HoN/DotA Terminology

[Limi]

Shamelessly stolen from a few other guides (http://forum.esnation.com/showthread.php?t=5082) on the interwubs, here again so people can grasp some of the sayings if your new. This thread will always be something in progress, if you see somethings missing just reply and i'll add it on. :)



DotA/Hon Specific Shorts

aoe
Area of effect. Used to describe spells which target an area rather then a single unit

b or back
Retreat or run away

crit
Critical attack/strike

dd
Double damage

dmg
Damage

def or fend
Defend

dps
Damage per second

ff
Forfeit

gg
Good game

hp
Hit points/health

ks
Killsteal

mp
Mana points/pool

miss or mia
Missing in action. Used to tell others that the enemy hero(s) in your lane are missing

pub or pubbiePublic game

rax
Barracks, if yours is destroyed the opposing team's creeps get stronger

regen
Regeneration

rm or rmk
Remake

ulti
A hero's ultimate spell

xp
Experience





DotA/HoN Related Terms

Ancient stacking
Similar to Neutral stacking, you're stacking the strongest neutrals so that you can kill them at a later date when you're able to. This is almost always done with creeps controlled with whispering helm (helm of the dominater), and utilizes heroes that either stack runed axes or have abilities that let them hit multiple units (Moon Queen's glaives).

Babysitting
Generally in higher levels of play, there will be 1 hero in the lane solely for last hitting and denying while the other is harassing. This allows the person being babysat to farm, and the one babysitting generally doesn't need much gear in the first place to be effective.

Backdooring
Happens when the enemy hero attacks your base tower/buildings without any of his/her creeps around, even if his/her creeps are 1 wave behind from reaching the tower/building.

Blink
Short range teleport spell

Bot
Bottom lame. It goes to & from south

Buff
To make something better (an ability, stats, items, etc.) including your hero

Burn
Commonly associated with for heros with mana-burning/destroying abilities. "Burn their hero mana!"

Cannon Fodder
A free kill, suicidal person

Carry
A hero that farms for a majority of the game then leads(carries) the team to victory.

Channeling
A HYBRID of Instant and Activated. Its a skill that takes effect as soon as you press the hotkey or skill button, some have casting time, delays or targeted. The spell constantly takes effect until duration ends or if the player takes another action such as move or use another spell. Being stunned also causes the channeling skill to stop.

Deny
Friendly units become targeted below 50%. Getting the killing hit on friendly units will prevent(deny) the enemy both gold and a portion of the xp. Friendly towers become targeted at a lower amount of hp, but denying these will grant the enemy less gold.

Disable
Spells or item ability that render one "helpless", might prevent him from running, attacking, casting of spells, etc.

Farm
Activity of gaining gold by attacking enemy spawns or neutral creeps. Farming also means earning gold.

Feed
Dying to enemy hence granting opponents gold and experience points making them stronger as a result.

Feeder
A player who repeatedly dies to enemy granting opponents gold and experience points making them stronger as a result.

Gank
The process of grouping together to ambush/kill heroes, same as rape and gangbang

Harassing
During the laning process, instead of farming the hero attempts to damage the enemies and keep them from farming, this can be done with auto attacks or spells.

Inhouse
A game in which players who join are from a specific channel/clan, usually seen as more of a competitive style of play as opposed to public games.

Instant ability
Skills that takes effect as soon as you press the hotkey or skill button. Some instant skills needs to be targeted first or have delays but CANNOT BE CANCELLED when stunned.

Jungling
This is where someone choices to level up in the forest killing neutrals, rather than going into a lane.

Killsteal
Stealing a kill from your allies by delivering the final blow to kill enemy hero/tower/creeps/spawns, hence getting the kill score and gold.

Kongor
The strongest neutral creep in the map, near the first tower on the top side. All players of a team will receive gold if the killing blow is made by a player on the team.

Leech
Standing a safe distance from attacks and gaining experience without entering combat

Melee Dance
Melee hero sitting behind creep waves and running forward to get last hits for gold and xp.

Mid
Short hand for middle. Which lane every ranged hero wants to solo, and where the most of struggles happen.

Nerf
To make something worse(an ability, stats, items, etc.)

Neutral stacking
Attacking and pulling the neutrals in any area away from their spawn a few seconds before the minute mark(X:52 for example), which stacks multiple neutrals to be killed for burst amounts of gold.

Nuke
Magical/"Physical" spells / ability that require casting which is used to hurt a enemy hero.

Owning
Killing enemy heros repeatedly.

Passive
This skill is always active and does not consume mana. Under this category are Auras. Auras affect not only the player's hero but also other heroes and even creeps, minions and summons.

Private
See In-House

Pulling
Generally pulling bottom(legion) or top(hellbourne) neutral creeps into the lane, which drags the lane creeps into the neutral area. This allows the lane to get closer to your tower, thus making it easier to creep and level. At the same time it gives both people in the lane gold and experience, one in the lane and one in the neutral camp.

Push
Concentrating on destroying towers on a specific lane and generally making grounds.

Ragequit
When someone leaves your game in a fit of rage over dying or some other action

Silence
Silence a hero to keep him from casting spells

Team sell
All items from the leaver's hero are sold at half price and everybody from his team receive equal part of the money.

Tower Diving
When a member or members of a team ignores the threat of a tower, pursuing into tower range and further into the enemy territory to kill an enemy player. A gank with multiple heroes is often accompanied by a tower dive.

Tower-hugging
Tower hugging simply means that you have no lane control and need the safety of the towers because you get killed if you leave it.
For example if someone complains about not standing a chance on his lane and he is told "hug tower"... it means that he should stand back and get experience while being close to the tower which grants safety. If he doesnt attack the creeps and sometimes denies or attacks own creeps below 50% he can keep the enemy creeps at the tower so he can level up while standing within tower range.

Top
The lane which goes to north as legion and which goes from north as hellbourne

[FuriousPeon]

Cool terms, brah.

