Glossary - HoN Terms

[Pyrate]

Heroes of Newerth Glossary

This thread has been moved to the FAQ section. This is now the discussion thread. To see the Glossary, go here (http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?p=1039169#post1039169).

[Pyrate]

If i want to say anything it will be here, because I have nothing to say at this time, its just going to be this message.


Changelog

27/09/09 - Completed first stage, Main Game, Heroes and Items
28/09/09 - Redid formatting, turned Main gameplay into seperate sections, changed colour of terms, heroes etc etc to orange so they stand out. Added Hero Roles
29/09/09 - Added more items from crazysheep, changed predator as recd. Found an old list of some terminology, added ones not on this list. Added Orb Walking as it was asked. Added other recs
2/10/09 - Alphabetial order for heroes
10/10/09 - Added some suggestions (not all, some ive never heard of before after 450 games) that make the cut, specifically Nomes
12/10/09 - Added Unit Walking as it was asked, also included Terrain Walking, added new hero - Sand Wraith and Item Nomes Wisdom
24/10/09 - Added things with accordance to patch
3/11/09 - got around to adding Mr. Disciple
11/11/09 - added couple of things, alphabetised items
12/11/09 - added status effects
30/11/09 - added stuff introduced in patches, with terms i call them, if i see others ill add them
21/12/09 - added stuff from patches (Deadwood, Frostburn)
15/01/10 - Formatting changed to match other Stickies in Training Grounds, while doing that fixed a lot of errors in grammar, fixed different formatting between sections (different spacing with -'s etc etc)

[Slic3r]

nice tnx

[Brudish]

Hmm, wonder what the HoN definition of noob is. Seems to be different each game

[crazysheep]

I'll drop the HoN - DotA items list for you here. It's most likely going to be in order of most common usage.

Helm of Black Legion - HotBL, Vanguard, Vg
Iron Buckler - Stout Shield, Stout
Elder Parasite - MoM, Mask of Madness
Alchemist Bones - Alch bone, Hand of Midas, Midas
Codex - Dagon
Puzzlebox - Necrobook
Shieldbreaker - Desolator, Deso
Hack n Slash - HnS, Sange and Yasha, SnY
Brutalizer - Basher
Riftshards - Crystalys, crit sword
Nullfire Blade - Nullfire, Diffusal Blade, Diffusal, Diff, purge stick
Totem of Kuldra - Kuldra, Guinsoo's Scythe, Guinsoo, sheepstick
Stormspirit - Storm, Euls, cyclone stick
Whispering Helm - Helm of Dominator, HotD
Hungry Spirit - Mask of Death
Minor Totem - Ironwood Branch, branches, GG branches
Shaman's Headdress - Headdress, Hood of Defiance, Hood, HoD
Shrunken Head - Black King Bar, BKB
Assassins' Shroud - Shroud, Lothar's Edge, Lothar, invi axe
Mock of Brilliance - Mock, Radiance, Rad
Doom Bringer - Doom, Divine Rapier, Divine, Rapier, DR
Runed Axe - Battlefury, BF
Wingbow - Butterfly, butter
Savage Mace - Mace, MKB
Frostfield Plate - Frost plate, Frostfield, Shiva's Guard, Shiva
Frostwolf Skull - Eye of Skadi, Skadi
Daemonic Breastplate - Assault Cuirass, Assault, Cuirass
Behemoth's Heart - Heart, HoT

[ChillyWally]

I recommend adding TDL for The Dark Lady

[Pyrate]

thanks for the additions

[KnightDavion]

Why isnt this stickied??

Succubus - commonly called atropos in HoN
Hag - commonly called Akasha in HoN

[Happyfish]

Items
Astrolabe-Mekasnm,Meka
Mana Battery-Magic stick/Wand
Charged Hammer-Mjollnir,Mjol
WarpedCleft-Hyperstone HS
Geomaters Bane-Manta Style,Manta
Abyssal Skull-Vladmir's Offering,Vlads

Heros
Pred-Niax,Lifestealer
Sand Wraith(Coming soon)-Mercurial,Merc

[Voidi]

Maybe you should add Metagame to the list. Nice work so far, certainly helpful for many players.

