Towers or heroes?
Week 10
Winning, and nothing is happening
There is a point in most games where you are clearly ahead —
and nothing changes.
This week explains it.
A team that cannot convert a lead will win every fight and still lose the game.
The habit this week breaks
Going home to shop after winning a teamfight.
The most expensive minute in the game —
spent in a menu.
What a lead turns into
A tower is not only an obstacle
It gives vision. It gives a safe area. It gives gold.
And destroying one permanently changes the shape of the map you are both playing on.
Barracks
Take them, and the enemy’s creep waves are weaker for the rest of the game.
One of the very few irreversible gains Dota offers.
Roshan and the Aegis
One extra life, held in reserve.
In 7.41f Roshan prefers the top pit — so the fight is not where an older guide says it is.
The rest of the map
Scheduled resources
Outposts and runes are small.
Their value is that they are scheduled — so you can plan time around them.
7.41f moved Tormentor to the bottom chasm.
Teleport defence
One player carrying a scroll is one more defender for the whole team.
A cheap item, doing a structural job.
Turn the lead into map
Nine weeks of saving. One week of spending.
Weeks 1 to 9 were about accumulating.
This week is about spending it.
An advantage you do not turn into buildings expires — the enemy heroes are growing the whole time you admire yours.
This week’s hero
Enigma — Black Hole
It destroys nothing by itself.
It creates a window whose only purpose is to let the team do something else.
This week’s subject, stated as an ability.
This week’s item
Blink Dagger.
Space has been the most abstract resource since week 1.
The dagger is where it becomes something you can pay for directly.
After this week
Say what to take after winning a fight.
Say whether your team should start Roshan — and name the timing or vision that makes it worth it.
Explain why barracks and towers are different orders of magnitude.
Lobby Lab 10
Call the objective.