Terms in DOTA 2 (Dictionary)

The terms you need to know in Dota 2

• AFK (away from keyboard): means the pendekar is an unmoved hero
• AoE (area of effect): means a spell that affects a particular area of a given radius
• Back / b: means that we should retreat, the person who said that decided not to come forward and invite us backward
• Backdoor: means tower that has a backdoor and we need creep wave to destroy it
• BKB: means black king bar, one item for spell immune
• Buff: means something that adds positively to the hero, usually marked with an icon above the health bar
• Buyback / BB: ie pay for life back
• Cooldown / CD: means a skill or item is in cooldown time and can not be used
• Creep score / CS: means last hit and deny we have
• Damage per second / DPS: means a given damage every second
• Debuff: the opposite of debuff, ie negative status on hero
• Def: means we have to defend a building
• Farm: collecting gold and XP
• Feeder: means people/players who often die and give XP and gold to the enemy
• Gank: attack the enemy together
• Gold per minute / GPM: gold you get every minute
• GG (good game) or GGWP (good game well played): means declaring a good game, usually said at the end of the match
• GLHF (good luck have fun): statement for good luck
• HEX: disable enemy, for example 2 lion skill that makes enemy become fish
• INC / incoming: coming soon
• Minion: units that you can control
• Miss / missing: means something is missing in the lane (enemy hero)
• Micromanagement / micro: control of many units, for example Meepo and Lone Druid
• Snowball: a term for pressure on an aggressive enemy team
• OOM (out of mana): means where out or less
• Pull: pulls creep lane into neutral creep so lane creep not pushing and let carry farm
• Roshan / RS: means roshan, neutral creep in the dire area below
• Smoke: means smoke of deceit item
• Tower dive: means attacking an enemy that is close to the tower
• TP: town portal scroll, used for teleport
• True sight: means unlimited vision, can see invicible enemy
• Ulti / SS: means ultimate, the last strongest pendekar skill
• Wipe: means a team is all dead
• WP, well played: means a good game
• XP: means experiences

In addition there are more languages that usually appear in DotA 2, and additional on the server Asia

• GTFO: it means he does not want the disabled person to be here
• STFU: means he wants the person in charge to be silent
• Noob: means a new player (newbie) who usually lacks know how to play the right one
• Retard: people who are considered underdeveloped
• Report: means to report someone to the valve for tires
• Lag / spike: means a disruption in connection or fps that makes players play poorly
• Ping: is how far you are from the server (the smaller the better)
• KS: kill steal, meaning the person who has been charged with taking the kill of the person who is saying, can also be spelled out
• WTF: what the fuck means the person is shocked or confused about something (while angry)
• G: means go or forward
• Fat: means a pendekar that many farm / kill and become very strong
• Tangina: pinoy rough language 1
• Bobo / bogo: pinoy rough language 2
• Kanga: rough language pinoy 3 (note: if you've seen people talking 3 rough language pinoy gini on your team,
• Cyka: crude language russia 1
• Blyat: russian rough language 2
• REKT: wrecked is tormented
• Baby hero: pendekar is considered very easy to play
• EZ: means easy or easy, usually for mockery
• Fail mid: means mid that failed in early and make team lose
• W8: can we mean as wait or wait
• M8: means mate or friend
• There are also some commonly used abbreviations
• Naix: lifestealer
• Bs: bloodseeker
• Sf / nevermore: shadow fiend
• Mortred: phantom assassin
• Davion: Dragon Knight
• Coal / westhrum: Spirit breaker
• Skeleton king: Wraith king
• Magina: Anti-Mage
• Furion: Nature's prophet
• Ball / wisp: IO
• Lanaya: templar assassin
• Zues: zeus
• Fishboy: Slardar / Slark
• LC: legion commander
• Yunero: Juggernaut
• Traxex / xex: Drow ranger
• Windrunner: Windranger
• Dirge: Undying
• Gondar: Bounty hunter
• Chuck Norris: Omniknight
• Ck: chaos knight
• Ice: earth shaker / earth spirit
• MKB: monkey king bar
• MoM: mask of madness
• Vlad: Vladimir's offering
• Aghs: aghanim scepter