[LuckyDevil]

Good stuff, but you forgot ragequit. ;p

[Kurt4]

Channeling
A HYBRID of Instant and Activated. Its a skill that takes effect as soon as you press the hotkey or skill button, some have casting time, delays or targeted. The spell constantly takes effect until duration ends or if the player takes another action such as move or use another spell. Being stunned also causes the channeling skill to stop.

!disagree
some skills require a lit bit of channeling before they take effect.

[Motavia]

I'd love to know what "jungling" means. I've seen it used in the guides a bit.

[Kurt4]

Jungling is when you go to farm neutral creeps.

When someone says at early game he is gonna jungle, means he wont go to a lane, but instead go kill neutrals

[Motavia]

Jungling is when you go to farm neutral creeps.

When someone says at early game he is gonna jungle, means he wont go to a lane, but instead go kill neutrals

Thanks for the info.

[Akiry]

Deny
Friendly units become targeted below 50%. Getting the killing hit on friendly units will prevent(deny) the enemy both gold and a portion of the xp. Friendly towers become targeted at a lower amount of hp, but denying these will grant the enemy less gold.

[Inconmon]

Good job. Few corrections:


rm
Remake

or "rmk" (which is more common, afaik)


Blink
Using the ability blink

"short range teleport spell"


Buff
To make something better (an ability, stats, items, etc.)

Buff is not only balancing related, but also all "ability effects which boost your hero"

Debuff
Ability effects which weaken other heroes (less damage for example)


Feed
Giving items to teammates hence boosting them. It also means dying to enemy hence granting opponents gold and experience points making them stronger as a result.

Plain out wrong. Giving items to a teammate is called pooling and not related to feeding.


Tower-hugging
When a low-life hero stands by his tower because he is afraid of being killed out in his lane

He doesnt need to be lowlife or even alone. Tower hugging simply means that you have no lane control and need the safety of the towers because you get killed if you leave it.
For example if someone complains about not standing a chance on his lane and he is told "hug tower"... it means that he should stand back and get experience while being close to the tower which grants safety. If he doesnt attack the creeps and sometimes denies or attacks own creeps below 50% he can keep the enemy creeps at the tower so he can level up while standing within tower range.

[Motavia]

He doesnt need to be lowlife or even alone. Tower hugging simply means that you have no lane control and need the safety of the towers because you get killed if you leave it.
For example if someone complains about not standing a chance on his lane and he is told "hug tower"... it means that he should stand back and get experience while being close to the tower which grants safety. If he doesnt attack the creeps and sometimes denies or attacks own creeps below 50% he can keep the enemy creeps at the tower so he can level up while standing within tower range.

Thanks for that as well. That was very informative (serious).

[d1m]

"short range teleport spell"
Definitely agree. Took me some time to figure out what someone meant as "blink". Blink, by itself, doesn't describe anything. It's like saying "walking is when you walk".

Actually, that's the only term I've ever struggled with in HoN.

[Rene1]

I guess nicks of lanes are important aswell.

Top : The lane which goes to north as legion and which goes from north as hellbourne
Mid : Short hand for middle. Which lane every ranged hero wants to solo :p and where the most of struggles happen.
Bot : Bottom lame. To south & From south

You may realize that they're just abbrevations but in-game "bot gank" made me think of a macro program's existence :P

[BigRudy]

Tower Diving

When a member or members of a team ignores the threat of a tower, pursuing into tower range and further into the enemy territory to kill an enemy player. A gank with multiple heroes is often accompanied by a tower dive.

[Furier]

Inhouse
A game in which players who join are from a specific channel/clan, usually seen as more of a competitive style of play as opposed to public games.

Never heard that tearm before, but seems to me to be the same as stacking?
ppl in a stack doesnt allways know eachother but have better stats then the other team, or they know eachother from before and play together superior then randoms do.

[LodeRunner]

Never heard that tearm before, but seems to me to be the same as stacking?
ppl in a stack doesnt allways know eachother but have better stats then the other team, or they know eachother from before and play together superior then randoms do.
Inhouse, as I've always used the term, is when we've got 10 regulars online our on the Ventrilo server meaning we can host a game with just people we know as opposed to a 5 man team pub stomp. I'm sure its usage varies between circles of people.

[Limi]

Updated the first post, if someone see's any mistakes or corrections, simply post them and i'll update again.

[Glorify1]

Pulling - Generally pulling bottom(legion) or top(hellbourne) neutral creeps into the lane, which drags the lane creeps into the neutral area. This allows the lane to get closer to your tower, thus making it easier to creep and level. At the same time it gives both people in the lane gold and experience, one in the lane and one in the neutral camp.

Neutral stacking - Attacking and pulling the neutrals in any area away from their spawn a few seconds before the minute mark(X:52 for example), which stacks multiple neutrals to be killed for burst amounts of gold.

Ancient stacking - Similar to Neutral stacking, you're stacking the strongest neutrals so that you can kill them at a later date when you're able to. This is almost always done with creeps controlled with whispering helm(helm of the dominater), and utilizes heroes that either stack bfuries or have abilities that let them hit multiple units(Luna's glaives).

Babysitting - Generally in higher levels of play, there will be 1 hero in the lane solely for last hitting and denying while the other is harassing. This allows the person being babysat to farm, and the one babysitting generally doesn't need much gear in the first place to be effective.

Harassing - During the laning process, instead of farming the hero attempts to damage the enemies and keep them from farming, this can be done with auto attacks or spells.

[Inconmon]

STACK
Outburst of emotions by a player who has no friends.

[Limi]

Updated

[Hucklecat]

Downs Baby - A baby with downs syndrome or a DotA/HoN noob.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Drill.jpg/190px-Drill.jpg

[summ1else]

oom
abbreviation for "Out of Mana".

I imagine with the addition of mana bars when you press "'" in HoN that this will become less relevant, but in DoTA, the only way to see a hero's mana is to click on them. Used to inform your team that you no longer have mana to cast spells, etc.