[Reonhato]

STICKY

[Puchi]

This should be premium tbh, nice work.

one change that i think is very needed here is to remove naix, lifestealer from
predator and just ad pred, i for one have never seen predator beeing called Naix.
i dont know what u call him across the pond but in EU we call him pred ;D

[crazysheep]

thanks for the additions

No worries.


This should be premium tbh, nice work.

one change that i think is very needed here is to remove naix, lifestealer from
predator and just ad pred, i for one have never seen predator beeing called Naix.
i dont know what u call him across the pond but in EU we call him pred ;D

I agree with you, Predator isn't called N'aix in HoN, we just call him Pred.

More items I remember:
Mana Potions: Clarities, Mana pots
Healing Potions: Flasks, pots
Axe of the Malphai: Reaver
Barbed Armour: Blademail
Barrier Idol: Pipe
Blessed Orb: Ultimate Orb
Bound Eye: Eye, Gem
Flayer: Buriza, Burize
Hellflower: Orchid
Homecoming Stone: TP scrolls, TPs
Null Stone: Linken's Sphere, Linken's
Portal Key: Portal, Blink Dagger, Blink, Dagger
Marchers: Boots
Enhanced Marchers: Phase Boots, Phase
Steamboots: Power Treads, Treads, PTs
Post Haste: Boots of Travel, Travels
Restoration Stone: Refresher
Sacrificial Stone: Bloodstone
Staff of the Master: Aghanim's Scepter, Aghanim, Aghas, Scepter
Sustainer: Perseverance, Perse
Tablet of Command: Force Staff

is anyone able to tell me what 'orb-walking' means?

[Puchi]

is anyone able to tell me what 'orb-walking' means?

It means using a attack modifier like arachnas webed shot like this,
web shot,
walk closer,
webshot
walk
etc. etc.

[Sketch88]

i suggest a mod move this to the new training section, this is helpful stuff and i don't think it belongs in strat, go ahead and delete this post if you move it please

[vursed]

lb = light blue

dg = dark green

[Extreme_Cake]

'Rice' and 'Ricer' are missing.

[RUSty_]

For shrine add "Throne"
Edit: Also I always refer to succubus as "Succy" as do many people I play with.

[Reonhato]

you know what would be cool.....alphabetical order

[Pyrate]

i will get around to alphabetising the heroes and the items eventually, not sure about the terms yet though, i think its better to keep ones that are related to each other together

[tacomaster]

awesome noob helper! Thx!

[DImported]

A couple of heroes could use their shorted dota names like CM for crystal maiden (glacius) and AM for antimage (magebane).

[Reonhato]

ss is used for miss sometimes as well, confused the hell out of me in a game just now against a soulstealer, i couldnt figure out if he was telling me soulstealer was going mid or was missing

[Pyrate]

added a few things

Also, could a Mod move this to Training Grounds, it fits better there

[Boves]

Awesome list man! Printed and sitting next to my computer next time I play!

[Genemos]

Awesome list m8, a must for any1 curious about this stuff, or someone that feels unimpressed by ppl yelling at them to get a purge stick... XD

[S4LT]

Nice Glizznossary. You may want to add "big" and "huge" as adjectives that describe a carry who has become an abominable slaughtering machine through means of extreme item procurement.

[Mudde]

Pestilence - Pest, Slardar

[Snow2Fox]

I still havent try tis game yet but already have the game install, since there is no "single play" and my line is currently having problem....

but if anyone wan an extra list of words use in dota games, here it is, of what i can recall:

The Enemy and The Base
Neutrals - The creeps in the forest that are not aligned to either team
Neutral creeps-nc

Meta Game
Gank - Attacking an enemy hero by surprise, generally with superior
numbers
gb-gangbang (group attack)
Miss - The term used, generally at the start of game when everyone is in their lanes, to alert the team that a hero in your lane is no longer there. MIA or SS can also be used (although SS is not advisable as it is the acronym for Soul Stealer). Is normally used in conjunction with the lane, ie miss top
Miss-ms etc: mid hero is missing for 30second, so you want tell your team= mid missing-midms
or
maybe mid got 2 heros but 1 is missing so you want tell by name
lets say warlock
wl ms

