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BongChambers
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada591 Posts
December 20 2014 15:17 GMT
#1
So in Starcraft obviously a highly debated and talked about subject or concept about the game is your actions per minute, or apm. Some of the best players in the world have upwards of 300+ apm on average and like anything you want to be good in, many players emulate and practice this concept. The more actions you can do, the more you are in control of what you have which is a huge thing most people in their lives do not ever take full potential of in their lives or in a game. So to practice your apm you constantly try to maintain a level of actions done ever minute or even second and track your progress with the use of a apm counter.

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A typical SC2 end game battle report showing an APM counter.

Some debate that apm isn't as important as mechanics or game sense as a whole when playing games like Stracraft. You can have 600 apm but if you start building that first pylon at 500 minerals, chances are its not worth it. The only friend I've ever had in real life played Brood War and he always focused so much of his time and practice while playing the game into his apm. The biggest thing I saw from this was that he made errors in his early game and build orders constantly, but was able to maintain macro while engaged in a micro situation mid game. I've always had a lower apm and relied on my build order being crisp and my first attack to be micro managed very heavily at times, usually sacrificing my macro in terms of setting up more bases or making more worker. However I maintained a fairly high win rate when I use to play, at least early SC2 Protoss diamond days xD

However another game arguably a complete opposite from Starcraft but also arguably a more popular in this day and age, Dota2, has no APM counter what so ever. Oddly enough however neither did Dota1 so it begs the question why has there never been a built in APM counter/tracker put into DotA?

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The game I wanted to check for the APM counter while watching a friend.

Many people argue that it's not as important, or useless, as other games and there would quite frankly be no point to include it. However I highly disagree with anyone using that as an excuse because APM highly factors into Dota just like it factors into anything in life like cooking or auto mechanics. From checking enemy hero's item build as well as level while being able to maintain hero control is a simple example. Being aware of what is going around you, not relying on the Lion 600 units saying something into the mic or pinging madly on the map.

So why is it such a big deal to have it in the game? Or out of it for that matter. Well really it's not so important, and if people really care about there APM they will download one of many third party programs that track their APM regardless of the game. However I think it would be a good addition because I wanted to explain to my friend the Anti-Mage that he had decent farm but had very poor reaction time and APM which got him killed and lost his team fights a few times. But since there was no APM counter and he never played Starcraft, he only had a vague understanding of what I meant and kept insisting that he checked the mini-map constantly as his defense.

TLdr; Id like to see a APM counter implemented into Dota2, agree? If not why?
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Howie_Dewitt
Profile Joined March 2014
United States1416 Posts
December 20 2014 15:33 GMT
#2
I swear my APM is going to be like 20 when I am techies lol
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Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-20 15:47:52
December 20 2014 15:46 GMT
#3
im pretty sure there is an APM counter, just only for yourself

http://www.dotabuff.com/topics/2013-10-25-is-there-any-way-to-see-my-apm-in-dota-2

first google result for 'dota apm counter'

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SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
December 20 2014 15:50 GMT
#4
Why are there no APM counters in Counter Strike, Street Fighter, etc? It's a completelly useless feature. APM isn't reaction time. For a lot of people 90% of the APM would be meaningless spam. For the rest the APM would be extremelly slow. Average APM is useless in an 1 hour long game with extremelly small "APM moments". Those few teamfights were maybe APM could have shown something (maybe) are meaningless when added with all the farming, laning, moving around the map, etc.

And Dota 1 actually did have an APM meter, coming from WC3 and all that, but noone took it seriously for obvious reasons.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44122 Posts
December 20 2014 16:01 GMT
#5
IMO Decision making, communication and correct attention allocation(map awareness, etc etc) is what makes you good at dota. Of course you need good reaction time as well to be good with the game obviously like almost every other game out there.

And i think you are frustrated with your friends reaction time and map awareness. It's not APM.
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deadmau
Profile Joined September 2010
960 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-20 23:05:19
December 20 2014 22:58 GMT
#6
Going from BW > DotA1 > SC2 > DotA2...I dunno I've never thought about APM like in starcraft. Just has never been that relevant to me in a productive sense other than if you want to spam for e-peen. Even though I spammed some in SC it was often to warm-me up, rather than to pad the meters, that shit is pointless.