[summ1else]

re
returned to lane

I don't see this one often enough, mostly in non-US based servers to my knowledge (I usually play U.S. East on bnet)

An example of its use would be when a hero returns to a lane after being missing (mia or miss)

Examples: (call when hero leaves lane // call when hero returns)

top mia // top re
pink mia // pink re
sb mia // sb re (sb is itself an abbreviation for the DoTA hero Spirit Breaker)

As a side note, I believe nearly all heroes in DoTA have two letter abbreviations for their names. I will try to compile this list at some point, as it might be handy to have in this thread.

[Hucklecat]

You also forgot the word 'Juke.'

[summ1else]

Here is that hero list. I listed this just by what I hear most. It's regional of course so I'm sure I've left some things out.

[KUNKKA] Admiral - Kunkka
[REX/BM] Beastmaster - Rexxar
[BW] Centaur Warchief - Bradwarden
[ES] Earthshaker - Raigor Stonehoof
[OMNI] Omniknight - Purist Thunderwrath
[PANDA] Pandaren Brewmaster - Mangix
[SVEN] Rogue Knight - Sven
[TINY] Stone Giant - Tiny
[TC] Tauren Chieftain - Cairne Bloodhoof
[ALCH] Alchemist - Razzil Darkbrew
[BB/RW] Bristleback - Rigwarl
[cw] Clockwerk Goblin - Rattletrap
[DK] Dragon Knight - Knight Davion
[MAG] Magnataur - Magnus
[HUSK/SW?] Sacred Warrior - Huskar
[SK/Crix] Sand King - Crixalis
[SB] Spirit Breaker - Barathum
[TH/TIDE] Tide Hunger - Leviathan
[AXE] Axe - Mogul Khan
[CK] Chaos Knight - Nessaj
[DOOM/LUC(I/Y)] Doom Bringer - Lucifer
[NAIX] Lifestealer - N'aix
[ABBY/LoA] Lord of Avenus - Abaddon
[BANE/LYCAN] Lycanthrope - Banehallow
[NS] Night Stalker - Balanar
[PIT] Pit Lord - Azgalor
[PUDGE] Butcher - Pudge
[SK] Skeleton King - King Leoric
[SG/SLARDAR] Slithereen Guard - Slardar
[UNDYING/DIRGE] Undying - Dirge
[AM] Anti-Mage - Magina
[SNIPER] Sniper - Kardel Sharpeye
[JUGG] Juggernaut - Yurnero
[LD/SYLLA] Lone Druid - Syllabear
[LUNA] Moon Rider - Luna Moonfang
[MORPH] Morphling - Morphling
[NAGA/SLITHICE] Naga Siren - Slithice
[PL] Phantom Lancer - Azwraith
[PotM/Mirana] Priestess of the Moon - Mirana Nightshade
[SA/RIKI] Stealth Assasin - Rikimaru
[TROLL] Troll Warlord - Jah'rakal
[BH/GONDAR] Bounty Hunter - Gondar
[TRAX/DROW] Drow Ranger - Traxex
[VOID] Faceless Void - Darkterror
[GEO/MEEP(O/S)] Geomancer - Meepo
[RAZOR] Lightning Revenant - Razor
[DUSA] Gorgon - Medusa
[TA/LANAYA] Templar Assasin - Lanaya
[URSA] Ursa Warrior - Ulfsaar
[VS] Vengeful Spirit - Shendelzare Silkwood
[BS] Bloodseeker - Strygwyr
[CLINKZ/BF?] Bone Fletcher - Clinkz
[BROOD] Broodmother - Black Arachnia
[NA/NERUB] Nerubian Assasin - Anub'arak
[WEAVER] Nerubian Weaver - Anub'seran
[PA] Phantom Assasin - Mortred
[SF/NEVERMORE] Shadow Fiend - Nevermore
[TB] Soul Keeper - Terrorblade
[SPECTRE] Spectre - Mercurial
[VENO] Venomancer - Lesale Deathbringer
[VIPER] Netherdrake - Viper
[CM] Crystal Maiden - Rylai Crestfall
[ENCHANT/C***] Enchantress - Aiushtha
[PUCK] Faerie Dragon - Puck
[CHEN/HK] Holy Knight - Chen
[KotL/KEEPER] Keeper of the Light - Ezalor
[ZEUS] Lord of Olympia - Zeus
[FURION] Prophet - Furion
[SILENCER] Silencer - Nortrom
[LINA/SLAYER] Slayer - Lina Inverse
[STORM] Storm Spirit - Raijin Thunderkeg
[WR/WINDRUNNER] Windrunner - Alleria
[BATRIDER] Batrider - Jin'zakk
[TECHIES] Goblin Techies - Squee, SPleen & Spoon
[INVOKER] Invoker - Kael
[VISAGE] Necro'lic - Visage
[OGRE] Ogre Magi - Aggron Stonebreaker
[DAZZLE] Shadow Priest - Dazzle
[SS/RHASTA] Shadow Shaman - Rhasta
[TINK/TINKER] Tinker - Boush
[LESH/TS] Tormented Soul - Leschrac the Malicious
[THD/JAK] Twin Headed Dragon - Jakiro
[WD] Witch Doctor - Vol'Jin
[ATROPOS/BANE] Bane ELemental - Atropos
[DS/SEER] Dark Seer - Ish'kafel
[DP/KROB] Death Prophet - Krobelus
[LION/DW] Demon Witch - Lion
[ENIGMA] Enigma - Darchrow
[LICH] Lich - Kel'thuzad
[NECRO] Necrolyte - Rotund'jere
[PUGNA/PUG] Oblivion - Pugna
[OD] Obsidian Destroyer - Harbringer
[QoP/AKASHA] Queen of Pain - Akasha
[WARLOCK] Warlock - Demnok Lannik

[Wrathmont]

When it comes to reporting mia, a lot of players also use -1 or -2 (along with top/bot/mid).

