Hello everybody! Lately, we made lots of infographics, highlighting the strongest midlaners of the patch.

Many of you were shocked to see Doom being one of the most successful midlaners, yet he is very, very popular in high ranked games. We feel like it’s our mission to enlighten you, so you can also get some delicious MMR points by spamming this very simple hero.

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• Lucifer, the Doom, is a melee strength hero with strong farming capabilities, good versatility, and one of the strongest single-target disables in the game. His very low starting armor makes him vulnerable to harassment, but his abilities and high health allow him to lane or even jungle quite effectively. A ruthless demon, Doom possesses malicious abilities revolving around greed, fire,.
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Doom is selected as a counter to highly mobile heroes such as Weaver. His ability to Doom them silences their escape spells and his Devour allows him to out farm them. Generally, Doom should be quite active in the mid game where his natural power and low cooldown nukes allow him to dominate team fights and small scale.

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Table of contents

Role in the game

Doom is a very versatile hero, who is pretty common on three positions - mid, offlane, and roam. In some games, you can use him even as a carry or hard support, as he can suit any role in the game.

The purpose of Doom in the game is to outfarm his opponents with the help of Devour and then demolish key enemy heroes in fights. He is good in both team fighting and making single kills.

Abilities

Devour is your source of income, which also gives you additional health regen. Doom can use Devour on neutral creeps to consume their abilities. Getting an Alpha Wolf aura or Centaur’s Storm can be a total game-changer.

Scorched Earth is your killing tool. On use, the spell improves the movement speed of Doom, also damaging all nearest units. The spell gets a lot stronger with the addition of level 10 and 15 talents.

Infernal Blade provides extra damage and mini-stun. The spell is very good at helping Doom to make single kills. The deals most of its damage based on the current health of the opponent. Ability gets ridiculously strong with the addition of Aghanim’s Scepter and level 25 talent.

Doom is what makes this hero so good in any patch. The spell works on a single target, blocking the target’s ability to use any spells or items, dealing damage in the meantime. The spell helps Doom to counter any other hero in the game.

Items

How To Play Doom Dota 2 Counter

The item build for the mid Doom is very straightforward. You can copy this build in every game and still succeed.

For your starting gold, you should purchase Gauntlet of Strength, Circlet, Iron Branch, Faerie Fire, and Quelling Blade.
In the early game use two components to complete Bracer, go for Phase Boots, Magic Wand, and Drum of Endurance afterward.

Black King Bar and Blink Dagger are your two key items in the mid-stage of the game, followed by Shiva’s Guard.

In the late-game, you only have to purchase Aghanim’s Scepter, Assault Cuirass, and Heart of Tarrasque.

Doom rarely needs any other items.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Doom is very dependent on effective farming. The whole purpose of midlane Doom in the game is to outfarm his opponents heavily and then use his advantage to win fight after fight.

Coming to the lane make sure to use Devour on the ranged creep right away. Focus on last-hitting, rather than on denying or fighting. Use Scorched Earth to force some regen out of your opponent at level 2.

Once you hit level 3 more towards the jungle and use level 2 Devour on a neutral creep. Prioritize using it on the blue Ogre of Alpha Wolf.

Keep farming lane and then move into the jungle to Devour a creep once the spell is ready to use. With Phase Boots, Magic Wand, and level 6 you can consider making a rotation in order to get a kill. While Doom is on cooldown focus on farming and split pushing.

This is your gameplay for the most part of the game. Ultimate is ready - force a fight, ultimate on cooldown - farm.
With the help of Devour, you should get your key items relatively fast. Black King Bar and Blink Dagger are your two key items in the game. However, Shiva’s Guard and Aghanim’s Scepter are what gives Doom the ability to take fights at all times.

Prioritize using Doom on the most important heroes of the enemy team. If you start a fight by Dooming the enemy carry or midlaner, most often it is going to result in the easy victory in the fight.

Try not to get caught out of position. Doom basically has one useful ability for the fight, if you do not use it in time, the hero becomes useless.

Allies and counters

Doom is one of those midlaners, who do not have any direct counters. He may have troubles laning against Batrider, Razor, Shadow Fiend, or Lina, but he can still do fine and come with a decent farm after the lane.

Doom works greatly in combination with Grimstroke. It is to pick powerful late-game carry in combination with midlane Doom.

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If you’re an avid Dota 2 player and closely follow all news related to Valve’s celebrated MOBA, you must have come across more than one mention of the new Vulkan API in recent updates. Unless you tend to stay abreast with advancements in the world of graphics rendering APIs, you’re probably still wondering what that’s all about. What is it exactly, and what does it have to do with the game? Read on for our attempt at defining Vulkan and its purpose in simple words, a guide on how to enable the API on your Dota 2 installation, and why you’d want to do that.

What is Vulkan?

To understand what Vulkan is, you first need to be familiar with the API acronym. An API (or Application Programming Interface) is a set of virtual components using which a piece of software can be built or a collection of tools that can be used to add certain capabilities to existing software. Ever heard of DirectX? It’s a Microsoft-owned collection of APIs, some of which are used by most modern games to render 3D graphics.

Another popular 2D and 3D graphics rendering API is OpenGL, which is managed by the Khronos Group – a consortium formed by the likes of AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Valve and several other companies. The Vulkan API is basically the next step in the evolution of OpenGL, and Khronos Group’s answer to DirectX. The cross-platform spiritual successor to OpenGL is based on AMD’s Mantle API, and claims to offer higher performance at lower CPU usage compared to its competition.

If you’re wondering why you hadn’t heard of Vulkan before now, it’s most likely because it is very new. The API was announced at GDC 2015 and is yet to be adopted by games at large. To our knowledge, the only game that supports Vulkan as of this writing is Valve’s Dota 2. In what follows, we explain how to enable Vulkan rendering for the game.

How to Enable Vulkan Support on Dota 2

Before we dive into the “how,” let’s explore the “why,” as promised. Earlier, we mentioned that the Vulkan API promises higher performance at lower CPU overhead, which could mean that enabling it on your Dota 2 installation could yield more fps (frames per second) for a smoother in-game experience. We don’t have any stats to support this claim yet, but there’s no harm in finding out for yourself.

Here’s what you need to do to enable Vulkan rendering for your copy of Dota 2.

1. Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.

2. Launch the Steam application and log in.

3. Switch to the Library tab or select Games > View Games Library from the top.

4. Right-click on Dota 2 and select Properties.

5. Switch to the DLC tab and enable the Dota 2 – Vulkan Support downloadable content.

How To Play Doom Dota 2 Patch Notes

6. Wait for Dota 2 to update, then switch back to the General tab, select SET LAUNCH OPTIONS.

7. In the dialogue box that follows, enter “-Vulkan“, remove “-dx9”, “-dx11” or “-gl” from any existing launch options you may have and click OK.

That’s all there is to it! Your game should now use Vulkan rendering the next time it is launched. You might see glitches and artifacts in the rendering or experience hiccups in performance the first time you run with Vulkan support enabled. These should resolve themselves after you watch/play a match or restart the game.

Have you been playing Dota 2 with Vulkan support enabled? Did you experience any significant upward shoots in performance? Let us know in the comment section below!