Heroes
Andromeda - Vengeful Spirit, vs
Arachna - Arach, Spidey, bm
Chronos - Faceless Void, Kronos, fv
Defiler - Krob, Krobelus.dp
Hellbringer - Warlock.wl
Legionnaire - Leg, Legion, Axe,x
Magmus - SK, Sand King *note there is 3sk in dota*
Succubus - Atropos, Bane Elemental, Suc, Succy.bane
Torturer - Lesh, Leshrac,ts
War Beast - Lycan, Lycanthrope,wolf
Wildsoul - Sylla, Syllabear,bear

Miscellaneous
Regen - Regeneration Rune should be Reg

hp-health
mp-mana
solo-he want to be alone on that lane
ro3/ro-roshan, the realy big rock golem which grow stronger by time(or that's how it look in dota)
tp- the act of teleporting back or the item
fat- relating to a hero which is very strong for obtaining expensive item
fb-first blood
dk-double kill
tk-triple kill
imba-inbalance/unbalance
glhf- good luck have fun


Define NOOB in term of dota:
-feeder
-dont know how use skill
-coward, run with full hp when teammate are fighting
-dont support teammates
-beginer
-easily killed
-talk alot of crap but cant play well
and last of all my favourite
-dont even know whats happening

*there is still alot of words not listed*
or
*not listed for a reason*
(foul words/cursing in short form)

~so sftu and glhf~
advice: try not to feed too much

[Nome]

DXD/EDL/IHCS/IHL/DCE/DCL/TGL/TDA
Various DotA in-house leagues and communities of differing quality and level of competition.
"u play dxd?"

Rand/pubs(s) - pejorative
Usually used in a partial in-house, refers to a player the other players don't know.
"k we both got 2 rands start the game"

Tryhard(s) - pejorative
A player or group of players that pick competitive heroes, buy wards, and otherwise play the game as it's meant to be played while the opposition does not.
"LOLOL gank me more tryhards"

[araemo]

What is 'unitwalking' that a lot of spells mention?

[crazysheep]

^ Walking through units.

[Pyrate]

What is 'unitwalking' that a lot of spells mention?

as crazy sheep said

Added it to the list, as well as Terrain Walking

[Alphax]

Now that "proc" has finally been explained, what's it's origin? Process event? Procedural?

[Pyrate]

programmed random occurance is what it stands for

[Pyrate]

with a new patch comes now heroes, and a new game type

[Infuscu]

I often see "SS" written instead of "Miss" .. What does "SS" stand for?

[Pyrate]

I often see "SS" written instead of "Miss" .. What does "SS" stand for?

I have it listed as short for Miss, with a note stating that in HoN its the acronym for Soulstealer, so its not ideal to use

Also, woot for the sticky......again

[FatherTom]

DD is also known as dumb decisions by which many players take dd assume their invincible and run into a stupid situation such as 5v1 and die.

[Deoin]

@above post: also called Rambo xD

The dark lady: Lady, Lady gaga? I've seen the pretty often...

[Mickin]

How did tango not make it onto this list?!?

[MacintoshBoy]

hey thanks a lot for this stuff. ive only really ever played LAN dota so these are all new to me...ty

[MAd_MEdic]

What is APM? It is in the match stats

[Pyrate]

it stands for Actions Per Minute. Often an argued about stat, with some people believing it actually shows off skill level, while the sensible argue that with one hero to control you dont need 150 APM to actually be good at the game.

[romarc23]

Enchantress is missing on the line-up, she did not make it to HoN right?

[Unholymonk]

you know what would be cool.....alphabetical order

lol yes that would be handy but.....

thats alot of work to pull it off im happy as it already gives a great addition to any players knowledge of both Dota and HoN

thanks for this post it was most helpfull :D

[Pyrate]

the alphabetical list for items is ready, just need to be bothered to put it into the thread, since you mentioned it might try to get it in sometime tonight

[icehawk1]

What does it mean, to silence an Enemy?
Same as stunning?