[Netukka]

List of commonly called items and their HoN equivalents...In order of DotA item list (http://www.dota-allstars.com/items/). Probably missing some of the names but at least going to use what I've heard...
Format goes [Abbrevation] Dota name - HoN name

[Rapier] Divine rapier - Doom bringer
[MKB] Monkey King Bar - Savage Mace
[Radi] Radiance - Mock of Brilliance
[Butter/Bfly/BF] The Butterfly - Wingbow
[Buri/Buriza/Crit] Buriza-Do Kyanon - Flayer
[Bash/Basher] Cranium Basher - Brutalizer
[BF/Bfury/Cleave] Battle Fury - Runed Axe
[Manta] Manta Style - Geometer's Bane
Crystalys - Riftshards (Haven't heard it called anything else ever o,o)
[Armlet/Mordiggian/Mordg] Armlet of Mordiggian - Insanitarius
[Lothar] Lothar's Edge - Assassin's Shroud

[S&Y/SnY] Sange and Yasha - Hack and Slash
Sange - Hack
Yasha - Slash
[Sata] Satanic - Symbol of Rage
[Domi/Dominator] Helm of the Dominator - Whispering Helm
[Mjoll] Mjollnir - Charged Hammer
Maelstrom - Thunderclaw
[Skadi/EoS] Eye of Skadi - Frostwolf's Skull
[Deso/Stygi/Stygian] Stygian Desolator - Shieldbreaker
[MoM/Mask] Mask of Madness - Elder Parasite
[Diffu/Diffusal/Purge] Diffusal Blade - Nullfire Blade

[AC/Assault/Cuirass] Assault Cuirass - Daemonic Breastplate
[Heart/HoT] Heart of Tarrasque - Behemoth's Heart
[BKB] Black King Bar - Shrunken Head
[Shiva] Shiva's Guard - Frostfield Plate
[BS] Bloodstone - Sacrificial Stone
[Linken] Linken's Sphere - Null Stone
[Vang] Vanguard - Helm of the Black Legion
[BMail] Blade Mail - Barbed Armor
[Booster] Soul Booster - Icon of the Goddess
[Hood] Hood of Defiance - Shaman's Headdress

[Guinsoo/Gsoo/Sheep/Sheepstick] Guinsoo's Flaming Scythe of Vyce - Totem of Kuldra
[Orchid] Orchid Malevolence - Hellflower
[Eul's/Cyclone] Eul's Scepter of Dominance - Stormspirit
Dagon - Codex
[Necro/Necrom] Necronomicon - Puzzlebox
[Scepter/Agha] Aghanim's Scepter - Staff of the Master
[Refresher] Refresher Orb - Restoration Stone

[Meka] Mekansm - Astrolabe
Naztherim Buckler - Shield of the Five
[HoR] Hood of Regeneration - Refreshing Ornament
[Vladi/Vlad's] Vladmir's Offering - Abyssal Skull
[Arcane/Ring] Arcane Ring - Ring of Sorcery
[Basi/RoB] Ring of Basilius - Ring of the Teacher

[BoT/Travels] Boots of Travel - Post Haste
[Phase] Phase Boots - Enhanced Marchers
[Treads] Power Treads - Steamboots
[Midas] Hand of Midas - Alchemist's Bones
[Oblv] Oblivion Staff - Great Arcana
[Perse] Perseverance - Sustainer
[Bracer/Wraith/Null] Bracer/Wraith Band/Null Talisman - Fortified Bracelet/Soulscream Ring/Talisman of Exile

[Clarity] Clarity Potion - Mana Potion
[Potion] Healing Salve - Health Potion
[Tango/Tree] Ancient Tango of Essification - Runes of the Blight
Bottle - Bottle (Wohoo!)
[OWards/Wards] Observer Wards - Ward of Sight
[SWards/Wards] Sentry Wards - Ward of Revelation
[Dust] Dust of Appearance - Dust of Revelation
[Chick/Chicken/Courier] Animal Courier/Flying Courier - Monkey Courier/Winged Courier

[Demon] Demon Edge - Slayer
[Eagle] Eaglehorn - Dancing Blade
[Messer/Reaver] Messerschmidt's Reaver - Axe of the Malphai
[Sacred/Relic] Sacred Relic - Sword of the High
[Hyper] Hyperstone - Warpcleft
[RoH] Ring of Health - Lifetube
[Void] Void Stone - Manatube
[Mystic/Staff] Mystic Staff - Acolyte's Staff
Energy Booster/Point Booster/Vitality Booster - Pickled Brain/Glowstone/Beastheart

[Branch] Ironwood Branch - Minor Totem
[Circlet] Circlet Of Nobility
[Ulti Orb/Orb] Ultimate Orb - Blessed Orb
[Gauntlet] Gauntlet's of Strength - Crushing Claws

And thats about it! Some of the basic items are left out because they are usually just called what they are called. Corrections/Extra abbrevations are most welcome. Hopefully it'll be helpful for some.

[Tafelpoot]

"ss" = stay safe? they use it to report misses.

[Polaris1]

Probably obvious ones, but "care" for careful, meaning that there are ppl missing and a gank is imminent, and "push" meaning attack towers with your team.

[Tenet]

Correction:

Creep Skip:
Bypassing a wave or multiple waves of creeps to attack the towers/buildings behind them.
The exception is staying behind after a wave has died to finish off an objective - often defined as keeping the structure on-screen.

This practice is often confused with backdooring. Allowed in some DotA communities it may be illegal in others.

Backdoor - BD:
Entering the enemy base through a "back door" - implies teleportation, invisibility or a similar means, when the friendly creeps are not there.

Typically considered illegal when the BD used is instant and only counterable by baby-sitting. Teleportation is a clear example of instant BD.
Other forms of BD are often considered legal as they can be countered by wards and map control (preventing the enemy from slipping in unnoticed).