Considering you were Diamond you have a good understanding of APM, clearly. And I can see you've applied it to your observations in DotA, but before Starcraft how much DotA have you played? Would you consider yourself more a SC player or DotA player?

Although my gaming started in BW I mainly played 3v3 and 4v4 messing around in BGH. DotA1 was playing my best as intuitively as possible, while accumulating all the hero mechanics and patch evolutions into my knowledge bank. SC2 is where I honed/grinded mechancis in to the ground. Going back to DotA2, i have all the mechanics from SC2 and 6 years of Encyclopedia-esque knowledge in dota that has given me a great perspective of DotA.

From that...I haven't found the APM that I acquired in SC2 to be that relevant in DotA. In my perspective (Masters Protoss), my high APM is more of a bonus to my team in that I'm able to do things with the courier or microing extra units, sometimes mid fight. So overall there's just so many other things you have to work on that APM is just very low on the list of priorities. In fact I gather most people have enough APM to be successful at DotA.

Don't get me wrong, the extra possibilities/capabilities that come with having that APM available at your disposal is still useful.
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
December 20 2014 23:34 GMT
#7
Was wondering how to see APM in Dota too, thanks guys for clearing things up. APM doesn't matter nearly as much in Dota as it does in StarCraft though.
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CrtBalorda
Profile Joined December 2011
Slovenia704 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-21 02:07:52
December 21 2014 02:07 GMT
#8
Playing starcraft teaches you how to play starcraft and doesnt give you multitasking in everything else ever (dota included).
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meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
December 21 2014 06:47 GMT
#9
High apm is definitely required to be good at Starcraft and while some skills can be carried over to Dota, I don't think apm is a necessary one.
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CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
December 21 2014 06:52 GMT
#10
On December 21 2014 15:47 meegrean wrote:
High apm is definitely required to be good at Starcraft and while some skills can be carried over to Dota, I don't think apm is a necessary one.

ask sjow what his apm is

unless you think 100 is high
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ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
December 21 2014 07:34 GMT
#11
most of my friends have higher apm than me coz they spasm out and spam click right click a billion times while simply autoing a guy... they cancel their own spells like "phantom rush" and them clicking so much makes them misclick in between but they dont see it coz they're used to it
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rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
December 21 2014 07:57 GMT
#12
theres too much inflation of clicking on attacks for apm.
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Ryndika
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
1489 Posts
December 21 2014 16:17 GMT
#13
You lost your credibility at the "high winrate."
And you didn't give reason why it's related to dota. OP is some starcraft thread.

So you found apm interesting and in your opinion important in sc2? Well in dota it is different. And I think you don't really understand what APM is. It's not speed. It is actions per minute. Now think a moment what actions per minute means literally.
It is not generally interesting thing in dota.
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deadmau
Profile Joined September 2010
960 Posts
December 21 2014 22:32 GMT
#14
Typically Hon players think APM is relevant in DotA. =x
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6284 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-21 23:29:59
December 21 2014 23:29 GMT
#15
Would be cool to know how high the APM is for certain heroes at certain mmr's. Say comparing Chen players in 1k mmr with 4/5/6k mmr players would make a nice graph.

edit: Or seeing your APM over time... Idk, we need more stats an shit
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Fleetfeet
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Canada2554 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-22 00:06:27
December 22 2014 00:05 GMT
#16
I don't think it's relevant, but it would be interesting.

My buddies and I play SC2 at about the same level, but my 160 zerg APM doesn't mean I'm worse than my buddy's 140 protoss APM or my other buddy's 80 terran/zerg apm.

