One of the more advanced techniques available to
Techies is "mine stacking": placing mines directly one on top of the other so that the enemy can't tell how many mines there are at a location even if they have True Sight. In wc3 DotA this wasn't difficult to accomplish because you could portrait cast. This doesn't work in DotA 2, making life significantly more difficult. However, I did figure out a way around that:
Land Mines
- Step 1 : Lay a
Land Mines, select it, and make it a control group.
- Step 2 : Enter showcase mode and rotate it to look directly downwards.
- Step 3 : Select
Techies and press Q (or whatever your
Land Mines hotkey is).
- Step 4 : Hit the
Land Mines's control group key.
- Step 5 : Target the center of the spike on top of the mine then click.
This will put the second mine exactly on top of the first, or close enough that the enemy can't tell.
Remote Mines are much more difficult to stack this way because they are assymetrical and lack a marker for their center. Fortunately, you can get around this by centering the cursor using the
Land Mines then changing control groups to get to the
Remote Mines you lay.
Remote Mines
- Step 1 : Lay a
Land Mines, select it, and make it a control group.
- Step 2 : Lay a
Remote Mines, select it, and make it a different control group.
- Step 3 : Enter showcase mode and rotate it to look directly downwards.
- Step 4 : Select
Techies and press R (or whatever your
Remote Mines hotkey is).
- Step 5 : Hit the
Land Mines's control group key.
- Step 6 : Target the center of the spike on top of the mine.
- Step 7 : Hit the
Remote Mines's control group key, wait a second for the camera to stabilize, then click.
Unfortunately, even if you stack them perfectly it will usually be fairly obvious when
Remote Miness are stacked in DotA 2. This is because the flashing light on top of each mine will flash separately (unless you have really, really good timing) which is a dead giveaway that there is more than one mine there.
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