The anti-BD rules tend to revolve around similar logic to "offside pass" in Soccer - to prevent the camping and counter-camping of game objectives.

Examples of CS and BD rules:

http://www.dota-gc.com/rules


Creepskip is forbidden, meaning that you can't attack structures without creep support. If you went into 800 range of a structure with creep support but the creeps died then you can continue attacking the structure as long as you don't leave the 800 range. Going invisible for over 5 seconds without any visible allied forces in the enemy base equals leaving the base.
You can attack all structures in the enemy base given that you enter the enemy base with creep support through a lane that has both barracks structures destroyed.

TDA rules:
http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=133621

( 8 ) You may not teleport into an enemy base without your creeps there, any other backdooring IS allowed.

This applies to any hero, unit, or hero/unit combo that can teleport via an innate skill. If you teleport into the enemy base in such a manner as for it to be undetectable/unstoppable and for the whole operation to be almost instant, it can be bannable. Teleporting anywhere inside the base while your creeps are not present to backdoor is illegal--this includes the tavern area and the trees. The border of the base is defined by raised land. You can, however, teleport outside a base (on the lowered land) and then walk in to attack.

If your creeps are present, you may teleport in all cases.

Some examples follow:

Bannable: Furion's TP is for all intents and purposes undetectable, unless you happen to be viewing the exact spot he is TPing to. It is also unstoppable. He can also TP into the forest and summon his way out. Furthermore, it is almost instant.
Not Bannable: Walking a summon, invisible or not, into the enemy base is only possible if the enemy tower is down, so it is only sometimes detectable. However, it is not instant, as you have to cast the summon at some other place, then walk it into the enemy base before teleporting in on it. This is easily counterable with wards. In addition, once you TP onto an invisible summon, it becomes visible.
Bannable: Doing the above, but hiding the summon in the forest and then teleporting on it.
Not Bannable: Windwalking heroes are detectable with wards or gem, making them not instant, as you have to walk some distance usually to pull it off. Similarly, blink heroes need to walk to within a short distance of the enemy base before blinking in, so both are detectable and stoppable.


It's very important to use the right terms, as they have specific and different implications and logic behind the rules that restrict them.

[Thrage]

How about "Hat Trick"? No idea what that actually is.

[Karmashock]

People keep saying "mps" in game and i have no idea what that means.

Could someone clue me in? The other ones I actually either knew, guessed correctly, or learned pretty quickly. But "mps" is said every so often and it's never really obvious what they're talking about.

[HunteR_]

This has really evolved into a great thing. I remember going "ew", now the list is looking good, I'm making a wiki for all of this as well.

[Tenet]

I will stab you with a rusty spoon if you will carry on the idiotic BD / CSkip mixup to your wiki Hunter.
Skipping a wave and walking through front entrances does not make a BD.

You have been warned! o_0

[Jake]

How about "Hat Trick"? No idea what that actually is.
Hat trick term means that same person does three goals. If it's done, people should throw their hats in the air.

In dota/HoN it means triple kill.

[HunteR_]

Tenet, lol, BD and Creep skipping are different, but they're both valid.

[Cheeseus]

Bot
Bottom lame. It goes to & from south

Typo on lane :)

[Mudkipz1]

There is no reason anyone should be memorizing these abbreviations.
They will all come in time.

[baKteria]

Good guide.. aweeeeh

[blacksheeps]

thanks for the abbreviations. I was scratching my head and going "carry?"

[Tawa]

afk
away from keyboard.

[HellbirD]

"Re"

Also used for remake often.

[huckduck]

OOM - out of mana

[Vadi]

Define orbwalking, please.

[Bludgar]

What's an EM game? Can't find it anywhere in this help guide.

[Marty]

EM is "easy-mode", gold accumulates twice as fast and the towers hit like little *****es.

Baiting
Intentionally attracting aggressive action by the enemy to lure them into a set-up gank

[Marty]

Define orbwalking, please.

Orbwalking
Single casting an auto-attack effect while moving in between attack cooldowns. Generally used to "Kite" as with Arachna's Webbed Shot. Orbwalking does not draw creep or tower aggro.

Kite
To slow an enemy melee hero such that you can attack them without them being able to attack you.

[Vadi]

tyvm

[Kenzio]

Basically in Malaysia, missing in action, we called that 'ms'
etc: 'mid ms' 'top ms' 'btm ms' and so on..
Just to share =D

[Kroo]

If ragequit is there, where's pp (plug pull)? :P
Oh, and runing/rune-whoring.

[`BergeR]

mb add oom=out of mana..nearly nobody understands it @hon...but its a common phrase in dota

[Extecute]

BG = Bad Game :D

[cjc813]

God this game has one hell of a learning curve...

Thanks for the useful info.

[Judgey]

So odd, to be a, I'd like to think high level dota player, yet see the way this has all developed. Reminds me of back in the day of starting dota. Guys, it all becomes second nature, i think HoN should and will be flooded ith dota terminology. That isn't a bad thing! Basically the way to know i play and you find out, like when you were twelve and didnt get what "lmao" was. YOu ask, spare embarassement. People aren't always dicks, if you ask they will reply - like the person asking what jungling was.

One thing about this "guide" that annoyed me was your definition of FEED. Feeding is tossed a ****load in dota, but no it is not dying a lot - STOP GETTING THAT WRONG - (pubbies).

FEEDING IS DYING FOR NO VALID CAUSE. If you are a hero in dota, well ill use HoN, say you are the dismembering guy (i know him as pudge D:). You're ally, is dp (death prophet) [dont know HoN term, its the witch with ghosts around her]. Pudge uses rot to slow enemies so that an int carry like dp can get away, if pudge dies this is not feeding.

If you run into a lane, go past river and farm regardless of mia calls, and you get ganked, THAT IS YOUR FAULT. then you are feeding.

