Dota Guide

The Art of Bottle Crow

The origin of Bottle crow according to many is the Philippines. I agree to this because here in our country, when you play dota either pub game or a serious game. It is impossible that the player you are going to face in the lane is not going to use bottle crow. Let’s talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this in a pub game and in an official game.

In an official game, supports are the most that will suffer. Because they will buy chicken for the carry heroes, for them to bottle crow earlier than the opponent. However, bottle crow would make the farming and laning phase of the carry hero easier. Because having bottle crow will allow your hero to spam skills and not really worry about your life, since every time the crow comes back to you, your life and mana will be replenished. You can also use your crow to get the rune and fill the bottle by doing that.

Some disadvantages of using bottle crow are:

While doing this method you are prone to ganks. In tournaments and serious games a second that you are not controlling your hero can already make the other team kill you, due to teamwork and fast execution. However, in pub games this are not always present.

Advantages of having early Bottle Crow:

You can spam your skills for faster farm and harass.

You can use the crow to get runes like double damage.

You can use the crow to scout and see incoming heroes and avoid gank.

As you can see there are more advantages than disadvantages now let’s learn how to do this

Once your bottle is empty put your bottle in the crow and press E+R then click the crow the shift left click it to your hero. Then wait for it to come back. Easy as that then harass your opponent and repeat process. You can also get rune but for you to fill to bottle, you need to click the bottle with the rune while it is in the crow. However, transferring a bottle with a double damage is possible. You get your bottle filled and have the double damage also. But you need to...