[Pyrate]

What does it mean, to silence an Enemy?
Same as stunning?

silence is a status effect that prevents you from casting spells. Hadnt thought about status effects, might go find a list over in mechanics and port it over for peeps.

[_Archangel_]

Mekasnm lol

[Narfle]

wow, many WoW terms.

Saddens me.

[Pyrate]

wow, many WoW terms.

Saddens me.

you do know the terms WoW uses were around before WoW

[J0hnatan]

What means "scrim"? Scrim game, or something similar.

[Pyrate]

What means "scrim"? Scrim game, or something similar.

practice match between clans

Ill get around to updating for the last few patches eventually, ive been tied up lately with other activities.

[AmDew]

What is OP ? did anyone know ?

[Bartholas]

OP = Overpowered

Similarly you may see IMBA = Imbalanced

I really do want to know where SS = Miss comes from. Makes no sense to me, anyone know the origin?

[noobsftw]

love the list :)

although may i suggest LoA for accursed (lord of avernus) and ww for windwalk? xD I've seen both of those used recently in HoN :P

[Scottt_frost]

u forgot about another name for andromeda and VS is SWAPER

very important.

[AnzeKopitar]

nice guide.

[swithywizzy]

You should really change your definition of a feeder. For example, if you're 20-11, you are dying a lot but you're not considered to be a feeder at all. Put something like "Having a lot of deaths as opposed to their number of kills."


-Swithywizzy =)

[Pyrate]

You should really change your definition of a feeder. For example, if you're 20-11, you are dying a lot but you're not considered to be a feeder at all. Put something like "Having a lot of deaths as opposed to their number of kills."


-Swithywizzy =)

tbh i see feeding as independent from kills. If you are 12-12 as say Legionnaire while the rest of your team is 3-2, 2-2 etc etc you are still feeding. Just because you get a lot of kills doesnt mean you cant feed. A common mistake for a lot of new players (and EM players) is that they see kills as superior to deaths, when in fact having less deaths is much more important than having lots of kills.

IE, out of those 12 deaths of Legionnaire, what happens if 7 of them were to say Madman and Madman was involved in another 3. All of a sudden the enemy Madman is really farmed because one player died to him several times.

http://replays.heroesofnewerth.com/match_replay.php?mid=17444351

This is pretty ironic, just after responding I had this game which is pretty much a text book case of feeding.

On Hellbourne you have Jeraziah who went 0-13, this is the guy who is labelled a feeder, 6 of his deaths were to Deadwood.

Now lets look at Deadwood on my team, he went 14-12. Half of his deaths were to Predator (the guy who owned us)

Move on to the labelled Feeder on our team, D.Sham. with a score of 4-12. A massive 8 of his deaths were to Predator, including 5 in a 12-13 min period. Most people would say, well hey he did better than Jeraziah....but he didnt. Remember Jeraziahs max deaths to were 6 to Deadwood, a ganker. D.Sham here died 8 times to a carry in Predator. This is a TEXT BOOK case of feeding.

Onto my score, a pitiful 1-5...in most cases, except for the point that out of my 5 deaths in a game that went for 51 mins only 2 of them were to Predator, and one of them was at the 49 min mark, when he was already well fed. Even our Accursed who went 11-6 died 3 times to him, including 2 times in the first 20 mins.

Hopefully this clarifies what feeding is for many people, and helps you realise kills are not everything, its who gets the kills thats everything.

[iGame1]

ring? ringer?

[Bumpy]

I've seen in some character guides items with DPS or something... What is DPS?

ie:
"Steamboots gives us the best of both worlds (dps and hp)"
"Harkon's blade is a pure dps item, but it requires a high mana pool, high mana regen and the ability to deal dps effectively."

(taken from the Puppet Master guide here http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=3762http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=3762)

[Pyrate]

I've seen in some character guides items with DPS or something... What is DPS?

ie:
"Steamboots gives us the best of both worlds (dps and hp)"
"Harkon's blade is a pure dps item, but it requires a high mana pool, high mana regen and the ability to deal dps effectively."

(taken from the Puppet Master guide here http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=3762http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=3762)

damage per second

[Crlaozwyn]

Insanitarius = armlet

[TreeHorse]

Hi Pyrate,

Please add 'SS' as popularized by european players. Thanks man.