Number of deaths has nothing to do with feeding, get that right please.

[Synergist]

simplest call for miss or mia i use

mmm - man missing mid
mmt - man missing top
mmb - man missing bottom
mm - man missing generally

[lobster]

"ss" = stay safe? they use it to report misses.

no.... its called care. ss means screenshot...

and mia is the dumbest idea.. what is this??! its called miss bot/mid/top 2 or 1

[archkyle]

no.... its called care. ss means screenshot...

and mia is the dumbest idea.. what is this??! its called miss bot/mid/top 2 or 1

MIA is a military term... so i doubt it's dumb... and besides for minimalists, mia is less to type than miss...


to OP, i usually here centaur called "cent" and almost never cw.

[Bodgy]

no.... its called care. ss means screenshot...

and mia is the dumbest idea.. what is this??! its called miss bot/mid/top 2 or 1
ss=secret shop?
oh and what does juke means?

[Chone]

What is a DoT?

[Bodgy]

What is a DoT?
Damage over Time

[Zegelmorph]

How about Bloodlust and Multicast?

[Bluluv]

Kongor
The strongest neutral creep in the map, near the first tower on the top side. All players of a team will receive gold if the killing blow is made by a player on the team.

He is actually more in between the first mid and bottom tower.

[Kulmis]

Good job. Few corrections:
Debuff
Ability effects which weaken other heroes (less damage for example)

More accurate is if u under slithers poison effect and electrian uses his ulti and debuffs it away. you can also debuff your opponets and take their bonuses of like charm of jere.

[ninjaneko]

Ok, I'm gonna be the third person asking, what is juke? see that word thrown about alot.. mix between jungling and nuking or what? :P

Edit: found this in other part fo forum (still wondering why its called "juke" though):

Juking: When being pursued, it's what you do to 'lose' them or 'get them off your tail'. Common strategies to employ a juke would be going through the hidden paths in the trees, running erradically, and turning a corner to hide in the fog, and standing there, then running backwards when they are turning the corner as well.

[nookey]

CC
Crowd Control, see disable

[rayanman]

SS is sometimes used to say soulstealer, just like bh is bloodhunter and tb is thunderbringer etc

[Acinom]

SS is sometimes used to say soulstealer, just like bh is bloodhunter and tb is thunderbringer etc

Yeah, if you want to make this guide more complete, adding the terminology for each hero would be helpful.

Also some people say "ss" for missing. GL HF DD. Good luck, have fun, don't die. Some Starcraft terminology(I believe it's from Starcraft).

[wala]

Could someone tell me how double kill, legendary, etc (the announcements) progress?

[Comma]

In a row kills
2 - Double-Kill
3 - Hatrick
4 - Quad-Kill
5 - Annihilation.

Total Kills
3 - Serial Killer
4 - Killing Spree
5 - Ultimate Warrior
6 - Onslaught
7 - Savage Sick
8 - Dominating
9 - Champion of Newerth
10 - Bloodbath

[Yargon]

Juke (or juking)
Deliberate use of trees, fog of war and hills to make the (usually) chasing hero unable to attack you or unable to predict where to head to to catch you. At times also used offensively (by hiding in trees or stoping mid hill) to perform a gank or to gain a slight advantage in number of attacks made.

[Qwernakus]

Im going to contest the AOE term.

1) It should be written in capital letters
2) A hero targetted spell or non targetted spell can also have an area of effect. See Hammerstorm's throw and Magmus's Eruption.

[Narfle]

Juke (or juking)
Deliberate use of trees, fog of war and hills to make the (usually) chasing hero unable to attack you or unable to predict where to head to to catch you. At times also used offensively (by hiding in trees or stoping mid hill) to perform a gank or to gain a slight advantage in number of attacks made.

I dont really think your "juke on offense" qualifies. Its not juking having 5 dudes standing in the enemys special shop waiting for a free kill, its merely "hiding".

Besides, the term "juke" is fail anyway, the real term is LoSing - Line of Sight'ing, which even isnt what some people mean when they use the word "juking".

LoSing is using the line of sight to your advantage, simply as that. Its used defensively when someone is chasing you because they want to kill you and you want to prolong their chasing time so your allies can arrive or simply just to avoid dying, by confusing your enemy.

Again, standing in a hidden spot waiting for someone to come by so you can kill them isnt LoSing, its just hiding.

A similar term to LoSing is "kiting".

Kiting means that you are constantly moving outside the reach of the enemy trying to do mean stuff to you, but you are doing it in plain sight. Its very much comparable to LoSing, with the main difference being that kiting takes place in plain sight. An example of kiting would be when pyro clearly wants to stun you, but you move around so erratically and swiftly that he cannot predict where he should stun.

Some people consider it kiting to take countermeasures the nanosecond a spell would hit you, thus avoiding it. This was very popular with magmus steambath versus stormbolt in dota, but its also popular here in HoN with heroes like swiftblade/predator/anyone with shrunken head (anyone with activateable magic immunity) and magebane/hag/valk/dark lady/anyone with portal key (anyone with a teleporting ability), this added definition of kiting is acceptable to the concept, as "kiting" is about fast reactions avoiding bad stuff, while being in plain view.

The term got its name from the way a kite moves in (strong) wind.

About the already existing definitions of "feed" and "feeder", im sorry but i really cant accept those. Theres nothing "feed" about dying as such, its the circumstances of your death that decides wheter or not it was "feed" or not.

If your entire team tells you to back and you can see 5 enemies on the minimap coming your way 10 seconds before they arrive, and your team keeps telling you to b and you still dont do it, and you end up dead, thats feed.

If you are legionare blinking in and taunting 2 very farmed carries and you die leaving them at 10% hp (because your team smashed their faces during the 3s duration and all that) and your team then wipes the floor with them, then no, you didnt feed. In fact you did very very very well, and probably just won the game for your team.

