Dotabuff App Update: Inside Your Game
We’ve got some exciting news! Fans of our Dotabuff App have been asking for an in-game version, and today, we’re delivering one!
Today’s major release enhances the Dotabuff App with the ability to choose how your data and insights are delivered: the current second screen experience, a toggle-able in-game overlay, or an all-new integrated version.
You can download the Dotabuff App for free!
The update includes the following:
- In-game Assistants provide integrated data-driven suggestions
- Insights into timing, item builds, ability builds
- Drag-and-drop Timing Coach and Adaptive Items Assistants
- New Overlay Mode
The Dotabuff App’s In-Game Assistants offer non-Dotabuff Plus subscribers access to one of these tools, while Dotabuff Plus subscribers can use any or all of the three available features.
Whether you’re a new player looking for help getting started, a casual player who wants to focus on fun while staying tuned to the meta, or a veteran player working on improving your gameplay, the In-Game Assistants will give you the information you need to make better in-game decisions.
Adaptive Items
Backed by machine learning models, the Adaptive Items Assistant will show you the next item we recommend you build, your gold progress toward it, and the purchase timing you should aim for.
Disagree with our recommendation? Toggle the overlay to quickly skip the item or generate a new build!
Ability Builds
We’ve crunched the data to determine what the meta currently is for abilities for each hero. We’ll deliver you the breakdown for most popular abilities and talents in-game, as you level.
Stick with the meta or try your own build – the choice is always yours!
Timing Coach
Have trouble remembering to pick up runes? Forget which waves come with catapults (and are ideal for pushing towers)? Sometimes there’s so much happening in a game, we all lose track of the time. The Timing Coach is a drag-and-droppable box with reminders for milestones and repeating events.
Position the reminders where they’ll be most useful for you without distracting from the game action..
Overlay Mode
If you prefer the larger Tool versions in the Dotabuff App's second screen experience, you may like using the toggle-able Overlay Mode in your Dota game. Enable the Overlay in the App, and then press Ctrl-X in your game to see those Tools directly in your game. Pair it with the Assistants for full control of the Dotabuff-backed information available at your fingertips!
And remember, all of the Assistants are optional. Dotabuff Plus subscribers can use any combination of the three. You can toggle these on and off from the Edit Tool Layout screen, even during a game!
Not a Dotabuff Plus subscriber? No problem! You can subscribe here and receive all the benefits immediately, including:
- Unlock deep data on Dotabuff
- Use the Hero Mastery Tool
- Detailed Hero Rankings
- Access to a fourth tool in the Dotabuff App
- Access to all Dotabuff In-Game Assistants
- And more….
Learn more about Dotabuff Plus features and subscribe today!
We look forward to developing new tools to enhance the in-game experience with data-driven insights. Please send us your feedback using the in-app feedback button. We’d love to hear what you’d like to see next in the App!
1st! Very cool! Nice work!
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Oh good, you've successfully created a pay-to-win service for a game that is supposed to be free of such actions in the name of pure competition. Cut it any way you want, but you literally said people forget stuff so you've created a helping hand to remind you of runes, catapults etc. That's information that a good player knows and a bad one doesn't.
Keep. It. Out. Of. The. Game.
LMFAO @Brünk Hüll Literal 3 digit MMR player trying to say how the game should work, Go back to bots bro lmfao haha
@Greatlubu
This isn't a pissing contest; I suck at playing the game because I forget those exact little things all the time. But I'm not about to pay my way to a higher level, and I would think you'd thank me for that instead of arguing for worse players to be handed an easier way into your ranks without having the underlying ability to understand it.
Dont worry, remembering to do that stuff doesnt get you from 0k to 2k
you just suck at everything mechanicaly
bro reached divine and thinks he's so good at this game lol
@Brunk Hull
I get where you're coming from, but I feel like all of these features are very useful for people who are newer to the game / starting out / don't invest the majority of their time to learn all these niche timings/knowledge. The higher you go up the ranks the more players think of ability builds/item builds from looking at the line ups and how the lanes are going etc. I'm not sure if having this feature alone will be responsible for lifting several players up ranks easily.
@Greatlubu
You're just the classic "superior Divine" chode. Sounds like you need to grow up.
If you guys think dota is balanced only by skill, try playing on a crappy laptop vs good gaming PC. Or just with a buggy mouse. That's 500 mmr swing right there.
For me Overwolf did not help much, i doubt this app will help either, but if it does help YOU to get better - GLHF :)
people forgot the purpose of games!
@Greatlubu --> lol this dude probably put his Divine rank in his resume and still jobless right now
I have seen Brunk Hull around in Dotabuff articles for quite a while and he always give constructive comments although low-ranked. A cool guy.
Cheers!
@keyvan you rarely play Dota for "fun", you play Dota to win.
You tend to play other less competitive games for fun and play less Dota when you are mid-20 :X
can we have a mobile app version of this?
Guys who never touch poos seek confirmation through winning in a video game
I have hairy nuts
how to actually move the box with the timer. Its blocking my purchases.
same problem for me, i can't remove the in-game overlays, it's blocking my in-game mouse controls.
i already unticked the "show in-game assistant"
ok nevermind, other than ctrl + x, you can also use alt + z