[Pyrate]

added it under misc, with the meanings of Miss, Soulstealer and Ulti

[Incia]

Dwarf with a gun... sniper?

Isn't the Engineer based on this DotA character?

Not sure if Engi is called sniper though.

EDIT: Also shorts like "oom" could be helpful to know, is it out of mana? What is omw?

[Unholymonk]

Dwarf with a gun... sniper?

Isn't the Engineer based on this DotA character?

Not sure if Engi is called sniper though.

EDIT: Also shorts like "oom" could be helpful to know, is it out of mana? What is omw?

Yes :engi:eng:engi:i does seem to be based on sniper in terms of his visuals and 1st skill but :scou:scout:scou: has snipers ulti

(i only wish that they had just remade his as he was with massive range)
he was one of my favourite heros

So yes you are right to answer you question

[Tripwyr]

None of Engineer's skills are by any means similar to Sniper's.

[Incia]

None of Engineer's skills are by any means similar to Sniper's.

Skill 1. Instead of slow, the keg stuns, otherwise pretty similar, and the model is practically the same; a dwarf with an old-type rifle.

[Pyrate]

Skill 1. Instead of slow, the keg stuns, otherwise pretty similar, and the model is practically the same; a dwarf with an old-type rifle.

Engineer is based on Builder from Savage 2

[Tripwyr]

Skill 1. Instead of slow, the keg stuns, otherwise pretty similar, and the model is practically the same; a dwarf with an old-type rifle.

Sniper:
Places an effect on the ground which slows and deals damage over time for as long as somebody stands in it. Large radius. No friendly fire.

Engineer:
Throws a keg which stuns, knocks back and deals damage instantly. Small radius. Self friendly fire.

The models aren't even similar. Engineer throws a keg from his character. Sniper shoots a flare into the air then rains down as 50 shells which explode and leave an effect on the ground.

Keg is to Scatter Shot as Snot Storm is to Taint Soul.

[FaceBreaker1]

you forgot the all-important 'cs = creep stats'

[YAValanche]

I can't figure out what IAS is...

[Tripwyr]

I can't figure out what IAS is...

Attack speed. Not entirely sure what the I relates to, possibly Improved Attack Speed or Increased Attack Speed? Either way, it refers to attack speed.

[Reonhato]

innate attack speed

[TreeHorse]

innate attack speed


Attack speed. Not entirely sure what the I relates to, possibly Improved Attack Speed or Increased Attack Speed? Either way, it refers to attack speed.

You both fail :D although Trip basically had it.

Increased Attack Speed.

Innate attack speed doesn't really apply to HoN as we have BAT to describe this.

[DenyTheTruth]

Updated original post.

[YAValanche]

IAS is missing from the original post (?)

[Tripwyr]

IAS stood for Innate Attack Speed in DotA, which is described as BAT or Base Attack Time in HoN. IAS more commonly refers to Increased Attack Speed in HoN, though some still use it to describe Innate Attack Speed.

EDIT: I have been corrected by ElementUser; IAS has always stood for Increased Attack Speed, even in DotA.

[Meredith]

I think a description of the game modes (like the descriptions of hero roles) would help newer players. :>

[Reonhato]

IAS stood for Innate Attack Speed in DotA, which is described as BAT or Base Attack Time in HoN. IAS more commonly refers to Increased Attack Speed in HoN, though some still use it to describe Innate Attack Speed.

EDIT: I have been corrected by ElementUser; IAS has always stood for Increased Attack Speed, even in DotA.

bullshit, typical mods, delete anything that makes them look like idiots. i posted a link to a Dota glossary that clearly stated IAS as innate attack speed. IAS has stood for Innate attack speed long before it stood for increased attack speed in the gaming world, but what would i know, im not a mod so i cant just ignore things that make me look stupid.

[Sciz]

A really common name for accursed nowadays is acc.

[Pwnograhpy]

Add ''oj - orange coloured player''

[SuperStag]

Add "Sighted" to the effects: it means you can see the target (Ramp charge, Succu ulti, etc.)