

I'm having fun making these and

recording them and and trying to get the

education out into the into the masses

right now um I know that these things

have helped me and um I've had some

friends that have tried to pick up the

game and it's been a little frustrating

not to have this type of content so um

I'm trying to bring it into the world so

let me know what else I can help you out

with and uh what else what other topics

are out there that you are having

struggles with and and want some more

information on and I'll be happy to make

it

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