Merely the fact that a person died doesnt make it feed, its about how he died. If you want a potential definition then i guess we could say "Dying when the death could have been avoided" and then a "feeder" being "person that consistently dies when it could have been avoided - This person will appear to not learn from mistakes as it will often be the same mistake that causes the feeder to feed". And for the hell of it, smack up an "intentional feeder"/"plant" in there as well, with "intentional feeder" = "person that dies to the enemy team intentionally, for whatever reasons, person could be a plant or griefer".

"Plant" = "Player allied with the enemy team, a secret agent of sorts. Will most likely give away your position and inform them of your activities, as well as intentionally feed."

You also need a "TK" somewhere, meaning "TeamKill" ofcource. "A player intentionally killing an allied player that were not in danger of dying, such as pebbles tossing an ally to enemy fountain."

You could also use a "wp" = "Well Played, a compliment given when any player have done exceptionally well. Often used in conjunction with gg at the end of the game 'gg wp'."

Gonna make another post, i have more stuff to say.

[Narfle]

DotA/Hon Specific Shorts


That desperatly needs to be reworded as most of the definitions in that category isnt specific to dota or hon at all. Im thinking of aoe (you also need aoi, area of influence, not specific to dota or hon either), crit, dmg (also known as "dam"), dps, gg, hp, ks, mp, regen (aka reg) and xp. In short, the vast majority of the terms isnt dota/hon specific, in fact loads of them originated in dungeons and dragons, long long ago.

I suggest you remove the blue text entirely, its not nessecary at all, but if you really do want to keep it, at least make alterations so that it speaks the truth.

It should also be noted that ks - killsteal is in both categories.

Your definition of "Nerf" conflicts with "Debuff" (which seems to be missing as well).

Possible definition of "Nerf" = "A rebalancing of anything in the game, making it weaker".

Possible definition of "Debuff" = "Using an ability (skill or item) to lower any stat"

The guide could also use a "Bkb" = "dota term for shrunken head, the item granting magic immunity, some players may tell predator to activate his bkb skill, this means his secondary skill Stone Hide, bkb refers to magic immunity." Although i do agree that adding this is a slippery slope because who is to say that by then you shouldnt add any dota-to-hon translation, but i tend to see "bkb" used QUITE often, so in this particular case, it may be worthwhile.

Your definition of "Owning" is woefully inaccurate, "owning" just refers to someone doing good. You can kill no heroes at all during the laning phase, but still easily own hard if you harras lots or have 4 denies per minute or something like that.

Soloing kongor in 3 seconds also clearly qualifies as "owning". Owning just means you are doing good / better than your opponent. Its not a dota/hon term either, we used it nonstop in UO beta, and i do mean NON STOP, but i guess its still in a proper category, as that one is called "related".

Inhouse - A game where everyone is a friend of someone, or was invited. Basically a game where everyone is known by someone else in the game. Yes, it could all be players from the same clan or private channel, but the game would still be inhouse because people knew each other, not because they like to hang out in the same channel. Also, the way its phrased at the moment, 10 guys from any public channel would qualify as an "inhouse" while clearly not being one. The term comes from business where something can be done "in house" or "out sourced".

Mid - Doesnt have to be where most TEAMFIGHTS happen (not "struggles"), but is always the first lane chosen to be pushed unless there are other deciding factors (such as two towers being up mid, while all towers being down bot, then your team should be pushing bot). The reason its the ideal lane of choice to push is simply because you have to walk the shortest distance and as such, you arrive sooner.

Gank - Doesnt have to group up to "gank", "gank" in this context simply means a surprise attack / ambush, which can easily be done by a single player, an example would be ophelia/tempest jungling and then swinging by the lane next to the jungle every so often to gank. In that case, a single hero would be ganking, even if the laning hero would pitch in. If you still dont agree, simply because the laning hero would pitch in, then consider ophelia/tempest doing it because the enemy is lowhp (please refrain from calling it "lowlife", that means something entirely different and is synonymous with "scumbag") while the laning ally has backed to heal at fountain. Still ganking. Still a lone hero doing it. Its a gank because its unexpected. Yes multiple heroes can gank togheter (which is the case most often), but a single hero can also gank. An uberfat carry lategame seeing a lone support hero farming too far away from his base and then smashing his face in is a gank, its done by a solo hero, its still a gank. And its not the same as "rape", "rape" is winning a fight by so much that its almost like it wasnt a fight, but just a slaughter. Like a 5v5 fight ending up in a genocide with no allies dead. Thats rape. Its not the same as "ganking".

You need to smack a "/forest" on the jungle one, its often called forest. Foresting, like jungling.

Fat = well farmed.

Maybe equate "ff" with conceding?

A term i also see used often is "redlined", it simply means that someones healthbar is so low that you cant see the health in it anymore = an almost dead hero. Up to you if you want to include it, but at least change "lowlife" to "lowhp", like i said before.

Have you considered merging the "ancient stacking" and "neutral stacking" to "creep stacking" and then simply remarking that it can be done with any neutral camp, including the ancient?

Kongor could do with a "/Roshan" slapped on it, loads of people still refer to him as such. Also a "Token/Aegis" would be nice, maybe a "banana" one as well. If you already have these and im just ultra blind, then im very sorry.

Never heard the "melee dance" one in about 500 games after last reset and about 350 games before it, but ill take your word for it, its funny anyway, so i like it!

Your "push" definition is a bit weirdly phrased, technically theres nothing wrong with it, but it could be a lot easier to understand if it was something like "advancing a lane as quickly as possible, attempting to break into the enemys base to destroy their important buildings, mainly raxes."

Oh, and id luv you long time if you made a notice of how killing the melee rax is so much more important than killing the ranged one, you get like 4x as many melee creeps as ranged ones and it should be obvious to everyone, but for some reason its not. You can break mid and take ranged rax and be little better off, but if you get melee rax then its almost not worth pushing the lane again, but instead going for another lanes melee rax.

