General DiscussionHow Many Games For Every Hero Before You Considered Playing Him/her r...

It's about which hero.

For Sniper: just jump right into ranked as long as your mouse can right click.

For invoker: prolly at least 50.

^ typical Russian 1k cancer squad riki picker

Amazing trolling 10/10

Riki is difficult, you need to know how to use his invis.

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well someone who's new to dota can probably play sniper quite well

I do all my testing in ranked. This includes new heroes and new builds for heroes I already play. I feel that testing heroes in unranked or bot matches can give you only basic informations which I already know. This resulted in my shit Voker winrate which is slowly going up and having 35% WR with TA at one point.

minimum of 5 games for me

Why are so many people named Phantom wtf.

0, i use solo ranked to learn heroes.

It depends on many things.

Maybe you've seen the hero played 100,000 times so you know its strengths / weaknesses.

Maybe you are good at dota so you can just pick the hero and know his role.

Maybe you suck ass and need lots of practice.

Maybe the hero is very weak in one regard and its better to learn how its weak in bots.

Like.. There is no real answer to your question..