General DiscussionTips on how to win on dire

aw, same problem. radiant: 159 match - 67.30% winrate. Dire: 156 match - 53.85% winrate. it's more ez to win on radiant =,=

^ at least valve is not forcing u to play on dire side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31K6jammH0

A video that could explain it al little

tl;dw

Your team descides subconciously what is better for the team. For excample taking rosh or taking their t3 tower

wow u are right 62,9% wr on radiant side, and only 62% on dire side. i hope this will get patched soon

Radiant - 1 505 matches - 55,15 %

Dire - 1 672 matches - 47,91 %

Sure its easier to play on radiant, dont know why though. Maybe its easier to defend?

Next patch: Reworked map layout into symmectrical between sides

Added option to rotate camera 180 if on dire side(just like radiant view in dire team

Reworked roshan position. Players must breach roshan portal by pushing the gate that located on both sides. The roshan location cannot be affected by some global skills

I've always won more on dire but I don't know why

I always win more on Dire....

if u check dotabuff stats for fractions u can see that all heroes have a higher win percentage on radiant side. however on the pro scene the dire side has a higher win rate. because patches aim to balance the pro scene we have to deal with it, or we have to improve ourselves to pro level.

here is an article that explains why: http://read.navi-gaming.com/en/team_news/why_dire_stronger_than_radiant

What's interesting is that if u do really well on radiant u end up getting less games in it. So anyone got any tips

well until recent changes, radiant safelane used to be safer and offlane was easier. Also small things like the midcamp and hard camp being closer to the midlane on Radiant, thus easier to stack and farm them, same for ancients.

The real reason is dire is spooky. The night is darker on the dire side(i feel).
Funny thing is, it's easier to farm on the dire safe lane amd off lane. However, most players have better winrate on the radiant.
Dire is spooky, I'm telling you guys.

The biggest reason that winning on Radiant is easier is due to a couple of things.
A) When you're on Dire the UI is totally all up in your grill and makes you lose some precious information on screen.
B) Most people tend to do things like goofing around / practicing lhs n stuff on Radiant side cuz its the default.
While you can't entirely diminish the downside of being on Dire, you can massively reduce it via playing on it more often ie: play some bot matches, lhing practices, ect on Dire side. Once you get a feel for what you have and don't have, it becomes much easier to play effectively.

Looking at lifetime stats is deceiving cus radiant used to have tangible advantages. I don't think it does anymore, dire has better jungle layout, better rosh access, mids are about equal now, dire ancient position is further from main jungle but easy access to the other jungle camp while radiant has to run around the cliff. One big advantage though is radiant offlane seems so much closer to that hard camp to farm if they want to.

But in my last 3 months, 19-19 on dire, 20-16 on radiant. I don't think that's enough of a sample size.

I have 260 game sample size this month:

52.4% dire, 54% radiant

I'm trying to be more conscious of when my team can rosh, ping them say let's rosh now we killed 1, etc

also a lot more when I'm on radiant I feel like a risky rosh can be a complete disaster because they can blink from high ground in 2.5 direction and have a ton of room to maneuver

i win more with ursa on dire than on radiant , so the article thing about you have to kill roshan 2-3 times when u play dire to get an advantage in that article is legit. 64% with radiant 66% dire ursa

Dire 1,667
52.97%
Radiant 1,577
52.31%

Doesn't seem to affect me, though I like radiant side a bit more if I jungle. Camps has better lay-out.
Pushing seems to be easier from dire side though, idk why when me and my team push we just never stop on dire side, but on radiant side we just eventually are scared to push.

Oh man I really disagree, dire jungle has those three camps you just rotate between, radiant only has the nice two near mid. I like dire more for farming heroes/junglers and radiant a lot more if I am offlaner or mid.