There are a bunch of stats that would be interesting though, like how often a player looks at an area of the map where their hero isn't, how often they check the inventory of enemy heroes, how much farm is gained from neutrals/lane creeps/heroes, or runecontrol stats... I don't think much of it would be gamechanging information, but it'd be neat to see how these stats show up for pros.
Wrath 2.1
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany880 Posts
December 22 2014 00:53 GMT
#17
I think apm is relevant for me personally, when I am motivated I used to play with 180-200 apm in HoN, in DoTa, due to lack of statistics I don't know, but I noticed that when I am eager, concentrated I will naturally have a much higher apm than when I am sleepy/ drunk /annoyed / not giving a fuck.

IMHO you can archive almost the same with low apm as with high apm, so playwise it doesn't make a difference, but I belive it's easier to play better when you have high apm, because you will be more active, when you're already in a mood where you micro fast, it's ez to take a glimps at top rune, bot, while lasthitting etc, then if you only click once in a while, and then suddenly have to do 3 actions almost at the same time for example.

ofc bragging with apm is meaningless, just my friends I played hon with often had like 57 or so
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TechSc2
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Netherlands554 Posts
December 22 2014 01:09 GMT
#18
you can't ever put high apm towards good skill in dota 2 ever.

In sc2 you could say that you at least have the APM to cycle through macro cycles or making sure your macro is top notch every single second, but in dota 2 every action is unique, in such way that apm is 100% irrelevant
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deadmau
Profile Joined September 2010
960 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-22 02:55:13
December 22 2014 02:52 GMT
#19
On December 22 2014 07:32 deadmau wrote:
Typically Hon players think APM is relevant in DotA. =x

On December 22 2014 09:53 Wrath 2.1 wrote:
I think apm is relevant for me personally, when I am motivated I used to play with 180-200 apm in HoN...

ofc bragging with apm is meaningless, just my friends I played hon with often had like 57 or so

My post above is related to this mentality of all hon players i've noticed. I played HoN in my time transitioning from DotA1 to SC2, so I can definitely see where that mentality comes from, HoN players have this obsession with metrics, even if said metrics are meaningless, blame s2 maybe? Hon was loaded with bunch of stats that meant very little in terms of actual skill. After leaving HoN and playing SC2 for a few years, going back to DotA2, APM just doesn't mean as much.
Hoenicker
Profile Joined February 2012
243 Posts
December 22 2014 16:51 GMT
#20
Reaction time is much more important for dota 2, there is no macro, so you just dont need that many actions. I'll go so far as to say APM is totally irrelevant for dota 2.
Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3253 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-23 01:30:16
December 23 2014 01:21 GMT
#21
Actually I dont agree with the people who say that it's totally irrelevant. Having between 150 and 200 apm in the early laning stage gives a lot of advantages in Dota 2, being it slightly faster farming, better possibilities for laning, knowing which items who has and having a higher tolerance for errors because of double clicks. The typical creepbattle in midlane requires a lot of apm for example.
I dont think you need more, but from watching pro-streams I can guarantee that most of them have more than 200 apm at least during the times they spike and they put it to use often. I agree that it is one factor among many, but it definitely is a factor.
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BongChambers
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada591 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-23 07:18:46
December 23 2014 07:17 GMT
#22
It's quite surprising that very few to no one is looking into what APM translates into DotA in terms of benefits. Is it the most important thing? Will you be the best in the world if you have the highest APM? Probably not.... But how anyone could argue that APM isn't important in DotA is beyond me.

Looking through a few mechanics, items and hero's of DotA we can make a very quick short list of APM intensive factors;

Meepo - 4/5 hero's that you must control, can each cast 2 of their own spells, 2 x 4 = 8 spells you can cast within a second.

Chen/Enchantress/Visage - Control neutral/extra creeps throughout the game that normally contain spells such as troll, centaur, bird stomp.

Naga/TerrorBlade - Illusions that can split push, last hit in lane, stack/kill jungle camps, distract and be targets for enemy spells.

Tinker Earth/Invoker - Multiple spells that can be cast in quick succession and that requires a very active play style.

Helm of Domination/Power Threads/Manta Style - Simple item examples that require more actions then normally to be utilized more effectively.

