A Year Of Dotabuff Features
We’ve had quite the busy year. When we celebrated five years of Dotabuff, it was shocking to see how far the page has evolved since then. Even in one year, we’ve continuously added features to the site. We pushed out our Clips feature just in time for TI, more laning statistics for different roles, and a new way to compare matches and improve your game. If you’ve missed out on some of these new features, you can check out some of our posts below.
Clips
Clips is a new feature available to all Dotabuff users. The feature has been particularly useful to watch the biggest moments of TI, in case you missed a few of them or you just didn’t have time to watch hundreds of games over a week. Clips also automatically collates highlights from matches, filtering them by hero, player, team, and event. So if you’re not using it as a highlight reel of your favorite events, you can use it to follow highlights from your favorite players, teams, and heroes.
Dota Pro Circuit Tracking
With the new Dota Circuit underway this season, we’ve put together a page to easily track the Dota pro scene. In addition to seeing the leading pro teams of this year’s inaugural pro circuit, you’ll find a summary of recently finished events, games, and our latest coverage analyzing the meta and events.
Cosmetics Tracking
Do cosmetics really make a difference, or do the people who use them have a particular influence on the win rate of that item? Our cosmetics feature makes it easier to view available cosmetics for heroes, find out how popular that item is, and track its both its recent price history and the current price on the Steam marketplace.
Analyze Your Laning Stage
The early game still matters in pub games, even if its consequences don’t carry the same impact into the late game as in competitive play.
Taking a look at the laning tab of Dendi’s recent games
As a Plus feature, the laning tab lets you see how you fare in your laning matchups, which we’ve limited to the first 12 minutes of the game. See how you do under the pressure against a dual lane, or if you tend to dominant your matchups when it’s a one-on-one matchups.
A More Powerful Way To Compare Matches
Plus users received an update to the match profile page where they could directly their own matches across the board. At a glance, it’d be easy to see the improvement of your farm rate You can view your teamfight impact (categories of damage dealt, healing and crowd control), kill participation, objectives taken, wards and dust/smoke/gems count, build orders, and item builds. over time. Moreover, it’s a valuable tool in setting measurable goals and finding specific ways to improve your game. Just in time for New Years resolutions.
We’re always innovating at Dotabuff to find new ways to help the community improve their game, stay in touch with the pro scene, and reveal insights on Dota with in-depth statistics. Stay tuned here for new updates coming in 2018.
We hope you enjoy your holidays, and have a Happy New Year!
Dota 2 = Free2play, Dotabuff Plus = not free
"The early game still matters in pub games, even if its consequences don’t carry the same impact into the late game as in competitive play."
This kind of snooty attitude is why people get disgusted, this won't inspire them to buy dotabuff plus, that's for sure. Stop treating players as drooling idiots.
Comment above, dota 2 is not completely free don't fool yourself... You pay for extras Same with this site OMG your a bum. Get a job bum
"You pay for extras"
No, you don't. The comment above was right, Dota 2 is free, Dotabuff Plus is not.
Random useless cosmetics in Dota 2 is not free though, and Dotabuff without Plus is.
Dota 2 is completely free though, paying for cosmetics is another thing entirely.
Dotabuff for the blogs and forums
Opendota for analyzing your matches cause im too broke to get the + :(
yep, they should have find another way to monetize the site. dotabuff plus is a no no for me while the dota game itself is completely free.
thumbs down.
You people sound like a bunch of entitled crybabies. Get a job pay for the extras you want in life, just like DOTA. Nothing is free, wake up.
Avonkrad, so what do you call the compendiums if not extras? And the above comment is right, it takes time to develop a website and you actually have to pay the people to wrote the articles and analyze the data. Insane how people who spend 1000+ hours on a game complain that a website that they visit I assume regularly asks money for quality content. Absurd
why pay when i can get these infos for free
@yorgash I bet if eggs said "The early game still matters in pubs, every skill level can capitalize on an early advantage," you would've been like "Actually, most players under high skill wouldn't be able to push their advantage early coordinately ." What eggs said is accurate.
Uuun TAnkA: I would call compediums what I called in my previous comment: "useless cosmetics". It can be fun at times, but doesn't change the fact that the game is completely free.
And ~ Anfield, yes, there are completely free things too, such as Dota 2.
@yorgaSh
Don't ignore, disagree with, or attempt to villify useful observations just because they highlight weak spots. Listen to them, determine honestly whether they are true, and understand that critiques are often made without ill intent.
Honestly, if the compendium were to be more innovative, I will buy it again.
I started to buy compendium on TI5 but then the content becomes similar for the next and next compen, only the prize, which is ridiculous is changed.
I mean after buying it once, I understand it is nearly impossible to get to lvl 80 without paying
3 is too short (minimum is 6 characters)
dotabuff + sounds like the most useless farcical stuff ive ever seen, just strip out any and all data possible and tell the people that if you look at it well enough you'll improve your game....can any plus user actually corroborate on any of this? any long term user who's been actually looking thru this endless mound of stats and data, can they like stand up and show how their game play has actually improved? has their mmr increased or now that medal crap
plus would have a lot more subs if players actually came forward and said yea its working because of so and so reason. Otherwise just stick to pro footage and your own replays and the stats provided in game and i dont think you need much more to improve
The problem is that a lot of the stuff that dotabuff plus offers are free with opendota :\
You guys should use Ads on site for monetization and keep Dotabuff+ as free.
yeah, dota is free, more free than most games .. just the first 25 games u play with restriction on the heroes.. then u can play anything at any time .. not like most other mobas where u only have certain heroes available, unless u buy them or play a whole lot more than 25 games.
Dotabuff = Pay2Play
The extra's of dotabuff Plus are worth it for me personally. If you don't want to pay for it, that's fine. But don't whine about the fact that you don't get the same features.
Paying the fee is my way of supporting the dotabuff team.