A "Glyph" one is needed. "Glyph of fortification, this makes every building on your team virtually invulnerable, but has a very long cooldown of 300 seconds, so use wisely and dont waste it. Ideally used when a tower is under attack and gets below 135 hp, so it can be denied, but only if you have a chance of actually pushing the enemy back during the glyph." Very sorry, but cant exactley remember how long the duration is, but it feels like somewhere around 4s, but we need specific data, since specific data is available! Someone help a brother out please (or ill just come back and post it myself after i play my next game).

You need an "invis". = "invisble, often used about the invis rune."

And a "haste" = "someone with maximum movespeed of 522, most often obtained by the haste rune, warbeasts ultimate or blood hunters passive movespeed buff (someone help a brother out with specific name please, i think its Blood Thirst, but not 100% sure)."

"Regen" - "Regeneration, sometimes shortened to 'reg'. Anything that makes you regenerate health or mana. "Regen" is often the term used about the regeneration rune, which heals you to full hp and mana and then ends, its the only rune which is non-combat consumeable." I know you have that one already, and i probably even commented on it, but heres a good one anyhow :)

Not sure if the last three ones are that incredibly important, but i think the runes are sorta important, and im just throwing my dual cents in the ring anyway, you can pick what you like, its your thread :)

About your "Channeling" one, its a bit weird. The "instant" and "activation" stuff isnt really what makes it channeling, its the fact that your hero is 100% occupied doing it during its duration. Heres a possible definition.

Channeling - "While channeling your hero is occupied and can preform no other task. Its a spell that requires his/hers full attention for the entire duration of the channeling. Most channeling spells channel for as long as the spell is in effect, only exception to this is magmus ulti, who channels as a form of 'powering up' and upon the end of channling, the ulti takes effect."

Yeah, i know its not ideal, but its just meant to inspire you :) Important part is that "Channeling" = "hero busy!" but i figured that the people that would gain anything from reading this thread would also gain a lot from knowing about the magmus case, and others if theres others like it, i just cant think of any right now, well i guess soulstealer "channels" for a second on her ulti, before it pops, as well as scout channels a short time. Maybe its fail to add that to the definition, i just want to help people is all.

ks - also just called a "steal" and a person that does it repeadetly is a "stealer".

Babysitting - Devoting one heroes (support hero) early game to ensure another heroes (carry hero) early game is profitable. This is done by harrasing and healing, while the hero being babysat is farming.

Not entirely sure i agree with your definition of "carry" although in most cases its unfortunatly true. Theres some talk about "early carries, mid carries and late carries", but in that case why not just call the heroes earlygamers, midgamers and lategamers? I never liked the term "carry", but your definition is inadequate anyway. Try something like this: "A hero that with the right items can become very heavy on dps and has abilities that scale well into lategame, such as crit. Since carries are item dependant, they need much farm and maybe even babysitting." Nothing wrong with a little crossreferencing :)

Your "Disable" definition is also kinda wrong, something is only a "disable" if it disables the hero entirely. A slow isnt really a disable, its a slow, and a silence is a silence. Hexing a hero is disabling. Succubus has two disables (sleep and ulti). Any stun is a disable. Tempest ulti is a disable. kotf ulti is almost also a disable, but people can still do spells in it. I would -never- call vindi ulti a disable, its only a silence. Still very strong, but it doesnt "disable" enough to be considered a "disable".

Backdooring - When one team attacks another teams buildings without faction creeps being present. Its often considered acceptable to backdoor towers outside the base, as well as backdoor other lanes rax as long as faction creeps have entered in any lane.

Boy i could write so much about backdooring, but any two page definition is doomed to fail ^^ Also interesting to see pro matches on honcast being won by blatant backdooring, which is done in a way that would be considered unacceptable in publics.

You could do with a "last hitting" definition. "The art of striking anything at the exact moment where you get the killing blow. Doing this to an enemy hero may be considered stealing. This concept is very important during the laning phase (first 10-15 mins)"

I dont understand the whole "instant ability" one, do you just mean spells/abilities that doesnt have a cast time? Because unless that is specifically stated, it might be mistaken for a spell that lands immediatly as you cast it, like ophelias nuke spell, but unlike witch/pyro/arachna ulti who travels to get there.

Your "pulling" one is quite good, but one little note, pulls doesnt make it easier as such to farm gold and xp, but it does make it safer. It also makes it easier for allies from outside your lane to come gank, as the enemy is further from their tower. n1 adding the info about the added gold/xp tho, so many people dont seem to get that and join me in neutraling when i pull and leaves the lane empty.

And i think i need to stop here before i go on crazy rants :)

Sorry if i offended anyone, i didnt intend to but apparently loads of people take offence when i dont intend to, so i figured id throw that in there.

[Stalker]

p - to push a lane

[PhishPaste]

Backdoor should be updated.

It's technically when your creeps were NOT there at the time of attacking said building.

Out side buildings(tier 1 and 2 towers) are not considered back doored if attacked alone.

If creeps are already in the base, you can go over to the other towers/buildings within the base and kill those and it would not count as a back door. You came in the front door first!

[GoTzz]

Wheres QQ?Lol, anyway nice

[lobster]

nobody says mp, they say mana

[Eskiya]

omw - On My Way
gank - Go Around N Kill
oom - Out Of Mana
b- Back
def- Defend
care - be carefull

these can be used in combination, like gank puppet bot.
def mid tower
care bot mid mss

[Kartalov]

Ye this would be of great help for the newbies, good job there ! :)

I have my own shortcuts for my clan, heh :) Only for competitive play.

[Darkspace]

how bout oom yeah

[PowidL]

Some more:

debuff
An effect which will decrease the performance of a hero, caused by an enemy spell.

dispell
to remove a debuff from an allied hero or to remove a buff from an enemy hero.

scrim
a practice/warm up match, usually before a clan go into a serious match.

[Baliame]

You forgot "cc 15" and "fu tard rus fag".