Of course strategy, team play, experience/gold gained, kills and more are very important aspects to DotA.. It's quite frankly a very micro intense game if you want an edge over your opponent. Most people don't have map/situation awareness because they have low APM, constantly checking the map and clicking around on enemy hero's to see their item build and how much Health/Mana they have is vital information.

APM in my opinion is why some people enjoy playing Wraith King but don't enjoy playing Chen or even Brew Master. If you have low APM you can't play your hero to its maximum potential, even if you know what you're doing and communicate with your team.

I don't understand how people don't connect reaction time, map awareness, game sense, activity, multiple units and much more to APM. I personally hope to see a APM counter in DotA someday and I can 100% guarantee you that someone is going to check it once in a while. There is no reason for there not to be a APM counter in DotA.
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ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
December 23 2014 08:24 GMT
#23
On December 23 2014 16:17 BongChambers wrote:
It's quite surprising that very few to no one is looking into what APM translates into DotA in terms of benefits. Is it the most important thing? Will you be the best in the world if you have the highest APM? Probably not.... But how anyone could argue that APM isn't important in DotA is beyond me.

Looking through a few mechanics, items and hero's of DotA we can make a very quick short list of APM intensive factors;

Meepo - 4/5 hero's that you must control, can each cast 2 of their own spells, 2 x 4 = 8 spells you can cast within a second.

Chen/Enchantress/Visage - Control neutral/extra creeps throughout the game that normally contain spells such as troll, centaur, bird stomp.

Naga/TerrorBlade - Illusions that can split push, last hit in lane, stack/kill jungle camps, distract and be targets for enemy spells.

Tinker Earth/Invoker - Multiple spells that can be cast in quick succession and that requires a very active play style.

Helm of Domination/Power Threads/Manta Style - Simple item examples that require more actions then normally to be utilized more effectively.

Of course strategy, team play, experience/gold gained, kills and more are very important aspects to DotA.. It's quite frankly a very micro intense game if you want an edge over your opponent. Most people don't have map/situation awareness because they have low APM, constantly checking the map and clicking around on enemy hero's to see their item build and how much Health/Mana they have is vital information.

APM in my opinion is why some people enjoy playing Wraith King but don't enjoy playing Chen or even Brew Master. If you have low APM you can't play your hero to its maximum potential, even if you know what you're doing and communicate with your team.

I don't understand how people don't connect reaction time, map awareness, game sense, activity, multiple units and much more to APM. I personally hope to see a APM counter in DotA someday and I can 100% guarantee you that someone is going to check it once in a while. There is no reason for there not to be a APM counter in DotA.

bcoz the required apm for any of the heroes u mentioned can be achieved by any average human being that has 2 hands and 10 fingers
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Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Russian Federation4050 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-23 09:32:08
December 23 2014 09:29 GMT
#24
AMP is going to average at 100 across all players across all matches.
Ability to press buttons is infinitely more important in this game than ability to click fast.
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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44122 Posts
December 23 2014 11:45 GMT
#25
On December 23 2014 16:17 BongChambers wrote:
It's quite surprising that very few to no one is looking into what APM translates into DotA in terms of benefits. Is it the most important thing? Will you be the best in the world if you have the highest APM? Probably not.... But how anyone could argue that APM isn't important in DotA is beyond me.

Looking through a few mechanics, items and hero's of DotA we can make a very quick short list of APM intensive factors;

Meepo - 4/5 hero's that you must control, can each cast 2 of their own spells, 2 x 4 = 8 spells you can cast within a second.

Chen/Enchantress/Visage - Control neutral/extra creeps throughout the game that normally contain spells such as troll, centaur, bird stomp.

Naga/TerrorBlade - Illusions that can split push, last hit in lane, stack/kill jungle camps, distract and be targets for enemy spells.

Tinker Earth/Invoker - Multiple spells that can be cast in quick succession and that requires a very active play style.

Helm of Domination/Power Threads/Manta Style - Simple item examples that require more actions then normally to be utilized more effectively.

Of course strategy, team play, experience/gold gained, kills and more are very important aspects to DotA.. It's quite frankly a very micro intense game if you want an edge over your opponent. Most people don't have map/situation awareness because they have low APM, constantly checking the map and clicking around on enemy hero's to see their item build and how much Health/Mana they have is vital information.

I don't understand how people don't connect reaction time, map awareness, game sense, activity, multiple units and much more to APM. I personally hope to see a APM counter in DotA someday and I can 100% guarantee you that someone is going to check it once in a while. There is no reason for there not to be a APM counter in DotA.


@meepo/chen/enchantress/visage/naga/TB : Those heroes doesn't even require really high APM to use well. Even enough practice will do.

@Tinker/Invoker/ES : I know 2 people who tried to play starcraft and can't multitask at all but can use Invoker/Tinker really well(obviously not pro level good).
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Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
December 23 2014 18:31 GMT
#26
On December 23 2014 16:17 BongChambers wrote:
It's quite surprising that very few to no one is looking into what APM translates into DotA in terms of benefits. Is it the most important thing? Will you be the best in the world if you have the highest APM? Probably not.... But how anyone could argue that APM isn't important in DotA is beyond me.

Looking through a few mechanics, items and hero's of DotA we can make a very quick short list of APM intensive factors;

Meepo - 4/5 hero's that you must control, can each cast 2 of their own spells, 2 x 4 = 8 spells you can cast within a second.

Chen/Enchantress/Visage - Control neutral/extra creeps throughout the game that normally contain spells such as troll, centaur, bird stomp.

Naga/TerrorBlade - Illusions that can split push, last hit in lane, stack/kill jungle camps, distract and be targets for enemy spells.

Tinker Earth/Invoker - Multiple spells that can be cast in quick succession and that requires a very active play style.

Helm of Domination/Power Threads/Manta Style - Simple item examples that require more actions then normally to be utilized more effectively.

Of course strategy, team play, experience/gold gained, kills and more are very important aspects to DotA.. It's quite frankly a very micro intense game if you want an edge over your opponent. Most people don't have map/situation awareness because they have low APM, constantly checking the map and clicking around on enemy hero's to see their item build and how much Health/Mana they have is vital information.

APM in my opinion is why some people enjoy playing Wraith King but don't enjoy playing Chen or even Brew Master. If you have low APM you can't play your hero to its maximum potential, even if you know what you're doing and communicate with your team.

I don't understand how people don't connect reaction time, map awareness, game sense, activity, multiple units and much more to APM. I personally hope to see a APM counter in DotA someday and I can 100% guarantee you that someone is going to check it once in a while. There is no reason for there not to be a APM counter in DotA.


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eieio
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States14512 Posts
December 23 2014 23:43 GMT
#27
There's probably a minimum APM threshold that you need to meet but beyond that I don't see APM as particularly relevant in Dota.

That being said, the old MYM (dota1) site had stats that showed APM for each player when they posted a replay, which was kinda neat. I remember Merlini's APM being absurdly high because he constantly spammed lol.
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SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
December 24 2014 00:38 GMT
#28
Noone is saying being fast isnt good. People are saying Average APM doesnt measure how fast you are and as such is useless for a game like Dota. You can use it in Starcraft where you are actually sending multiple meaningful commands literally every second. You cant use it for Dota where the situation where you use your full speed are few and far between and spam will fill that gap. Its a terrible way to measure speed for this game.
Nilrem
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3684 Posts
December 24 2014 01:09 GMT
#29
I think having an apm system in-game would be interesting but not a necessity. For example, I think it would be interesting to see the amp of someone playing heroes like chen, meepo, invoker, etc.. It is of course not nearly as necessary as compared to a game like Starcraft (obviously).

Is it needed, no. Is adding it to the game going to break it, no.
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Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-24 01:14:23
December 24 2014 01:13 GMT
#30
did anyone read my post?

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Nilrem
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3684 Posts
December 24 2014 02:56 GMT
#31
We did targe (well I did) but that is not quite what I meant. was meaning a more, official based system and not something requiring console to look at.
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Corgi Apocalypse
Profile Joined September 2011
United States89 Posts
December 24 2014 04:39 GMT
#32
If APM was so important then Select would still be playing Dota
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